Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-05-17
SUBMERGED.
Miles of Land Under Water Above
St. LouiS-Grave Apprehen-
SiOnS.
The Red River Doing Great Damage In
Arkansas--A Number of People
Drowned.
Disston's Saw Works Burned-Railroad
Accidents-0l Tanks on Fire-0ther
Hishaps.

/ III several places and vast volumes of water
began pouring into the town. A spasmodic
| attempt was made to check the flow, but
| within few minutes the !aborers quit and
| accepted the inevitable. 1t required less
| ihi n an hours time 10 inundate the entire
| town, which is covered with water from
two to SIX feet submerging almost every
| foot OF ground. At that point the MissiS-
| sippi Is fully seven miles wide, and within
| the range of vision one vast expause Of
! water greets the eye. The area of farming
| land in the Missouri bottoms that is sub
! mersel is estimated at 1900 acres and a
! continuance of the flood will result in an
approximate ed loss to the farming commu-
nifty of that region of at least $3JO,0O0. A
high wind preya led which caused the
waves to wash the open ng in the Warsaw
| levee, which affords protection to some o.
900 acres of fertile Illinois land. The re-
port which reached the city that the levee
had broken at a point four or five miles
south Of Warsaw could not be verified.
AT two o'clock yesterday the stage of
water in the river a. Keokuk, Iowa, in
dicated that it had reached the high
est point attained during the food of 1881,
and since that hour the rise has con-
tinued. In that portion of the city where
the planning mills, saw mills, packing houses
and railroad shops arc located, business is
entirely suspended and hundreds of men
have been thrown out of employment. On
this side of the river the tracks of all the
railroads entering the city are under the
water.
A telegram from Rock Island says: Upon
the stability of the railroad embankment
of the Rock Island & Peoria road which
bounds the city on the south and west, de-
ponds the safety of 80 families. Should
the Mississippi force its way through this
elevation and the dyke which protects it a
large part of the city would be submerged
and hundreds rendered homeless. The
water is still gradually rising and much
anxiety is felt.
RED RIVER FLOODS.
ST. Louis, May l4-Advices from the
Red river country report the damage done
to the inhabitants of the Red river valley
during the past ten days almost beyond
computation and the overflow the worst
since 1913. Most of the plantations near
the river have been covered with water
from four to six feet deep and many miles
OF fencing and scores of cribs and barns
have been washed down and carried away.
Many OF the people have lost their house
hold furniture, provisions and corn. In
several places the river water extended
from the hills of Arkansas to the
hills of Texas, a distance of from ten to
fourteen miles. At West Norwood a negro
was drowned trying to swim from the
overflow. Two white men were drowned
in Mill creek and quite number of other
deaths are reported.
DISSTON'S WORKS BURNED.
T,r
bull ling which contained the steel works
and rolling mill Of Disston's saw works at
Tacony was totally destroyed by fire yes
terday morning. Although the fire depart
ment responded promptly the structure
was in ruins within an hour, causing loss
of $500, COO, on which there is an insurance
of $4,000. The mill was the most COM
plete of its kind IN this country add the
immense amount of machinery used was Of
the most approved kind. Hamilton Dss-
ton, the head of the firm, left the city
few hours before the fire for pleasure
trip on il yacht in Southern waters.
TRAIN GOES OVER TREsTLE.
YUMA, Ariz., May 1.-THE Southern Pa
cific westbound passenger train jumped
the track near ella Bend Saturday morn
ing while passing over new trestle, and
an emigrant car, the smoking Car, day
coaches and one sleeper fell from the trestle
to the ground, a distance of four or five
feet, turning completely over. Mrs. Good,
of England. an emigrant passenger, was
instantly killed, leaving her husband and
three small children, who were travelling
with her. Two other passengers had legs
broken and a number of others sustained
slight injuries. The emigrant car was conf
pletely wrecked.
OIL TANKS IN FLAMES.
OIL CITY, Pa, May 14-An iron tank
containing 1000 barrels of oil two miles
up Oil creek was struck by lightning yes
terday and the oil boiled over, setting fire
TO another tank on the opposite side of the
creek containing 81 900 barrel. The Key
stone refinery, short distance from the
fire, is in some danger and wing dams are
being built in the creek to protect property
along the creek. The oil AID tanks are
owned by ]. B. Smithman.
SCHOONER SUNK.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 1.-THE iron
propeller Clarion ran into the schooner
Monguagon IN the harbor yesterday, and
sank her in four minutes. The crew had
barely time to escape with their lives. The |
sunken schooner carried q full cargo of |
coal 1t is charged that the Clarion was |
racing and attained SO much Roadway as |
to be unable to make the bend in entering |
the harbor.
STRUCK BY TRAIN.
NEWARK, n. j., May IA train on the |
Baltimore & Ohio railroad struck John |
Skinner and Thomas johnson last night. |
instantly killing the latter and seriously |
injuring Skinner The men were walking |
on the south track and stepped over on the |
north track to avoid train coming in the |
other direction.
LOCOMOTIVE BOILER EXPLoDEs.
CUMBERLAND, Nd, May 1.-the boiler Of |
an engine coming east on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad exploded yesterday morning
when midway between Keyser and Cum
berland, killing Engineer Woodruff of Mar
tinsburg, W. Va, and his fireman, Miller,
IF Cum berland.
"A swarthy ItaliIn peddler, who may
nave been a Calabrian brigand IN exile,
wheeled hand-card along Park Row yes.
-erdav, piled high with railway bonds, and
every bond was for a Thousand dollars.
There was half million dollars worth Of
,hem- The cart stopped in front of the Sun
office, and the Italian calmly united hun
bred thousand dollars worth of the stuff
and began business. Holding up a crisp,
handsomely printed thousand-dollar bond
Of the Canada, Michigan & Chicago railway
ne offered IL Tor only ten cents. A crowd of
and loungers surrounded
he cart. A lame beggar stepped
forward and bought the bond.
Then an errand boy purchased
one. An apple woman next bought three
bonds for quarter. For half an hour the
bonds went of ike hot cakes. There was
IN exc ted crowd around the cart; and the
Italian couldn't hand the bonds out fast
enough. 1t finally became rumored that
brokers' vvera T11rchasinU tho honda and |