Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-06-25
THE FLOODS IN iowa.
SeriOus Trouble Feard With
Arizona Indians.
CLADSTONES HEALTH CRITICAL
Gould's Narrow Escape, ParneIl
Married, Eaten by a Bear, Want
Better Beef, State and Foreign
News, Etc.
THE IOWA STORMS.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mlnn.j June 10
A special to the Tribune from Sioux
City, Iowa, says:
The terrible rains of Tuesday
night and yesterday morning have
almost devastated this portion OF
iowa. No roads are running trains
from this city east. Floyd river
valley is inundated for tbirty-fve
miles north of this city. Many
houses in Lemars are flooded over
their first floors, while the towns Of
Merrill, Hinton and James are in
worse condition. Thirty-hve
miles of track on each Of the Illinois
Central, Chicago, st. Paul and Kan
sas City, Minneapolis and Omaha
and Sioux City and Northern, are
flooded nortn Of this city, with bad
washouts at Lemars. Little Sioux
river bottom at Cherokee is entirely
inundated and thousands of acres
are under water. The water at
Cherokee carried away many houses.
On the Central Iowa branch, 900
feet of track were carried out. On
the Sioux Falls branch, seven bridges
are washed away. Chicago and
Northwestern tracks ia Sioux valley
are out for over half a mile at Suth-
erland. The same road is also
washed out at Carroll. AT Merrill,
about eight miles from this city,
Floyd river rose fifteen feet in three
hours, and the flood is sweeping
through Floyd river valley toward
this city, and devastating hundreds
of acres of crops. The manufacture
ing towns of Leeds, Lynn and
Lewiston are in its course, and Will
soon be submerged, causing thou
sands of dollars of damage. Hun
dreds of families on Floyd river flats
in this city are moving out onto
higher grounds, The railroad COM
panies have abandoned yards and
shops, and engines, cars, and all
kinds of material have been removed
] to higher ground. Stock in Union
and Central stock yards, packing
houses, railroad shops, and many
houses will be partially under water,
and great damage done. Wires
east and north of here are all down.
WATERLOO, Iowa, June 25.-Re-
ports continue to be received con-
firmatory of the disastrous storms
and floods along the Illinois Central.
Cherokee was visited by another
storm uastnrdnJI hil >Slis@atrneHs
Central bridge, about 250 feet long,
across Little Sioux atCherokee, went
down under the rush of the flood,
together with several houses in the
lower part of town. Reports of the
drowning of four persons at Chero.
kee and four at Correctionyile are
confirmed by dispatch from Super
intendent Giles of the Iowa division,
who is at the scene of the disaster.
CHEROKEE, Iowa, June 25.-The
terrors of the Johnstown flood were
in part repeated in this place yester-
day. Seventy-five houses were
carried out of sight in the Niagara
like torrent. How many lives were
lost Is yet a matter of uncertainty.
A terrific cloud-burst, thrice re-
peated, and wind almost hurrl-
cane, are what consummated the
dread work.
The storm appears to have swept
in vast circle of Northwestern
Iowa, fully one hundred miles in
diameter, with Cherokee as the
center. Up to 1890 last night,
owing to the destruction of wires
and railroads, only the most vague
reports have reached here from the
devastated territory to the north and
south. The damage is enormous.
Most of the destruction in Cherokee
was wrought by an extraordinary
downpour Of water from the sky.
The flood carried of, apparently
effort, the big truss bridge
on the Illinois Central, and with the
bridge went forty feet of trestle APP {
proach, The Little Sioux is at the !
highest stage ever known. The best !
Information indicates that the Him Z
Dis Central rails are under water .
continually for many miles ON the /
)nawa branch, and the havoc both l
o the road and bridges is something
eldom paralleled in railroad history.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, June 22.-Ad- :
litional particulars of the flood at !,
Iherokee indicate that II Is the
worst ever known. 1t is stated that
hundreds of houses were washed !.
'way, rendering from twelve to
fifteen hundred families homeless.
Reports are coming from all quarters
If unprecedentedly high water in
streams, injury to railroad property,
oss of bridges and destruction of
crops along the rivers, The water
Is recedlng this morning, The de-
of property in Cherokee
alone is said TO be about 500, 900
besides almost all stock pasture.
No further loss of life is reported
at Cherokee beyond the four whose
has been already noted,
Possibly eight persons lost their
lives around Correotionville.
WArERLoo, la, June 25.-Chero-
see is shut ia by vast expanse Of
water and great suffering is feared
rs all the surplus stock of provisions