Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-05-23
FIELDS EN0uLFED.

Tho DoluRo In the Mississippi Valley
Shows No Sign Of Abatement-Bains
Keeping the Rivers Out Of their Banks
Terrible Destruction All tho Way
from Iowa to Arkansas-Great Suffering
Among the Residents of tho Flooded
District Reliof Measures.
ST.. Louis, May 19.-Yestcrday's reports
from the flooded districts are from Keo-
kuk, Ia, to the remote parts Of Arkansas,
and show terrible destruction. A Louisi-
ana (Mo.) dispatch says that the breaks in
tho lovee here caused the river to fall about
a foot since Thursday night, but the
food Is increasing in the Sny dis
trict from one end to the other. An
other break occurred below this city
Thursday night, and the torrent is now
rushing from the lower end Of the valley
to meet with the food coming from the
other break above. A great many Of the
farms are ten feet under water and tho
tirely destroyed. The only remaining hope
of the farmers is that the water will 70
out in time for q late corn crop.
QUINCY, ILL.,, May 19.-The water has fall
Ell two and half inches, and many arc
hopeful that the floods have attained their
height. But the Des Moines river, which
empties into the Mississippi forty miles
north, is rising, and it is feared tho worst
Ia vet to come
The first loss Of human life was reported
yesterday morning. Before there had been
number of narrow escapes from drown
ing in efforts to rescue stock, but no one
had been drowned.
In the Indian Grove district $50 families
were rendered homeless They are obtain
ing partial shelter in barns on the bluffs,
while many are still in the upper stories of
their flooded houses. All are suffering,
but are being cared for by neighbors.
In the Sny levee district there are several
thousand people deprived of shelter. They
can be found on the bluffs or any high
protect them. Many Of them are almost
without clothing, having been driven from
their homes so quickly. There is much
suffering among them even for food. The
damage to railroad property is very large
Miles of track are washed out and many
bridges gone.
Three relief expeditions, organized by the
Quincy Whi0, Friday visited the flooded
families of the Sny and Indian Grove
levee districts, and report great deal Of
discomfort and suffering on the part
of the refugees, who are encamped
on the high lands in tents or wagons, with
scanty clothing and food. Of the $50
families rendered homeless in the Indian
Grove district many are partially sheltered
in barns and sheds of farms not in
undated, and the attention Of more
fortunate neighbors has so far pre-
vented actual want. The misery and want
of the homeless families in the Sny dis
trict is reported still more absolute. At
least 600 men, women and children who
have saved nothing but perhaps a
few chickens and escaped in cloth
ing insufficient to protect them from the
weather, are in great need of assist
ance. The investigators found that tho
railroad property in the submerged dis
riots had suffered great loss. A thou
sand yards of both the Chicago Burlington
4 Quincy and the Wabash tracks were
found to be washed away.
KEoKUK, Ia, May l9.-There was very
slight decline of the water late Thursday,
but the rain that set in at 2 o'clock served
to keep it at standstill Measurements
recently taken show the stage of water to
be within less than foot Of the great rise
of 1851. The railroads are all blockaded
and will not be able to resume for a week,
even should the worst Of the flood be over.
No further damage is reported from the
village of Alexan dria.
HANNIBAL, Mo-, May l9.-Great damage
has been done in the lumber district here
by the food, and the loss to the property
holders of the Sny district is incalculable.
Old citizens are of the opinion that the rise
is not yet over.
OFALLoN, Mo-, May 19.-The heavy rain
has added largely to the increase of water
in the flooded districts. Much uneasiness
is expressed on account of the continued
rise of the Mississippi and Missouri. The
Culvert river has risen over three feet
since morning. The loss already done to
wheat and corn is very considerable.
FEARFUL FLOODS IN ARKANSAS.
ALMA, Ark, May 19.-The hardest rains
for many years have been falling in Ar.
kansas in the last two days, and the
streams are overlooking. Immense cotton
fields and corn bottoms are submerged and
the country is suffering general inun-
dation. So quick was the rise from
the Big Frog creek that the people were
forced to flee from their homes and some
were compelled to swim for their lives.
Many women and children are standing on
the tops of houses crying for help, with the
water ten feet deep around them and still
rising. 1t is feared that several lives have
been lost.
A waterspout in Crawford County caused
Frog bayou to overflow and submerge over
10000 acres Of corn and cotton, which are
completely destroyed. The rise was very
sudden. People took refuge upon house
tops, from which some were rescued in
boats, others remaining on them all night.
water. Two bridges have been washed
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