The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-13
DISASTROUS FLOODS.

Havoc Caused In Illinois, Indiana, Ohio
and Other states-Imperfect Estimates
OF the Damage to Crops and other Prop
erty.
The daily papers are filled with re-
ports of damage by the REGENTS floods in
the West and South, which for violence
and widespread destructiveness are with
out parallel. The following summary
will give fair idea of the magnitude Of
the disaster
ILLINOIS.
The Chicago Tribune estimates the
damage from the recent rains in Cook
county at 100000. Throughout Cen
trail and Southern Illinois all the streams
were swollen as they never were before,
and the damage to the crops is incalcu-
liable. In many sections the grain has
sprouted in the shock, and even that
which had been stacked is so badly
damaged that it will hardly pay to thrash
it. In Morgan county alone the dam
age to crops is estimated at quar- ter of
a million dollars.
INDIANA.
The Hoosier State has suffered from
the floods to as great an extent, proba-
bly,, as any of her sisters. In the Wa
bash valley the disaster reaches the di-
mansions of calamity. The bottoms,
for ar average of mile and half wide,
were submerged, and crops, both
harvested and growing, were swept
away, and great suffering must result to
tenants, whose all is swept away. The
Wabash and Erie canal, between La
fayctte and Fort Wayne, was almost
completely destroyed, being broken in
more than hundred places.
MISSOURI.
A dispatch from Washington, Mo-,
says "The Missouri river is higher
than has been known since 1874. Thou
sands upon thousands of acres of corn
between here and ST. Louis are under
water. 1t is impossible to estimate the
damage, but it will reach hundreds of
thousands of dollars"
IOWA.
A dispatch from Wapello, says "The
wheat is all cut, but is light, and of in
ferior quality, and is now sprouting in
the shock. Not one acre in ten of the
oats cail be harvested In a proper man
ner the crop will be almost total loss
The hay-crop is almost ruined by the
continued wet weather.
OHIO.
The Cincinnati Gazette says No
such widespread devastation has been
known in the Ohio Valley before. For
weeks and weeks the rain has fallen
steadily, and all the tributary streams
of the Ohio have been gradually rising
day after day. The storms eliminated
in the rains of Saturday night and
Sunday. The earth, drenched and soak
ing, could take emo more, and the streams,
swollen already to alarming dimensions,
received an additional volume of water.
Their banks have been overfowed, and
fields that have been ready for the
harvester for days are now under water.
From all parts of Indiana and Southern
Ohio the same gloomy tidings come.
Houses have shared the calamity with
lands. People living in the lowlands
have been driven to the second stories.
Barns and outbuildings have been swept
away, bridges have yielded to to the
tides, railroad tracks are submerged, and
highways are under water.
PENNSYLVANIA.
In Pennsylvania the destruction is
widespread. The valuation of the prop
erty destroyed is estimated at upward of
million dollars.
KENTUCKY.
A dispatch from Louisville says
"The Ohio river at this point, and be-
low here to Cairo, is higher than for 10
years. Reports from Southern Ken
lucky say that 100000 acres of land,
planted in corn and tobacco, between
Owensboro and Cairo, are under water.
The loss of property is immense. Re-
ports continue to come in of the destruc-
ton by the late rains of the wheat and
oat crops in the shock all through Ken
lucky and Southern Indiana.