Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-05-08
BIG FLOODS NILLINOIS,
Indiana, Missouri and Michigan, Do
Serious Damage.
LEVEES BREAK, LETTING WATER
From the Illinois and Fox Rivers Spread Over the
Low Lands Of Illinois, Flooding Thousands Of
Acres and Impsrilling Many Families.
Rock Island Shut Out From the World.

giving way OF the great marsh dlKe,
fifteen miles long, and protecting
strip of bottom land about two miles
wide.
The first break was at point opposite
Pekin last night. The crevasse was
about 600 feet wide and increased rapid
ly as the Illinois river had reached
stage not exceeded since 1874, The
twenty families living in the bottom,
possessed a considerable amount OF live
stock which, with the houses and Jarm-
ing implements have been lost in the
angry waters.
Rescuing parties have been out in the
Lamarsh drainage district all night,
and have found six of the twenty fami-
lies. They have been over the entire
district and do not know whether the
remaining families are safe or not. The
damage will rach very large figure, no
estimate of which can yet be made
The destruction is complete, and there
is a scene of the verieSt desolation.
The river continues to rise rapidly
and this evening registered over 21 feet,
the highest point reached in nearly a
half century. There are fully 500
people homeless in this city and between
here and Pekin.
The worst destruction is at Lamarsh
drainage district, which IS now under
fifteen feet of water. 1t continued TO
pour through the crevasse in the dyke
all night, all the time increasing the
break which is now over a thousand
feet in length.
The rescuing party was kept out all
night and by daylight had accounted
for all the thirty families living in the
district with a single exception, George
Nichols and family resided at the lower
end of the district and it is not known
what has become of them.
Men are still searching for them.
Nearly all the houses in the inundated
region are threatened with complete
destruction. The driftwood and debris
is piling up against them in huge guam
titles.
The household goods have all been
fioated off and the rescued are in bad
shape. Small houses along the river
bank in this city have been carried
away and the owners are occupying
tents.
The commissioners Of Lamarsh hold
the railroad responsible for it. They
claim that had the dyke been con-
structed OF dirt instead of sand, no
trouble would have occurred.
OTTAWA, Ills, May AT S o'clock
this evening the rivers Fox and Illinois
had dropped four feet from high water
mark. All manufacturing institutions
in the glass districts are ready to re-
sumo and will starts tomorrow and
Monday. The individual losses to pri-
vate concerns and individuals and man
ufacturies will swell the amount to pos
sibly $1,000 more.
The Pioneer Fire Proof Construction
Co.. of Ottawa, will suffer loss OF over
$4,000.
The De La Chappele Chimney House
will add $4,000 more TO the list and
each of the window houses will be
losers to the extent Of from $1,000 to
So, 900.
Rock ISLAND, ILL, May Rock
Island has not seen passenger or
freight train from the east on the Rock
Island railway since Wednesday night,
and the mails from the east have been
few since that time.
This is all on account Of the washouts
between here and Bureau. Trains are
scattered all along the tracks between
here and the flooded portions. 1t is the
longest period of the suspension OF
traffic in the history Of the road.
GOSHEN, IND, May THE Elkhart
river is higher then ever before known
and is still rising. 1t is now half way
I'D the temporary embankments which
had been placed on the approach to the
dam, and grave fears are entertained as
to the latters safety.
The Cincinnati, Wabash and Michi-
gan bridge was moved by the water,
and the Michigan branch Of the Lake is
in such condition that no trains will be
run for three or four days. Many fac
tories have their lower floors flooded.
All the factories are shut down on ac-
count OF high water, throwing a large
number Of men out OF employment
At Hammond, the rains have swollen
the Grand Calumet river to such an ex-
tent that the fats are completely in
undated. The farming country in the
neighborhood of the Little Calumet
river is also under water.
SOUTH BEND, IND, May THE st.
Joseph river has reached a dangerous
height and is doing great damage. Fac
tories dependent upon water power are
all idle, most OF them being three feet
under water. The west apron OF the
dam here has been swept away, and as
it 1oated down the river it nearly
wrecked the Water street bridge.
FLINT, Mich, May This part OF
the State has been visited by heavy
rains lately. Last nights fall was so
great that Flint river is flooded and Sc
rious damage is looked for. The Flint P.
Smith Lumber Co.'S boom gave way aud
about three million feet OF Norway pine
logs went rushing down stream. The
loss will be heavy.
ALEXANDRIA. Mo-, May This city
has been flooded by the breaking OF the
Egyptian levee, which skirts the Des
Moipes river. The local rains
caused a heavy raise in that
turbulent stream aud despite all efforts
to save il, the waters broke over and
rushed across the fields OF wheat and
meadows, doing incalculable damage.
Reaching Alexandria, the place was
soon flooded and people were driven
from their homes.
New Building Association.
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CHARLESTON. w. VA, May THE