The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-07-02
LEFT A TRAIL OF RUIN.
WORK OF lowA's GREAT STORM

The Destruction Of ife and Property
Greater than First Repatriation Lives
Known to Have Been deterioration
at CherOkee-Livo Stock Carried Away
by the Flood.
Late telegraphic dispatches indicate
that tho storm in the northwestern
counties of Iowa was more severe than
at first reported. A dispatch from
Waterloo says 100 houses at Cherokee
were washed away. and everything is in
the widest confusion.
The same is trnc at Core ctionvillo
and no word by telegraph can tic re-
ceived from there. 1t is now known.
though, that s.X persons met their death
in the country around about Correction
vile, and the number is reported in
creased tC eight
Houses, barns and outhouses were re-
ported floating in the Little Sioux past
Cherokee 4 day. No one knows where
they came from, but they are presumed
to be from Sutherland
Aurclius, II ne mics east of Cherokee,
reports storm clouds gathering in tho
vicinity of Cherokee a2a n. An Illinois
Central work train has succeeded in
reach ng POINT alb nut one IN east Of
Cherokee, further ! rogress being barred
by vast cXpanse of water stretching as
far as the eye can reach. 1t is feared
there will be adde to the present suffer-
ines o. citizens the pangs of hunger.
All the surplus stock of rr3visi' MS was
destroyed by the food. and the town is
now as rtfrc.ualiy isolate from the rest
of the We rid as though no railroads were
in existence.
Says Sioux City dispatch: Reports
n n1f arfnr nF
ccdentcd high water in the streams, in
jury TO railroad property. loss of bridges,
and destruction of crops a'ong tho
rivers. ! he Floyd River is out OF its
banks and people have been compelled
to make hasty departures to higher
ground.
The following additional particulars
of the Food at Cherokee were received
this morning: The wagon bridge over
the Sioux south of the town went out
about 10 o'clock Tuesday night. This
was followed by all the houses on tho
fiat in that part of the town. numbering
over one hundred. The number of pco-
pc driven from their homes was between
twelve and fifteen hundred. The river
continued to rise until 3 o'clock. at that
time being ten feet higher than was ever
before known.
The destruction of properly alone in
Cherokee is about 100000. B sides.
almost all of the stock pastured along
the Sioux were carried away by the
food, only few animals being saved as
they came down the river. Yesterday
al passenger trains were stopped at
Storm Lake,
The food in the Floyd River which
came past LeMars and Merrill yesterday.
doing great damage in the country,
reached her early this morning and the
river rose about twelve feet One humid
red and fifty houses in the valley are
| partially submerged and the families
| have move out to the hills The Laral
| stove works. shoe factory. -four mill aud
foundry iii the suburbs Of the town are
| closed.
A man in from Mo'vil!c, eighteen
miles east Ct here. reports that tho
| whole town vas >wros -w,y aud G;:ly
| one house was untouched.
A heavy flood came down Willow
Creek. entering the Floyd River mi Q
ABOVE this place. says telegram from
lie Mars The bottom land along the
| river was at once a raging TORI. mt near.
| ly mi wide. The ficoI washed out
| over a mile Of cmbankmcnt twenty feet
| high on the ii inoi> Central tracks mi c
east of lie Mars. where Willow Creek
| runs under the railroad.
| Crops on the bottoms were entirely dc
| stroycd. Hundreds of head of cattle and
| horses were found swimming in theil
pastures and were rescued by mel il
| boats
| The food is the highest ever known
| here. The water came down from Tho
| Sutherland storm, the larger part of il
having gone on the other side Of the di
| vide to Cherokee. Mails were delayed
thirty-siX hours. 1t will take Scyrra
days to fix up the Illnai: Central from
| here to Cherokee.