The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-08-05
TERRIBLE FREsHETs.

A number of the Middle, West
ern and Southern States, includ-
ing Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska,
Missouri, Kentucky, and Illinois,
have been disastrously affected by
storms and floods. In some parts OF
Ohio the crops are entirely washed
away and the rivers are full Of float
ing grain. In other parts thousands
Of acres of corn, oats and grass are
under water, and in still other parts
the hay and oats crop are ruined
from being over ripe, potatoes are
rotting, and the army-worm is work.
ing on the wheat. Rain fell twenty.
three days during July. The west
ern part Of the city of Hamilton is
three feet under water. -
All the streams in Missouri are
at flood-height, railway tracks, bridg.
es and turnpike roads have been
washed away, and the damage to
crops is immense. In Spring River
Bottom alone the farmers lose a
million and half dollars. Fences
and barns were washed away.
Yesterday morning a terrible hail
storm swept through the Missouri
Valley, from Sioux City, Iowa, to
Brownsville, Nebraska, doing great
damage to trees and crops. Hail
stones fell weighing pound and a
hall.
Illinois is quiteas badly off: The riv.
ers are covered with floating shocksof
wheat. Corn land is overAowed, the
oats crop is nearly total loss, pota-
toes and grapes have begun to rot,
while hay is greatly damaged, and
wheat is sprouting. In most counties
all crops, save those on high rolling
ground, are about ruined. In Bloom
ington the cellars are inundated and
ponds are created all over the city.
The railroad tracks are in bad condi-
ton, and an accident occurred on the
Hannibal and St. Joe road; by. the
washing away of the support of the
trestle work, by which an engine was
precipitated into a stream and the
engineer drowned.
Yesterday evening a tornado wreck
ed the town of Macomb. The loss is
from $4,000 to 100000. .>.
In Indiana the Wabash has over.
flowed its banks at all points and
other streams are in similar condi.
ton. The corn crop in the bottom
lands is entirely destroyed, large guam
titles of wheat remaining in shocks
has been carried away and the dam
age to crops of all kinds is enormous.
The army-worm is taking what the
floods leave. Much stock has been
drowned. In Morgan county the
farmers suffer to the extent of half q
million dollars. Wheat that has
been threshed is so damp that neithe,
buyers nor warehousemen will receive
it. Some farmers will not have
enough left to sustain their families
through the winter. Acyclone passed
through Harrisburg, Fountain county
tearing houses to pieces, uprooting
trees, and killing five persons.
Six weeks of continuous wet weather
in Kentucky has injured the wheat,
oats, barley, rye and hay at least fifty
per cent, and tobacco quite as serious.
ly. -~...,,
The crops in Iowa, on the lowlands,
have been almost entirely destroyed,
and even the highlands have suffered
to great extent, from the floods, and
in many places hail has stripped
whole fields of corn, while grasshop-
pers have appeared in the northwestern
parts Of the State, doing great dam
age.
Railroads in Nebraska are under
water for miles. Crops in the low.
lands are injured by rains, while on
the uplands the drouth has re-
duced the crops one-half: At Alex
.:udria the public schoolhouse, costing
$4,000, was blown down and totally
destroyed. The depot of the St.
Joseph & Denver City Railway was
two-thirds of it torn to pieces. Sew
eral stores we're badly injured. At
Meridian, twelve houses were destroy
ed,-among them a schoolhouse
which cost $4,000.
Considerable damage has been done
to small grain in Kansas. The Kan.
sas Pacific railway is under water at
several points and a waterspout took
away bridge and did considerable
damage in Leavenworth county.
In West Virginia, between Wheel
ing and Grafton, there havebeen great
destruction of property and loss OF
grain. The town of Pennington is
almost completely. submerged, the
water being on the first floor in near:
ly all houses. A great many land
slides on the railways, and bridges
carried away are reported on the
Parkersburg branch of the Baltimore
& Ohio. The loss in slaves, heading,
logs and barrels carried away from
the vicinity Of New Martinsville will
amount to oyer 100000.
In Western Pennsylvania rain has
fallen every day since July 9th, dam
aging floods have occurred in many
places and the lowland farms are SUBJ
merged. The loss by the sinking Of
coal barges and wrecking' of lumber
RATS is very great.
Cotton in Tennessee is suffering.