The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-08-07
TOO MUCH WATER.

nOis for three or tour years III succession, INC
situation is novel one to be dreading TALL
of too much rain Up to four weeks ago, II
looked as if the old story was to be repeated
of another drought Then we had few
heavy showers, about the 4th of July, after
which came and another rainlcss fortnight
Then more heavy showers, until two weeks ago.
when the showers came almost daily, and up
/ to Monday of the present week we have had
fullHedged flood. Both rivers at Ottawa
have risen six or eight feet, and between Ot
tawa and La Sale part of the bottom is over
flowed. Between La Sale and Utica about
5000 acres planted to corn are under water
and whether all the corn is killed or not,
thousands of dollars of damage must be done.
Opposite Peru, also, a part of the bottoms
! planted to corn are overlooked.
The chief damage to the crops in this
county was to oats. Very little wheat was
raised, and most of that little saved. But the
oats were beaten down before ripenlng and
have rotted, 50 that there will not be quarter
crop. Corn Snd potatoes are still all right
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The rains which have been quite abundant
enough about here, were much heavier, how
ever IN other localities. We hear of them MS
far eastward as Northern Pennsylvania, from
TitusvIlle to Pittsburg, where all the streams
are at food tide and great damage to wheat
in the shock has occurred. Western Virgin
ia has also suffered, and most Of Ohio has
been heavy sufferer. The same is true of
Indiana, where all the streams are over their
bottoms, submerging many thousand of acres
Of their best corn lands, and destroying i'm
mense quantities OF wheat, hay, OATS &c
All of Illinois south of us is IN like manner
flooded, the rains having been lighter from
Bloomington northward than south Of thai
line.
From Kentucky the reports are equally
gloomy A Louisville dispatch of the Sd
I says "The OHIO river at this point, and be
low here to Cairo, is higher than for 10 years
Reports from southern Kentucky say that
1000, 900 acres Of land, planted IN corn and
tobacco, between Greensboro and Cairo, are
under water. The loss of property is I'M
F mense. Reports continue to come in of the
, destruction by the late rams of the wheat and
oats crop in the shock all through Kentucky
and southern Indiana. No rain has faller
g here for two days, and the Indications now
are for season of dry weather.
I In Missouri the rains have also been ex
, ccssive, though not apparently as destructive
as IN Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, while Iowa
r Wisconsin and Michigan have wholly cscap
. ed. From Michigan, especially, the reports
in regard to the garnered wheat crop are
!. everywhere favorable From Orinoko anC
/ Berrien countless" says dispatch, "the re
l. ports place the yield OF wheat at 40 bushels
. to the acre. The apple and peach crop, also
G will be abundant, aud wherever bugging Ia.
d been faithfully attended to, the plumb croI
Y Will be large. The peach crop, however, il
q growing more doubtful daily, as the smal
# quantity remaining on the trees seems to b,
dropping badly, from some unascertaine(
c cause. The grape harvest will be large il
d there should be no mildew in the near future
n OF ounces there will be but few"
e The same cheering reports of the crop.
), come from Wisconsin. An Eau Claire dis
n patch OF the 4th says: "Harvesting has com
It menced, and grain of all kinds promises al
6 extra yield, with the exception OF corn. NJ
r RAIN here for five weeks, and corn and pota
y toes are suffering severely from the drouth.'
J. The fears of a destructive overflow on til,
u lower Mississippi breaking the levees ant
VI submerging the cotton lands, are still at thei,
: highest, the rise having already reached the
= dangerous point and II it continues, Of whiel
u the swelling volume of the Ohio river is
u pretty sure presage, disastrous foundations ia
{ Louisiana are inevitable. From Cairo tC
G Vicksburg the river is on the rise, and al
= ready extensive cIevasses have been WASHED
+ out of the levees, and large extent of terri
Il tory is flooded. As there is no abatement o.
the waters, further injury, 1t is feared, will b,
done to the levees, and much suffering IN con
. sequence will ensue.
: In addition to the destruction by the heavy
: rainfall, Il destructive tornado on Wedncs
day, swept over Macomb, Illinois, damaging
property to the amount of twenty thousand
dollars. In Nebraska, also, a terrible hail
sto-n prevailed over large extent of coun
: try, inauring the crops very seriously, and
causing damage to houses, fences, and stock
: BLACK HILLS.
Il Drofaccar Janney IL still i'm the Rack Hills