Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-08-05
The WONDERFUL Floods,

ALL THE CIVILIZED WORLD SOAKED AND DELuGED
THE STORMS IN THE wEsr-THE FLOODS OF
EUROPE.
The rains in the West have been continuous
for weeks. and now many Of the rivers are over
flowing. Wheat in the shock is sprouting, and
corn is boing washed out In Ohio, on the Mia
mi River bottom the water ia sometimes up to
the tassels Of immense fields OF corn.
on TUESDAY, THE ONO,
and Its tributaries continued to rise. At Chilli
cothe the canal broke below the city, and 5000
bushels OF wheat were swept into the river. At
Cincinnati, the lower stories OF the houses along
Water street were flooded, and tho river was
still rising. Tho gas works at Athens, Ohio,
we're inundated, and the city was compelled to
use candles. No trains arrived since Saturday
In Indiana, the flood in the Wabash river is the
highest ever known. The Wabash and Eric ca
nal between Lafayette and Fort Wayne is bro
ken " IN hundred places" In West Virginia
the town Of Pennington is almost submerged,
and there Is
GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY
between Wheeling and Grafton, on the line OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. -Four bridges
on the Parkersburg branch OF that railroad have
worth Of logs, barrels, &c, have been swept
away by the flood at New Martnsville. Accord
ing to the Signal Service reports the flood in the
Ohio and Mississippi Valleys will increase to-
Jay. Inc iodb Dy the recent lnundatOnS in Cen
trail Illinois is estimated at IL, 900, 600.
A correspondent Of the New York Times, at
Columbus, o., telegraphed yesterday that while
the rains had not entirely ceased it was thought
that
THE HEIGHT OF THE FLOODS
had been reached, and the waters will probably
now slowly settle. Their falling, however, does
not stay the damage to farmers products, and
only immediate and continuous sunshine would
repair the losses.
The excessive wet in the Ohio valley ia shown
by reports OF the July rainfall. The signal ser
vice puts it at .. SO inches nearly quarter of
the yearly average. Mr.. II. White, who sends
observations from Mt. Auburn, Ohio to the
Smithsonian Institute, reports the fall at II 44G
| inches. A Marietta observer says that the total
rainfall during the month at that place was 1915
inches. Even the lowest Of these reports ia
higher than any monthly rainfall reported since
| 1857. The rainfall of last month alone is more
than an inch greater than that of May, June,
July and August last year.
| NOT ONLY IN THIS COUNTRY
but in Europe have such enormous rains occur.
red. Colonel Forney writes to the Philadephia
| Press that nothing like 1t has been experienced
| in Great Britain for many years. In some coun-
ties it has been entirely without precedent. For
instance in Bath it is the greatest fall Of rain in
eighty years at Clevelands, Lyme Regis, "tbe
and Ashburton, "the heaviest for ten years." at
the Craig ROSIE, the heaviest since August ID,
1865" One correspondent says During
tho five years have kept record the rain
in twenty-fo hours has never before reached
two inches, while in twenty-one hours Of inces-
SAINT rain on the 18th Of July $40 inches of rain
fell" Great damage has been done to crops,
and Col. Forney thinks the demand on Americas
for breadstuffs will be very large. Rains have
been heavy throughout Europe, including
France, where at Toulouse and elsewhere terri
BILE damage and loss Of life were caused by river
| inundations.