The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-06
THE RAIN AND THE CROPS.

louisville Courier Journal. Sd inst.l
The crop prospects in the West are becom-
| ing more and more serious. The heavy
| waterfall along the Ohio Valley has not only
deluged the low county lying adjacent to The
| river, but has seriously damaged the uncut
grain as well as that which has been moved
and shocked. The rich corn region lying on
both sides of the Ohio between Louisville and
Cairo has been for weeks SO submerged as to
drown the life OF the growing stalk, and to
fatten large fields of the product with the
ground. Nothing but suspension of the
rain and the hot unclouded rays of an August
sun can save even fair part of the crops that
have not been already destroyed, and that
complete ruin has o1sffaIen the farmer.
The wheat prospect is even more hopeless.
Farmers throughout Kentucky are casting
shocks of this valuable grain to the hogs, and
| wherever fields Of wheat or oats or rye have
not been moved the crop has been rendered
almost entirely worthless. We have never
had a season so suddenly and thoroughly dis
astrous. The ruin has literally travelled as
fast as showers on the mountain side-faster,
to use poetic expression, ethan the mu-
stefan scatters sounds.
Nor has Kentucky alone suffered. The
dreadful waterfall seems to have folio we'd with
wonderful accuracy the isothermal line which
takes in great portion of Missouri, Ken
lucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio. Virginia and
Maryland, and thence striking across the
ocean, runs through Great Britain, portion
of France and Germany, and thence east
through the middle of Asia. But small areas
within this extended line have escaped the
ruin which seems to have visited us with
more protracted If not more desolating Sc
verify.
The crops in some portions Of France we're
suddenly submerged some weeks ago, and so
strong and bread was the torrent that flowed
down from the Pyrenees that two Cities one
of which was larger than Louisville, were al
most entirely swept away. England has not
suffered so severely, nor has Germany; but
while that fact will lessen the general distress
which has been anticipated, it will not soothe
the ruined farmers, the broken tenants and
sub-tenants who have fallen directly under
the ban of this Obstructive destiny.
THE WABASH RIVER.
TERRE HAUTE Aug. a. The food in this
region is very devastating. The Wabash
River is some twenty inches higher than dur
ing the great rise of 1853 and a few inches
higher than the still greater inundation of
1928, which is of record and is in the memory
OF the Oldest inhabitants. The river is fully
three miles wide opposite the city, and still
slowly rising. A few small houses have
hoated down. Some live stock and millions
of bushels of wheat in stacks and in shocks
have foated past Large quantities of hay
have also gone down.
The Clinton wagon bridge, fourteen miles
above US, is floating down on us. So is saw
mill. Over 100000 bushels of corn is re-
ported drowned out between Terre Haute and
Hutsonville. Sugar Greek township is wholly
inundated. Not thousand rails, very little
corn and no wheat are left in the township.
Every house in Bloomtown is inundated.
Markles mill dam, five miles west, is broken
away, and seven houses at Reelsville, on the
Vandalia Road, together with three miles of
embankment, are washed away. Not a train
on any of the railroads left the city to-day,
except passenger train to Vincennes and