The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-08-22
A WATER.SOAkED CITY.


Two thousand Houses In Lincoln. Nshs
Submerged by = Flood : High Water
Washes Out Railroads and Ruins Crops
In Other Parts Of tho state Disastrous
storm In Kansas Loss Of Life Reported.
LINCOLN, Neb. Aug l4.-Lncoln has
hardly known such food as she is now
exper encing since the date Of her settle-
ment. More than 100 Lincoln houses In
the valley Of Salt creek are submerged
The water has been rising rapidly for
thirty-six hours At midnight Monday
the creek began to overflow its
aroused from their sleep by the water
rushing into their houses Daylight
saw a ptiable sight Women with children
In their arms were struggling through the
water, and in every house the furniture
was afioat BY that time all traffic had
stopped on the hundreds of tracks in the
Burlington and Union Pacific yards, and
during the whole OF the day none but main
line trains were run.
Transfer wagons, drays and other ve-
hicles were pressed into service. and by
noon nearly every one had been trans
ferred to dry ground Many sick who
wc.s confined to their beds were
brought out and cared for. In one place
paralytic was found with the water
within six inches of covering him. He
lay helpless until reached by the rescuerA
1t was stated, and quite generally believed,
that small Bohemian child was drowned,
but the name OF the family could not be
learned The babe was left In high-chair
while the mother took the other children
to place OF safety When she returned it
had fallen out and was drowned
There is a report current that three men
lost their lives In an attempt to save some
stock The damage II enormous. More
than 1000 homes are under water. with
the furniture, carpets and bedding
soaking in water. Buckstaff 4 stout's
pressed-bric works are under four
feet OF water. At the warehouse
Of the Western Furniture Company the
water is over HAT cars and running into
box cars There are thousands Of cars in
the yards loaded with valuable merchan-
disc and many can not be reached
Many Omaha wholesale grocery firms
have cars in the Lincoln yards,
from which they fill their orders.
These are watersoaked. The school,
houses and public buildings have been
opened to the sufferers, and many of Lin.
coins fine residences sheltered the un-
been secured and people will be fairly
comfortable, though it will take many days
before their water-soaked houses can be
used again.
At Beatrice, on the Blue river, the
houses on the bottom lands were Hooded,
the people escaping in boats. The new
paper-mill was swept away and other small
buildings were wrecked The Lincoln 4
Northwestern tracks have been washed
away three miles west of the city. At lO
p. IN. one or two Union Pacific bridges be.
tween the city and West Lincoln were in
great danger.
KANSAS CITY. Mo, Aug. IA. Reports oi
the effects Of Tuesday mornings heavy
rain and wind-stOrm are being received.
The tracks of every road, except the Union
Pacific, running into Kansas City were
damaged in scmc manner by the
storm 80 that nll the trains were delayed
Many bridges on the Santa 10 and
Southern Kansas roads were de.
stroycd and the heavy iron bridge
on the former road at Olathe was washed
away. Several trains on these two road.
| were abandoned. Almost every foot ol
country between Kansas City and Topeks
il covered with water, and the corn crop in
that territory Is badly damaged Al
Atchison several buildings were biowl
down At Falls City, Kan, ]. NJ. Boomis
barn was struck by lightning and burned
An engineer on the Santa Fc said that tn,
country this side of Topeka was one grea
lake, covered with broken corns:alks ant
debris. Nearly all the crops within sight .
the railroad had been blown down by th,
storm, snd he thought the same waatru'
all along the various lines between this cit.
and Topeka.
The storm played great havoc with th
tracks between this city and Omaha. bu
| all the trains arrived, coming in from hal
an hour to three hours late