Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-20
FLOODS IN IOWA.
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DEs MONIES, May 19.-The.Des Moines
river rose three feet during the night,
and is still rising. The city water works
are surrounded. There is great danger
that the city's water supply will be cut
off.
At Duncomb, five miles south, the
stucco mills are flooded, the occupants
fleeing for their lives.
Reports from the country are contra
dictory, but enough is known to say the
loss of livestock and other property is
enormous. There are indications that
many persons have been drowned. The
situation in, the Little Sioux valley is
serious, but not 90 bad az that in the
Floyd valley. Reports from there place
the loss of life at Is to 100.
THE DIES MONIES STILL RISING.
Dies MONIES. Ia, May 1S.-The river
has risen ten inches since this morning,
and is still rising. All the lowlands are
under water. Hundreds of houses are
abandoned. North of the city the river
is several miles wide, sweeping through
farms and residences with terrific force.
Central place, south of Des MoineB, the
packing house district, is all under
water. The railroad tracks and bridges
are in great danger. The sewers are
filed with backwater. The cellars in
the business portion of the city are full
of water. The damage has been enor-
mons already.
From the country come reports of
stock drowned and planted fields ruined.
The indications are that the river will
rise much higher. Some predict two
feet more. This will food the lower
business portion Of the city.
No loss of life has occurred here.
LOSSES AT SIOUX CITY.
Sioux Cry, Iowa, May lathe Floyd
river is subsiding, and rough estimate
of the loss from yesterdays flood is pos
sible. The loss Of life will reach TWEEN.
ty-fve, and perhaps it may be higher.
A number of persons are reported miss
ing. Three bodies were recovered today,
those of A. G.. Anderson, wife and baby.
The stock yards company estimate
their loss at from $450,000 to
$500.000. The loss in houses
furniture and stocks of goods
in the flooded district will aggregate
$3.50, 900, and the damage to the city
pavements, etc., will amount to 800,
900. The street railways are also con-
siderable losers, but the railroads are
the greatest individual losers. Up the
Floyd for twenty miles the Sioux City
and Northwestern, and Illinois Central
tracks were washed out or damaged
The loss to the Terminal company and
all the railroad companies is estimated
at from $3.50, 900 to 81, ,OOO, 900.
The citizens are carrying on active re-
lief work and feel confident of thei,
ability to provide for the destitute.
The Floyd river was almost back II
banks at noon. Hundreds are return
ing to their abandoned homes. Score,
-of houses were swept from their founda
tions, others were washed away. Tn,
damage to movables in the houses, no
foated off, is large. Fifty or sixty re
tail stocks on low ground were DESTROYED
or badly damaged. The river cut acros
bend and scooped out great channel
starting about Eighth street. All tn,
houses, except few in that vicinity
are utterly wiped out.
THE LITTLE sIoUx's RAvAGEs.
CHEROKEE, Ia, May 19.-The Littl
Sioux is two miles wide in some place
and still rising. Some of the smalle
buildings are washed away, but th
greatest damage in the valley is to crops
The Illinois Central tracks are badl,