Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-08-07

Their Damages and Rava-
gQS.

CHICAGO, August 3. Especial de-
spatches received this morning re-
port that heavy and damaging rains
have prevailed In central and north
ern Illinois and a portion of Iowa du-
ring the past IS hours. The crops
are almost entirely destroyed in some
of the l0w-land sections, and even the
highlands have suffered to q great
extent.
Nearly all the railroads have suf-
fered through loss of bridges, trestle
work, &c.
TERRE HAUTE, August 3.-We
shall have no communication in any
direction and mails for four DAYS. at
least, there being no less than thirty
bridges. trestles and entertainments
gone ON the T.. 81 G.. road the long
trestle between Ostoron and Hagle-
ton, is either badly injured or swept
away. On the Vandalia road the
iron bridge at Bartersburg, the Croz
Creek bridge, the Big Sugar creek
trestle, Eagle creek bridge, &C., all
gone. There are several very serious
breaks on the Logansport road.
The Indiana and st, Louis road is
LII q btttA OO1ItllblOii. IllC dit
Fern is nearly all gone. The Otter
Creek trestle is badly damaged, the
Paris bridge is gone and the Wabash
trestle is injured. The river is still
rising.
CINCINNATI,A Aug 3.--The Gazette's
special from Charleston, West Vir-
ginia, reports all the streams rising
rapinly. A boom in Elk river was
swept away this morning, causing a
loss in logs of $4,000.
The Great Rain storms.
NEW YORK, Aug. "A Colnn.-
bus (Ohio) despatch of the s(. says:
The great rains have not entirely
ceased, though from such facts as are
attainable here the height of the
floods has been reached, and the wa
ters will probably now slowly settle.
Their falling, however, does not stay
the damage to farmers products, and
only immediate and continuous sun
shine would repair their losses.
The losses extend over the country
drained by the tributaries of the Ohio,
falling heaviest perhaps-in Ohio and
| the valley of the Wabash, in Illinois.
In the northern half of Ohio the wea-
Their has been very wet for two or
| three weeks, and some damage has
been sustained by the wheat, which
has sprouted or grown in many in
stances where farmers were I'M
fortunate enough to be through har-
vesting. a very good yield Of hay
was secured before it was injured by
the rain. From the middle west and
east line of the State south to the
Ohio river, there has scarcely been
good harvest day in two months and
recently none at all. All the grain
that has yet mat1red has been cover
| ed with water, and some sheayes
swept away by floods, but this has al
| ready become worthless. Oats on up
land will, if good weather should We
ry soon return, be saved to a consid-
cradle extent though the cost of har-
vesting would be much increased.
THE CORN CROP.
Thus far but little corn has been
absolutely destroyed, tho much has
been more or less injured. Corn is
the greatest staple of most of the in
| undated counties, and millions of
acres now stand under water. On
MAMA river bottom the water some
times is up to the tassels of immense
fields of corn. The rains have well
nigh produced a great calamity, but
if dry weather should now be en-
joyed, the great staple would not be
much hurt, and the people would be
left well able to sustain their other
losses, except in individual cases. If
| rainy weather continues but little
while longer, however, corn, too will
be destroyed, and several million in
| habitants of the most fertile part of
| the continent will be left without the
means of securing Sufficient food for
| winter.
n, e Alleged Enssian Frauds.
NEW YORK, August 5.-A special
l from CtpNlunp states that fhp In