The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-02
FLOOD LOSSES.
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The Aggrogato In Five States IL $751;
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q est Sufferers. s.:
New YORK. May 2s.-Special advices
to Bradstreet's from regions affected
more seriously by floods point to an ag-
gregate loss in five states of $32, O0O, 900,
which includes damage to railway
property. destruction of or damage to
levees, to farm buildings, machin-
cry, live stock and crops, as well as loss
on other property. Louisiana and Ar
kansas have lost less in this respect
than has been reported, and Illinois
and Missouri probably more. Losses
in Iowa and Kansas have been greatly
exaggerated.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, May 2S.-The
story of food, suffering and destruc-
ton in the valleys of the White and
Arkansas rivers has not been half told.
There is not a thousand acres of dry
soil left in Desha county. The towns
of Hollendel, Chicot City, Red
Fork and Pendleton have been
wiped off the earth, and not living
being is ut any of them. All have been
rescued and are now on high ground,
but actually starving, SO difficult of &C.
cess are they to the relief steamers.
All the big plantat tons for 40 miles in
the Arkansas valley are utterly ruined.
The first batch of mail in six DAYS
from Benton county was received here
Thursday. 1t relates the story of the
most appalling disaster that ever &C.
Cured in north Arkansas. The water
spout which visited the suburbs of ST.
loan Springs last Friday resulted in
the loss of three lives and the destruc-
.tion of property worth 100000.
about $50 o'clock in the even
ing the rain began to fall and by 1890
o'clock all the low land in the town
was submerged by water, which swept
everything in its course. At Hico, an
eastern suburb of Sloan Springs,
nine buildings were washed away,
and Mrs. Martin and her six
children, as their dwelling went
to pieces, hung to the limbs
OF trees until they were rescued. All
the lower portion of the town was
swept away. When the waterspout
struck DIR. Swallows house the mem
bers of the family, being very old, had
retired for the night. 1t bore down all
resistance, taking the doctor and his
wife and mother down the stream
and drowning them. DIR. Swallow
was Frenchman and had retired from
business. He leaves a daughter and a
son in Kansas. His property consisted
of several thousand dollars in notes,
$500 in cash and a beautiful residence,
all of which were swept away by the
flood.
AS the river falls the terrible work of
the flood is plainly seen here. Dozens
OF valuable farms are ruined, the water
washing out bitches on some and on
others leaving sand ranging from to 5
feet in depth. All fencing has been
carried away. No estimate of the loss
can as yet be made. 1t will run far up
into the thousands. The work of re-
lieving the sufferers continues, but re-
ports of half-starved people are still
being received. The river is still
falling.
SHREVEPORT, La. May 2s.-Three crev-
asses occurred Friday below the city
in the same levee. inundating a large
tract of the finest farming land in the
world. The water poured through the
breaks with roar that could be heard
for miles. The loss by the three breaks
will be not less than 100000. Three
million dollars will scarcely cover the
loss to property and crops in the upper
Red river valley by this years floods
Sioux CITY, Ia, May 2s.-The body of
c. NJ. Vaux, the ninth victim of the
floods, was recovered Friday afternoon
from the debris near the Sioux City &
Northern bridge.