The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-07-09
WIPED OUT BY FLOOD.
HUNDREDS OF HOUSES WASHED
:AWAY OR RUINED.

People Camping Out In the F,elds-street,
Six Foot Under water--Rai,ro.,
Bridges. Culyerts and Miles OF Trac,,
Como.
SIOUX CITY Iowa, June 26.-Rain con.
t'nued to fall all last night, and is still
coming down at noon today. The work
OF repairing railroads and teleyra,b
wires is much delayed IN consequence
The greatest destruction by the floods
was confined to an area of fifty miles In
extent, directly east Of this place. Most
OF The reports sent out thus far have been
pure conjecture, as the roads are impas-
sable and the telegraph wires have been
useless. Communication with Cherokee
has just been opened by the Western
Union, which has one wire WORKING
slowly to Sioux Falls, S d.
Cherokee was the centre of the storm
and the place where most of the damage
was done. The first authentic news from
that place was received at 3 O'Clock this
afternoon. No lives were lost at that
place. Fifty houses were washed away.
however, and a great many were shifted
from their foundations, while cyerv
bridge and culvert in the county Is
washed out. Several miles of the iii.
nois Central tracks are gone, and the
road will be unable to resume operations
for three or four days.
Advices from Correctionvlle saw that
the place is yet under water. At Aure-
liza the water stood six feet deep in the
streets yesterday, but is slowly going
down today. The valley of small
creek running into the Little Sioux at
Cherokee was the only outlet for the
water during the storm, and every house
nearly one houndred in number-was
swcnt away.
The town of Maville was nearly wlped
out by the flood. Out of about iifty
houses only one is left standing. The
people are encamping out in the fields.
WATERLOO, Ia, June 2G.-Conduc-
tor Dengy, of the Fort Dodge relief
train, just arrived tonight from the
Hooded districts, says from Storm Lake
to Cherokee the country resembles a
vast lake. Bodies of horses, cattle and
| other animals are visible in every direc-
ton, floating on the water. One farm.
er lost 200 head of cattle from his pas.
ture. Reports that four persons we're
drowned arc not correct. The damage
to Illinois Central is now estimated at
$500, 900. For hundred families are now
homeless and little aid can reach them
before Sunday.
OMAHA, June 2G.--The very heavens
seemed to have opened and perfect de-
luge of water has been falling since s
O'Clock this morning. The newly grad
Ell streets are washed out, and thous-
ands o. dollars have been lost by the
cloudburst. Not train has arrived IN
the city since morning, and none of the
Union Pacific and Elkhorn since yester.
day. Telegraph wires have gone down
and the lightning has played havoc with
the electric lights. Owing to the bad
condition o. the wires but little can be
heard from the interior of the State. A
tornado and water-spout at Palmer,
while 1t did little damage III the town,
entirely demolished crops in the sur
rounding country. At Dodge the river
rose seven feet in an hour and drowned
large amount of stock in the stock
yards there.
OMAHA, June 2G.-Rain fell continu-
ously from O'Clock this morning until
& O'Clock this evening. Considerable
eastern parts of the city. In the vicini-
ty Of the old North Omaha creek the
streets are flooded to depth of from
two to five feet and the water is uu TO
The windows of the first floors of hun. |
dreds OF residences. Street car traffic in
that section Of the city is abandoned. |
East Omaha is almost all under water. |
but the overllowed section Is not thick |
ly populated, and comparatively little
damage was done. a cloud-burst oc-
CURED this afternoon at MIllard. twenty
miles from Omaha, on the Union Paci-
Ec, and inundated the track for half q
mile. The washOuts on the Elkhorn
Railroad, which had been repaired, were
washed out again today. The heaviest
ram Tor years fell at Nebraska CITY to-
day. The streets and collars were tlotd-
ed and great damage done.
SIOUX CITY. Iowa, June 2G.-Re-
ports were received today at the Chicago
and Northwestern offices from the Hood
ed districts on the Maple River branch
OF the road. The town of Mavllle is al
most wiped out. The water reached the
second story of the houses, and every
building in the lower part of the town
was swept away. Three miles of rail-
road track between Maville and Kings
ley, are gone. The bridge over the Sioux
and most OF the small bridges were car
ricd away.
Another storm set in this afternoon in
the same district, and is still raging.
The storm extends south to the main
line OF the Northwestern. Trains on the
main line of the Northwestern are still
running, but the Milwaukee and ST. Paul
cannot get 20 Sioux City.
DENVER, COL, June 2G.-Reports
Just received show that the storm of
Wednesday and Thursday was unusual
ly severe. Wednesday cloud burst oc-
Cured near Box Elder, doing great dam.
age and running crops. Thursday O cy-
clone wrecked several houses and caus.
ed injury to several persons.
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