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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6. 1921.
THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
MILLEDUEVILLE, o.\
itiuo uU3
BUY LIVES IN
OY
Galvcsion D.sas'.sr in 1300 Took
6,000 Livas.
JOHNSTOWN DEAD WAS 2.209
Rail's Caused Indiana End Ohio Tor-
rents in Which 730 Persons Perished
in 1913 — Johnstown Catastrophe
Stands Foremost in Memory cf
Country—Texas Mas Been Frcq’jor.l
Sufferer From Swollen Waters—
Pueblo Tv.ice Visited.
Kovirnl dl-nstious floods In lids
country in the lust thirty yours have
hml dentil lists running Into tie
hundreds, hut only two of them I nve
horn entirod hy torrcutlul ruins. One
wiis (lie flood in 1!>13 ttint run up a
death list of 730 arid a property loss
ni' $180373,1 X.X) in Oliio uni Indlaiin.
lr. 1003 idiout 300 lives were lost in
n eloudhlirst ill Ileppner, Ore. Two
floods at (iiilveslun caused n loss of
life running into the thousands.
The flood that stands foremost In
the memory of the eountry as a catas
trophe was that at Johnstown, i’a., on
May 31, 1880, in which 2,200 lives
were lost and $10,trio,<>00 worth of
property destroyed or swept nwny.
This was not due to a storm but to
tlie breaking of the r M.«rvolr of Lake
('om>mau;,h, a body of water two miles
and a half li ng, a mile and a halt
wide mid more than I i feet deep.
This held then a larger volume of
water than any other reservoir In lids
country.
The dam that he’ I the waters In
tins pocket was 1,ln i feet long. 110
fec-t high, 00 feet thick at the base
mid 25 feet wide at the top. The
capacity nf the original lake had been
quadrupled hy tills dam. lull the
menace of . a flood had been so great
since the construct Ion of the Immense
sli iie wall that citizens of the valley
frequently had caust I Inspections to
lo made.
The reservoir, far higher than J* Ims-
i • I to n huntli < 1 ub It
lad I. ii constructed carelessly. Com
plaints often had hem made to the
owners. The dam of the reservoir was
made of earth, with no masonry re-
Infi 'enemt. There hud been long-con
tinued rains prior to May 31, and
when the danger wns seen gangs of
lneii were put to work to open a sluice.
He,i they could not work fast enough
to keep the pace with the rising
wan i s.
Inhabitants Warned.
,\i nooig-on May 31 a messenger was
sent to Johnstown warning all the in-
liahilants to flee. The warning wns
not taken seriously. When it became
cert.iln ii a; tin* dam was going an en
gineer named Trnks mounted a fn-t
horse nil I rode through the valley to
Johnstown el rliteen miles away, shout
ing an alarm as he went.
At 3 p. ni. the whole center of tin*
dam lave way In a break 300 feet
wide. The fh od, half a mile wide and
forty feet high, rushed on Its wav to
Johns'own. it tore down everything
In tis course, taking up whole villages
In a few seconds and carrying the tons '
of building ainteriuls like so many
chips.
Two wings of ti e flood struck Johns
town till o i siimihnnemi-ly. The de
struction was complete. Persons who'
escaped were prompted to run at tlie
last moment when they heard the rush
of water In the ill dance. Undies
Honied in the rop'ds anil whirlpools
and were not found for days.
The distance from the lake to
Johnstown was eiglitei i miles nnd it
was estimated that tl'.e flood covered !
this dlsianco in about seven minutes. •
It was the high M pi- sure flood In .
history, ami even nf.’er swi eplng
Johnstown the water rushed on so 1
swiftly tMut holies were found nevt 1
morning In to - Vie; hony river at
I’llM’iurgh, seve: ly-eiglil i • V ; away.
Another great (lo id due to the
lirenhlng of a dam occurred In the
little i *ti of ' |
tint '- 1 ", high, 32
and 320 feet long, sioring water for
a [in| cr-pulp mill, gave way. releas
ing 400.(KX><;<'0 gallons. The Inbuilt*
tnnts of A u st 11;. i ieven miles below
tlie dam, were warned hy te’ephones.
Fewer than 100 persons 1 -st their
live-. Fire followed the wnter.
6,000 Lost in Texas Fleech
The worst of the flood disasters
nlong the Texas coast occurred on
Sept. 8, 1000, causing a loss of flikzi
lives nnd nearly $29,000,000 damage.
Tills flood was caused liy a hurrlenr.e
from the 11 id f of Mexico, which hurled
great muss •- of water miles Inland.
The greatest force of lids flood struck
nr Halves ion nnd for thirty tulles along
the shore, both above nnd below
Galveston.
Thousands of persons \ ere made
liomeie and pillage nnd n iihery of
the dead and living were tinsirpnsseil
In the I Story of disasters, nee ird’ng
to ariiii oflleers who wore ;,i Ike city
ofier ti e flood, and also at San Fran
cisco after ti e earthquake, when simi
lar excesses were checked hy [trig.
Cos Frederick Funston.
A year before this lirst Galveston
flood a flood In the Brazos \alley In
Ti-xiis caused hundreds of tliou-an Is
of dollars In damage nnd serious loss
of life. This flood was followed by the
bursting of a dam at Austin the next
year roving $1,000,000 damage and
serious loss of life. In tlie same year
^^ii sm-te . f flood In the Colorado
river \ alley caused heavy loss
life nnd property damage.
In the floods in Oliio and Indiana in
1013 the city hardest hit was Dayton,
where a first estimate [flared tlie dead
at 2.0X1 and the property loss at $100,-
000,000. When all tlie figures were
gathered after the flood, however, it
was learned that il e list of dead wns
732 nnd the properly loss $180.873,tXK)
for tlie two stales. More than 00,000
buildings were flooded.
This disaster in Ohio called forth
great relief effort < on Hie part nf the
lied Cross and ninny other agencies
and cities. Mneh of this work of re
lief wa< di.eetp'l from Columbus by
fhe-rnwr James ?.!. Cox.
Texas aunla was visited hy a series
of floods in H e lltazos and other val
leys in 1013 and about fit HI lives were
lost. Ti e bws in fids flood In towns
In Central and Eastern Texas was esti-
t.aged rt more than $53' IP,..). The QJVE3 LIFE TO SAVE H!S SON
enure was torrential ralnx. j
In 1015 (ialvp P n was revisited by
hurrieane and Inundating stas from i
the (pdf of • cal the death list j
V.T.S plnee.l ni 305. The property loss j
was put at $5,000,000. The city ibis i Philadelphia.—Stanley Shivery of
lime was saved from greater damage v.'esiinghoure Village was drowned
I y its huge tea vail which hod l.een | n j, :1V ing the life of Ids 12-year-old
built after the 13'XI slorm to protect . S( M ti 1( , Il: .m gunk In view of eev-
li e city againd a sim'iar entnsiroplie. era j persons along the river hank, who
Demanded Divorce From
Wife by Return Mail
County Judge R. W. Shaw of
Mamlan, N. D., has received a
letter from Clinton Onsklll, WII*
more. Ky„ which says:
“About nine years ago, if you
remember, you married Miss
Eouise Kopp and Clinton Gas-
kill. As she left me and won’t
live with me any more, please
semi me a divorce hy return
mail. I« will he yours, very
truly.”
Judge Shaw turned (he letter
over to the district Judge.
Fords or\,
Father R:a;he3 River B?nk With
Drowning Coy, Then Sinks
From View.
The sins were so high at times that
they swept over tills wall.
Problem for Erirjinrers.
T‘l e lower Mms'sslppl river valley I
! us had many fli -strops floods nnd
the problem of cheeking the damage .
nnd b ss of life mused hy them Is I
Mill muler ills' '.lesion by engineers.!
(hie if Hie worst of these fliwids In !
recent years wns in 1IH2. when 200 |
lives were lost nnd n property loss nf i
r.|5.000.0(X) was eaused in Bolivar J
enmity, Mississippi. The property toss |
eio-h year In the lower Mississippi -
region runs Into millions. The year j
of greatest loss wns 1003. when j
millions nf dollars In property were
destroyed at Kansas City, Mo., and 1
other river towns.
Great ns have been the loss of |
life and property In floods In the i
Fnl'pd S'ntes, they have been almost |
hflliifleslnml In comparison to losses j
In life and properly in other countries, |
particularly In China.
In 1870, 200,000 persons perished In
were pov e; less to aid him. llis body
wns rec ivered.
Fliirery and his son. with John Bnll-
ey of (lie same village, went tishing.
While leaning over, tlie son evidently
became dizzy and fell Into the stream.
The eider Shirery plunged into the
stream and reached for the boy as lie
was disappearing beneath the surface.
With his arm around the neck of
liis son, Shivery managed to reach the
hank. Hailey, leaning far over the
stream, took the limp form from tlie
father. Hailey tlien reached for Shlr-
ery, but his last vestige of strength
had gone. With safety only a few
inches from him he sank from view.
Cured in e to 14 t»>i
rU viral si will rMund money'if PA't
r r,v case of IS - £
., Piles in 6tol4 5 s
i.asc ai.il Kcst. ' • -
I have
HAY FOR SALE
a quantity of thoroughly
a tidal w ave in IV n ral. Hundreds nf , _ „ t , . 1
drowned in tlie China curoU '•' ay - C - u - ' cuns > Route
thousands were
provlm es in the same year. In 1857,
t>, o years before tlie Johnstown flood
i in lids country, millions were drowned
: In n flood of the Ilonngho In llonr.n,
Chi'ia. In 1"!)'!. 27,000 lives were lost
In Japan In a flood.
la 1011, 100.000 lives were lo ;t In a
f- d of the Yang tse Ixlnng in
China and In the nine year 5,000 lives
we: a t.-v-t in a Ilonngho river flood,
la 1012, -100 were lost In Japan and
282 in a second flood In the same year.
T1 e Philippine Islands also have had
ninny similar disasters.
One of the large floods preceding the
Johns o. n flood in 1374 Inundated the
Mill river valley In Massachusetts
when n dam broke. Nearly 150 per
sons were drowned. In the same year
and In the next year disastrous floods
In Western Pennsylvania and 111 the
Ohio river valley caused the loss of
hundreds of lives.
In the West river valley of China
serious floods occurred In 1014 and
1015. In the first year the loss was
8.300 lives and $43,000,000 in property.
Ti e following year 80,000 lives were
lost.
Two years ago floods and cloud-
hursts in Guanajuato, Mexico, killed
1.000 persons and eaused a property
loss of $20,(XX) 000. Two cities were in-
um'aled and crops destroyed over an
area of lo.oixi square miles.
Fuebio Flooded in 1824.
The recent disaster at Pueblo wns
the second in the history of that city.
On May 31, 1804, Pueblo was swept
by flood when Fountain creek wns
swollen to a torrent by a downfall of
rain and scries of cloudbursts all along
the eastern sloj e of the continental
divide. According to reports printed
at Hint lime tile flood of 1804 was
similar In every wuy to the one early
111 June.
The previous downpour of rain on
the Eastern slope covered n wider
area of territory, extending as far
south as Abilene, Texas. Heavy cloud
bursts were ri por»>-i nl the.s;une time
in ilie Piu'HJc Northwest. 0ttier cities
In Colorado heavily lilt in this same
storm were Boulder, Denver, Muni-
ton, Colorado Springs nr.d I’utfe.
Appn aches to nil the bridges over j
the Arkansas river and Fountain creek
were washed riwny in the flood, and
sections of the eily were cut off from
communication with one another.
The flood of water In I’m-ldo in the
1874 Inundation wns at least fifteen
feet deep, nml remained at high level
for more than a week. Much of It
had to bo pumped away. Many rail
road bridges near the city, and particu
larly between Pueblo anil Canon City,
wore destroyed. The heaviest loser
wns the Denver & Itlo Grande Kail-
road.
More than 20,000 persons were In
distress following the flood, because
the supply of food ran low, and It
wns impossible to repair the railroad
bridges for several days. Passengers
on railroad trains wer<* marooned be
tween bridges and went several days
j without food.
The death list In this flood was
about thirty. Reports said that the
number would have been larger if the
Inhabitants had not hurried to the
bills when warning was given
Aged Arkansan in “Eternal Triangle."
The Grand Jury bus refused to in
dict It. M. Brink, oivhty-oi.e years old.
i of Hot Springs, Ark., tie offended
| party In an alleged “love triangle."
, Brink recently sin t George May. for-
•y. for alleged attentiveness to Mrs.
Brink, seventy-five. May 1ms since
re- overed.
Milledgeville,
Fruit jars, jelly glasses and jar fub-
I'er:; at Brown-Hargrove Oc. Phone 291
Every bolt and bar made of the toughet steel that science can
produce; every piece of metjl put there for a special purpose with
ample reserve strength to withstand the most unusual strain; and
every drop of kerosene that goes into the tank transformd into power
that is the Fordson Tac'tor.
Whether it is requied to drag the implements of agriculture
across the fields or to turn the wheels of stationary machines, the
f ordson will do all that is claimed for it and more
We will gladly demonstrate to you this the most powerful tractor
for its size on the market.
Kin so soaks the clother clean, no
i- tolling, no boiling, made hy the mak
ers of I.ux. Price 10c at Brcwn-Har-
gi-ove Co., Phone 291.
B. G. Glass Motor Co.
Authorized Ford and Fordson Dealer.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA
To Cure a Cold in One l5ay
;akr LAXATIVE EROMO QUININE (Tablets.) It
.tops ttu* Cough ami Headache nnd works off the
H.d. V . V ROVE’S sUnattic on cacti Lux. 30c
J. P. ALLEN &• CO.
Announcing Our 2nd Great Semi-Annual
July
Clearance s-m
SAVINGS OF ‘A TO 54 AND MORS
Suits—Coats— Dresses—Blouses
Skiits——Sweaters-—Hats
Shoes and Underwear
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The merchandise in this sale is strictly or the usual high type you expect
to find at Allen’s. Every garment- is of the season’s newest style—many we
have had only a very few days. They were bought on the lowest market quota
tions the reductions in this July Clearance makes values beyond comparison.
There are ecol summer garments and garments you will use through the entire
fall season. Purchases at this time will prove a most profitable investment—
if you cannot come for personal selections, your mail orders will receive
prompt attention.
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