The Penn's Grove record., 1889-06-22
A TOWN SWEPT AWAY.
HEAVY RAINS IN KANSAS CAUSE
A BREAK In AN ICE DAM.
uNIONToWN DESTROYED AND TWO
WOMEN AND FOUR CHILDREN
DROWNED.

UNIoNTowN DESTROYED AND TWO
WOMEN AND FOUR CHILDREN
DROWNED.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, June H.
Meagre details of a flood and cyclone in
Kansas have been re ,eived. Union
town is reported swept away.
ST. LOUIS, June II. 800 A. NJ
Accounts of the disaster aJ Union
town, Kansas. say that 1t was caused
by the bursting of a dam; that the
towns of Uuiontown and BelletOwn
were flooded and that several lives
were lost. Particulars are not obtain
able, there being no night telegraph
office near the scene of the disaster.
ST. LOUIS, jane 17.-AddiJiOnal ad.
wees about the disaster In Kansas from
wind and ram storms are that Union
| town, about Is miles west of Fort
Scott, Oh the Wichita and Western
Railway, was swept away, and that two
| women and four children were
rowne3. Uniontown, which is u place
| of about six hundred inhabitants, Is in
| the midst of a thickly settled country,
| and 1t is feared that the loss Of life Is
| even heavier than reported. AS the
! wires aie down for ID miles on either
| side, nothing definite a he learned.
The STORM struck the western part OF
Bourbon county late at night, coming
| from the vest, where it had played
| great havoc. at Augusta it assumed
| the form of a cloud burst. and, though
| everything possible has been done to
| obtain details by the railroads, all Is
uncertain at present.
In Fort Scott it commenced raining
| about 7 O'Clock Sunday morning. DID
| residents say it was the hardest rain in
30 years. Water commenced rising in
Buck Run at s A. NJ. Lamb u Mead's
ice dam on Sixth street burst about 10
A. M. causing tie water in Buck run
| to rise at the rate of about eight feet
| per hour, carrying away several house
| and the bridge across Sixth street.
| The part of Fort Scott known as Belle
town is entirely under water. This
| was caused by the overflow from
Marmaton river. People were taken
out with boats.
Several bridges were washed out and
| trains were stopped on both sides of
| Fort Scott. The Kansas, Nebraska
| ard Dakota track Is under water for
| about nine miles out. The Memphis
| road is badly damaged for about 1000
| feet, 10 miles north of Fort scott. All
the yeople in the bottom in East Fort
Scott moved out. AT last accounts
| the water had stopped rising, and If no
| more rain falls the flood will rapidly
| subside. Every effort is being made
| to obtain information from UniontOwn.
ELDoRADo, Kan June 17.-The
D valley of the Walnut is flooded
| from excessive rains. the streams beng
higher than they have been for years.
| Saturday night the river came up so
| suddenly that IA family by the name of
| Graham started from their home to the
! highlands. The mother and babe were
| drowned, the father and n child es-
| Gaping. Grain fields are flooded, and
| much damage must result. A
portion of the Missouri Pacific track is
washed away, and there have been no
| trains in Over the Sante Fe since yes
terday. 1t Is surmised that a number
| of people have been drowned in the
| lower valley. The water Is receding
| this morning. A later rumor reports
the drowning Of o. Beaman, in
Cassidy.