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PAGE THREE How To OUT DANGER Cheaply CONCLUDED ROM PAGE ONE Cure Worst WATER Cases of Works Rheumatism Park ran At the Local Theaters ward kvlo 'The Happy lake Kidney Pills tonight 1 POLICE RESCUE EIGHT A TRIAL REE the he sec ti TO INDIANAPOLIS STAR READERS will De were found totally Max Wri the NAME the RAYS ROOST IN TREE TRAINED NURSE TELLS HER a at EXPERIENCE WITH DR NERVURA Rat AROUSED BY DELAYS on HAVE NARROW ESCAPE AT THE PESTHOUSE SITE the MAO MAN IGHTS HIS RESCUER AND IS LOST TRAINKD NUHSK MRS A NXtK DUOBAW cured Stores Life Before I us Grippe his wife in a run thin down with him and take cold easily try EMULSION 1 money on temporary cures to stay a box at Henry Huders drug store and begun to better alter a few doses and they dually did mo a Engine Their This in If you are down and and its silent upturned faro Nervura woman hn a the iVn'fe for ree Book a llro Tho It will strengthen and fortify your system and keep you well is surely coming wait for it If pro Rhne BRIDGES NOW BELIEVED TO BE park in which by Carl Habich Club was torn and swept awav It was valued I hr shore was thr delirium of which press stock vested of the Comniinv $15000 rtlrocPHR STEAMER STELLA WRECKED AND PIERS CARRIED AWAY ICE LOES DISAPPEAR ROM BROAD RIPPLE BRIE NEWS ABOUT TOWN Ice Gorges Continue Their Work of struction About Riverside Park INTERURBAN SERVICE BADLY INTERRUPTED BIGGEST RAIN IN 257 INCHES Rheumatic Remedy The Canadian Cure never fails to cure and if you will place the cost of it in comparison with what you would pay your physician or at mineral baths and'sanitariums you wilt ap preciate the difference Rheumatic Remedy costs but $1 per bottle one treatment or 25 cents per week while the physician baths and sanitariums cost well experience has probably taught you It is not the cost that bothers you It is evidence of cur ative qualities you want It is guar anteed that where six bottles are ordered and $5 sent us we will re turn the money if Rheu matic Remedy fails to cure Exhausted and III When Dawn inally Ended Her Long Valuables by Her Side Crowds View the Wrecks and Estimate Losses Danger Greatly Relieved or Sale fn Indianapolis by WEBER DRUG CO iCIaypool Hotel) Cor Wiitlilnnloii nnd Illinois Sts SURROUNDED BY WATER WOMAN EXPECTED DEATH ft you enjoy crispy brown pan Mks try Mrs Audio the La roupr Carmon wire walkers: and Mrs larry 1 harne assisted bv Harry Clark and Miss Mattle Tem in a lively farce: Miss lo Adler yo etilling for was later who went and nothing has been seen Gnawed Match and Set Newspapers Ablaze In the Laurie Block Rain and Weak Bridges Cause Inconven ience to Passen gers in a houseboat on White river for more than four years AV lien the lee gorge at the West asblngton streel bridge Mr Kunkle and ids wife pulled their bent as far as possible up oll (be bank be tween the temporary bridge and the new one and went to bed fearing no harm Warner an old man who lives with them kept watch About 3 in the morning he woke them up and told them the water was about to come in on them They carried their furniture out of the boat nnd Mrs Kunkle was sent to the house of a neighbor Mr Warner went to watch the goods on the bank and Mr Kunkle went down to the bank of the river and found a big mack bass in the leo jam It was thought late yesterday that ice jam had completed its devastation along the river near Riverside Park but not so The river had little floating ice in it but at 4 clock large cakes collected just north of the park and came crashing down the river snapping oft trees and carrying great masses of earth down stream The Canoe Club one of the heaviest sufferers of the ice gorge had a force of men at work steering the large cakes clear of the large new boathouse and the house only suffered slightly of the upper woodwork had sev eral holes torn in It but the floaters are still safe and not damaged Early yesterday when the mass that had been forming in the river lust below Thirtieth street awav considerable damage was done The small steamboat Stella owned by Bert Tripp was caught in this rush and splintered Parts of it floated down stream over the dam and lodged in the gorge near the West Wash ington street bridge The Helen Gould was banked at the park but owing to the solid jam that bad formed about It and the many trees the flow was turned into mid stream and there! ore did not damage this boat launcnnouse at tne was a new launch owned a member of the Canoe away from its fastenings in the tossing heavy ice at $700 This a Da fa vette Morrison ft Dcprcz Shelbyville Ind A Baldwin Noblesville Ind Grover ft Homier Greensburg Ind 8 Rosenthal Tipton Ind A Ilowran Dublin Ind II Bales Kokomo Ind Evn ns Mnrlon Ind corner Third nnd Wnehlnglnn streets Walter Kossens Anderson Ind Vi Thomns Morris Atlanta Ind Hargrove ft Mullen Rushville Ind Collings Cicero Ind badly damaged The city controller will immediately readvertlso for blds for $40 000 bridge bonds that will provide money for a new structure there beard Si'howo light and bo Mrs Sehowe was drowned of her body 'Through the darkness and the fog of the early morning the men working at the sewer could barely distinguish the out line of a man on a little Island In the middle of the river After many unsne ressful efforts to get a boat Rollo Morri son Jones nnd West streets volunteered Io snvo the life of the frantic man Push ing his little craft from Hie shorn some distance above the fast disappearing Island lie eluded Hie crashing jamming ice rind landed beside Sehowe But for the fact tlirit Hchowo was wild from ids fonrful experience in getting to the Island on cake Ice they would have reached shore without difficulty but Ids plucky rescuer soon found tlint lie bad more than the surging river to cope with Sehowe was insane and wank front exposure ho fought Morrison des perately when ho tried to land him In the boat After some effort the man was got Into the boat and tied there People Near the Atlas Driven Out of Houses SAND BOA NEAR MORRIS STREET WHICH WAS WRECKED IN LOOD SICK WOMAN CARRIED THROUGH 3 EET the CHI ft seen the of death lived with tho Morris street bridge have been drowned early rank Strnub and other Eleventh street to whose houses had rounded by water Eight Individuals surrounded locked in their house Bieycleman Simon had on high rubber boots and waded into the water bravely and unlocked the door which had been fastened from the outside Eight ducks came swimming out after their long captivity to enjoy the copious flood of their favorite element Several colored families In the neighborhood feared that the water would rise and drive them from their huts and they were advised to move One old colored man said that he would stay in nis snanty tin it went down river and that he would go with it I he ducks were uninjured rat gnawed a match Mrs Pon Presentation Jewels Trophies Love Cups Emblem Goods Badges Wc are prepared to deliver on short no tice all kinds of articles lor presentation Designs are cheerfully submit tod and our work is guaranteed of tho highest order engine works their homos the lowland and late yesterday Mt Jackson Citizens Tired of Delays Washlngton street Bridge Protest Mt Jackson citizens aroused because the West Washlngton street bridge was not done long ago will hold a mass meet ing at the Mt Jackson Sanatorium to night to discuss the bridge the county commissioners ami kindred topics The old Washlngton street bridge tumbled down two yoars ago this month and the contract for the construction of the new bridge provided for its com pletion several months ago The love of portrayed by mary is to afternoon and toniahl happy comedy characterize the show ns revived Dorrt let the druggist Bell you anything else If he dues not have it write to the Wright Medicine Co Peru Indiana north forced yesterday continued afternoon On one washout from the high water was reported on the interurban roads leading from this city yesterday When orte of the cars of the Indianapolis Cincinnati cornjiany was running slowly just east of airland the crew discov ied a small washout The car was stopped and workmen from airland weie soon on the scene to repair the dam age Owing to a break in the machinery at the Noblesville power house on the In diana Northern line ears were not run ning regularly yesterday People who Ino in Broad Ripple and work in the city ei forced to walk a distance of several miles to get a street car at the city line It is claimed that all ears on the road wall run on schedule time today The Indianapolis Northwestern com pany is running small city cars to the Northwestern avenue bridge over all creek which was considerably damaged by the ice jam and tho passengers walk over the bridge to get the regular cars on the other side The Indianapolis Plainfield and the Indianapolis Martinsville lines run cars from the center of the city to the Morris street bridge which is also unsafe and connection is made with the interur ban cars on the west side of the bridge AH the roads crossing the river had watchmen at the bridges al! Thursday night and yesterday morning but it Is claimed these bridges were not damaged Rocking on the surging yellow water of White river in a little open boat face upward tli' body of John Sehowe lies somewhere south of Indianapolis The body is tied to the scat of tho boat and when last passenger were boro the pallor Sehowe who ST A TC nr trial tni mad Ihta oouptm to cNrtwvMIHmrn Oo Hnffuta IfabwepM laMilttniaDt writ addraaa riLuaUjx asking permission to change the name to the Shivcrick lorslmini Company ILLUSTRATED Dr Johnston professor of Latin at Indiana University gave a lecture at Shmtrldgc riday morn ing on the Dr Johnston is a master of batln and edited the Ulcere now used in the Indianapolis High Schools HOMAN Roy Hoffman 322 Bevillo avenue was arrested yesterday on the charge of g' ttlng $10 on a wmiiHess check for $52 signed "A Leonard" from Christian Lutz Brightwood lie knew Lutz and took the heck to Brightwood to got tho money on WHEAT IS Benjamin Wheat chief uieik nt fire hendquiirtors who had Ids skull fractured by a falling box In front of the American Trousers Com pany lactory rnursuny wan resting yesterday lie Is still nt Vincent's Sellers Bros LOMBARD BUILDING 2414 Wash St DENTISTS 4 Ww Bravery of Rollo Morrison Who Tries to Save Life of Ice Gorge Victim Goes for Nearly Loses His Own Taken to Safety by Warren Grider Tho Lafavctc combination show been attracting much attention at Grand this week he show at the Grand next wook embrace the following nets nvinv wnicti son li lln Mr Mr ule calist Rlockson mid Burns comedy gym nasts Warren and Blanchard the singer and the comedian: Marti nett I nnd Grossi novelty eccentriques: James 11 Cullen the topical singer ami the bioscope with the newest films showing the great train robbery A noils kitchen on the second floor of tho Laurie Block at tho corner of the circle and South Meridian street last night setting Are to some newspapers hanging about the wall The smoke wont to tho floor above and was so thick that people suddenly awakened thought the building on lire Randall had to restrain several women from jumping from the third story window At Qu Appelle Assinibola there was a temperature of 18 degrees be low zero yesterday but the weather man thinks that there js no danger of a cold wave Indianapolis al though the temperature will drop a little I Imre is as yet no clear weather In sight Alice Gilmore of the Happy company which closes at the park to night Is rated as one of the most pros perous women on the stage of popular price theaters She has what she says is a modest home in Philadelphia but members of the company who spent Thanksgiving with her there say it is a beautiful place and its mistress is a loyal entertainer Miss Gilmore plays a comedy part in 'Happy Hooligan" and has been seen al the Park a number of times in melodrama luliux Walk $on LEADING JEWELERS Members Association CANCER Tumors Scrofula Eczema Ulcers Blood Poisoning and Catarrh are deadly germ diseases rooted in the blood and slowly liut surely kill if not arrested Drink Microbe Killer the great internal antiseptic and blood purifier and be cured A proven specific and pleasant to take waste time and relief Many families in Jackson of the Atlas to abandon Mater filled rising until vhon it began to recede slowly Extending north from Twenty fifth Btreot is one large lake five feet deep Atsenal avenue and Sheldon street be sides the lowland adjoining the rail xnd tracks are flooded lhe State ditch which is supposed to drain this section of the city can not be seen Residents are indignant over bad drainage facilities and say they will take immediate action living on Arsenal avenue and Bheldon street were forced to leave their homes yesterday afternoon Raised planks were laid from the sidewalks tn the houses so as to enable them to get into their homes to get their furniture All the backyards in this neighborhood are flllwl with water and the families are unable to get fuel from the sheds The worst sufferer from the flood was the family ol William Brunson 2325 Arsenal atenue His wife and small baby have been seriously ill for several days but the husband did not want to move them unless absolutely necessary Yesterday morning the water rushed into bls home and within a few hours rose ralIlng his wife and child In the dry clothing he could find a eot' and Yth the aid of three neighbors carried them to the home of a friend The men with the cot waded through three feet of muddy water before they reached dry land Several other families in the flooded section have children sick with measles but are remaining in their homes as long as possible fearing the exposure A number of people yesterday built lafts and could bo seen padding to their sheds to save what fuel they could from being washed away One man on Arsenal tivemie who rowed to his shed to gather stovewood that was floating on the water dae 16 "aei h'3 barn was five feet pnthetlc Tho Globe cml Mitiui farturing 'o))iinn South Bond with a capital Htock nf jofj artlclca of ineorporntlnn Mlih the Secretary of Stat yAMterdwy The (IIkm Utr am Hnbln Bnn Dowell I II (loniluian Carpenter nnl ilhot Other ronerrn'i (HI Cornpuny nC Arizona capital $1 non OOI til JnrHana there In ln $10000: gan Ih rcr ttirv company inont Stono and Brink mouiii itrnu capital Mock UnliliHinn i i XV i WIIIIhiun Laiighnirtn I Slllv'lv Hnlfwav ()l util) etna Company of Hedley Jny county capital stork $irnnn ii mri Dull Wiuiini Current Preston i Williamson and Edgar Notice was given by the Mnrlon County Co uni Ion Cn of nr In or rasa in Its rapllal stuck from $15OoO to $25000 The Amriican Starch OmpRny of Columbus gave notlrn of a reduction In hs COpittil stnrk from $500000 to $50000 Sli Jimpcr rhonnlvko as kvlo In 'Ilosr English this Bright lines and IRE AND SMOKE SCARE MANY WOMEN GOSPEL MEETING There will be a gospel meeting at the A Sunday Jan uary 24 at 4 in led by Miss Anna Minich Mr Charles of this city will sing TEACHER TO Claude Thnrno Tuck who has taught mathematics at Shnrtridge for the last year will resign in ebruary to accept a position in the Co lunimn Mationiu iihiik BARN nABLAZE Henry Schnoll's 1 caught fire yesterday afternoon from overheated stove By quick work lhe men saved the barn from destruction damage was about $73 SHOE NEW NAM Charles Siiiverlck ami Milt'd) lnrshrdm was thought to yesterday but men engaged In si upping up tho National the river bank help Jiixnit day Their House looded and Locked on Outside Prevented Escape With grappling hooks ropes and poles Captain Hyland and bicyclornen Simnn and Morgan went In a spring wagon last night to the all creek bottoms near rescue some people been reported sur HENRY HUGER Pennsylvania and Washington Streets 22 West Washing ton Street Indianapolis incL Long Etter Lebanon Ind Shelburn Bros Zionsville Ind Monro Drug Co Richmond Ind A A nd rows Co Connersville Ind I Richey Cambridge City Ind Kraushnunr Modoc Ind Given Campbell rankfort Ind 4 II Orr Son Arcadliu Ind Are Taken from Their Perch In Boat When the dawn enabled the officers the Morris street bridge to look for John Ray his wife and mother they were found in the top of a tree near the Rav boathouse not far from thn place from which John Sehowe and his wife tried to escape when they were drowned Ray when he could see his way climbed fiom his perch to his boathouse got his boat and rowed his family to the shore a short distance away There were many houseboat dwellers who wrere aroused bv the dangerous chug ging of the ice on the sides of their boats and who hurried to shore to save their lives SOLO BY HUOR Both HCHRODT 227 Illinois St J) ALL DRUGGISTS Thr Wm Kadam Microbe KillCo 121 Prince St New York UNIQUE This and A audeville has been impossible for people to reach the street car line Bofeart awnae Drexel avenue and in wood street were surging torrents of water and people couid not leave their homes Almost every cellar on the three an ccib Jiiicu Hie great quantity of water is in me i i i uumiiK under Washington street being filled uu li imir IP i sewer built water it was old sewer was again opened 1 he total rainfall in Indianapolis for two days yesterday registered 257 inches which is the biggest con tinuous ram Indianapolis has had In more than a year At 11ZI yesterday morning the temperature dropped and the rain broke into a damp snow changing to rain again at 1143 and again to snow at There was snow west of Indiana yesterday and as the barometer was rising the weather man predicted a continuation oi snow flurries and afternoon and Jb GRAND afternoon and tonight VJI 111 rt PARK Tins afternoon and tonight I flndianapolis Proof Jlearen of 215 Minerva street produce dealer of SS and S9 of tho East Market says: Ever since an attack of la grippe I was subject to pain through my loins and kidneys In fact my system lias nevei been right since The kidney secretions were highly colored and offensive and 1 was subject to frequent attacks of head ache and dizzy spells I could not rest comfortably at night and In the morning I felt tired and stiff all over I treated will different doctors but none ol their medicine seemed to roach my case When in bad shape I saw Doan's Kidney Pills recommended for Just such symptoms I got use them I tolt world of That Back Again! Always aching hard to find relief sometimes sharp shooting pains other times dull steady ache makes you weary and worn out Little rest day or night Kidneys cause it all Kidneys keep the back bad when they get out of order Backache is first symptom of kidney ills Relieve the kidneys when they call for help or danger ous Dropsy Diabetes Rheumatism Urinary disorders Bright's disease come quickly and then a struggle between disease and cure Take Kidney Pills before it is too late The lower purl of Cercnlinetown was submerged last night The occupants of twenty houses had fled to higher ground for safety from the muddy water The proposed site of tho city pestbouse was under a foot and a halt of water Iler home totally surrounded by water All's illiam II Iiavls 15 llnwood streetsat up In her homo all Thursday night expecting the house to bo forced from Its foundation and a death by drowning All night long In fenr she siit a few of hei most valuable possessions by her side The water in the cellar below was nine feet deep enverlng tho fuel sho lied She "Uhl feel the water surging ngalnst the floor of lhe room In which she sal Al though sho had a fire going nil night tho floor was ns cold ns lee and she Is' now The steps In front of the house were carried away nnd tho wnter reached to the nnreh All through the night of ter ror Mrs Pavla looker! out upon tho con slantly rising water and by morning she wns almost frnntlo frnm fright Tuxedo Park has been submerged for the put twodaya end on some street It The journey Iriok made doubly perilous bv Sehowe Ik rolled about in the little boat until Morrison saw Unit there was Imminent danger of capsizing Morrison dropped an oar and fu reaching for it fell from tho boat Sehowe 'tied in the boat floated awav Morrison then swam back to tin Island It was soma time before another boat could be found in which to effect the res cue of Morrison Warren Grider if West Minnesota street volunteered to go to bls rescue Morrison who had been on the island for nearly two hours was standing In water ankle deep and was clinging to a willow tree when Grider ranched the Inlnnd but he whm still eoiiselouH and he was taken to shorn without ntlshan Weakened and cbilb'd from bls terrible experience ho was taken to his home In the City Dispensary amlmlanco which had gone tn tlm scene to take awav lhe mini he tried to rescue Ito will recover' Where tlie body of Sehowe Is now Is mystery Watson Cox of West Newton was standing on I lie White river bridge near that place yesterday fomnoon when ho was startled by the ghastly sight of what he took to be a iload mini in a bont There was little waler In tho bont nid the mam who lay perfectly still had one shoo nfl Tho boat floated past tin bridge and believing the mail fu the boat to lie dead no one cared to risk bls life by swimming after the body Mrs Sehowe bad consumption and went to live In the houseboat on Advice of her physlelaii She was Improving will'll she met her doilli She son errier lirolhor Will Me Auly nnd four Mrs Jtnrr of w1' Evnland Mis Omer AlehMs Mis August Laliman of Indian jiitnl GIRL RUNAWAY A nKol Inn I ir rar thirteen years ohl wlm escaped from the Board of Children's Guurdlana llmno at Irvington a nx'iiili uro was captured bv oftlror Wlllluni A J' yoe of the board yeii frduy She had he' ti In several Indiana towns since sho ran from the homo hat loss and euntleHs md walked In that con dition through the B1 from Irvington to Indiana polls IRST BAPTIST A mong othor music nt the Grand opera Hotiso Sunday evening by lhe Elrsi Briptlat church ch 'dr vill bo a contralto judo DI ino i violin obligato by Mrs Myrtlo Lewis Cameron The largo chorus choir will rentier Woodward's Sun No More Sliitll Thy find anlhoii) Wo Tho qunftct'H brllon will bo Schneehor'R "Saviour Breath' nn Evening inrist mr Sy last resort my friends advised my trying Dr Greene's nerve remedy which I did and in six weeks I was a well it was four years ago I have had no return of the trmim also was troubled with rheumatism and i advised her to try Dr Greene Xervura whrnh Him did and received great relief from it I con sider Dr Greenes Kervura a godsend to me nnd gladly recommend it" leumatism is a blood disease Tim circulation is impaired and the blood becomes stagnant and impure Dr Nervura cures rheumatism by restoring normal conddums so that a moderate use of the remedy will cause the disease to dsappear of purely vegetable origin Dr Greene Nervura blood nnd nerve remedy acts in concert with natural laws and produces its permanent effect by feeding and enriching the blood supply It is an ideal tonic when run down or exhausted and nothing ean exceed its inherent power to cure the hngnng diseases that wreck the lives and hopes of men and women Dr Greene was many years discovering and perfecting tho medicine wlneli wns finally offered to the world as Nervura and his earnest and skillful work has been demonstrated by the record of cure which this remedy has made many years If there is anything about your case you do not understand write to Dr Greene 101 fth Avenue New York City Dis advice is free Your Druggist recommends and soils Dr Greone's Nervura The danger at Broad Ripple was greatly iclicvcii yesterday owing to the clear ing of the ice The water fell a foot during the day and was slowly receding early this morning Tho Aquatic Club boathouse which was lodged against the Westfield wagon brige is sill! lodged fast a time yesterday morning while the huge cakes of Ice were beating upon tho wrecked boat tlie members had little hopes of saving any of the furnishings Because the boat is so bady wrecked that it can not be repaired the club of fered to several men have the wood if they would save what furniture was left The men started to work early yesterday and succeeded in getting out the piano and some furniture The boat propelled by the huge ice floe the wagon bridge with such terrific force that It was thought tho bridge was rendered unsafe The struc ture was tested yesterday and found to be not damaged The "Sunshine" owned by 'apt Norveil was only damaged to the ex tent of $50 The owner has for sev eral years grounded the steamer on asand bank across lhe riser from tlie town of Broad Ripple and has never met with any serious damage The "Pauline the only boat that camo through the battle with the ice un scathed still lies safe in the mouth of the canal Denny" Sullivan of Broad Ripple jnobably tlie heaviest loser Ills work bom which was fastened to tho bank at Bi oad Ripple Park was the first to bo torn away by the rush of heavy lee and tire as It was going over the lm charred ruins of tho workshop arc i against a small Island about a mile min a half downstream from Broad Rlo plo Sullivan has built many boats and had some flue woods with which ho was go ing to make innoes stored in tho work boat His loss will probably reach sev eral bmnlrcd dollars Yesterday morning tho members of the Aqmitio Club were out bright mid early to see if their canoes were still on the shore A number of tho canoes tlintneio tied to the boathouse were crushed Mrs Annie Duggan of St Charles Street Boston Mass for fifteen years has been employed as a nurse in the Boslon Hospital Her reputation iu her profession is of the highest and her opinion that Dr Nervura ood and nerve remedy will cure rheumatism and sciatica is therefore worthy of the greatest consideration Mrs Duggan says: "1 was troubled with sciatica for over four months and was treated by three different physicians but received no relief As a blood and Although After leeing rom the Ice loes Kunkles ind ine Bass While the iue jnm in White river brought calamity to many It brought good fortune to some Blniic Kunkle and his wife have lived THE INDIANAPOLIS MORNING STAR SATURDAY JANUARY 23 1904 tDoanS Kidnqz nns wixmc wria Haaniri CrawrijMir due to the old sewer running 1 co 1 rr 1 4 I the now East Washington street which is not quite completed was here was no way in which the could run from the streets and not until yesterday noon that the 1 I JL EM JUT 5 i I HL IX I huhhii IB SR) Mai ti i Vi y'wljji Great IHRfeiSHKwii i I I 5 A i iMjk Vi All ixft t' I I.

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