Denton County News. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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DISASTROUS TIDAL WAVE.
managed in one way or another
to make their way to the hills
back of the town or to houses in
Graphic Details of the Disaster to Shawnee- the higher sections of the village
town—Water Came in a Rush.
itself. A few of these survived
the sudden burst of the waters,
but their first and sometimes
their second floors were under
water. Those who made jhtir
way to them went only in the
clothes they were wearing when
the flood came. None had secur-
ed treasure or clothes. The
property loss is very heavy.
The scene in the streets at the i
upper end of town, where men
and women were struggling
against the muddy water to high
er ground, some carrying babies
on their heads, where the water
was up to their necks, others half
swimming, half floating on odds
and ends of lumber from homes
that had gone floating down the
river, many struggling in vain and
sinking in the roaring waters, was
one that will live in the memory
of every beholder.
At one place a mother had
IT WAS AN AWFUL AVALANCHE
I
Of Swollen Waters that Overwhelmed
the Unfortunate Victims—Houses
on Fire—Two Hundred Dead.
At 5 o'clock Sunday evening
the levee of the Ohio river at
Shawneetown, 111., broke and the
town was flooded with rushing
waters which destroyed build-
lugs and lives. A special to the
Chicago Chronicle Monday said:
The disaster at Shawneetown,
III., came when the great majority
of the people were in their homes
eating supper.
The break in the levee occurred
a mile above the town and within
ten minutes was more Mian a half
mire wide.
Aj stream of water twelve to
twenty feet deep, carrying half
of the current of the flood-raised reached a sale spot and turned to
Ohio descended on the unsus- j help her husband who followed
pecting people. ' with their child. As she reached
It came down in a great rush down from a window for his hand
like a tidal wave. There was no lie was thrown from his footing
slow rising of t lie waters to give; and he and the child were swept
warning. The houses on the out- i away in the seething current. }'
■kirts were lifted up and rolled; The woman saw iiim sinking the
over and over. Most of them second time and then threw lier-
were torn into splinters. Their j self into the water.
Another family paddled half
way to safety on a broad plank1
that had but half of them out of
the water. A side current caught
them and sent them out toward
the middle of tlie stream, where
in the trough of the water they
were seen to capsize and sink.
An old man named Griffin, living
fr a few minutes the horror on high ground, stopped in the
w>is added.
of a laige hi, , .
^ h uise I house to secure a hoaidof money
. .^—Hdowu str
uiat had, i
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with the q r,ny/
The people ou the roofs were
already in danger of being thrown
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The New
This is the Real Thin* Itself.
inhabitants were drowned in
them. Nearer the center of the
town some brick structures
|8topped the onrush of the water
^r a few minutes, but about two-
ids of the dwellings were
from their foundations and
LI into the current of the
Call and see this machine before placing your order, as
we have some special inducements to offer this season.
Parlin $
E. H. BEALL, Manager,
Orendorff Co.
Denton, Texas.
BRANN AND DAVIS DEAD.
groin and
once in the
The Two Men Meet in a Street Duel.
Kesult of the Atta. vson Bay-
lor University.
Waco, Texas, April 2.—W. 0.
Brann, the editor of the Icono-
clast, died at 1:55 this morning.
iJrann's death is the result of a
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duel on the streets of Waco atx^
the right
foot.
Davis received a bullet in the
left breast near the heart and two
bullets in the arm.
Brann died of internal hemor-
rhage from the wounded lung.
The tragedy of last night grows
out of Brand's attacks on the
BURIED IN THE ORAVEL.
Baylor Univenity.
earn j hidden under the bed. His son, o'clock yesterday evening with
! a young man of 21, had to climb Capt. M. f. Davis, a real estate
up the porch to rescue him, so man, who had frequently de-
quick was the rise of the water,
and when the two attempted to
swim to safety, the young man
supporting the other, a floating
house that came rolling and plies were carried to Davis, so
tumbling on the current over- that the two men were prepared
off by the collision with other
toating houses, but the appear-
ance of this floating brand added
horror. As it struck one bouse
after another in its zigzag course
some caught lire and their unfor-
tunate people'we re compelled to
trust themselves to the mercy of js supposed to be .losephson, was ; "ll*t
nouuced Brann as a scoundrel
who ought to be runout of Texas.
The remarks of Davis were car-
ried to Brann and Brann's re-
Capt. iVa'vis (lied at his home
Saturday of the wounds received.
The funerals of the two men were
conducted Sunday at the same
hour. Ward, Brann's business
manager is under arrest charged
with complicity in the killing of
Davis.
whelmed them.
for trouble and had no doubts as
A school teacher, whose name to what would happen when they
the swirling water on pieces of
wood to avoid a more terrible
death by lire. The break in the
levee flooded four miles of the
valley land and cut off communi-
cation on two railroads, the Balti-
more and Ohio Southwestern and
the Louisville anil Nashville.
The first rush of the current
did not do all the damage. When
warned of the danger in time to
get to the high ground, but in
turning back to help her mother
she was caught with the elder
woman in an eddy and both were
Brann and his business man-
ager, W. II. Ward, were on the j
opposite side of Fourth street j
from the Cotton Belt office, and
were seen crossing the street]
together, going in the direction ! ^wly and sadly I turned me
The Drunkard's Lament.
From the Missionary Baptist.
I have been to tlio funeral of my
hopes,
And entombed them one by one.
Not a word was said,
Not a tear was shed,
When the mournful task was done.
drowned. One woman made an
effort to save her lover by throw-10' trench's bdokstore, ( apt. j
Davis' office being behind the
bookstore and the Cotton Belt!
inga clothesline to him from the
roof of her house. His house was
swept at the moment and she was
And sought my silent room,
And there alone,
liy niy cold hearthstone,
I wooed the midnight gloom.
Ward
office. When Brann and
the water had slackened some-: thrown into the water. He swam reached the front of the book-j
tfhat many houses were still to the aid ol the girl, but she was store, Capt. Davis was iu front of j
landing, but it was quickly seen standing on the side of a gable
that the frame ones would not; roof and was pulled from her in-
An Accident Which Cost One Man
His Life and Injured Another.
Gkanbury, Texas, April
A sad misfortune occurred in
town yesterday evening at the
giavel pit near the old Haney
mill, which resulted in serious
,'iVj a i j iif i!A uc«iif A.l».eo auu
to Joe llaniia. The city is grad-
ing West Bridge street and has
been taking a great deal of gravel
from tilt; pit, where half a dozeu
hands were at work digging it
out. The embankment had been
dug down till the clay was five or
six feet deep above the gravel,
leaving the wall standing. Young
Ilanna and Aline were digging
the gravel out yesterday evening
when the whole embankment
caved in on them, burying Aline
about four feet deep and cover-
ing Joe up to his neck. As the
wall crushed him down he fell
across a large piece of earth and
another large piece struck him
, just over the heart, driving a rib
° , into his heart. The earth was
soon removed from his body, and
he was placed on a stretcher and
carried home, but lie lived only a
| few minutes. Aline was dug out
And, as night wind's deepening shade ; and is doing well and will be up
last in the steady crush of the'
flood.
By nieaus of rafts and swinging
in the cold water seventy or
eighty people were transferred
ttoni their garrett windows and
secure footing. Both were
drowned.
These are some of the incidents
of the disaster told by John Gra-
ham, who reached Cypress June
tion, from which place he tele
roots to the flat tops of the Galla- phoned here for help. He said
tin County Bank, a brick and that he himself pulled twelve per-
atone building, and the court- song out „f the water.
house, which is of brick.
It was hoped that these would To Vote for Amendment,
withstand the pressure and the Waxahaohik, Tex., April 4.—
undermining, but when the single At the meeting of Camp Winnie
courier who rode for help to Cy- ])avj8i u. C. V., this afternoon
press Junction left Shawneetown g^veral speeches were made on
only those two buildings showed lhe amendment of the constitu-
above the broad sheet of the flood tjou relative to pensioning in-
in the lower part of the town, and (iigent Confederate soldiers. The
its full force was being thrown camp agreed to vote for the pen-
against them. It was doubtful if ^jon amendment.
his office. The words that passed
between them were words of re-j
proacli, and they lost no time in ;
getting out their weapons.
About ten seconds were occu-!
pied in the shooting at the end j
of which Brann and Davis lay j
bleeding, and Will H. Ward,
Brann's business manager, was
shot through the right hand, the
bone being shattered. A wild
bullet hit Mo tor man Kennedy, of
a passing street car on the knee.
Another bullet hit Eugene Keh-
ler in the foot. These wounds
are not serious. Eugene Kehler
and his partner Prince, are tour-
ing the world on a wager, and
had just reached Waco.
Davis, in a statement immedi-
ately after the shooting, said that
he shot first because Brann had
Lowered above my brow,
1 wept o'er the days
When manhood's rays
Were brighter far than now.
The dyinjf embers of the hearth
Gave out their flickering light,
As if to say
This is the way
Thy life shall close in night.
1 wept aloud, in anguish sore,
O'er the blight of prospects fair,
While demons laughed
And eagerly quaffed
My tears like nectar rare.
Through hell's red hall an echo rang,
An echo loud and long,
As in the bowl
I plunged my soul
In the night of madness strong.
And there, within that sparkling
glass,
I knew the cause to lie,
This all men own
From zone to zone,
Yet millions drink and die.
in a few days. .1. D. Baker of
Weatherford, Joe's uncle, and
' Miss Earl Ilanna of Waco, his
sister, were telegraphed and
i came in last night.
Snow Up the Denver.
Fort Worth, Tex., April 4.—
The mercury took a downward
| shoot again this morning and the
j temperature has gradually got
| colder, until tonight real winter
i weather is on.
The change has made the truck
farmer feel blue. One of them, J.
W. Martin, living at Riverside,
said: "We are just recovering
from the last freeze which killed
our gardens and corn and injured
the fruit, anil now the prospects
are that all we have done to re-
cover from that injury will be de-
stroyed tonight. The ground is
cold and much seed has rotted in
the ground, and a temperature
several degrees higher than the
[The above poem was written by (agt cold spell will do almost as
they would not collapse and — ^ °gge ,IS oo s «ps a < ay brightest members of the New Or-j from points up the Denver
throw the refugees into the river. On April 10 and 11 the M., K. had said aloud and defiantly t lat |e;ius jiarj all(j js n,e pathetic story of road there come reports that there
Besides the hundred or more who & T. will sell round trip tickets he would not tigiit. | his own ruined life.]—Michigan j jg a snow and cold tempera-
were on the roofs of the two to Beaumont, Tex, at *0.85; lim Each of the combatants was vocate- tuie, the snow being at Texline
sound buildings it is known that ited to return fifteen days from shot three times. Brann was shot Old paper at the News office- and other poiuts two or more
nearly 1000 of the. inhabitants date of sale. W. F. Jarrell, Agt. once through the lung, once in only ten cents per hundred. inches deep.
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j the late Richard Lyle, one of the mu^h harm •"
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Bailey, John W. Denton County News. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1898, newspaper, April 7, 1898; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth503863/m1/2/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.