Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-05-17
FLOOD AND TORNADO.
Great Flood I'm the Upper Mississippi-Ga-
lena an American Venice-Ten Miles Wide
at 0uincy-Cycione in Indiana.

Great flood i'm the Upper Mississippi-Ga-
lena an American Venice-Ten Miles Wide
at 0uincy-Cycione in Indiana.
CHICAGO, May II. "A telegram from
Rock Island, ILL.,, says: The high water
! which has been running over the stone
wall Of the Moline waterpOwer for days, at
noon carried away large section OF the
heavy stone bulkhead which runs across
the south channel Of the Mississippi be-
tween the Rock Island arsenal and the
main shore. Five hundred feet OF this
wall has dis appeared and il is believed
that the rest LAS been so demoraIzed
as TO need rebuilding. The wall cost
the Government 500, 600. The tide Of
water coming down to the city
front of Rock Island carried out into mid
stream IS, 0N worth of logs from the upper
saw mills and the freight warehouse of the
ST. Paul packet line. All trains are aban-
doned on the st. Paul road between here
and Savannah In consequence of the food
and on the Peoria road on account OF the
long railway embank ment which threat
ems to break and food the low land. Hun
dreds Of families are moving out of their
houses.
Galena, Ill, has been transformed into
an American Venice and the novel specta-
Gle Of skiffs and barges as a means of
transportation is now seen in all of its busi-
ness portion, ex ept on Main street. On
the latter thoroughfare the water in many
places is nearly up to the floor, and prep
arations are being made by those most
endangered to move into safer quarters.
Boats can now be rowed entirely around
the custom house and the post-office build
ings, and both Commerce and Water
streets are navigable nearly the entire
length. Last evening the water lacked
four and half inches of reaching the high
mark Of 1850.
The river at Quincy is ten miles wide
and hundreds Of farms are submerged to u
depth Of several feet. The levee below the
city is weakening in places and a large
force of men are at work night and day to
avert the threatened calamity. Foundlies
and factories along the levee have been
forced 10 suspend. The st. Louis, KeOkuk
& Northwestern railway has abandoned
all trains north of here, cutting off the
towns of lagrange Canton and Alexan-
dria. The loss is incalculable. The water
is slowly rising.
TORNADO IN INDIANA.
CHICAGO, May IA cyclone of tremen-
dous force whirled over portion of North
ern Indiana last night The extent Of its
ravages can only be guessed from few
scattering reports and the fact that the
telegraph wires throughout considerable
territory are Frustrated.
At WInsiow siding, on the Nickel Plate
railroad train of sixteen freight cars
were lifted from their wheels and distrib-
uted in pieces around the surrounding
prairies.
Information has been received that at
Wanatah Il number of houses were IN
rooted and much timber in the country up
rooted.
Much alarm was felt regarding the city
of Valparaiso, which it was thought lay in
the path of the cyclone, but late dispatch
from there says the cyclone did not strike
there, but was DETECTED two miles south.
Three hundred telegraph poles were blown
down near there.