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8 THE WILSON ADVANCE: JULY 30, 1896. COLORADO CLODDBURST. It Carried Everything' Before It in the Narrow Canyons. ; TWENTY-NINE KNOWN TO BE DEAD. A House with Eighteen Occupants Swept ;: Away, and Only One of the Inmates Res cued A Remarkable Fall of Water on a Second Visitation. ' V Denver, July 27. The cloudbursts in the foothills west of Pnver Friday night, resulting in floods in which twenty-nine people are known to have perished, was followed Saturday afternoon by another terrible storm, the like of which has sel dom been seen in this vicinity. According to Weather Observer Brandenburg, 'sev enty hundredths of an inch of rain fell in ten minutes, beating all local records. The downpour continued with some diminished severity for half an hour, and it rained at intervals' all the afternoon. At Morrison, seventeen miles from Den ver, twenty-two persons were drowned in the flood Friday night, and people were terror stricken when they saw the storm approaching. Hail- began to fall soon after 7 o'clock, and at 4 o'clock 'a black cloud of unusual density began to gather in the vicinity of Mt. Vernon, a few miles from Morrison. There the cloud burst, f and in an instant a wall of water came down the gulch fully six feet higher than was ever seen before. Everything in its path was washed away. The raging tor ' rent carried along with it houses, barns, trees and debris of all kinds. Every house in Morrison is flooded, water having spread all over the place. Be low the town there have been searching parties along the creek seeking for the un reepvered bodies of the dead in the pre vious disaster, and there are fears that numbers of these parties have been caught . in this last tidal wave. Morrison is indeed a stricken city and fear is expressed tkat the end is not yet. Families are afraid to occupy their homes, not knowing at what time they may ,be overwhelmed in a flood. Mrs. A. IS: Proctor and her four children, ' Mrs. T. E. Caey and five children, Mrs. Anthony Herres and four children, Annie Hansen, servant", and Thomas McGough, a cousin of ' Mrs. Casey, eighteen in all, were living in a large cottage on the banks of Bear creek. A great bank of water struck the house before the occupants real ized their danger and carried it bodilv away. All the inmates perished except Irene Proctor, aged 18, whoe long hair caught in drif twood, holding her until aid camp. ' J. iC. Longnecker' s house was washed away and dashed to'pieces against a rock. Mr. -! and Mrs. Longneckfer and three of theii" children' weie thrown high and dry on' a hillside. One: child was drowned. One 'of those saved vya's badly injured, but will recover. ; 5 . The wallsof B?ar Creek cany on at places rise almost perpendicularly 800 feet, and nearly every Slim 7iier it is the scene of a flood, but in spite of the danger it has ' beenla favorite resort of Deliver people. Killed iri Mistake for a Burglar. Chicago, July 27. Daniel Schroyer, a . well known resident of Park' .-Ridge - was shot and killed early yesterday morning by his son-in-law, George E. Pottinger, a prominent Chicago real estate dealer, who mistook him for a burglar. The shooting took place in Pottinger's home, in Ingle side avenue. Mr. Schroyer had been a guest at the Pottinger homestead for' sev eral weeks. Mr. Pottinger was aroused at 3 o'clock in the morning, and thinking burglars were abroad' took .his ''revolver and started to investigate. He was about to enter the kitchen when he saw'the form of a man approaching, and fired one shot. The man, gave vent to a startled exclama tion and Mr. Pottinger recognized his father-in-law's voice. The bullet struck Mr. Schroyer in the groin, and he died in an hour. , Mr. Pottinger is almost dis tracted and his wife is prostrated. ' i ine destruction to property in many I . a. .. - T7!. i , v a ; .. mi ! parts oi rraiiKim county is complete., iu damage is estimated at $100,000 at ths low est figure and is probably a great deal more. Traffic on both the Louisville, Cin cinnati and Lexington and Short Line division's is suspended. - A half dozen or more county bridges have been washed away. Hundreds of acres of crops are totally ruined, and it is impossible to even approximate the dam age. Trains ran to the bridge from both directions, but the waters are so violent that it was impossible to transfer passen gers by boat or otherwise. ! ' Shelbyville, Ky., July 23 News has ' just reached here from the southern part ! of the county, stating that the loss of one j life occurred there, Mrs. James Peyton, ' wife of a well to do farmer living in Plum Creek. Mr. Peyton was awakened by the rushing waters, and rescued his two chil dren. Before he could return to his wife the house had overturned, and the woman was drowned. Mr. Peyton was compelled : to remain in a .tree during the long hours of the night. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Tuesday, July 21. '..' ... . General Harrison announces that he will speak for the Republican ticket before the end of the campaign. : Arthur Cleveland Coxe.Episcopal bishop of Buffalo, died at Rochester, .N.; Y., while about to take a train for his home. Because her husband abused her Mrs. Henry Wellhouse, of Chicago, tried to drown herself and her four children. Colonel Clayton McMichael, proprietor of the Philadelphia North American, is seriously ill with appenditcis at his sum mer cottage in Atlantic City. Over '4,000 men, employes of the Na tional rolling mill, at McKeesport, Pa., have been granted the amalgamated scale, and all the mills of the Amipany will soon be at work on double turn. Wednesday, July 23. Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle and party, who have been on a brief vacation down GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS Che last A r Iron 3Ien Resume Work. Pittsburg, July 27. This -morning; oc curred the beginning of a resumption of . iron mills which will soon put to work at least. 10.000 -men. It is estimated that at least that number are interested in the settlement of the wage scale with the Ohio manufacturers at Youngstown Saturday night. The success of the Amalgamated As sociation in makina the wajre Atlanta, Ga., July 23. A special to The Journal from Elberton says: Three ' miles from Royston Dave Berryman killed his. wife and three children and then com mitted suichle. The particulars -are not known Berry man was crazed with drink, and it is supposed he killed his family in a moment of frenzy. .; SAVANNAH, July 25. Fire early yester day morning destroyed over $160,000 worth of property on the river front in this city; The fire, which reached alarming propor- tions by 1 o'clpck, was not under control until after 3 a' clock. By that time it had destroyed the Planters' Rice mill, its grainery and the large Duckworth ware house, together with nearly 5,000 busheU of rough rice and about the same quantity of cleaned rice. Bltjefield, W. Va., July 23. Deputy Collectors Feetz and Wilson, with a posse, were ambushed on Sunday at Runnet Bay, Franklin county, Va., by moonshiners. A thirty minute fight ensued, when the moonshiners retreated. Deputy Marshal Fitzwater was shot through the arm, and three tf the officers' horses riddled with bullets. It is reported that three of tho moonshiners were killed and several wounded. Charleston, ! W. Va., July 4 Two boys, whose names are thought to be Rice and SteiuburgJ aged 14 arid 18, respect ively, were killed on a freight train at Shenandoah Junction yesterday. They boarded the train at Hagerstown and crept 'under a lot of sewer piping on a flat car. At Shenandoah Junction the car was switched to a sidetrack, dislodging some of tho pipes and" crushing both boys to death. The bodies were shipped to Hagers town. -- I . Jacksonville, Fla., July 21. In a mo ment of passion, caused by a dispute over a game of cards, W. W. Haralson, auditor of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railroad company, dealt a filial blow to Francis M. Ector, assistant auditor of the same road. The quarrel occurred in the reading room of the Arlington hotel, where the two men boarded. Haralson struck his friend over the head with a heavy chair. Ector fell unconscious, and died soon after. Salisbury, N. C,, July 23. Ex-Senator Matt W. Ransom, now minister to Mex ico, who has been recuperating at Blowing Rock for the past month, left Salisbury for Mexico City Tuesdf iy night to: resume his official duties. The general's health is much improved. Speaking of the finan cial, question General Ransom said: "Though I have always been nn advocate of the gold standard, I cannot bolt the Democratic party on the silver question. Democracy is too dear to me." Frankfort, Ky., July 22. Nine lives were lost as the result of Monday night's floods so far as heard from. Gaines' bridge oyer Benson creek was washed away four miles from towm The dead are: James Bradley, wife and four children, and Mrs. Bryant, a widow,1 and two children. They lived in a flat along the Benson creek, ' which rose so rapialy that the house was washed away before the occupants knew of their danger. Mrs. Bryant is a daugh ter. of 'Squire Dan Moore, a candidate for county judge. . Portland, Me.j, July 27. Edward B. "Winslow, Democratic candidate for gov ernor, has withdrawn because of the Chi cago platform. His decision was made late Saturday afternoon. Cape Fear and Yadkin Yalley Ry, I ATLANTIC co- '! John Gill, Receiver. CONDENSED SCHEDULE Iii effect 8,1X96. NORTH BOUND. ' ; ; No 2. daily. .. : . - Leave Vilmington ........ . . Arrive Fayetteville. ' .... Leave Fayetteville. . . .-. . ... Leave Fayetteville Junction. Leave Sanford .' . ... . . L i . . . Leave Climax. ... : Arrive Greensboro. .... . Leave Greensboro. . . . . ... . Leave Stokesdale V. .'. . . . Arrive Walnut Cove... . Leave Walnut Cove . . . . Leave Rural Hall . . . U ... Arrive Mt. Airy.-'. am. 7-25 io-35 10.55 10 57 . 1219P m 2.25 2,56 3 05 3-59 43 . 4.38 5-1 . 6.45 ( Wilmington and vt, . and Branches ,1- akain going DATED June 11th, 1696 I W. 1 . .; A. M. i'. ! Lv Wpldnn Ar Urit.h-rr f 11 ;,-; Ly .Tarboro.. .j l2.U'l ....; Lv Rocky Mount.! lOOlldaw ijV wnson ; in , ii j. iiv tseimn . ' Lv Fayetteville. A r Florence means, too, that the m6n empla ; :n : 1 ii a. 1 , umonmmsiujrei an auyance m tneir wages, and that their employers will siprii agreements to pay them union drices. This comes as near a recognitioii of as the men are contending for ent time. ; LIVES LOST BY FLOOD settlement yedin non- sapeake bay, returned to Washington evening. : monument to John Brown, 'the abo litionist, was unveiled with appropriate exercises yesterday at the John Brown farm, Saranac Lake, N. Y. Xaylor's Opera House, at Terre Haute, Ind., built at a cost of 1300,000, was com pletely destroyed by fire last night, and with italmost the entire block. Total loss, f400.000. Howard R. Benedict, of the firm of Bene dict Brothers, New York bankers, was married on his deathbed yesterday to Miss Margaret Lloyd, of Cincinnati, dying eight hours later of typhoid fever. Thursday, July 23. In tho United States court at St. Paul. Minn., the anti-cigarette law of the state I Democrats of the Third Georgia district nominated E. B. Lewis to succeed ex Speaker Charles F. Crisp in congress. General George W. Jones, the oldest ex United States senator, died at Dubuque, Ia.,agedJ2. He was Iowa's first senator. Princess Maud, third daughter of the Prince of Wales, was married yesterday ' in London to Prince Charles of Denmark. A violent' rainstorm struck Bellefonte, Pa., yesterday afternoon. Fully two inches fell in an hour, and much damage was done. All news received confirm the reports that Antonio Maceo is encamped in the mountains of Rubi, in Pinar del Rio, and thathe intends soon to. make an attack upon the Spanish trocha. I riday, July 24. At Chicago Harry Rudolph, 11 years old, killed 9-year-old Grover Hanson with two blows of his fist. .' ; R. E. Lewis, of Henry county, was nom inated for governor by the Missouri 'Re publican state convention. The Mexican government refuses to ac- j cept the' resignation of Senor Romero, their minister at Washington. John Pryde, who murdered Andrew Peterson for was hanged at Brainerd, Minn., shortly after 1 o'clock in the morn ing. '. '''..; . Catharine Booth Clibborn, head of the Salvation Army in France, was severely 1 injured by being knocked down by a bi cyclist in Paris. The centennial celebration df the found ing of Chillicothe, O., by General Nathan iel Massie was ended yesterday by an im posing parade in the afternoon and an ad dress at night by Postmaster Genercd William L. Wilson. Saturday, July 2,j. . j Great damage by floods is reported from West Virginia1; squthern Ohio and Ken tucky. ' Marshal Field, of Chicago, has presented '2,000,000 as an endowment fund for the Columbian rau se U m. . Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Par ker, sixth earl of Maccl3.sllekl, died in London, aged S5. Near Grassy, five miles from Cripple Creek, Colo., a stage was held up bv three. men and the XJassengers robbed of 500 and J twelve gold wr.tches. JohnRecliAvas convicted of murder in the second degree at May's Landing, N. J., for killing his Vvife, aud sentenced $o twenty years' imprisonment. i Jlonday, July 27. The Marquis of Santa Lucia, insurgent president of Cuba, has sailed from the island for Xew York. At the peril of her life, Mrs. Edward C. ;. Starck, of Xew York, rescued a child from ; death beneath the hoofs of a frightened ! horse. SOUTH BOUND. NO I DAILY. i 'A T 25 P. M. A.M 314 Lv Goldsboro.....! Lv Masmolia I I Ar Wiiuiington...' Leave Mt. Airy. .... .. . . . Leave Rural Hall ... .. .... .'. Arrive Walnut Cove. t. . . Leave Walnut Cove . .v . . . . Leave Stokesdale. .". ... Aarive Greensboro. ... . . Leave Greensboro: ...... Leave Climax. . ..... .... . . . . Leave Sanford. .......... : . Arrive Fayetteville Junction. Arrive fayetteville. ; . . . . . Leave Fayetteville.-. . . . , Arrive Wilmington. . . . . 935 a nV 11.05 '' ii,35 H-45 " 1212 p m 12.5S 1.03 1.32 3- J9 4.30 4- 33': 4-45 7-55 c r i NORTH BOUND. NO 4 DAILY Leave Bennettsville. Arrive Maxton. ... ... Leave. Maxton ...... . Leave ,Red Springs . Leave Hope Mills.. Arrive Fayetteville. . .9.23 . 9.29 9-55 10.35 . 10.5.' 25 a m i SOUTH BOUND. No "3 DAILY ; Leave Fayetteville.;. Leave Hope Mills Leave Red Springs, Arrive Maxton. Leave Maxton....'.: Arrive Bennettsville. . . .. 4.38 p m ...'458. " ...542 " ... 612 4'. ...613 " ...720 NORTH BOUND . No 16 mixed daily except Sunday. Leave Rapsuer. . Leave Climax Arrive Greensboro. Leave Greensboro, Leave Stokesdale. . Arrive Madison . . . 6.45 a m 8.35 ' .'-I .9.20 " 9-35 . 10.50 .11.50 1 1 SOUTH BOUND No 15 mixed Daily, except .Sunday Leave Madison . ..... Leave Stokesdale. . . Arrive Greensboro ;. Leave Greensboro.... Leave Climax! ... Arrive RamseurV. . . . 1225 pm 1 28 ' 3 MO " 4-05 ' 5 SO " . tne union at the pres- Kint Persons Droviied in Kenson. Valley. A Family Annihilated. FRAXKFOliT, Ky., July -2. By Monday night's "flood in Benson Valley Gaines' bridge, four miles from town, was washed away, and a number of lives were lost in the rapidly rising waters. James Bradley and his entire family were annihilated. James Sudduth, 1 tenant, made-a mirac ulous escape with his family; -Ke lives in Benson Valley, He was awakened by the storm and discovered that the creek had swollen and was likely to sweep his house away, lie swam over a mile and procured . a horse, and the family "made their escape from the houc only a few minutes before it was washed away by the rush of water! Many people living in Benson Valley.l eft their houses and waded out through the mad waters, only escaping a few minutes before the buildings were carried away. A tramp who was refused lodging by James Hewlett saved the lives of his family. He stopped in : the barn, after ward came to the door and awoke the family just In time for them to get out safely. ; '. . ' ;. . v- Coroner Dehoney last night held an in quest on the bodies recovered, and re turned verdicts of accidental drowning. They were James G. Bradley and Emma T., his wife ; El-roy Bradley, aged 8 ; Widow Mollie Bryant and children, Ellison, aged 2, Nora, aged 13, and Thomas Massie, col ored. The remains of Flora Bradley have Dot been recovered. XO 0 0 9 9 9,9 9 9 -.9 X I -X .-i X X X X X JL X X X. X X i. X i NORTH BOUND . CONNECTIONS at Fayetteville with Atlantic Coast Line for all points North and East at Sanford with the Seaboard Ajr 'Line, at y Greensboro' 'with - The Southern Railway Company, at Walnut Cove with the Norfolk & Western Railroad for Winston-Salem. SOUTH BOUND CONNECTIONS at Walnut Cove with the Norfolk & Weston Railroad for Roanoke and points North and West, at Greensboro with the Southern Railway Company for Raleigh, Richmond and all points North" and East, at Fayetteville with the Atlantic Coast Line for all points South, at Maxton with Seaboard Air Line for Charlotte, Atlanta and all points South and Southwest. J. W. FRY, , W. E. KYLE, Gen'l Manoger. Gen' Pass. Agent. 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