Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1908 — HELD BY THE FLOOD [ARTICLE]

HELD BY THE FLOOD

Seven Doctors on a Mission of Mercy Not Able to Return Home. TATER-BOUHD PEOPLE SUFFER Great Distress in tbe “Hell’s Neck** Region—lnundation All Over the “Pocket"—ltems.

Hazleton, Inch, Feb. 20.—Seven Vincennes physicians -who volunteered their services and went on a relief expedition to the flooded district In "Hell’s Neck,” lower Knox county, are lost to the world by the fierce blizzard severing all means of communication. The doctors went to the stricken district overland Monday, but they cannot get back because the water stretches five miles wide between them and dry land at Vincennes. A relief party started out in boats, notwithstanding there was a flfty-mlle-an-bour gale, driving snow with cutting force. Names of the Missing Doctors. The physicians who are missing, and for whose safety there is great fear, are Drs. Scott, Beard, Caney, Schmidmade), Falrhurst, Moore and McDowell. Last night closed the second day •without having heard from the sufferers at Orville and '‘Hell’s Neck.” All telephone wires to that section are down! A relief expedition will set out from here as soon as the blizzard abates. Blizzard Raging in the ‘‘Packet. ”j Evansville, Ind., Feb. 20.—A severe blizzard is raging In southern Indiana and the coldest weather of the season prevails. The Ohio river continues to rise, as does the Wabash. The Patoka river Is on a stand, but with the heavy snowfall it is expected the rise will start again. A special from Hazleton, Ind., says White river is still rto ing. Hundreds of flood refugees along the Ohio, Wabash and White rivers have been taken from the submerged districts. JURY BAYS AGAR IS DEAD Judgment Given Against an Ininrmos Company—Matter of 980,000 la Involved. Princeton, Ind., Feb. 20. After being out less than a half hour the jury In the case of Mrs. Bertha E. Agar, guardian, against the Bankers’ Life Insurance company, of Des Moines, finding for the plaintiff, and giving her judgment for $2,154.34. The judgment was on a $2,000 Insurance policy carried with the company by Representative Henry E. Agar, who Is said to have been drowned in the Wabash river, at Mount Carmel, 111., on the night of Jan. 23, 1007. The contention of the company waa that Agar was not dead, his body having never been found. The case probably will be appealed to the supreme court Similar suits are pending against other insurance companies and fraternal orders, the total amount involved being $28,000. Whipped by Order of a Judge. Evansville, Ind., Feb. 20. George Atterbury, sixteen years old, and Roy McDonald and Otis Miller, of similar age. accused of stealing beer, were severely whipped by their parents In the corridors of the police station, by direction of Judge Winfrey, of the police court. The parents laid on without mercy, and the boys promised never to steal again. Proposal to Knd a Strike. Anderson. Ind., Feb. 20. Though neither side will make a positive statement it has been learned that overture* have been made to call off the strike declared against the Indiana Union Traction company. Jan. 1, by the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes provided ail the strikers are given their old jobs. Fined for Assaulting a Teacher. Noblesville, Ind., Feb. 20. David Leonard, a farmer northwest of this city, was fined $23 for assaulting Isaac Hodson, teacher of the school in Leonard’s neighborhood. jThe trouble grew out of a punishment administered by Hodson to Leonard’s son, a pupil in bin school. Diphtheria at New Harmony. "" Poeeyville, Ind., Feb. 20. Tha schools of New Harmony are suffering from an expldemlc of diphtheria. Measles are also widely spread throughout the county, and In soma rooms of the schools the attendance to reduced to less than half the normal size. Divorcee Refused a Marriage LicenseHart ford City, Ind., Feb. 20. A marriage license was refused U, G. Miras and Blnnie Huffman-Sawyer, because when the bride-to-be got a divorce last June the court prohibited bar from marrying for two years. Bequest tor a Hospital. Lebanon, Inds., Feb. 20. Unde* the terms of the wilVbf Mrs. Mary T. Snow, who died suddenly last Friday, the Methodist Episcopal hospital, at Indianapolis, will receive a legacy of between $15,000 and $20,000i