The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-04-07

A Wonderful Storm Which
was q Maelstrom.
Bridges Swept Away and Thirty
Feet of Water on Dry Land.

er1 Miss )urI Was WONDERFUL rainfall
The dry prairies were male navigable for
as large crafts as float on The western va
tiers in sn hours time. IL came So sudden
upon the people that m my who had retired
for he nigh, W re aIOu-ed from Ieir beds
| az made thr.r hasty toilets, sIandirg Ia
| The wa'er fish ng r their SHOES aud seek
| ings by the sense of touch, ut long rang. in
the int darkness, while tue terrible
storm prevail on side to such 40 extent
that many were panic stricken and Sc rely
/ allie TO tell whether they were on loo, or In
a eamboat explt sion.
A representative ef the BAZlO who visit.
ed the loo lily vest rdsy glea ed many in
cider Is concerning his ITO d which would
be extremely difficult to put on PIP api
at the same time convey an intelligent
ide. Of The SC n n situatitnS. 1h. Old
residents, who have grown gray looking
into he bed of Big Creek. a ) ream a
usually is uiy six months os the year,
never with SID before sny hing lie this,
Will Maddox branch, IN unpreteudicg
ragife, Was Swollen in'o a river that cOu q
have footed a man-of-w r v, ssel v b ea
In Pleasant Hill tn ores In the lo~sr
part Fl the town W re flooded and the rail-
40 4 side tracks carried off aud placed
ab, mt 10 | dire I ocs. The dawn OF
day Thu. s lay Vas eagerly locked for. Ii re.
vealed the fact lha' the new roul d house
lad lie N flooded By about two reet of
water, but was recediug very list. No d IA.
age TO the building.
The idse bet cen Greenwood and
Lees Summit, an iron Post cOmbin ,.ihn
structure, forty seven feet 10 g, OF g,e t
s.rergth al d We ght, was carried one-.'ourth
OF mile fr' N rs foundation and plsccd
on the prsirie, where it WIS found on dry
ground unhsrm, d. The process of taking Il
10 pi ces and putliTg it back where il
could he utilized ficult sul slow.
The bridge Ter Maddox orauch, Howe
truss, seven,y.si hit fee. 10 g, is to'al
wreck The iron bars whicl I'd the ,r ins
/ IN aid of the br dye re suappd IS il
5 re safely in the tops tf trees bearing the
| apI earance OF haviI g been plac d there, in
some instances, by the ciut Gus and careful
hand of man.
Tue bridge over Wilson creek, Post
combination, iron, fJrty-six !eet loog, was
moved soue inches off its found tii0n
/ Againsl it from TIL nth was on. OF those
old fashioned county bridges, which nd
Heated fsom its mooTIngs and stopped there
because tie rsilry al nr.cge prevented it,
going farther. Another county bridge
| further east was WASHED swsv, and the day
Is long hence when the County court OF ass
county will ever be able u locate IL agar
m~eh l. make it an Article of utility
! or b altv
Yesterday prob ,bly $50 men were ct
work caring he debris -ud placing ma =
! tiers to rights. Alb ut one and s-qu rtsr
miles of track was moved away Dy the
food. This track was in all directions and
shapes. 1t was Inverted, on end ard some
times a section could be found RAINING at
right angles with The main line. In many
places and for several hundred feet, in
SD Is, the rosGbed was washed away.
| Abu;men,s which the bridges rested on
were mt rely gone, and tie gre tie DC ssh
bic d, struc ion OF earthwork Vas visibl< on
| every hand.
The accident which transp;red on the
l.. & =. near Pleas mt Hill wss, although
one man was killed, most rem arksbly
fortunate one. Tom Toohey, the engineer,
went down into The water on his engine
with seven cars Of stock-hogs and ca
tle-on top of him, and srsnge IS
il msy aRCeIr escaped compsra lively un-
hurt He took his b,th at O'Clock ct
night, and wss held ias' in about fifteen
/ inches of WAR. He cou m we his hands
and head, and was standing nearly perpen-
| dicular. The water was coming up and
e ntlnued II rise until 1t was to Lis chin.
| He expected TO die in the water, his com-
rsdes being powerless to help him. Final
| Iy, toward mcrning, the Wat roa ing and
seething about him began TO recede. The
STeckiug train arrive aud through the
| skillful work of the men, p.ece oy piece of
/ the br ken cars were raised aud Tom was a
| freq man at o'clock in the morning, but
nearly dead from cold, being so beaumbed
as to be entirely helpless. A surgeon &c
voted ali cay Thursday 10 getting him in
shape, and yesterday he was worth 3
dozen dro~ red men. Ii vas close ca on
I Tom BY the grim monster death.
IRE trestls where the train went down
will be repaired - rs to permit the passage
( Cf trains tO-uigh'.
The destruction to both railroad and
private proper on the line of the Gulf
| road between Pleasant Hill end Olsthe is
gre alter than anywhere else. 1T will be a
week before our trains get through" i'd
! an Official of the road to the reporter
/ HON he met IT the Hill. He said in some
places where their road bed was loo t d,
there is nothing iefI but dark pla1e.
Ga the gr'und Of tue b eak on The Paci-
| fic, Su. erirtendent Hager, X. NJ. Peck,
bridge superintendent, p. Rockwell, general
rosdmaster, aud other officers we're present,
giving tine repairs their personal attention.
The st train passed over the break at
l O'Clock this Saturday mornipg, arriving
! ia SSdali4 at 3:l5. 1t is believed that ali
danger is past and there will be no further
| detention IN travel.