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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1907
Page
2
J C Campbell reports catching a man hauling sand from West State street and vows prosecution for theft to maintain materials for street repairs. Flood rescues dominate the day as dozens reach safety from Richland avenue and Hudson addition with heroic skiff and boat rescues.
Albert Swett died from shock and lung hemorrhage after exposure to floodwaters at David Blackburn’s on Richland avenue. Another man, Carlos Young, is missing, presumed drowned, as several others perished while attempting to move a boat through the current. The city and various groups provide shelter, meals, and medical care for about one thousand refugees, with banks of relief centers at Elks lodge, churches, and Red Men hall. The river falls slowly, water supply is cut, and railroad damage runs into thousands of dollars.
A health note promotes Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup as non opiate and bowel moving. It claims compliance with the National Pure Food and Drugs Law and endorsement by mothers. Sold by Cline's Pharmacy.
Teachers examinations will be held on the first Saturday of each month unless a holiday, then the following Saturday. Boxwell Examinations occur on the third Saturday in April and on the second Saturday to Aaron Grady, Clerk.
The Relief Committee inaugurates an Employment Bureau under J. H. Cline at the mayor's office to help hundreds of unemployed men. Railroads and contractors seek labor, and officials urge all able-bodied men to register to secure work. noncompliant family heads risk removal from aid lists.
The body of Charles Beards was sent overland to Pomeroy this morning. The Athens Juvenile Band led the local Red Men Beyond as six Red Men accompanied the casket to the gates of the asylum and will serve as pallbearers.
The funeral of Otto Barth took place in the university auditorium at four o clock with Athens Commandery No 15 Knights Templar presiding. Rev O B Pershing delivered the address and music was provided by Prof McVey. The procession included Athens Commandery, Elks, and Knights of Pythias, with honorary pallbearers from K of P K of M and Elks. The body was moved to the Taylor undertaking office and then to the home on Mulberry street before interment in Coolville tomorrow. a note on an insurance policy followed.
The obituary note requests burial by a Commandery of Knights Templars Knights of Pythias Elks and United Commercial Travelers with honorary pallbearers from U C T S K of P K of M and Elks, signed Otto Barth.
Nine rural mail carriers out of Athens left on their regular trips this morning. Two or three carriers will miss some routes because bridges are out, but mail distribution should be fairly good within ten miles of Athens from now on.
Two citizens on a street corner praise the Daily Messenger for producing two morning editions. One notes the enterprise, while the other adds that the train line has kept pace with the paper’s up-to-date coverage.
A rubber boot for the right foot, No. 7, was found Sunday morning about five hundred yards below the site where Young and Beards’ bodies were found. Identified as Edward Swett’s, it was tied with a rope wrapped around a boot and a bush, suggesting Swett’s drowning while aiding flood sufferers.
Lee Conkey of Marshfield to Mineral by hand car and horse saved twenty eight families as flood waters rose four feet in hours. The Wolfe street area suffered nine houses washed away with immense mud. several bodies remain missing while volunteers search Coates Run for victims. The disaster devastated Slaughtertown and McKinley avenue, with many homes moved off foundations and charity aiding hundreds displaced.
Recovery of two more victims on Sunday raises flood death toll to seven. To the ruin of districts, damaged rail lines and isolated Athens speechless without mail service. The disaster wrought extensive destruction with many frames wrecked and bridges washed out along B&O K&M and Hocking Valley lines.
Torch Delmar Watson resumes duties as night operator in the Stewart telegraph office after weeks of grip illness. Neighbor Revelations note widespread sickness, with many households affected. Baptist church meetings continue. five baptisms and one probation.
Sam Price was jailed after Curt Martin observed him taking carpenter tools from a chest in wreckage near the B&O coal tipples. Price claimed he needed them as a carpenter and argued with Martin. The tools belonged to Tom Ward of Campbell's Addition, whose flood damaged home.
Postmaster Finsterwald says mail timing depends on the Rail way Mail Service superintendent. Local postmasters lack authority to arrange transport and must await high level instructions. A Grosvenor train at 3 30 pm will carry a large amount of mail westward, signaling possible overland service.
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