Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-05-11
81 GODS CONTINUE.


Situation Mt New Orleans Most Alarming
Reports From Other Points.
New ORLEANS, May 1.-THE river is
booming higher and higher. The situa-
ton, which was bad yesterday, is now
growing worse and worse hourly. 1t is
most alarming The river here is with
in an inch of the highest point ever
known-that of March, 1S90-and below
here everything is flooded, the levees be-
ing lower.
In this city the levees have been
strengthened and raised by the levees
board, yet, Notwithstanding this, the
water overlooked into Canal street.
Government workers at Mor9anza re-
port the levee intact. So far no break
has occurred in the levees above here &C
cordinR to their reports.
ST. JOSEPH, NO., May 1I.-Authentic
reports of the damage done in Buchanan
and Andrew counties by the rains have
been received.
In Buchanan county the damage to
growing crops, fences and buildings will
reach $50, 1000.
Farmers and their families are still
encamped in the hills, where they were
compelled to flee with all their live
stock.
All farm work has been entirely
abandoned, growing crops have been de-
stroyed, and, unless the rain ceases and
bright weather ensues, the loss will be
incalculable.
The train service out of the city has
been demoralized for a week past, many
of the roads giving up all attempts to run
trains.
Yesterday, for the first time since Fri
day, a train came in over the Hopkins
branch of the Burlington road, but the
Charlton branch is still closed.
Onthe main line of the Kansas City,
ST. Joseph and Council Bluffs passengers
have been sent frem Charlton to Red
Oak, Iowa, to get to Kansas City, the
line between Langdon and Bigelow being
kins branch of the Kansas City, St.
Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad the
flood is the worst that has been known
for many years. The valleys on either
side of the One Hundred and Two River
from Hopkins south to Barnard have
been under water for more than q week.
At Oregon, Mo-, the Nodaway River is
two and half miles wide and much
stock is perishing. The Missouri river
bottom is also full of water. The mail
from Mound City to Bigelow is being
carried in boat. Railroad traffic is
more or less delayed all along the line
and at some points is wholly abandoned.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, May ia severe
wind and rain storm passed over this
section Monday night. A number of
fences and small cabins were blown down
here.
Ten miles below this city on the Ar
kansas river two-story house was blown
fifty feet and overturned in the river
Several persons were in the building at
the time and it is supposed they were
drowned.
At Morrillton, fifty miles from this
city, the Catholic church and monastery
were blown down and totally demol-
ished.
It is reported here that four men were
fatally injured in the wreck.
The damage will exceed SIS, 900.
Reports from parts of Arkansas, Ten
nessee and Mississippi are to the effect
that the rain has been general and in
cessant for twenty-four hours, and that
much anxiety is felt by planters.
OMAHA, Neb.. May 11.-Never has
Nebraska experienced such q downpour
of rain as in the past SO hours. The
river is rising rapindly and already GU t
Of its banks and flooding the bottom land.
Reports from all along the line of the
Omaha roads tell of rain and snow in
the Black Hills and in Western Nebraska
and cloudiness all the way to Salt Lake.
All trains are late and a number of
washouts are reported, though no acct
dent is reported.
There is a washout between Beatrice
and Lincoln on the Union Pacific branch
and the Rock Island main line trains
are using the Burlington tracks. Snow
has fallen in Western Nebraska, rang
ing in depth from IL inches in the north
western to 2 inches in the southwestern
portion of the State.
LOUISIANA, Mo-, May 1.-THE raging
Mississippi has reached the danger point
at this city, and after a lapse of several
years again threatens inundation to the
large and fertile Sny bottom of Pike
County, ILL.,, opposite this city.
The Sny levee, which alone prevents
the big river from destroying thousands
of acres of wheat and driving hundreds
of farmers from their homes, is now in
serious danger from the continued rise
in the river.
The strong east wind of the last two
days has driven the waves and drift to
the Missouri side, and has materially as
sisted in preventing break in the
levees, but if the rise continues another
twenty-four hours andlthe wind shifts to
the west. disaster will be the result.
TOLEDO, O., May 1.-THE Maumee is
higher than was ever known before, ex-
cept at. the foods caused by ice gorges
in 1883 and 1881. Parts of buildings,
trees, fence rails, dead cattle, hogs, sheep,
and general debris came down yesterday.
Reports tell of extensive devastation at
Defiance, Antwerp, Napoleon, Fort
Wayne, Maumee and Perrysburg, Mar
engo Island. Perrysburg. where are
many summer cottages, was nearly
covered, and six or seven houses have
been carried away.