The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-07-02
THE nEL0cE.

THE DELVcE.
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Railways Loso Miles Of Track-Thou-
sands OF Acres of Growing Crops Ruined
six Lives Lost In . Cyclone In Pennsyl-
vsnis-Dostructiv Storms In Europe.
IfBRAsKA UNDER WATER. .'"-
! OMAHA, sNeb.,. &c June "a perfect
e deluge Of rain has fallen throughout
= Nebraska. Since, midnight Thursday
the food has continued necessarily.
Railroad traffic is entirely suspended in
the state. There were no trains in or
out OF Omaha for the west Friday
night sIn@anX:piacesin thee state the
tracks are phder YateE for miles, rem.
,derihy traffic entirely Impossible.
The Missouri is raging torrent. 1t
is rising fast and is within q few
feet of the danger line. Crop damage
sis aincalculable throughout the state.
Considerable damage was done in
Omaha ny the storm. East Omaha was
badly flooded and a$thickly populated
section of the northern part of the city
was inundated. From Clark street
north on ,Twenty-fourth street the
water is from 2 to 6 feet deep in the
street and strcet-car traffic is aban-
doned. The police and fire departments
sent force of men to the inundated
district to rescue the distressed people
and their effects. No lives were lost
but there were several narrow escapes
from drowning, and ap old lady who
was confined toher*bedh was with diff
Guilty taken from her house which was
filled with water S feet deep.
NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., June 27.-The
heaviest rain here for twenty years fell
Friday afternoon. Central avenue was
in few moments transferred into a
madly rushing river. and nearly every
cellar on that street was flooded. The
damage to the Watson hotel alone will
reach $4,000, and othcrlosses are heavy.
Reports from the surrounding country
say small grain is badly damaged.
STORMS CONTINUE IN IOWA
WATERLOO, Ia, June 27.-The floods
at Cherokee abated enough to en-
able many of the occupants of the
houses in the flooded districts TO gain
entrance to them; but the waters arc
now rising. The scenes of de-
struction are appalling. Fifty
houses were wholly swept away
Some OF them were dashed together
and mingled IN a common wreck. In
places substantial buildings were
swept away, while frail buildings
on the same lots escaped. In the
buildings which escaped the wreck the
furniture was found destroyed and
everything covered with black sedi-
ment of mud. The people who are suf.
fercrS by the flood are the poorer class
and laborers, and many of them are
left in destitute circumstances.
Three hundred people arc now being
fed by the relief committee and a large
amount of clothing has also been fur
nished. Friday afternoon a telegram
was received from Cherokee stating
that outside aid will have to be fur
nlshed or many poor people will suffer.
The damage at Cherokee is estimated
at over $4,000
An engineer living in this city, who
has been at the scene of the trouble
since last Wednesday, returned Friday
morning. He left Fort Dodge Wednes-
day morning at Z o'clock, reached Au-
relia at 10 o'clock, and it took from
that time to o'clock in the evening to
run miles. The worst of the storm
was between 8 and 1920. and during
that time rain fell in torrents and the
train had to be stopped several times
until the storm slackened. During
that time the river at Cherokee rose
nearly 8 feet.
From Storm Lake to Cherokee the
country had the appearance of one vast
lake, and not bridge on any of the
country roads can be seen. Large
numbers of houses have hoated down
the river at Cherokee and many an
finals have been seen floating past.
Many OF them were apparently alive
and struggling to reach the shore, but
the force of the current was too much.
The main line of the Illinois Central
is in pretty fair shape as far west as
Aurelia. At Cherokee Hill, however.
there is a washout 200 feet long, and
from Cherokee to Meriden, a distance
OF miles, the track is washed so bad
~ that trains cannot be run over it. A
gravel train was caught in the sandpit
ut Cherokee and two-thirds of the train
is entirely covered with sand, and only
the smokestack of the steam shovel is
visible.
The Cherokee & Dakota branch,
south of Cherokee, has been explored
for distance of only miles, and it
has been found that much of the track
has been carried fully 1000 feet from
the right of way. Thus far no
authentic reports have been re-
ceived from the country dis
tricts for the reason that the farm
ers cannot get to town. The loss of
domestic animals is undoubtedly very
great, and one farmer who managed to
get to Cherokee this morning reported
that 200 cattle had been drowned in his
pasture and that he and his family only
escaped from their house by wading in
the water up to their waists.
Ut the houses that were washed into
the river at Cherokee only two can be
found. These o1e. lodged in the brush
about 2 miles below town. A smiles
walk down the river failed to discover
any of the others: The wagon bridges
on country roads from Storm Lake to
Cherokee are all gone and Cherokee is
accessible only by boat.
The Sioux river is subsiding, but it is
still ~ feet deep and covers
quarter of a mile of country. The nv
erage depth Of the river when in it's
channel is about 4 feet. The work of
clearing away the debris is now in
progress, and aid is being rendered the
unfortunate inhabitants The town of
Neville is still flooded, and not one of
the 200 inhabitants is able to occupy
his house, and all are camping out.
Five'hundred people were rendered
homeless and destitute in Cherokee NV