VOL. LXV.
FLOOD AND FIRE.
OIL REGIONS A SCENE OF
RIBLE HOLLCAST
ATER
ver Two Hundre ost at
und Oil City
ing Oil Carrie
I Lives 1
on Suamday. Burn-
fon the
Water,
Na
face of the
The oil regions of Pes
visited on Sunday by
ind water that is only eclipsed in
this ry |
flood at stown jus
it that
lives have been lost,
Count
John
i
wile
history of wy the
orable
VOArs ago, is
than A
| £8) Ray
¥)
100 bodies have already
and many people
number may
regarded as
The Pp
the
ext
(XH):
roperty
million
ited at $1.7
Corry,
LIT
SE (HKD:
and tl
1
| §
Hon
Ie SUrrou nt
a mil
HE DEVASTATION AT OIL CITY.
nd Flood (
Many {nfo
Note
od Imm
Were
io
BENE Panag
tunates
Burned
church on the one
and the Derrick
Op Posi .
nnd
cipit isly
Abn
northward from
New York & Pu nnsyly
tank filled
on a siding.
ed that the
knowing its
1 i! $1
sit half a mile from {he
postoffio
here the western
: an
raiirosd an
ndin L
arn
with gasoline was sta
NOre
tank
¢ Xplosive
Young men notice
was leaking and
nature and
seeing a shifting engine approach, ran
up the side of the hill where they turn-
ed and looking down as the engine
passed witnessed a fearful sight and a
mass of flames shot a hundred feet in
the air and the earth seerned to shake
with an awful tremor. The engineer
and fireman were seen Jumping from
the cab and it is supposed at this writ-
ing they were burned or killed by the
explosion, Inan instant the flames
swept madly over the entire upper
part of the city, which was flooded by
the oily waters of the creek. And
men, women and children, who were
moving from their houses were caught
by the deadly flames and if not burned
to death outright were drowned in the
raging flood,
At one end of the city was another
iron and wood bridge which went
down five minutes after the fire start
eeeieseesemeered 8
C
en and swept away like
bridge south
the
aul & Sons’
" wood, From this
ward far a quarter of a mile entire
town is destroved. |
ture house, a four immense
tory
ing was swept ay
able
and
Vay.
and livery st were in
Mr.
who have
lest roy od
Reinbold
not
nue
Tew
two others been
fied
bodies have
were burned to death. These thre
been Foc
Known how many more are lost,
Wf the 'l
ed.
People were panic stricken
and
runnin
fe
h hird ward has been
all
town
g madly about
ildren. F
fo
athers of families
si Chl
children and
searching r their
r to get them all together
It
words {Oo
For
wvervihing
mas
is almost HI pos-
this
the
describe
miles up
in
ning dwellings and
explosions occurred
weked down by
Were
and
by
Hen
prostrate
ams of anguish
1nd. | the
re trample d upon
hurt
leaped into the
rush
i
ee Were
The flames
t, but they
L
smoke
wath
fire of the burn-
The
and shops along the
o. bet
ater, many
soon in Hames and
®
ng IR WHS suc
; rack ling flames of burn-
ing hom In many of these
the
Hol
houses
They eould
Within sight
10 heard their piteous
were confined,
for ti
if thousands wi
i
phe
HO
: i
CRONIN ie fire,
&{F
| into the river and there perished by
both floods and fire.
Much a
Lion
combined me of destruc.
terrible
seldom witnessed upon this earth.
is marvellous that from this valley of
death any were saved alive. It is
strange that out of this mingling of
fire and flood any ees were spared.
03
WRECK AND RUIN,
At Tiinsville Many Lives Were Lost In the
Flood and Some Perished in the
Flames Business Blocks
Destroyed, Ete.
TrrusviLee, Pa, June 5.~The city
of Titusville has been visited during
“
by two
the most disastrous fires and floods in
all the history of the region. Oil creek
has overflown its banks from the west
and above the water and gas works to
the city line below and for hours as-
sumed the proportions of an almost re
Sintiens flood, a almost up to the line of
ENTRE HALL, PA., T
The
The
surrounded
14
it ele
Spring street. i o
. trie light,
works
inundated.
The
iron
city is withot
water works and gas
are by watel
Perry and Franklin st
sireet
briges have been swept nway:
Lie
Mechanic
been
scores of cheap dwelling houses in
lower part of the city, on
street and vicinity have
some being burned, but the
perishing by drowning,
The
ing
scene presented by the
waters surging through
lower part of the city a {neased
thousands of citizens
Wh
anxious
desolation.
hundreds
of the
the
hand
f
LF
windows or
houses
tof waiting
and trembling
Strong and brave men by end
and roapes succeed
saving thos
till
bt
gan to rn
hie ip ni
it
ht Oil ere
idder
that tl flown
midnig
rise. So s
wl was
dents were aware
than half of
reach high ground.
The
famous old
by the
dam of Thompso
more
sudden ness
walter y
intelligeno
n&
about
Spartansburg, :
bur
ti had
by this dam
+
wi.
is city
ns al
Ww wall mile
in breadth a
thus suddenly let |
valley in the
roaring
by a quarter milk
in wie
fous
ow
3 “ £ + £8
rss Of 1101
Amazon.
1 . ’
ARIng
undoert 7
1 & M¢ IM
Tonight the
ments of Me
have
asrs, Davidso
been turned into a temporary
{morgue and with the exception {
:
i
seven Hebrews and two
i the far
{ taken there as fast as taken
} water, Most of the bodies
i ence of having met death
ing oil, many of them
children, al
been
the |
belies sy recovedd nave
irom
bore ev
from
being burned
without the
| semblance of human form,
| to leave the bodies
{ is dark and it is raining, yet the streets
{ are filled with people. No city water
is in the mains, natural gas, and
no electric light. The loss to the couns
ty will be enormous,
wis 53 3
INTHE VALLEY ov
no
DEATH
A Territory Eighteen Miles in Length
Swaopt by the Flames and Water
O1L Crry, June 6,-Eighteen miles
of death and desolation is the story in
brief of the awful catastrophe which
has decimated the borders of O11 creck
from Titusville to this point, On both
sides of the creek flood and fire have
left ruin and wreck, and it will take
days before the record of death and de
struction can be completed.
This is the most awful disaster which
has ever come to this vitinity and hae
no rival in the United
HURSDAY, JU NE
).
Johnstown
i rent,
ple
{ the flood A raging
of oil undermind and toy
flood, dropped
over {lis
a tank
d into the oul
passing
a series of explosion
of the ereek,
women, ehild;
ped in flames
efTest
A C
locomotive
in the city,
ig the surface
ens
IL A
bridge
1
alolr
houses, and
were instantly
Thess
wraj
unre wise and
a I
HHGEATION VREROBLES
wearing So0,000 a
United States consuls
army
% £1 ganize and pro
if
mulet in heavy nu
Colonel Stone's notion was
I long before he propos.
and very generally
Pane ial or
mote pmmagration, and fail
they
(AE
3
ITORS,
nnpracticable.
oo.
ANNOUNCEMENTS,
ARSO CIATE
ized to
Waike
IUDGE
antl ft
tow nel
sublet
pounce
Pp, Ina
0 the
Gun ty Convention
that Samuel
i date for
f the
cand
decision
PROTHONOTARY
We are authorized to sonounos that David R
Vorvenan, of Potter township, is a candidate for
Prothono ary, subject to the decision of the Demo
omitic County Omvention
We are suthorieed to announce that Charles R
Karte, of Contre Hal! borough, is a candidate fir
Prothonotary, subjoot tothe decision of the Dem
oratin County Convention.
ASS EM BLY
Wo are suthorized in SaBGun0s 2. mes
Schofield, of Bellefonte Borough, is Wate
for Assembly, subject to the Ah en
oeratio t ny Convention,
i a
DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Wa are anthorized to announces that Wilke J,
Sluger, of Bellefonte Borough, is» candidate for
Distriet Attorney, subject to the decision ot the
Democratic Or Dwatity Convention,
Ss —————
AA
Tf you « want a light pring and
summer overcoat, the Philad, Branch,
Bellefonte, ean satisfy your wants in »
most satisfactory manner to you, both
in price and quality.
Boomede-ay
Sams
prety
to work or pla
Thoms
but now
prose, things have been
edd nt they hay
told ander oath by ladies of undoubted
And these things, ealling
themselves men, still allowed to
draw salaries from the Government.
It is not to be wondered at that
people of country de maul a change.
Mr. Harrison's eged order
from
iu fore,
reputation.
an
al to
for members of the Cabinet only, as
nearly every one of the chiefs of the
large Government bureaux are at the
convention shouting for Harrison, It
i# believed that if such an
really issued it was because Mr,
rison was affaid that more than one of
his cabinet might have gone there in
the interest of some of his rivals,
The House is pushing its work, nots
withstanding the absence of more than
half of the republican members, The
PostofMice appropriation bill has been
passed and nothing but a point of
order prevented i ing an amends
Tn mail wstly not
IANA
NO. 23.
DOUBT,
REPUBLICAN
MINNEAPOLIS
ESULT IN
FROM THE
N AT
Can Win
Lntil
iar
risa
Ballot
on
of
i li=
permitted
id not
hawk and vend
Richard A.
Penth Ave,
ond number of the
Mouthly. It cone
and px
W ye rk
tains
and has
printed
Musical
ih classical spular musie,
J pages of full sheet sive, and
upon the best paper and come
pares with high priced publications in
every respect. The price is 15 ots, per
or $1.50 per year, The
number contains My Son, My
Only Son, a beautiful song;
Didn't Know You Know, a
Love's Dream After the
all, waltz, by Czibulka; For You song
Smith; Minuet by Pader-
Melodia, by Paderewski: Ox-
ford Berlin polka, a lovely piece by
Montenegro and Tystnad song by Ja
cobsohn,
copy, postpaid .
we ond
My
Poor Girl
bright song:
On,
ltl sss
Marriage Licenses Granted,
Following is a list of marriage licen.
sos granted during the past week,
Dr. B. Church and Annie E.
Wright, both of Milesburg,
Frank A. Richards and Minnie
Copelin, both of Philipsburg.
J. Frank Smith, of Tusseyville, and
M. Lizzie Hosterman, of Centre Hill
en —————
eA guarantee goes with all gues.
purchased at Mingle's shoe store, Belle
Ee and When u parchase a