The Omaha Sunday Bee.
:ditorial sheet, j?
PAGES 11 TO 20.
ESTABLISHED JUNK 19, 1871.
OMAHA, HUN DAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1903.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CEiNTS.
ynl rJ3anufacturer's Stock of Black and Colored Silks on Grand f
ilo Special Sale RHondav. Ill
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A LEADING MILL OF rATTEHSON SELL TO IIAYDEN BROS.. AT A TREMENDOUS SACRIFICE, OVER 3m riECES OF FINE BLACK ANI COLORED SILKS. Thosn sre rholiost and best silks tlint are now In popular doraand. MONDAY WE START THIS
GRAND SFECIAL SILK SALE. AND YOU CAN BUY THESE FINE BLACK AND COLORED SILKS AT ABOUT ONE-HALF WHAT THEY WOULD COST YOU IF BOUOHT IN THE REGULAR WAY. Wo believe that the
values offered In this sala surpass
anything that was ever shown In the city of Oniabn. WE KNOW THAT NO SILK SALE THAT WAS EVER ATTEMPTED AFFORDED SO MANY BARGAIN OPPORTUNITIES AS THIS ONE.
A1N AND FANCT SILKS
i colors, from manufactur
e's stock on Bale at
YARD WIDE WHITE WASH SILKS
lfandsome quality pure ,-jllk. full 36 Inches
GREATEST BARGAINS IN BLACK TAF
FETAS YOU EVER HEARD OK
BLACK RUSTLE TAFFETA, 27 Inches
Wide, actually worth $1.0O on sale at tso.
BLACK RUSTLE TAFfETA, 27 Inches
wide, actually worth ll.oft. on sale at (We.
BLACK RUSTLE TAFFETA, 27 Inches
Wide, actually worth 13, .n ale at 9Sc.
BLACK RUSTLE TAFFETA, 3 Inches
wide, actually worth p. so. on sale at 8"c
BLACK RUSTLE TAFFETA, 3 Inches
wide, actually worth 12, on sale at $1.15.
BLACK RUSTLE' TAFFETA. 45 Inches
wide, actually worth $2, on sale at $1.25.
BLACK RUSTLE TAFFETA. M Inches
wide, actually worth $2.60, on sale at $l.o9.
BLACK RUSTLE TAFFETA. 64 Inches
wide, actually worth 13.50, on sale at 12.45.
BIACK PRAT PB SOIE, ALL PURE
SILK AND GUARANTEED TO WEAR
BLACK PEA IT DE BOIE, 20 Inches wide,
worth $1.60, on sale at 85c.
RLACK FEAU DE SOIE 27 Inches wide,
worth $1.75. on sale at $1.25.
BLACK TEAT' DE SOIE. 27 Inches wide,
worth $2.2.'.. on sale at $1.30.
BLACK PEAU DE SOIE. 36 Inches wide,
worth $2.50, on sale at $1.50.
BLACK PEAU DE SOIE. 36 Inches wide,
worth $.100, on sale at $1.69.
W'K FILL MAIL ORDERS. TO IN
SURE IIOIID SELECTION SEND IN
YOUR, ORDER AT ONCE.
COLORED TAFFETAS
High grade silk, new ipt-ing shades", 19
Inch and many 27-lnch wide, from man
ufacturer's stock 3Qr
on sale at u96
100 PIECES FOULARD 8ILK8
In both satin and twill, all colors and de
signs, from a dot to a real fancy scroll,
SILKS FOR SHIRT WAIST SUITS
Fine silks. In Moos, brown, green, red and
Muck. In checks, dots and stripes these
15c
wide and worth up to $1.25 from manu
silks are worth $l.r, $1.25 and Jl do-
facturer's stock
on sale Monday
59s
all from manufacturer's etock
on sale Monday
NATURAL PONGEES
75c
;EPE DE CHINE-'
ire (Ilk, 24 Inches wide, a quality that
retails from 11.00 to $L26 black, white,
cream and all colon from man- CC.
ufacturer's stock DOC
EMBOSSED SATINS, PERSIAN FOU
LARDS Embroidered pongee, colored pongee, the
tlnest pongee silks made, plain pongee,
extra wide these silks worth $1 to
$1.75 a yard, all from manu- QQ
facturer's stock Monday ...,30v
Swell fancy sllYc all from
manufacturers stock an sale...
25c
pattern an worm ii.uo
on sale at
49c
In tlio Domestic Dept. Wash Goods
Monday we will commence our mid-season
- aughter on walstlngs, wash goods, white
oods, linens, etc. Over $250,ou0 stock of
1 'tese goods must be moved and here are
Vie prices that will move them.
.VB DEFY ANY OTHER HOUSE TO
f A KB THESE PRICE3 SO EARLY IN
HE SEASON.
40C WASH GOODS FOR 19C.
White and assorted colored mercerised
basket weave walstlngs, Oxford walstlngs
nd mercerised ginghams, 19c.
6C WASH GOODS FOR 15C.
White Pique Ctjrds, with colored-stripes
and figures, white mercerized ducks, with
eclored figures and stripes, soft-finished
sateen, light grounds with dark figures,
only 15c. '
25C WASH OOOD8 FOR inc.
' Corded batistes, light grounds, with col
ored cords, printed figures, white grounds
with dark figures; fine Irish dimities,
Scotch Mad mss cloths and yard-wide
chambrays In assorted colors, only 10c
16C WA8H GOODS FOR 6'aC.
Fancy colored Batistes, Lawns, hair line
Eateens, 26-Inch wide Chambrays and hlgh
oolored dress ginghams, only 6Vc.
10C WASH GOODS FOR 6C.
Scotch dimities and lawns and yard-wide
percales, only 6c.
40C UNDERWEAR FOR 15C.
Gents" medium weight Jersey ribbed un
dershirts, children's white Jersey ribbed
vmlervesu and pants, assorted sizes, only
15c.
20C FAST BLACK HOSE FOR IOC.
12V40 SEAMLESS HOSE FOR 5C.
$5.00 HAMMOCKS 60C.
Full assortment of hammocks, selling
from $5 down to 60c.
$5.00 CROQUET BETH S9C.
Full assortment of the choicest styles
croquet sets, selling from $5 down to 39c.
LINEN DEPARTMENT.
$2.00 TABLE LINEN. $1.25.
72-Inch extra heavy double damask table
linen, 16 patterns to select from, at, per
yard, $1.25
$5.00 Napkins to match above tab's da
mask, size 244x244, at, dozen, $3 60.
$1.00 TABLE LINEN, 65C.
72-lnch sliver bleached German table
Wool Dress Goods Dopartmbnt.
Specials for Monday
You sre no doubt In need of something In I
wool dress goods for a new dress or skirt
for wear when a gros fabric la not the I
correct tning. we win put on saie ror
Monday some of the latest fabrics for 19u3
and have made the prices at less than one
half what any other store In the city will
or can sell you the same goods at. London
Cords, Voiles, Mistrals, Etamlnee, Boucle
Suiting, Crepe d Chine, Eollan, Shirt
Waist . Suiting, Mirrow Zlbellne aTM all
the lateat creations from the looms of
America and Europe.
40-Inch black and colored crepe de chine,
one of the best fabric for a nice fancy
- dress for the summer season, a quality
that has been sold all the season for 76c
to $1.00 a yard: 20 pieces of colored and 6
pieces of . black, for this sale ouly-3e
46-Inch crepe eollans, in blues, browns,
tans, biscuits, greens and reds; this line
of high-grade crepes are sun-warp and
were made to sell at $1.75 per yard, and
will make an elegant shirred, tucked or
pleated gown; reduced for this sale to
fl.25 a yard.
4M-lnch London cords In blues, browns,
tans and modes, an extra heavy mohair
Cord, made by Lupin, one of tho best of
OMMIA'S GREAT FLOOD OF '81
Kinouri liver Bangei from Two to Ten
Miles in Width.
SPECTACULAR ICE GORGES ARE FORMED
iBtease Excitement Prevails All
Aloasi the I'pper River for Many
Days Flood Leaves Lakes
Manama and Cat Off.
raging torrent of tawny water reaching
from the Iowa bluffs to those on the Ne
braska shore, two miles wide at its narrow
est point, widening out to ten miles where
the hills recede from the river's brlm-a
'.,.iinr flood rilled with cakes of floating
Ice which grind upon each other and upon j
the banks of the river ana me sanuum,
With the debris of ruined houses, trees up
rooted and here and there animals carried
away by the swiftly flowing current. This
Was the scene that greeted Omaha when
sawn came on the morning of April 7, 1881,
the day It appeared the Missouri river had
started to recluim as Its own all of the land
lying In Its valley from Its headwaters U
the Mississippi river.
The high water of 1SS1 has gone Into his
tory as the most disastrous flood that ever
swept through the Mlosourl valley. Old
records show that at points lower down the
river the stage of water was higher once
before, but that was when the valley of
the Missouri was grazing land for buffalo,
and the Indian alone saw the flood, where
thousands viewed It twenty-two years ago,
snd mors property was destroyed at Omaha
alone than was in the entire valley at the
time of the highest water previous to that
Urn.
Omaha was above all fortunate that time,
f- while the whirling waters passed by
the city the damage sustained wua far
fighter than at many of the less thickly
populated places along the river. The
people owning land and operating business
along the banks were forced to take pre
cautions for safety, and some of them sus
tained considerable loss, yet at no time was
the city as a whole In any danger, while
from other parts of the valley came reports
Of loss of life and property that seemed
almost Impossible The only fatalities con
nected with the flood at Omaha could have
been avoided, while nothing could stay the
rush of the waters.
Railroad Couuailrstlus Cat Off.
It was Thursday, March 24, that the at
tention of the people was called to the con
. flition of the river. Two days before that
railroad communication between Omaha
snd the outside world had been severed
by a heavy snow which piled drifts over
western Iowa and eastern Nebraska. Then
came a thaw and It was said that the river
"showed signs of breaking up," while the
wall at the smelter was from ten to twelve
feet above the surface of the river. The most
destructive feature of the flood was the ice
in the river moving from the headwaters be
fore It passed out lower down the stream.
As the Ice moved south it struck against
other les which was still Arm. The floating
Ice plied above that which was not moving
until the latter sunk in the stream and
ttffli were formed which forced the waters,
linen, 10 patterns to select from, at, per
yard, 6oc.
$2.00 napkins to match above table dam
ask. Hlze, at, per dozen, $1.25.
$10.00 PATTERN CLOTH AND NAPKINS,
$6 75.
' This cloth Is ffi Inches wide, 88 inches
long; size of napkin, 24 Inches square; made
of the finest selected yarn; full grass
bleached; all the up-to-date patterns;
worth $10 00; Monday at $6.75.
$1.50 TABLE LINEN, 98c.
Extra fine quality bleached table damask,
elegant satin finish, will last for years;
very pretty patterns; 72 Inches wide, at,
per yard, 9Sc.
Napkins to match above linens, size 22x
22, at, dozen, $2 90.
, $1.00 TABLE DAMASK, 89c.
Silver bleached damask, guaranteed
purest linen, beautiful satin finish, with
neat floral designs with border to match,
72 inches wide, t, per yard, 69c.
85c TABLE DAMASK, 69c.
This Is one of our leading numbers in
table damask and one of the best values
we are offering In this department; comes
In beautiful patterns, 60 Inches wide, at,
per yard, 59c.
19c TURKISH TOWELS. IZHc.
Snow-white, double warp Turkish towels,
long, soft nap. size 20 x42, at 12Hc.
8c OLA8S TOWELING, 6c.
18-Inch glass toweling, assorted red and
blue checks, at. per yard. 5c.
15c. TOWELING. 10c.
Barnsley extra heavy bleached crash,
will wear for years, at, per yard, 10c.
$2.50 BLEACHED NAPKINS. $1.79.
$2.50 quality grass bleached satin damask
napkins, size, at, per dozen, $1.79.
80 handsome patterns hemstitched and
scalloped edge embroidered flannels, worth
up to S5c per yard, 59c.
.white wool baby flannel, regular 25c
per yard, 15c.
Genuine Marseilles bed spreads, beautiful
patterns, extra heavy and very durable,
lull double bed size, worth $2.50 each, $1.75.
Extra high grade fringed bed spreads,
cut corners; this number Is splendid value
for the money; heavy knotted fringe, full
size, worth $2.25 each, $1.69.
French manufacturers of fine dress goods;
this line has been reduced from $2.50 a yard
for Monday only to $1.50.
Only one word Is required to introduce
our black wool fabrics to the ladles of
Omaha and vicinity. Prlestleys and fourt
wel,l the bent that England can nroduce:
Lupins, from France, and Arnolds, from
Uermany.
60-Inch black Sicilian, worth $1.00, for 69c.
45-Inch Black brllllantlne, extra nne,
worth $1.00, for 69c..
56-lnch Priestley's craveneted Sicilian at
$1.60.
W-lnch Prlestley'g craveneted Sicilian,
cowled, at $2.60.
sx.lnrh black voiles at 60c. worth 7nc.
-,4Viuch black vol Us at 15c, worth $1.00.
ll-ltieh hlnek voiles at lt.00. worth $l.bO.
46-Inch black mistral, worth $1.26 a yard,
reduced to 89c.
Th nunen of dress fabrics. Lansdowne,
The only place in the city to get the genu
ine fabric; made In 72 shades; always in
stock.
All the new styles in cream and white
wool goods In light goods for evening wear
to the heavy cord and basket weaves for
outing suits and coats.
increased In volume by the melting snows
which came In from every small stream,
over the banks of the river. The Ice dams
were called "gorges" in the language of the
day, and every effort was made to break
the gorges as they formed. Where this was
possible the damage was not bo serious as
at other places, but at two points on the
river the gorges were so large that it was
impossible. The most tenacious one was be
tween Sioux City and Yankton. It was the
water piled up by . this gorge which swept
away the villages of Yankton, D. T.. and
Green Island, Neb., located opposite Yank
ton. Vermilion was rebuilt upon the hills in
the rear of the older town, but Oreen
Island is no longer known.
March 26, water was running over the
fixed Ice at Omaha, carrying with it float
Ice from further up the stream. A small
gorge formed at the foot of Douglas street
and for two days the people of the city
watched the river as something of interest,
but to be feared. Sunday, March 27, the
larger part of the population of the city
went to the river to see the gorge go out.
as the Ice near the Union Pacific bridge had
melted for the first time. Four thousand
people stood upon the western bank of the
river and saw the accumulation of ice pass
under the bridge in twenty minutes, and
Omaha's fears were relieved, for the gorge
had passed out without doing any damage
and the water was still two feet below the
danger line.
Novel and Thrilling Bight.
It was a novel and thrilling sight, when
that ice floe went down the river. The Ice
that formed here was paobably two feet
thick at that time, but the ice that had
lodged above it made some of the cakes ten
feet thick and 200 square feet in area. As
these blocks passed under the bridge they
struck the piers and were ground to powder
by the contact. Sprays of Ice flew over the
tracks upon the bridge and In some cases
large blocks were thrown as high as the top
of the bridge, while the roar from the con
tact was deafening, and the bridge vibrated
with the strain. Many feared that the
structure would go down In the face of the
rushing waters, beneath the force of the
ice pack, but there was no damage to the
piers when the last of the ice had floated
below them.
There was no development in the flood
until the last day of March, when Bis
marck, D. T., reported a "grand break-up"
in the river at that point, and a broad field
of ice moved from that place to where a floe
was stagnated between Sioux City and
Yankton, seventy-five miles long and as
deep as the river. Then it was that Oreen
Island, Neb., and Yankton, D. T were
wiped from the map, while farms in the
Jim River valley, in the Big Sioux valley
and In all of the valleys of the smaller
streams emptying into the Missouri on
either side between the mouth of the Floyd
and Bismarck wars covered with water,
thousands of head of stock of all kinds and
even the wild animals of the prairies were
caught In the raging waters and swept to
ward the gulf. .
Saturday the flood reached Omaha, and
the water was within three Inches of the
danger line. By Monday morning water
was flowing over (he wall at the smelting
works, and the refining department was
forced to suspend operations while the force
employed there was set to work building
dams against the flood.
At 8loux City the apprehension of danger
i was greater than at Omaha. Water was
A PHENOMENAL SHOE SALE CO FID AY
A Big Bankrupt Stock of Shoes at-40
Cents on the Dollar
ALL THIS SEASON'S GOODS AND MADE OF THE HEST
MATERIALS, IN ALL LEATHERS AND ALL STYLES;
MOSTLY OXFORDS IN THE
Men's Vici. Patent Colt or Patent Cnlf
Shoes and Oxfords, worth up I rtfi
to $4.00, at I till)
Women's Fine Kid or Tatent Calf Shoes
and Oxfords, worth up
to $3.00, at
1.06
s. worth
Men's Fine Kid Shoes or Oxfords, worth
up to $2.50 per pair,
at
1.49
Women's Fine Kid Shoes or Oxfords,
)xf
I.
worth up to $2.50
per pair, at
SPECIAL SALE ALL DAY ON THE ULTRA SHOE FOR WOMEN-26 STYLES
THE BEST $3.50 SHOE MADE,
Selling Qui All
All our suits at half price
sold at from $10.00 to $ 125.00,
cannot afford to pass by.
FIRST CHOICE Any suit in our house,
made of finest materials, that sold at
$125.00 on 7 Cl
sale Mondav, for OfiwlJ
SECOND CHOICE 350 women's suits all
silk lined, worth $35 to $45 IQ Eft
sale price, Monday only Ifiwll
China Dept.
Fine flow blue French porcelain cups and
saucers, 39c per set.
7-plece flow blue French porcelain berry
set, 35c.
Electric gold French glassware. 10ft.
Extra finished water tumblers, 2c.
6-plece cream set, fire polished, 21c.
Lomax jardlneres, very fine, 25c, 35c and
45o each. ' 1
Jubilee flat Iron, : the wonder " of the
twentieth century..-. Colne and see It work.
The only perfect seJf-heatlns; 'flat iron ht
tha world. tJ j' ' , '.f.i
fin
standing ten feet deep over ground which
never before In the memory of whits men
had been affected, and it was still rising.
The mayor of Sioux City demanded of Gen
eral George Crook, then in command of the
Department of the Platte, explosives from
the federal government be used in break
ing the gorge. The general had no such ex
plosives, but referred the mayor to an army
officer In St. Louis who could supply him.
Before sending to St. Louis a committee
from Sioux City made an inspection of the
gorge and decided that not enough dyna
mite could be secured to destroy the pile of
ice, and it was allowed to pass out nat
urally. Lots of Narrow Escapes.
The water at Omaha was rising slowly
compared to what it was at other places.
for the gorge above held the waters back
to a great extent, but by Thursday, April 7,
a break had been made in the government
riprap and the buildings at the smelter
were in the line of the current of the rising
waters. Michael Cunningham and Nicholas
Keenan, with another person, attempted
to go in a boat to a barn north of the
smelter. The boat was overturned by the
current and both were drowned, while the
third man was rescued with difficulty, after
clinging to the boat for some time. These
were the only recorded fatalities from the
flood in Omaha, although narrow escapes
were common with the men who worked
along the river front for ths month during
which the river threatened to take all of
the land and the buildings east of Ninth
street.
This day was the most exciting of the
flood, although the waters did not rise as
high as later. The gorge at 81oux City
went out and the Ice cams down on the
crest of ths flood. If the passing of the
gorge at Omaha a few days before was
interesting the passing of this ice was ter
rific. Light cakes of ice sweeping rapidly
on the waters would strike a more slowly
floating block snd be thrown twenty feet
In the air. Large blocks that floated out of
the center of the current would ground In
the shallower water and an incipient gorge
would start, which would deflect a side cur
rent to land previously dry. The river
stood at 19 feet, T inches.
At Foot of Donglaa Street.
Water was six Inches deep in the Union
Pacific car shops and was three miles wido
from the foot of Douglas street Railroad
communication was entirely cut off snd
south of Omaha the water stood to ths tops
of two-story houses from ths bluffs st
Plattsmouth to the Iowa bluffs. Pacific
Junction was Inundated and the farms in
the valley in Mills county, Iowa, were de
serted. April t the gauge showed 21 feet, 2 Inches
of water above low water mark at Omaha.
Every available man was at work building
an embankment between the Union Pacific
shops and the smelting works. A crew
worked day and night, and It was hoped
that the flooding of the railroad shops
could be averted. The water at that time
was pouring through the, riprap and form
ing a lake at the foot of Douglas street.
At 11 o'clock In ths morning ths water
stood 21 feet. I Inches. It had penetrated
to the lime room at the smelter and the
slacking Urns fired timbers In that room,
adding flames to ths horror of the flood.
Still the men worked on ths embankment
and hoped to keep ths fload in chock. At t
o'clock at night ths men working on tho
northern end of the embankment shouted
REST QUALITIES.
Women's Ox fords (small 8l7.es), Ati a
worth $2.50. nt tU6
Women's Oxfords, tan or black, rtOA
worth $3.50, at UUV
Hoys', Youth's, Little Gent's
Lac, worth $1.50, nt
Child's Ponjrola I,n-e,
worth $1.25, at ,
Misses' and Child's Slippers,
worth up to $1.50, nt
98c
79c
79c
Shoes and Slippers for the little QJJ
ones 75c, 40c and sCOC
Ladies' Suits
and loss to close. Suits that
all marked down to prices you
250 WOMEN'S SUITS Made to sell for
$30.00 and $25.00 If) ft ft
on sale at, each IUiUU
All other women's suits at proportion
ately low prices.
DRESS SKIRT SALE MONDAY.
Don't Pay. Fancy Prices
'We do first-class optical work for half
the usual charges. , .
Gold filled frames. -.10 year guarantee,
worth $3.50, on sale at $1.60. '
Lenses, ground to. order, the $3.00 and $4.00
kind, for $1.00. ' ' ' .
Oood metal spectacles fitted for 49o.
L1V
to those further south to run for their
lives. Over a foot of water cams rushing
down upon tho embankment, sweeping it
away, and the water flowed unopposed into
ths shops.
In Council Bluffs that day ths water 'was
four feet deep. In the lower part of town.
The fires at the transfer hotel had been
drowned out, and people went from town
to the Union Paciflo transfer in boats.
April 10 the waters oegan to subside snd
the inhabitants believed that the worst
was over. The fallowing day nearly all of
the trains over ths railroads were on time,
and there was talk of resuming work at
the shops and smelters. April 14 the
steamboat, C. K. Peck, which had wintered
at Nebraska City, passed up stream,' ths
first boat up the liver that year.
The Omaha Spirit.
Then Qmaha showed the spirit that made
It. Before normal conditions prevailed at
home ths people turned their eyes in pity
upon their less fortunate brothers. A peti
tion signed by Bishop Clarkson, Edward
Rosewater and others was presented to
Mayor Boyd asking him to call a mass
meeting to raise money for the flood suf
ferers in Dakota and northern Nebraska,
The meeting was held Saturday, April 16.
Dr. George L. Miller, Bishop Clarkson and
others spoke briefly, telling of the damage
dons to people and property. Before the
meeting closed $956.50 had been subscribed.
The subscription was kept open Ave days
and $3,100 subscribed. Samuel J. Tllden of
New York gave $250 through Dr. Miller.
This money was sent to the acting gov
ernor of Dakota, who distributed it among
the people damaged by the waters.
The day before the subscription list was
closed Omaha saw that it had not com
pleted its experience with the Missouri
liver flood. Water again stood In the
Union Paciflo shops and the smelter. In
twenty-four hours the danger line had been
passed. The lumber yards along the river,
which had generally escaped with slight
damage in the previous high water, were
now affected more than any other place.
for the smelter and the shops had reached
a point where a little more water would
not add to the Injury.
When the plies of lumber began to float
booms were constructed of heavy timber,
held together by cables, and floated below
the lumber to be saved. As the lighter
boards floated down stream they were
caught by the booms and held. April 21
the boom at Foster's lumber yard went
out, unable to hold the lumber pounding
against It Other booms gave way and it
was estimated the next day that within
twenty-four hours 300,000 feet of lumber
had been washed from the Omaha yards.
This day the water registered 23 feet 7
Inches and was flowing over the floors at
Boyd's packing house.
Reporter In a Skiff.
April 23 a reporter for The Bee made a
personal inspection of ths flooded districts
in Omaha and Council Bluffs in a skiff.
His first stop was at ths smelter, which
was then completely cut off from any
other means of communication. From
there he crossed the liver- to ths Union
Pacific transfer, and then went up to
Council Bluffs, rowing without interruption
from the transfer to ths up-town depots
of ths Union Pacific and Northwestern
roads. Tho loa had by this time passed
out of ths river hers and was forming a
gorge further south, which caused the sec
ond flood. Ths river was filled with float-
folio)
Hardware, Stoves and
Housefurnishings
We carry a full line of the Celebrated
Ice King RcfrlKerators, In line, galvanized
or enamol lined; over 25 different styles to
select from; can sell you a fair slse for
19.25.
A good big one, holding 100 lbs. of Ice,
for $12.50.
We carry a full line of National Oaso
Une Stoves. We can sell you a very fine
8-burner. with step Insurance, stove, with
large oven, complete, for $13.95.
The best 2-burner gasoline move made for
$2.69.
The National Gasoline Oven, best made,
$1.29.
Eour-pannel screen door, 59c.
Oil flniHhed hardwood Hcreen door, 98c.
Hardwood adjustable screens, complete,
26c.
Sorecu frames, 3;x3fi. l"4c.
The best screen wire made, per square
foot, lc.
The Ocm Lawn Mowers, warranted, $2.49.
Hardwood hose reel, HJc.
The Standard Steel Range, none better,
larre 18-ln. oven, elght-lu. holes, asbestos
lined throughout, beautifully nickeled, lilgli
warming closet, warranted regular $,'(6.00,
$28.50.
Granite dish pan, 29c.
Galvanised pails, 13c.
14-ln. meat saws, 23c.
L:ng screen door springs, 6o-
Garden hose, 6c.
Wood frame wringer, $1.09.
Pott's Iron hanles, 6c.
Claw hammers, 9c.
No. 8 copper nickeled teakettle, 79c
Warranted garden hose, 7c.
50-lb. flour cans, 69c.
6-ft. step ladders, 43c.
Monday's Bargains in
The Drapery Dept.
Best quality figured Bllkoltne, 15c grade
on sale at 7c a yard.
38-lnch curtain, Swiss, stripes and figures,
ISc quality on sale at 10c a yard.
Tapestry squares for pillow tops and
upholstering, 25-lnch square. Orient! and
floral effects, worth up to $2.00 a yard, at,
each, 23c a yard.
Another lot of fine rope portlers Just
received. This lot all the newest designs
and colors, at $4.16, $3.65, $3.25 $2.25 and
$1.96; worth up to $8.09.
Carpets and Rugs
Hflyden Brothers have just procured an
Immense lot of 9x12-9x11 ft. t In. and 8.3x10
ft rugs. These are all In such well known
weaves as Axmlnsters Wilton Velvet, etc.,
worth up to $32.50. While they last $19.86.
The bent grade of all, wool art squares, all
'colors, slse 9x12, $8.76;' slie SxW. $7.75.
About twenty short rolls of. the best alT
.wool Ingrnln carpets, regular price 75c, to
olosa at 49c per yard. ' . "
. ,
Ing debris, houses In whole or in part, im
mense cottonwood trees and animals, both
dead and struggling for life. The passage
to ths Iowa side was dangerous, but noth
ing to the return, which was made after
dark, when the only guides were the lights
along the Omaha banks. His report was
that fully one-third of the houses in Coun
oll Bluffs were under water in whole or in
part
During all of this time the Union Paciflo
maintained train service between Omaha
and Council Bluffs. It was impossible to
run trains to ths transfer, but they could
cross the bridge. The "dummy" backed
down from the Omaha depot asfar as it
could into the water at ths east end of ths
bridge. Passengers were then forced
to walk to ths depot over a
line of flatcars that had been placed upon
ths tracks as a sort of pontoon bridge. At
first there were only about a dosen cars
in ths improvised bridge, but by April 23
this 11ns contained sixty flatcars. Ths
water had so weakened the roadbed under
these cars that many of them were held in
place only by connection with cars on more
solid ground, and the crossing was any
thing but pleasant or safe.
Hlghtest Stage of Water.
April 26 the water reached the highest
stage recorded during the flood and the
highest stage known to the river after ths
settlement of the country by white men
23 feet 9 inches Ave feet and nine Inches
above the danger line. From this time the
flood subsided with no Incidents of a na
ture so remarkable as to occasion special
mention. Within a week work was re
sumed in the railroad shops and a few days
later in the smelter. The days the water
began to subside the lumber yards re
sumed business, as the demand for lumber
with which to construct houses In place of
those swept away was imperative.
Within a month the temporary evidences
of the flood had been removed, but as long
as Cut-Off lake and Lake Manawa remain
there will be seen evidences of the high
water of 1881, for both of these now popu
lar resorts date their existence from that
time, when the river formed a new channel
and gave to the eastern bank a part of
Nebraska and placed a part of Iowa on
the western bank.
To Boston and Return at One Fare
For the round trip from Chicago via Nickel
Plate road, for Christian Scientists' meet
ing in June. Tickets on sale June 25, 26
and 27, with extended return limit of Aug
ust 1. Stopover at Niagara Falls, In either
direction, without extra charge, and at
New York returning on payment of fee of
$1. No excess fare charged on any of our
trains. Write John Y. Calahan, General
Agent. 113 Adams St., room 298, Chicago,
for detailed information.
Set II I m to Thlnklnsj.
They had been talking as they walked.
She had remarked pathetically:
"Oh, it must be terrible to a man to be
rejected by a woman!"
"Indeed, it must," was his response.
Then, after a while, with sympathetic
dlslngenuousness, she exclaimed:
"It doesn't seem that I could ever have
ths heart to do it."
And there came a silence between them
ss he thought It over. Browning's
I Monthly.
Buy it for It is a wins of exquisite
boquet, Cook's Imperial Extra Dry Cham
pague. It is far superior to any other.
Ladies' Muslin Underwear and
Furnishings Sale
SPECIAL MONDAY VALUES
LADIES' FINE CAMRIUC CORSET COV
ERS Trimmed' with laoe and embroid
ery, finished with ribbing, full French or
tight lilting, worth 5uc, 25
LADIES' FINE CAMBRIC UMBRELLA
DRAWERS Wide ruffles, hemstitched
Bnd embroidery trimmed, worth 9C
Eoc, at 43
Ladles' Fine Nlaht Gowns, Corset Covers,
Drawers, Chemise and Skirts, trimmed
GRAND JUNE FURNITURE SALE
There Is a beauty and elegance of desl
tion, a high quality of materials In every ar
this Grand June Clearing Sale the special
the usual cost and besides you get absolu
Extension table, in great variety, on sale
now at $5.76, $4.t and $3.95.
KMehnnrrift fn exmiinitA dealing, verv at
tractive, beat finished, on sale at $12.85, $10.50
and $9.6.
Odd Dressers. 2n Handsome oesigns.
$8.50 and $7.50
Roomy, well finished, aesiranie tjnirroniers
at $7.M. $5.6 and $4.05.
Handy, useful, well constructed Kitchen
Cabinets at $3.75 and $2.45.
A big run on Splendid Dining Chairs at
$2.S6. $1.15, 05c and 66c.
Ornamental and useful Combination Book
cases, verv desirable; on sale at $15.75,
$13.50 and $11. Mi.
Hundreds of fine Iron Beds, to close out,
In this sale at $1.85. $2.75 and $5.96.
Piano Bargains
BOLD ON EASY PAYMENTS.
We are now closing out the remainder' of
the Russell & Lowe piano stock that was
?urciiased at 50c. on the dollar, jsever ne
ore have we been in a position to offor
such wonderful values as at the present
time. Every Instrument sold guaranteed to
give satisfaction or money refunded. As
we are the largest piano dealers in the
west customers have no trouble In making
a selection from our stock. We carry
mostly all the dltrerent makes, in any wood
desired.- Our stock now consists of Chlck-
erlng, Fischer, Estey, Wegman, Conover,
Cable, Iranklln, Carlisle, Decker, Price
Teeple, Wellington, Kingsbury, Brewste.-,
Warner, Russell & Lane and twenty-one
other makes to select from. This week we
J'lace on sale 1 upright, $05.00; 1 upright,
110; 1 upright, $115; 1 upright, $125; 1 up
right. $126; 1 upright, $145; 1 upright, $155;
1 upright. $175; 1 upright, $185; 1 upright,
$196. New pianos for rent. Pianos tuned,
moved and repaired.
A Train Load of Grocery
l-lb. can assorted Soups,
any kind you want 1 can
makes enough for
six persona 9 It
1- lb. can Fancy Alaska ft
Salmon 5J ti
2- 1 b. can Cove 1 0 A l
Oysters I3s
l-lb. can Mackerel, In To
mato Sauce, or Mayon-
fn1?.?"": 124c
l-lb. can Condensed
Milk
10 cakes Tar
Soap
Wool Soap,
per bur
Choice Grecian
rants, -per lb.
V4-lb. can
Ham or CM
Chicken 9C
Vi-lb. cans Ham, Turkey,
Ox Tongue, Q
Chicken, etc OG
3-1 b. can Golden
Pumpkin
5c
NIOBE OF NINETEEN-THREE
Torrents of Tears 8hed in Spots bj the
Merry Month of May.
RAVAGES OF- FLOOD AND DROUTH
Vagaries of Weather Destructive of
Life suid Property Recol
lections of Record
Making; Floods.
The enviable reputation hitherto enjoyed
by the "merry month of May" is seriously
Impaired by the shocking record of the
month Just past As a weather breeder it
has few equals, and it would test the
patience of a metreloglcal sharp to find
Its superior In weather history.
In the middle west the month began busi
ness with storms which destroyed fifty
eight lives and closed the record with a
tornado which In an Instant snuffed out
100 Hves at Gainesville, Ga. Torrential rains
followed In the last half of the month, con
verting creeks Into raging torrents, piling
up a list of ninety-five known dead and
over fifty persons missing, rendering 86,000
temporarily homeless and destroying prop
erty estimated from $16,000,000 to $30,000,000.
The rainfall for the month at Omaha was
8.22, against an average of 4.16 for the last
thirty-three years. There were killing
frosts on the 1st and 3d.
While these atmospheric disturbances cen
tered around the lower Missouri and upper
Mississippi valleys, a drouth scarcely less
destructive of property prevailed in the
eastern states. No rain of any consequence
fell east of the Alleghenles for flvs weeks,
entailing great losses on farmers. Thus
the extremes of weather during May caused
a property loss which cannot be computed
In dollars. It Is distributed among hun
dreds of thousands of people in flooded
farms and homes, trade and tratHc dis
rupted, buildings and contents ruined, in
the west, and crops blighted in the east.
Summarizing the flood ravages at this
writing gives these results:
Topeka and Vicinity Eighty known dead;
8,000 rendered homeless; property loss,
$2,000,000.
The Two Kansas Citys Loss of life, 8;
16,000 people driven from their homes; prop
erty loss, from $5,000,000 to $20,000,000.
Des Moines Seven lives lost; 6,000 per
sons rendered homeless; property loss,
$1,500,000.
Worst in Sixty Years.
Nothing like ths torrent which over
whelmed North Topeka was ever before
experienced by the residents. The' Kansas
river rose eleven feet higher than the
known record and spread over miles of ter
ritory. All but one of the known records
of flood at Kansas City were overwhelmed
by the delUfce of last week. Twelve square
miles of territory at the Junction of the
Kaw and the Missouri rivers was covered
with water, gauged at thirty-five feet. Just
two feet below the high water mark of 1844.
Now the path of destruction is moving
southward.
The nearest approach to the May record
of this year Is that of May, 18)2, when
loa, Illinois, Missouri and portions of
Minnesota, Nebraska Bnd Ksnsas were
deluged. Rain fell almost continuously for
with Irsertlons of lace and embroidery
and solid tows of hemstitched CA.
tucks, worth $L00, at WW1
Ladles' Embroidery and Lace Trimmed
Skirts Wide, umbrella ru tiles and double
rows of Insertion, worth ft Q
$1.60, at SI0C
Ladles' Low Neck and Short Sleeve Night
Gowns Made of tine nainsook and lace
and embroidery trimmed, QRr
worth $1.50, at 30'
gn and finish, a thoroughness of construc
tlcle of furniture Hayden Bros. sell. In
prices will save purchasers fully one-third
tely the tlnest furniture made.
We are overloaded on fine Couches. You
never saw such a splendid variety. They
are In the best styles, excellently made up
for ease and eleftnnee. In this sale very
special values at $t.60, $4.85 and $3.95.
Odd Corner Chairs, a big lot of them: we
have been selling at to $10.00; will be
closed out at $3.85 and $2.15.
This Is a rare bargain chance.
leather Rockers, rich and restful, giving
a tone at refinement to any room, depend
able, guaranteed best construction, on sale
at $21.50. $18.75 and $15.96.
Luxurious Davenports, made up according
to the best ideas, having a charm and at
tractiveness unequaled; on.spcclal sale at
$34.86, $25.00 and $15.85.
Ribbons, Ribbons
Monday has always been ribbon day at
Hayden's. But next Monday, June 8th,
will be the banner ribbon Monday of them
all. Every possible kind of ribbon, wide,
narrow, medium, velvet, satin, gros grain,
taffeta, Louislene, fancy, etc., ribbons, and
all at prices lower than ever before at
tempted. Ribbons for lc per yard, worth
3c; ribbons for 2c per yard, worth 6c; rib
bons for 3o per yard, worth 7e; ribbons for
5c per yard, worth 10c; ribbons for 7Hc rr
yard, worth 12Vtc; ribbons for 10c per yard,
worth 20c; ribbons for 12V4C per yard, worth
25c; ribbons for 16o per yard, worth S5c;
ribbons for 19c per yard, worth 60c; rib
bons for 25c per yard, worth 6oc; ribbons
for S9o per yard, worth 75c; ribbons for
59o per yard, worth 96c.
Bargains for Monday
7ic
25c
34c
Tapioca, Pearl Barley or
per V 34c
Soda, Oyster or Butter
Crackers, - J
per lb $C
Cur
Ginger Snaps,
special
Good Rio Coffee,
per lb
Choice Santos,
per lb
Fancy Golden
Santos, per lb.
.74c
...4c
...8c
10c
124c
Deviled Turkey.
two weeks, creeks became rivers and rivers
overflowed their banks, flooding lowlands
and entailing losses estimated at $50,000,000.
Railroads alone lost $2,000,000 by washouts.
On the 17th of that month a waterspout
broke loose in the Floyd River valley and
destroyed $1,000,000 worth of property in
Sioux City and vicinity. The flood at its
height extended from Court street to the
Floyd bluffs, a distance of a mils and a
half.
The Record Floods.
The great flood of 1844, according to St
Louis records, was started by tho melting
snows of the mountains and ths unprece
dented rainfall during May of that year.
The flood reached the record height of
rorty-one feet at St. Louis, s!x feet above
the expected record of the present flood.
On June 20," says the St. Louis Globe
Democrat, "the river In front of the city
was from three to six miles wide, nnd
front street was entirely submerged. Ths
boiler flres at Cathcart's mills were ex
tinguished by the water, and the steamer
Llghtner, arriving that morning, tied up to
the front of Davis' store, on Front street
snd Morgan. Below Mill creek valley the
city streets were under water as far west
as Second.
'The following day the steamer Indiana
arrived from the couth, laden with refugees
that had been taken from the bluffs r.nd
other points of safety on the Illinois side.
A large number of Sisters of Charity and
several priests from the convent and re
ligious Institutions at Kaskaskla were
among the number. The town of Kas
kaskla was reported to be under from ten
to twenty feet of water, and Indiana rad
marked Its course along the river over
what had been, the road to Illlnoistown,
now East 6t. Louis, some miles to the east
of the usual river channel.
"The great flood was on In deadly ear
nest now, and from 7 o'clock Thursday
morning to the same tlms Friday broke all
records for a rapid rise by mounting seven,
teen inches in that Interval of twenty-four
hours. Good sense prevailed In St. Louis
by this time, however, and few felt any
undue apprehension, although many dire
predictions were made that in some in
stances were Justified by existing facts.
From Hazel street South Second street wss
entirely under water, and east of Fifth
(Broadway), all the low places were flooded
by from four to six feet In depth, while the
river was ten to fifteen miles wide and land
could not be seen to the east at all. On
Juno 23 ths editor of the Republican started
In due eusterly direction In a large boat
to ascertain the width of the river at the
foot of Vine street, and on his return re
ported that he had been abls to get nine
miles Inland on the surface of ths water
from what had been Bloody Island, and
still saw submerged fields and villages be
fore him.
"Sunday, June 23, the river mounted four
teen Inches, snd the apex of ths flood was
reached, a height of a trifle over forty-one
feet It remained stationary until June 28,
when it began to recede so slowly that it
was not until ths latter part of July that it
attained Its normal level.
'The damage resulting from this flood In
St Louis snd vicinity was never very well
known, but that It must hava amounted to
millions of dollars msy be readily Inferred
from Its vast extent Crops were totally
destroyed, thousands of head of cattle per
ished, hundreds of farm houses and scores
of villages were obliterated snd a great
number of people were rendered homeless."