Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-07-11
Damages by Floods-Loss of the Wheat
Crop.

ST. LOUIS, July IA despatch from Jack
sonyille, Ills, says the heaviest rain storm ever
known in that region began about II O'Clock
last night and continued until five o clock this
afternoon. Twelve and one-quarie- inches
of rain fell during the storm. All the streams
rose 10 unprecedented height; bridges were
swept away and great damage done to crops.
Several entertainments and culverts on the Tole-
do, Wabash and Jacksonville, Northwestern
and Southwestern Railroads were washed
away and trains stopped or delayed.
The despatch states that unless fine weather
sets in at once, the wheat crop, must suffer
immense damage, if not total destruction
Spring wheat is fiat on the ground, and much
Of it will never be harvested
The fall wheat in shock, was beginning
to sprout in the bottom lands, but was sub
merged and will be almost totally DESTROYED !;
and even that on uplands, in many places, is
under water, and will suffer greatly.
The Storm in Ohio.
CINCINNATI, July 7.-Hope was generally
entertained that the storms which have pre-
vailed with such violence and destructiveness
throughout Illinois, Indiana and Ohio during
the past week had given way to clear weather,
but dispatches received from various points in
Southern Indiana and Southern Ohio indicate
that rain set in again to-day and this evening.
In some places further west in this Territory
ram has been falling during the greater por-
| ton of to. day. Tonight shortly after dark
a drizzlng rain commenced here. This has
increased until at midnight, when steady
rain is falling, with prospects of continuance.
| THE GREAT STORM IN THE Wrsr.-The tele-
| graphic dispatches continue TO tell woful
tale of the fearful storm of wind and rain
which swept through the west ON Wednesday
Thursday and Friday last. Its limits are not
precisely defined, but we hear of it extending
northward TO Minnesota, thence eastward
| through Wisconsin, Iowa. Michigan, Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio, southwark into Kentucky
and westward to the borders Of Kansas Build
ings and forests were leveled to the ground
by the mighty force of the tornado, the stand
ing growth Of crops were swept away like
chaff before the wind, the rivers were flooded
and inundated the adjacent country, the rail-
roads were interrupted, and the telegraph
wires blown down for miles upon miles The
storm seems to have gained its extreme power
at various points at different times, but its
general tendency was towards eliminating on
Friday. The storm centers were variable,
and were determined as il the hurricanes were
divided up into number of cyclones, each
embracing a certain extent of territory. The
amount of damage if the first accounts are
not overstatements, must be immense. Through
the vast stretch of country embraced the wheat,
corn and other cereals were either Just ready
| for the sickle or were within q week of ripen-
| ing. Their value represented millions of dol
lars, and it is only too probable that the yield
will now be but fraction of what it would
have been but for the destroying agent which
has devastated the fertile fields.
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