Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-05-12
Work of the Big Rains in Vari.
Gus Parts of the
Vest.
All Crops Except Grass Are Suffer
ing Badly Almost Every
where.
COlOred Family Retreats TO a Cy.
clone Cellar and is Buried
Alive.

BRUNSWICK, Mo-, May 9.-Rain con.
tinued falling all day at the rate of an
inch an hour and the Grand river is still
rising at an alarming rate. The south
bank is overhowed and from here up into
Gentry county there is an expanse of water
a mile wide. Two persons on board the
fat boat which parted from cable yester-
day were rescued.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Map Sit has been
raining IN central Iowa since Sunday and
abating. A large amount Of water has
fallen and farming prospects are CORES
pondingy gloomy. Not an acre of corn
has been planted and hardly any blowing
done. The only crop succeeding is
well. Wheat and oats, what little has
been planted begin to look yellow on all
lower lands. Reports all agree that farm.
ers are losing courage, and unless there Is
a change in the weather great deal of
land will remain implanted this year.
KEoKUK, Ia, May 9.-The Mississippi
river continues full. No further damage
has resulted. st. Louis, Keokuk and
Northwestern trains resumed running De-
tween Keokuk and Quincy today.
kins, colored, wife and five children, en-
tered cyclone cave last night, fearing a
cyclone. The heavy rains washed away
the foundation and at one o'clock last
night the roof fell in, burying the family.
Wilkins managed to crawl out from under
tie mass of mud and brought the neigh
bors to the rescue. The FIVE children were
taken out dead. Wilkins and wife were
badly hurt.
New ORLEANS, May 9.-Reports from
up-river as far as Vicksburg state that it
is still steadily rising and much anxiety
is felt at all points. The levee at Brooks
Mill, on the Arkansas side, twenty five
miles south of Greensville, Miss, gave
way today and this evening the crevasse is
$50 feet wide, and water is rushing through
six feet deep. About 1000 acres of Ar
kansas land, already planted in corn and
cotton, are inundated, while that section
of Louisiana near the Bayou Maria en-
braces vast amount of land in cultiva.
ton that will be flooded.
The government feet has been appealed
to by citizens of the afflicted dis
trict for assistance. Late this evening
there was rumor that the great Morgan
Sea Levee, the largest in the United
States, has given way.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May "a heavy
rain, which fell TODAY, caused the river to
rise still higher. It is not probable that
the rise will be sufficient to cause any
great damage this side of the river, but
Harlem is in danger of being flooded A
further rise of fourteen inches will cause
an overflow in that town, and some of the
inhabitants are making preparations to
move. Tonight 1t is colder but the pros
poets for more rain seem good
ST. LOUIS, May 9.-The Mississippi
river is booming here 1t reached the
danger line this evening, and much NOV
aole stuff along the shore has BEEN whirl-
ed away. In the squatter settlement
dozens Of house boats and cabins are eth
er under water Or travelling down the
river. If the rise continues serious dam
age may be done.