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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1903
Page
2
A wind storm at Mobeetie caused property damage while a murder acquittal occurred in Pittsburg. Reports include burglaries in India, hospital and railroad injuries, indictments, irrigation contracts, and local officials facing trials. Notable: Temple celebration set for June 29 and appointments in the U.S. Treasury.
Gainesville Georgia is ravaged by a tornado that killed at least 160 people, wounded 150, and leveled cotton mill cottages. The disaster struck near the Southern Railway station, with two major mills heavily damaged and many workers, mostly women and children, killed or injured. Surgeons and supplies were dispatched from Atlanta as the city faced massive distress and economic disruption.
Kansas City and nearby areas are virtually isolated as floods cut rail and road access. Communications are down and factories shut as anxiety over missing residents grows. Reports of looting prompt police orders for immediate action amid uncertain casualty rumors. New cases of plague are not reported in Iquique according to a Herald dispatch.
Sheriff Nunn of Bra 408 county received Governor’s message commuting Joshua Price death sentence to life imprisonment for assault. Price, slated to hang this Friday, greeted news with joy.
In Kaw Valley Kansas the flood from Brookhill to Kansas City covers 200 miles and widths of three to fifteen miles. Entire territory inundated with water up to fifty feet deep. Losses include cattle hogs barns fences and crops in the millions. Boatmen report many missing and probably fifty people drowned in the region.
Turkish troops attacked Smerdesh near Lake Presba on May 21. Officials claim no revolutionists were present while consular representatives report 200 inhabitants were massacred. A commission of inquiry has been appointed to investigate consular statements.
Crockett Texas. Shed Thanniel colored was jailed this morning by Constable Phillips on charges of burglarizing McCarmy Bros store at Porter Springs ten miles west of Crockett. An officer wounded Thanniel during the incident.
Thiel a Central American coffee planter arrives from Guatemala City and reports the Guatemala crop is 25 000 000 pounds short due to the Santa Maria volcano eruption The eruptions continue destroying a wide area and all in the volcanic zone have been destroyed Cartoad shipments of garden truck are being made at numerous places
North Topeka Kansas endures a severe flood with eight thousand homeless and four million dollars in property lost. Rescue teams deploy steam launches and clinker boats, aided by trains from Missouri Pacific and Santa Fe. Drowned tallies reach around 150 with many missing, fires burn over submerged areas, and the capital city braces through a day of relentless rains.
In Topeka Kansas the Leishman family, earlier reported drowned, were found alive along with Miss McAdams who was staying there. The local commercial club refused outside financial aid offers, delaying assistance until absolutely necessary after a morning telegraph influx.
A morning fire in Lake Charles Louisiana began in a bakery of unknown cause and swept the Rigmai den building and nearby structures. Losses include J J Rigmaiden and Co 2000 building 6000 stock and machinery insured 2000 M J Rosteet warehouse 1000 George Mathis barber shop 1000 Anchor lodge I O F 1000 insured 600 plus several secret orders quarters lost 250 to 500 each.
Cotton is growing and doing fairly well except in sandy land where cut worms are damaging the plant. Some early cotton shows squares and boll weevils are reported in places in small numbers. A great deal of Northern corn was planted this spring and is tasseling. Corn needs rain soon to make any crop. Hay and oat crops are being cut and turning out well.
High waters across the Territory disrupt Texas trunk lines with washouts and heavy damages. Rock Island headquarters in Chicago orders 1000 laborers to repair the line between Chickasha and Minko, to be reinforced by a large northern force.
Filipino leader Ruperto Rios in Kya bas province and twenty seven followers are convicted and given terms. Detachments of scouts defeated Caniguil insurgents in a serious incident, scattering the opposition and signaling an end to the provincial challenge to the government.
St Louis forecaster Bow ie of the St Louis bureau predicts continued river rises. Warnings are sent to threatened sections along these streams. From reports already received it is feared conditions similar to the great flood of 1881 may recur.
The War Department will assist within its powers to alleviate suffering in flooded districts of the West. Orders have been issued to Major General J C Bates of the Missouri Department at Omaha. The Leavenworth Supply Depot will ship tents to flood areas if needed.
Serious flood conditions worsen in Muskogee Indian Territory as the Arkansas River rises above banks, flooding low lands and reaching the Missouri Kansas and Texas bridge tracks. Continuous rain continues with no immediate relief in sight.
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