New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-27
GREAT DAMAGE BY FLOODS.
AN IOWA TOWN ALMOST WIPED OUT
.var TRACTS COVERED BY SEA- OF WATER
LOSS OF LIVESTOCK AND CROPS
RIVERS RISING RAPIDLY.

RIVERS RISING RAPIDLY.
poone. Iowa. June 26.-At the Chicago ana
yo,tbwestern headquarters IN TINS cl'y was IL
, .,ved to-day the first direct news from 'he scene
q the floods in the Maple River oranch Oh the
I'D The dispatch is from the operator at MO
~ "a a~s that town is almost wiped out. The
-.,or rms In at the station windows ana is up
A. tho ceilings of the building. AL the houses III
,he fat portion of the town have peeh swep'
.wav and the railroad turn table is washeu from
,.s n,ace Three miles of track are gone oeoween
Neville and Kingsley; also most oil 'he sn,ai
rs.os o,d the bridge over the Sioux River This
,.s.rrc,,on is now being supplemented by another
s.orro racing at present in the same region ana
.a.d;rc south to the main line OF the Noreh-
eA .- IT, is raining very hard and the s'orm
"a travelling east.
cherokee. Iowa, June 26.-Five hundred peopfe
made homeless and destitute In TINS CITY ny
Tnssdav,s food The resources OF the ciuzehS
hsve been taxed to the utmost 10 neeo on0
"..s.rt rcouirements Of these people, ana OUT
.fsde aid must be given to avert nalu
hin The Mayor, d. II. Bloom, has issued
IN on,ea, 70 the public for old, and has teie-
rranhed 70 the Governor for 100 tents Ooh-
sribu,ions NAV be sent TO Mayor Moom
wa,er,oo. Iowa, June 2s-An Illinois Cen'rai
, conductor who returned to-day from the scehe vi
desolation by the recent floods, reports the iosSeS
~ the people who lived in the track oil ti'e sooi"
AZ almost incredible. The country from 0'Urn' D,
lake TO Cherokee was one vast sea OF "a'er' no
merchants in every town between the V"o pOi"O'
suTercd great loss. ko say nothing of the damage
orons and live stock and the seventy-fve to
100 houses washed away on the bottoms at 0neio,
80 uost of which were the MONIES oi
,.horinr men, These people lost every,
ching barely escaping with their hves anu
scant covering for their backs hunuieus vi
sn;mals were seen in the river floating p"st Ohero
kee Wednesday, and the horses shii eeu " vi.
".su,nonts ~ tleir wrecked barns Hundreds OF
..,tIs bo,s and chickens followed each other at
short intervals The Little Sioux Naiiey' hro"
Cherokee 20 Onawa, is one OF the IarsesV e'o0n
raisiuc regions in Iowa, and when the wafer euo
sides and careful survey of the desela'eo us'ii0'
nar no made the prospect in loss is seen 70 ne
oreat One farmer living south of Cherokee says
that over 200 head Of cattle are missing from MIG
rostnrcs. and he supposed all were lost Another
man named Waugh, an importer of draft horses
=, Cherokee. lost eight valuable animals.
The Illinois Central is also a heavy loser
Snnerintendent Gilcas says that S2oO,o0o VIII
not repair the damage already In sight, anu liz
vestigations have not been pursued luroner '""n
Ave miles on the south branch. apd 'he norm
:. still inaccessible. The company has ioice VI
o0o men at work at the bridge at Cherohee, anu
with no bad luck, temporary STRUCTURE VIII ~
readv for use by Sunday. All wagon-orlugeS OH
,he country roads from Storm Lake 10 |hei'heo
are gone and Cherokee is still ACCESSIBLE oniS "
boat ,r ,o.us4 od-
Fort dodge. Iowa. June 26.-The latest ao-
vices from Cherokee say that the damage oS
A.. sooas ;s crcoter Than at first reported The
Sioux River 10 suhsdng but it is still forty leeo
dse, and covers a quarter of mile OF country.
The average depth of the river when In ls cnanuei
Is about four feet The work Of clearing away
the debris is now in progress, and AID Is oelns
rendered the unfortunate inhaDitahls'
An eyewitness of Tuesdays food, who has ]ust
arrived from Cherokee, says that IL Is hecesS"is
for one to see. 10 have the least ldea OF the
omount of damage done. Why" he exclaimed, Il
is simply wonderful the way that immense oo"S
of water swept things before it. Houses we're
but bubbles ON its crest. i was at Cherokee when
the cloud-burst came and in less time than IL
takes to tell il a flood was upon the town Houses
werc seen to tremble, swing hail arOunu, anu NC
carried along By the torrents. Trees were oehV
and broken like reeds and not thing couid s'op
the terrific onward rush Of the waters; ana
all this occurred before the people could possibly
realize what had happened. The most remark
,be feature of the disaster is that any of the people
IN the track of the flood escaped with their hVeS'
AS far as l know, no lives were lost at Cherokee
and the immediate vicinity. The storm made be-
tween 300 and 400 families homeless IN ana aoou'
Cherokee. These are being CARED for In the
Masonic. G. A. r. and knights of Pythias halls
at Cherokee The Illinois Central lost l2,77'
feet OF road-bed and 9s7 feet of filling This does
not include the bridge taken out over the SlouA
River The amount of damage will reach quarter
Of a million dollars"
Omaha, June 26 (SpeciaD.-A perfect deluge OF
rain fell throughout Nebraska to-day. Railroad
traffic is all suspended in the State. No tram
has moved in here or out of here for the "eS'
tonight. In many places in the State tracks are
under water for miles, making traffic Impossible
The Missouri is raging torrent is rising ias'' m
Is within few feet of the danger nne'
The crop damage is 1ncolculaDle mus Ial I,
Three tornadoes passed over Palmer, Dut oio rlu
little damage III the town. dispatch to Inc Inc
Bee" from Ida Grove, Indiana, says twenty,.nSSs nv
houses are flooded there and the people have peel
Obliged to seek safety and shelter on high groung
Az Az Tane Riyer at wil the highest ever known
Nebraska City, Neb., June ga terrific ram
storm prevailed here this afternoon Cellars ana
houses were flooded the damage aggregatinSg e. sev
down and badly damaged.
St Paul Mimi, June 26.-The sleeper Dickin-
son. the Northern Paclhc tram whlch ielt mere
Rosebud Most. 500 miles west of here, about
80 last night. because Of washout. The
car tipped over in the water sixteen people were
In the car and several were more or less injured,
but none seriously. Among the numoer were tle
Temperance orator. Francis Murphy and VIE oil
Pitsburg Mrs. William Toole and son; Hamilton,
ontario: T. W. Sheclx aud wife, Portland, Ore /;
Major Frederic r. Scott and daughter, Richmond
Va; A s. Wiley. Detroit Mich; George j. Mon.
I9e trowsbaw' 1U ~ London England; E. Benunghoven
Chicago Sidney Ashmun. New-fork.
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