The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-09
RISE OF THE RIVERS.
Five Hundred Farms on the Low.ands
of Indiana Flooded.

ANO A4h0A on BQ6 LOW A6nQS
OF Indiana Flooded.
FORT WAYNE. IND, May S.-Reports of
extensive devastation of the waters of the
st. Joseph, St Mary and Maumee rivers
continue to come in. Not less than 500
farms on the lowlands were overfo we'd and
great deal of timber that was cut for mills
went down the streams. 1t was no un-
common sight to see dead cattle floating
down with the drift. No human lives
were lost as the rise was gradual,
giving all chance to es-
cape. While the river is still high up
above its banks the waters are receding,
and If the weather remains fair the danger
ls over. The families who moved out OF
tneir houses in Fort Wayne have had
enough OF living In the lowlands and cannot
be Induced to move back. Most of the
vacant houses are still vacant.
MIssoURTs DELUGE.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May S.-The past
twenty-four hours have furnished climax
for all the rainy weather of this spring
A heavy downpour of water has been
falling all day and since midnight last
night, so that the already soaked ground
has been giving off water into
the swollen creeks and streams. Farmers
had no time to prepare and much
OF their stock has been drowned
and washed away. Growing crops have
been badly damaged, and thousands Of
fields will have to be replanted. In South
ern Missouri all the streams are over their
banks, and the whole country has been
turned into a lake. Some houses have been
washed away and much stock has been lost
Along the Platte river the whole country
has been inundated and houses and barns
have been destroyed. In Liv-
ingston, Grandy and Merco couu-
ties the Grand river and its forks
have flooded the country and the district
from Chillicotbe is one sea of water. All
the crops have been washed out for miles
throughout the Grand river valley, and
much stock has been lost. All the railroads
In the district have been damaged, and
traffic in some cases has been abandoned.
OKLAHOMA VERY WET.
In Oklahoma territory a steady pouring
rain has been falling for tweuty-four hours
and half the streams 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 road has several wash
small cyclone accompanied the rain north
of Guthrie and did considerable damage.
Tho houses Of John Davis, Henry Smith
and John Crockett were carried some dis
tance by the cyclone and badly damaged.
Many barns and other buildings were de-
stroyed. There was no loss Of life &c
far as known. All trains are
delayed by unsafe bridges, landslides or
washouts. Rain continues tonight with
unabated steadiness. The Missouri, which
is very high for this season of the year, is
rising rapidly, and there is much spprehen-
sion lest the steady pour of water into ii
from its tributaries will cause it to go on g
rampage and increase the already heaVy
damage by floods.
STATIONARY AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, LA, May 8.-The river
at this point has remained almost station
ary for several days. reaching 16 Clio feel
as a maximum. The levees, while sub.
jected to great strain, are holding ou;
we'll