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Heppnes, Ore., June 18

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
June
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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Heppnes, Ore., June 18. - Seven bodies of flood victims were taken from a pile of debris Wednesday. Of the seven, one is a Chinaman and one a woman about 30 years of age, unidentified.

Two hundred people, many of them women with children, asked for permission to sleep on the floors of the Catholic church, the courthouse and the schoolhouse during Tuesday night. The officers granted permission, but were surprised at the repetition of the request made Monday night. It is not destitution but fear that causes the inhabitants to quake with apprehension whenever a cloud hovers over the canyons above the town.

Many men declare that they will never live in the town again and are imploring their families to desert the place.

Despite the endeavor to calm the prevalent hysteria, the people generally are under the spell of horror, and business has been abandoned. An official estimate shows sixty people missing and undoubtedly lost. This is in addition to about 130 bodies already recovered, making o total death list of nearly 200.