The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-05
TELEGRAPHIC.
Tornado and Flood. Il
Yesterday morning at
Omaha.
And in the Evening at Ma
comb. rs
The Ohio River 81 Feet at
Cincinnati.
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Unprecedented and Alarm
ing Floods Everywhere.
Rascs11y Republican Omoe
Holders

wind. hail and rain, accomp panied by re-
markable thunder and lightning, passed
over this city. 1t laid low all the crops
standing. Thousands of panes of glass
were shattered. Plates of glass FIVE
eighths of an inch thick were shivered to
atoms. The hail was of large size, some
stones weighing pound and half The
storm was confined principally to the Mis-
souri, river valley, from Sioux City, lowe,
to Brownsville, Neb., where it passed in a
southeast direction.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Aug. 4.-The fall of
rain. accompanied by hail, early this morn
ing, was very severe. The storm came
| from the northeast and passed southwest
over Omaha, doing slight injury here. The
raia storm was general at Dunlap, Logan,
Sioux City, Ayoca, Missouri Valley, Glen
wood, etc. 1t was unaccompanied by hail.
Corn was cut down terribly. = 10.
| CHICAGO, Aug 4.-The Tribune's spe-
cial from Macomb, ILL.,, says most disas-
trious tornado, accompanied by heavy
rain, visited that town and the country
surrounding about $50 this evening, pass
ing from northwest to southeast. 1t de-
carried away buildings, barns, small build
/ ings, unroofed the large Methodist church
and carried away the steeple and the west
half of the elevator. Fisher Bros foun-
dry had the west end blown off and the
roof was carried fifty yards. The two
story brick block just completed and owned
by David Scott was nearly destroyed. To-
tai loss is $l5 600 to $4,000. sisf4 Z.
| LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 4.-To-day is
the first fair day in this vicinity for six
weeks. Great damage has been done TO
crops all through the state by the contin-
uous rains.
/ EVANSVILLE. Ind, 4,-The Evansville
and Cincinnati railroad sent the first train
through since Saturday, north. to-day. 1t
will only reach Terre Haute.,s
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-The Signal
Bureau reports the Ohio river four feet at
;; Pittsburgh and Louisville and FIVE feet at
Cincinnati, where it has reached the dan
ger line. The Monongahela has risen
rapidly at Morgantowp and New Geneva,
but is now falling. The Mississippi is
nine inches at ST. Louis and one foot at
, CAIRO, where it is three feet and one hall
above the danger line The Ohio will
e continue to rise at stations below Marietta,
and dangerous floods will occur in the vi
, cinity OF Cincinnati and Louisville during
! Wednesday. The central Mississippi will
| continue to rise and floods will probably
: occur between Memphis and Cairo during
Thursday and Saturday.
> MEMPHIS, Tenn. Aug 4.-The latest
reports from the river below here state
that Opperson's plantation of nine hun
dred acres. at Fort Perry, opposite Fruit
+ port, is submerged. A crevasse has beer
!. made at Desoto front. twenty-seven mile:
below here on the Mississippi side, but tht
planters were endeayoring to stop it. Tht
planters are all at work strengthening th'
!. levees. The water is pouring through th'
n old towL crevasse
i CINCINNATI, Aug. 4.-The river is s.
2 feet and still rising slowly.
ii CINCINNATI, Aug, 4.-The CONNER
1 cials correspondent, who has been exam
;" lining the effects of the food in Southern
E Ohio, reports tonight having travelle,
s. from Portsmouth up the Sciota Valley a
far as Hinton, and finding continuou
le scene of desolation along the entire route
~ The Sciota river is still rising and is owe
~ the entire valley.
lie Actual accounts report 5000 acres O
re corn gone, causing an entire loss to tn
n owners. The crops promised an averag
o yield of sixty bushels to the acre, Thi
ce loss occurs in territory only sixteen mile
ed long and lying in Sclota county. Thes
'r. figures will probably be increased by th
es entire destruction of the wheat crop an,
ot most of the hay northwest from the Sciot
ne line. The devastation continues, probabl
OF all the way to Columbus. Residents o
~ the valley for City years say that nosmila
ha ,S destruction of crops by overflow ever OF
i IA 81
., away portion of the fill of the Dayto
a. Short Line railroad but trains are runnin
he regular The loss in the Ohio valley alon
ID is estimated at oyer $500,00O. The waite
We from the river is invading the cellars
ic. Broadway, Sycamore, Walnut and Vii
en- streets, the depth ranging from few incl
we = es to four or five feet. Nearly all the ce
.ds lars on the streets named, up as far {
Second street, are flooded, the watt
: reaching them through the sewers. II
greatest damage is reported on Var
3 street, where the water was not expecte
to reach.
The Gazette's Terre Haute special r
ID ports the Wabash river steadily falling
, The railway has began transferring pa
- sengers, and mails eau get through
morrow.
g At Seymour the Ohio Il Mississippi ra
.. .. road bridge is gone. There are sever
VIZ washouts on that road. besides. This ci
. appears to be the center Of the storm, e
- tending about 100 miles in each directio
" The total damage to railroads, crops al
. private properly in this congressional d
a trict is estimated at 81 100000.
= MONTGOMERY, Ala, Aug. 4.-Retur
come in slowly, but enough is known
render it reasonably certain that the CO
n stitutional convention is called by 1910
= majority. Datus e. Coon, who issued
I, address to the people favoring Congressm
e. Whites force bill, received but seyen vol
= in his own city, out of {, 400 polled, 1,s
% of which were Republican. Many leadi
Republicans supported the call and seve
, \ Republican, counties have given majorit
for the convention.
Il LATER-The convention has carried |
: 'sSo 10 state by $4,000 majority.
; re- LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug specials
/ sei e the Courier Journal give generally incre
sas- ed majorities for McCreary over the "
for Leslie in 1871. His election is Q