The Frisco river at Clifton is booming and…
source date: 1891
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e, grippe. 10. February 7, Stanley Hinman, mem- braneous croup. 11. February 7, Munch, aged 9 months, tonsilitis. 12. February 12, Edith Munch, aged 7 years, tonsilitis. 13. February 13, Juliana Wellgehausen, of Central, old age, 76 years. 14. February 14, Mexican, name unknown. 15. February 17, Samuel O. Green, aged 52 years, grippe. 16. February 18, Wm. Eckles, consump- tion. 17. February 20, James Richards, pneu- monia. The Frisco river at Clifton is booming and threatens to wash the town away. The river is rising a foot per hour, continuing six hours at that rate the town is doomed. From the March 6, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise A DOUBLE TRAGEDY

February 20, James Richards, pneu- monia. The Frisco river at Clifton is booming and threatens to wash the town away. The river is rising a foot per hour, continuing six hours at that rate the town is doomed. From the March 6, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise A DOUBLE TRAGEDY A most lamentable double tragedy was en- acted at Bald Knob on the 17th instant. On train No. 53 there was a passenger by the name of John W. Graeter, who had exhibited signs of insanity to such an extent that Pullman con- ductor E. W. Leach, in whose car Graeter was, spoke about the matter, saying he was afraid that he (Graeter) would harm some one before they would get through. It was not known where he was going, but no harm was done until after the Memphis train had got in and “53” had taken on the passengers for the south and was pulling by the station. When not more than ten rods from it, bystanders on the platform saw the brakeman and Pullman conductor run out of the Pullman car, and following them was a man with a pistol in his hand, and to the horror of those in sight they saw the pistol leveled on the conductor and fired. It was seen at once that the conductor was shot, for imediately he ( 7 )