Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-04
OMAHA DELuGED.
streets and Pavements Washed Out and
Utterly Ruined-Additional Facts About

Streets and Pnvements Washed Ont and
Utterly Ruined-Additional Facts About
the Iowa Flood.
OMAMA, Neb,, June 27.-The very
heavens seemed to have opened and
perfect deluge of water h as been fall
ing since s o'clock yesterd ay morning.
The newly graded streets are washed
out, sewers have bursted and pavements
washed out and thousands of dollars
have been lost by the cloud burst. Not
q train has arrived in the city since yes
terday morning, and none on the Union
Pacific and Elkhorn since Thursday
Telegraph wires have gone down and
the lightning has played havoc with the
electric lines Owing to the bad con-
dition of the wires but little can be
heard from the interior of the state.
Considerable damage was done in the
northern and eastern parts of the city
In the vicinity of the old North Omaha
creek the streets are flooded to depth
of from two to five feet, and the water
is up to the windows of the first floors
of hundreds of residences. Street car
traffic in that section Of the city is
abandoned. East Omaha is almost all
under water but the overfowed section
is not thicl<ly populated, and compare
lively little damage was done.
A cloud burst occurred yesterday af-
ternoon at Millard, twenty miles from
Omaha, on the Union Pacific and inun-
dated the track for nearly half a mile.
The washout near Central City has been
repaired and the overland trains which
had been delayed there since Thursday
morning passed over the break and
reached Omaha last evening. The wash.
outs on the Ellihorn road which had
been repaired, were washed out again
yesterday.
A tornado and waterspout at Palmer
did little damage in the town, but en-.
tirely demolished cropsin the surround
ing country. At Dodge the river rose
seven feet in an hour and drowned a
large amount of stock in the stock
yards there
SIOUX CITY, Ia, June 27.-Further re-
ports here place the loss at Sutherland
by the storm at $4,000 to buildings
alone. Seventy miles of the Centrafs
tracks are submerged in water. The
loss will reach 100000, but it will take
many days to repair it. The loss of the
Chicago & Northwestern will be fully
as great as the Illinois Centrals. Ad-
vices from Correctionville says that the
place is still under water. AT Auralia
the water stood six feet deep in the
streets Thursday, but went down slow
ly yesterday. 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 100 in number were swept away.
WATERLOO, Ia, June 27.-Conductor
Dengy, of the Fort Dodge relief train,
arrived last night from the flooded dis
tricts He says that from Storm Lake
to Cherokee the country resembles a
vast lake. Bodies of horses, cattle and
other farm animals are visi BILE in every
direction floating on the water. One
farmer lost 200 head of ca tile from his
pasture. Reports that four persons
were drowned is not correct. The dam
age to the Illinois Central is now esti-
mated at 100000. Four hundred fami-
lies are now homeless and little aid can
reach them before Sunday.