The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-28
A GREAT FLOOD IN KANSAS.

From, the Leduenacorth Kansas Times Juryl7l
We had another deluging storm of rain on the
night of the 18th. The day had been sutry. Yet
a breeze had softened the heat, and our citizens
stood it bravely. But toward night dark murky.
clouds gathered in the north, and about o'clock
p. m, the roar of the thunder and the vivid flashes
of lightning gave unmistakeable signs of a stormy
night.
Soon after the rain began to fall and it fell as if
the heavens were made of water. The effect upon
Three Mile creek was instantaneous. 1t overfowed
its banks, and by midnight was higher than ever
known to be by the oldest nhabitant. The Villa
House, Wings grocery, and all the buildings in the
neighborhood, at the crossing of the Government
road, were under water-some four, some three,
and some one foot.
But at or near midnight the neio hbors in that
section of the city (who had no rest that night
heard the cry of distress. The wild shout of IIelp!
hep!' sounded strangely borne on the wings of
the wild storm then raging 1t was ascertained that
some wagons were in the creekl
Brave fellows volunteered, and very soon the wa
ter-bOund were relieved. The wagons had to be
abandoned. Enough that life was made secure
Goods, beds, and what not, had ''to go" The men,
women and children, threatened with death by the
maddening freshet, were relieved Then came an
other cry of danger.
Houses from Cincinnati (three were borne away
on the bosom OF the waters) came floating down the
creek. One evidently had a family in it. Near
Wings grocery their cry for help was heard. Some
few men breasted the Storm took out from the float
ing building mother, who had been confined to a
cared for them.
In South Leavenworth where we happened to be-
We supposed that the people in the wagons and in
the house had been lost Some of us got down al
most to the bridge but the land side had been swept
away, and there was no possibility of crossing or of
lending aid to sufferers on the other side
The people in the neighborhood of Wings, at
the crossing on the Government road behaved no.
ply. Young and old We're out, ready to do what
they could, to breast the darkness, lit up only by
the lightning, and the fearful storm, and the angry
waters to save life, and even rescue property.
All the bridges are swept away, so broken as
to be impossible by teams Lumber, parts of houses,
large panks, &C., are scattered along the creek,
telling too plainly of the terceness of the storm
and the fury of the waters. We rejoice, however
that no lives were sacrificed, and hope it NAV be
long ere such another blast of wind and rain may
visit us.
A YANKEE RACING HORSES WITH AN ARAB
The Editor of the Utica Herald dates his last let
ter from the region of the Dead Sea. portion
of his ride the wilderness of udea is described
thus:
The ride was very lonely and tedious Nv Be-
doun Sheik still seemed consumed by fears of hos
tile Arabs. He reconnotered every mount, suspici-
ously examined every ravine, and his restless eve
ever roaming over the wide desert. After
riding something hour, he told me the great
danger was past, and l could now consider myself
as fairly out of the hands of the Philistines His
manner changed COMPLETELY The expression of
less and jocular; demanded backsheesh like Arab
clothed in his right mind; toyed with his long
spar; and wound up by challenging me to horse
racel .f
Now, if l am not mistaken, your recollection of
me will not be exactly that of "gentlemen of the
turf" never owned .'fast nag in my life. and
never appeared in the lists with 'the fancy" !
own no stock in the ''Oneida Course;" never acted
as judge at ''trottng match" and am not 'regu-
lar scriber" of the Sporting Times. And to confess
the truth, l am one of the most egregious towards
on horseback, alive. And vet, here | was coolly
called upon to dispute the course with wild Be
douln who had spent half his days in the saddle
with wild Arab horse What could do? par
lied lequivocated; | begged to be excused; l
pleaded an attack of the rheumatism; said | was
opposed to racing on conscientious grounds, and
resorted to the most desperate subterfuges to worm
myself out of the scrape. But all was in vain. Ny
complacent savage had taken the pleasant fancy in
to his head, and there arguing begging
or lying out of it. -.
Finally, compromised by consenting to trot +;
loosened the reins of my horse, when he shot for
ward as if hurled from the mouth of a cannon. On
we sped with the speed Of lightning the plains
through ravines-up The sides of mounds-down
INTO gullies-tearing the parched earth beneath us
and raising two dense masses of dust. On we went
as if all the fends of tophet after us-our
horses neck and neck-and one rider ceavinp des /
peratey with both hands to the name of his charp-
er. My feet slipped out of the stirrups my turban
came down over my eyes binding and bemuadling |
me altogether. desperately pulled away at the
bits; shouted to my Bedoun to hold up; plead
the honors of the race-but in vain. He brandish-
ell his spear; shouted in wild glee and dashed for
ward anew; my horse followed as if every hair on I
his head were winged and so we kept on mady |
racing until we halted perforce by the shore of the
Dead Sea-. Twas glad enough to dismount, and in |
the wildly-weird scene before me soon forgot the |
race and its perils.
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