Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-10
OHIO.

lngs, ana estimated loss Dy recent rams
have been received here:
In Ohio, throughout Fayette county,
oats, wheat and corn has been serious
ly damaged, many trees uprooted, and
one barn demolished. Loss estimated
at three thousand dollars.
In Troy, Miami county, the Troy
wagon works lost Is new wagons by u
building blown down.
In Washington county the crops are
considerably beaten down, and the
loss cannot be estimated reports not
being sufficiently full.
In Belmont county several acres Of
timothy are destroyed, and for mile
around Belmont nearly all the fences
blown down, and stock running into
| the grain fields. The wheat and corn
| IL dattercd ont.
In Morrow county and vicinity on
Thursday and Friday the storm leveled
the fences and timber in ali directions.
Trains on Muskingum Valley II. r..
expect TO resume trips to-day.
| In the Northern part of Butler coun-
| ty the rain did great damage to crops,
and large lot of timber is blown
down.
| III SIaihC SOuht. tIiC aailuSC VIII
| not be great except the extra work aud
Inconvenience of harvesting the down
grain.
In Union county the wheat crop is
badly damaged throughout, especially
along the creeks, where whole fields
are destroyed.
In Pickaway county and vicinity the
crops are destroyed and washed away,
and the loss will approximate $780,
600. TO this is TO be added great dam
age to broom corn. Within three
miles of Circleville the damage will be
| twenty-five thousand dollars.
| In Athens county, at Jacksonville, the
Hooking river overiio wed and inunda-
ted the lower part of the town, and q
| large number of families were COM
| PEELED to leave their houses and con-
tents, and fly for life, so sudden and
unexpectedly did the flood come
Crops in the bottom lands are a total
loss. The damage to crops is estima-
ted at $4,000.
/ A great number of families living
along the river in the vicinity Of Athens
were compelled to move to higher
ground. Many valuable orchards are
| ruined.
The loss in Franklin county is esti-
mated at fifty to one hundred thousand
dollars. The bottom lands were cover.
ed with water, destroying the crops.
| Part of the town ''canal Winchester
is under water, compelling some firms
to stop business.
In the southern portion of Licking
county the crops OF all kinds are badly
damaged.
The Newark, Somerset 4 Straitsville
r. Il. suffered severely. Twenty five
miles of track was washed out and
several bridges destroyed.
In Clinton county the grain in shocks
and that standing in the fields was also
Frustrated, making it necessary to cut
great part of it by hand.
In the southern portion OF Green
county the wheat crops suffered an es-
timated loss of fifteen to twenty per
cent. In other portions of the county
the loss is considerably lighter.
The weather is still showery and I'M
less il clears up soon, the wheat crop,
which is dead ripe, will be greatly in
jured.
In Muskingum county, GAINESVILLE,
Washington, Perry, Wayne and Knox
townships suffered the most damage to
growing crops, not less than ten thou
sand dollars, besides heavy loss OF
timber.
| The Marietta & Cincinnati r. r.
was covered with water too deep to al
low the passage of trains.
In Fairfield county the loss to public
and private property Ia estimated at
above half a million dollars. On many
low farms 1t swept away everything
but buildings.
The Hooking canal will not be re.
paired this summer, having Is large
breaks within rs miles.
Bremen was six feet under water on
the morning of the 4th.
| Four bridges of the Muskingnm and
Cincinnati and Hooking Valley Rail
roads Were wrecked. The Hooking
canal and river were made one stream
by the numerous breaks.
In the southeastern part of Indiana
severe losses are reported.
| In Union Co. the crops are damaged
ten to fifteen per cent.
/ In Ripley county the wheat suffered
badly.
| In Decatur county the wheat will
not yield one.fourth crop.
/ In Shelby county two-thirds of the
wheat Is spelling very fast.
In Dearbon county the loss to crop.
will be far up in the thousands. Same
report from Fayettc county. Corn
will yield three-ionrths of crop.
+ CINCINNATI, July 9. - John w
Greggs alias johnson w. Young, was
detected yesterday in trying to secure
! money from the Post-oflice upon coun
ierfcii orders, p,irporiing to be from