Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-27
THE IOWA FLOODS.

one Town Almost Wiped Out-An-
other Storm experimenting the De-
structiOn.
BOONE, Ia, June 26.-To-day was re-
ceived the first direct news from the scene
of floods in the Maple river branch of the
Northwestern road. The dispatch is from
the operator at Neville, and says that
town is almost wiped out. The water ran
in through the depot windows and is up
to the ceiling of the buildings. All the
houses in the fiat portion of the town have
been swept away, and the railroad turn
table is washed from its place. Three
miles of track are gone between Neville
and Kingsley, also most of the small
bridges and the bridge over the Sioux
river. The destruction is now being sup
plemented by another storm raging at
present in the same vicinity and extend
ing south to the main line of the North
western. 1t is raining hard and the storm
is travelling east.
Fort DODGE, Iowa, June 26.-Advices
from Cherokee say that hundreds of head
of stock have been lost. Two miles of
track of the Illinois Central has been
washed out between Cherokee and Sioux
City, and it will take a week to repair the
damage. The Sioux river is subsiding, but
| it is still forty feet deep and covers a quar-
ter of mile of country. The town of
Neville is flooded and not one of the 200
inhabitants is able to occupy their houses
| and are camping out.
FORT DODGE, Iowa, June 26.-An eye
witness of Tuesdays food, who has Just
| arrived from Cherokee, states that it is
| necessary to see to appreciate the damage
.'It is simply terrible the way the water
| swept. was at Cherokee when the cloud
burst came, and in less time than it takes
to tell it a flood was upon the town.
Houses were seen to tremble, swing round
and be carried around by the torrents.
| Trees were bent and broke like reeds, and
not thing could stop the terrific onward
rush of the water and all this
occurred before the people could
possible realize what had happened. The
| most remarkable feature of the disaster is
that any of the people in the track of the
food escaped with their lives. AS far as
know no lives were lost at Cherokee and
the immediate vicinity. The storm ren-
dered between three and four hundred
| families homeless in and about Cherokee.
The Illinois Central lost IL, TT feet of road.
bed. This does not includge the bridge
taken out over the Sioux river. The
amount of damage will reach a quarter of q
million dollars.
| S1OUx CITY, June SO.-furtner reports
place the loss at Uppe1land at SIS, 900, to
buildings. The loss will reach 500, 1000
but it will take many days to repair it
The loss of the Chicago and Northwestern
will be fully as great as the Illinois Cen
trail. Advices from Correctionville say
the place is yet under water. At Aurelit
the water stood six feet deep in the streets
but is slowly going down to-day. Thu
valley of a small creek running into tn,
Little Sioux at Cherokee was the only out
let for the water during the storm, and
every house, nearly fourteen in number
were swept away.
OMAHA, June 26.-Considerable damage
was done in Omaha by the storm, which
ragged all day and did not cease until even
ing. East Omaha was badly flooded and
thickly populated section of the northern
part of the city was inundated From
J Clark street north on Twenty-fourth stree
the water is two to six feet deep in tn
street and street car traffic is abandoned
The police and fire departments sent
| force of men to the inundated street t
rescue the distressed people and their ef
fects. No lives were lost, but there wer
several narrow escapes. Several washout
are reported on branch lines of the Bul
lington and Elkhorn, causing the abandon
! ment of the trains. The break on tn
: Union Pacific at Central City has been re
! paired and the overland trains which ha
= been delayed since Thursday mornin
' | reached Omaha tonight.