Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-09
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. RIVERS STILL RISING. Bridges and Dams Are in
 Danger. THE COMING WEEK IN CONGRESS. William Astor to be Buried
 Thursday. MORE ABOUT THE READING DEAL. The Chesterfield Syna-
 gOgue Dedicated.
MORE ABOUT THE READING DEAL.
A RAGING TORRENT.

A RAGING TORRENT.
 Thousands of People Visit the In.
 undated Districts fin Peoria-Cattle
 Pens a Foot Under Water-NIany
 Houses Washed Away-Extensive
 Devastation i'm Fort Wayne-Fac-
 tories In Danger in South Bend. | PEORIA, H., May S.-Thousands of peo-
 pie to-day visited the inundated districts
 surrounding this city. The river is still a
 raging torrent with roar that can be
 heard for long distance. This morning
 it registered twenty-one feet and seven
 inches, rise of seven inches in twenty
 four hours. It is believed the river will
 not rise much more, but the strong wind
 which prevails is dashing the water 80
 fusiously against the bank that many
 bridges are liable to be washed out. The
 railroad companies have large forces at
 work guarding against this.
 1 The cattle pens of the lower sugar works, in which thousands of head are fed daily, is foot under water and unless | the water quickly subsidies the cattle must 1 be removed The dam at Henry, forty l miles above, threatens to go out and should | it do so the devastation along the river will be appalling. In the Lamarsh dis trict the destruction continues. Many l houses have been foated off or dashed to pieces by the driftwood, and by the time the water goes out nothing will be left ex- cept debris. The residents have lost ev- erything they had. Several warehouses here are surrounded by water and threaten | every minute to be carried away.
 EXTENSIVE DEvAsrAT1oN
 FoRT WAYNE, Ind, May 5.-Reports of St. Joseph, St. Mary and Maumee rivers continue to come in. Not less than five hundred farms on the lowlands were over flowed; and great deal of timber that was cut for the mills went down the stream. Louis Isaby, farmer, living on the banks of the Maumee four miles below FortWayne lost all his horses, cows, hogs and sheep in the flood beside several acres of cord wood. No human lives were lost, as the riee was gradual, giving all a chance to escape While the river is still high above its banks the waters are receding, and if the weather remains fair the danger is over. The families who moved out of their houses on the lands of Fort Wayne cannot be induced to move back.
 SCORES OF FACTORIES IN DANGER.
 SOUTH BEND, Ind, May S.-The high water caused great excitement here yester- day and tonight. Friday night the water reached high mark. Towards morning it rose several inches, and scores of facto- ries were in danger. Hundreds of men worked all last night and all to-day moving goods to places of safety, while others la bored to save the entertainments. Early this 1or h0r, ,t0VJ h S1 and tore out portion of the apron. It passed under the bridges without straining the piers. At Bertrand house struck the bridge and carried section of it just as Frank O. Nippold was crossing in bug gy. The horse and buggy were lost, but Nippold swan ashore, greatly exhausted. The water has receded somewhat.
 THE SITUATION IN KEoKUK.
 KEoKUK, Iowa, May S.-The situation between this city and Quincy is slightly improved, the water falling considerably to-day. Several freight trains were run over the St. Louis, Keokuk and North western road to, day, and passenger trains will be resumed tomorrow. There has not been any change for the worse at Alex andria. The wind is blowing gale to- night and may cause further damage. \ THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
 BURLINGTON, Ia May S.-The Mississip- pi river has spread out over many miles of low1ands on the Illinois side. It is thought the flood will begin to fall tonight. The Burlington railroad officials have about succeeded in getting their traffic business strengthened out.
 OVERLOOKED STREAMS IN KANSAS. KANSAS C1rY, Mo-, May S.-A heavy rain has been falling since midnight last night and accounts are coming from all over western Missouri and eastern Kan sas of overfowed streams. In some local ities towns have been flooded and some damage is reported to dwellings. The floods came so suddenly in other districts that the farmers had no time to prepare for it and much of their stock has been | drowned and washed away. Growing ! crops have been badly damaged and thou sands of fields must be replanted. In Sa- line county, Mo-, all the streams are re- l ported out of their banks and the whole | country has been turned into lake. Some houses have been washed away and much stock has been lost. Along the Platte river and the One Hundred and Two river the country has been inun- dated and houses and barns destroyed. | III LlVinRCou, druuuy Anu mercoT coun'ieo l the Grand river and it's tributaries have flooded the whole country, and the district from Chillicothe to the Iowa line is one
 sea. All the crops have been washed out
 for miles throughout the Grand river val
 ley and much stock has been lost. All
 the railroads in the district have been
 more or less damaged. Traffic is greatly
 delayed and in some cases it has been
 abandoned. The Wabash bridge here is
 strained out of line so that no trains can
 pass over.
 MANY BRIDGES WASHED AWAY. l In Oklahoma a steady rain has been fall ing twenty four hours and half the stream
 in the territory are out of their banks.
 Many bridges have been washed away.
 Nearly all the overland mails have been
 abandoned. The Santa Fe has suffered