Thursday, June 20, 1901
Hevener Dilley, near Dilley’s Mill, owns a sheep that has a remarkable record. Sixteen years ago, the late Andrew Dilley gave a lamb to his little grandson Hev-ener for a birthday present. This, he prizes more than any other property he has. This sheep has raised about 25 lambs, giving birth to twins nearly every year. It has been the bell sheep of the flock for 10 or 12 years and all that was needed in the spring was to open the gate and this sheep would lead all the sheep to the Marlin Mountain range, two or three miles distant, and then as soon as the frosts began to fall, would lead the flock back to fall and winter quarters of its own accord. This venerable sheep is now raising a fine lamb, but having been hurt at shearing time, cannot go to the range.
CLOUD BURST ON CLOVER CREEK
The cloud burst on Clover Creek Sunday evening was one of the most disastrous dispensations that ever came to our county. At Driftwood, the rainfall, measured in a tin can, was over six inches. The rain played havoc with plowed fields and in many instances sod land suffered severely, landslides being of frequent occurrence the damage done on S. B. Hanna’s farm is estimated at $500. At James Meek’s, a large slide started on both sides of his house, which was left standing on what might be called a peninsula, several feet higher that the surrounding landscape.
On the James Warwick place was the largest slide, it being over a hundred feet wide and four hundred feet long. At the upper end the crevice ranges from seven to twelve feet deep. Seven horses, which were grazing on this farm, cannot be found, and it is feared they have been buried by the slide. Springs and drains, which in normal conditions are nearly dry, became roaring torrents and no less than six of seven springhouses were carried away.
WEST BADEN HOTEL DESTROYED BY FIRE
West Baden, Ind. – The Mineral Springs Hotel at this place is a mass of ruins after one of the most disastrous hotel fires in the history of the country. The flames broke out at 1 o’clock a.m. while nearly 300 people were asleep in the building. The scene during the next hour was one of the wildest confusions, but seemingly by a miracle no lives were lost.
In less than two hours after the flames were discovered, the hotel had been burned to the ground. The loss is about half a million…
Those staying at the hotel lost their trunks and everything in their rooms, as practically nothing was saved…
The Mineral Springs Hotel at West Baden was erected 12 years ago and contained 700 rooms. The owners recently refused $1,000,000 for the hotel.
THE NEW AND THE OLD
We have been requested by one of our readers who has been following the accounts in this paper as to the railroad to give the towns that the several depots supply so that the relation of the new towns to the old may be determined.
Little Sulphur is the nearest depot to Lewisburg.
Keister is opposite Maxwelton, formerly the Half-way House.
Anthony is the depot for Frankford and Anthony.
Renick supplies Falling Spring, Spring Creek and the greater part of Renick’s Valley.
Droop is opposite the end of Droop Mountain and has no good wagon road to it.
Beard supplies the Locust Creek country.
Burnside, a place where trains stop when signaled, is the nearest point to Hillsboro to those who want to walk.
Seebert is the regular depot for the Levels country. All off there for Hillsboro, Millpoint, Lobelia and Jacox.
Dan is for the Marvin Settlement and Beaver Creek.
Buckeye, for Swago and the head of Williams River.
Marlinton supplies Edray, Stony Creek, Laurel Creek, Williams River, Tea Creek, Sugar Creek, Kerr’s Creek, Elk, Indian Draft, Onoto, Yelk, Slaty Fork, Buck’s Run, Beaver Dam. Hunters-ville, Driscol, Hunter, Sunset, Dilley’s Mill, Brown’s Creek, Cummings Creek, Douthard’s Creek and Bath County. This is the natural crossing place and is the place that would naturally become a town and is building surprisingly in spite of all disadvantages.
Clover Lick for the Clover Lick Valley, head of Elk, Linwood and Randolph County,
Forest for Driftwood Dunmore, Frost Sittlington Creek, Louise.
Cass to Leatherbark, Cheat, Greenbank, Deer Creek.
