Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-05-21

Another For Sioux City.
Siorx Ciry. May .o.-Another aood
10 coming this way. this time on toe
Big SIOUX. which forms the west line ct
the city for four miles. The wat1r u
reported by The Milwaukee and ST
Paul as having reached Elk Point,
where II forms wave several feet high.
The river there has risen twelve feet ia
. few hours. Fol- miles up the valley
il reported covered by water and the
stream two miles wide. Inc wave is
expected here about IL o'clock. IL
viii do little damage IN the city - ito
banks are given up to parks Crest
damage is done 10 farms and villages
up the valley, but reports are neager.
Ebb and Flow Of the Flood.
KANSAS CRY. May 2o.-The Missouri
river rose all forenoon today. but very
the eignal service gauge showed twenty
four feet, nine and one-tweifth
inches above low water mark, u rise
of eleven inches In twenty-four hours.
The rise last night was slow. the prin-
cipal part OF the rice for the past
twenty four hours beng that Of yester-
day. The river was reported stationary
at st. Joseph this morning. A rise OF
six inches Was al the same time re.
ported at Piattsmouth. From Manhat-
ton, on the kaw river. Q rise OF one
terth OF foot was reported. A tele-
gram from Leayenworth said that the
stage OF the river there at noon was
twenty feet, three and one-half inches
above low water mark.
DIES MONIES, Iowa. May 2o-The
flood Is at its highest in this city, nei.
Their rising Tor falling. The Coon river
rose ten inches during the night, and
Des Moines thirteen. but the top was
reached about noon, and as the Des
Monies has been falling for twenty four
hours ut Dodge and the Coon is falling
at Coca Rapids and below and with
frir weather predicted. it is fairly safe
To say that the worse Is over. The SUIT
fering IN the flooded districts has been
very great and authorizes and private
citizens are organized for relief.
OMAHA, Neb., May 20.-Tne Missouri
is falling tonight, the last Of the Sioux
City wave having passed without un.
due harm. The Union Pacific bridge
approach, which Was washed out, has
been repaired and all trains are using
it now as if nothing had happened
The waters are receding from the bot.
toms, and all danger OF further trouble
has been removed.
Fort DODGE. Ia. May 20.-The Def
Moines is on the fall. gong down nearly
three feet during the night. The lofty
location of this town is the only thing
that saved loss of life. The property
loes is from 5000 10 $780, 900. The
weather has changed greatly, it having
turned cold enough for snow, and thu
morning the sidewalks and housetops
| were white.
OrruMwA. Ia, May 20.-The water
In the Dee MONIES river is receding
slowly, and all Tears OF further danger
arc passed.
| GLASGOW. No., May 20.-~he Mission
river rose fifteen inches here today and
West Glasgow is flooded.
GREENviLLE, Miss, May 2U.-Ths
rise in the Arkansas is being felt here
and it will swell together with thu
wave coming at Memphis the Mississ
lppi here five or six inches. The com
ing flood Is again exciting apprehen
sions that the levces will break. Pan
Their Forrest leyee 10 widening ant
deepening every hour.
CAMDEN, Ark, May 20.-The Qua
ch,ta 10 booming with the biggest rise
ever known and big rise 10 coming
All the low lands in the country ar,
flooded. There was . heavy loss O
| stock. but none of life.
NEw ORLEANS, May 20.-Thc levee
] e,tuation SO far as New Orleans is con
earned is unchanged. The thrcatenct
| points near by have been sire ngthened
Reliable news from Baton Roug,
eays the levees are in grea
danger from the mouth a
the Red river TO New Orleans. United
states Engineer Hardy doubts the abb
| nv of the levees 70 stand the strair
mucn longer, and IN his opinion tina
the greatest foods have not yet beer
reached.
KANSAS CRY. May 20.-At midnigh
the river - on standetili. having beer
unchanged since about noon. Tn,
kaw 10 -ising slowly at the mouth, but
reports from above indicate tina
II is failing there. Armourdai'
Is IN worse condition than it has beer
at any time. One hundred familie
were compelled to move out this even
ng. Reports from up toe Nilsson
| river showed that the June rise ief
Bezem yesterday morning and tina
means it will be here in about q week
SIorx CITY, May 2o.--oniy one bod,
was taken from the Floyd river bsDi
| this forenoon, that of Mrs
| Henderson. 1t was recovered
near Springdale. where il had caugh
| in the bushes. There are still from
fifteen TO twenty corpses nnde
the drif.wood and piled slonI
the banks or IN the Mie
sour bottoms below town. Thes'
cannot be taken out till the weatbe
moderates, for SOAK City wac tcda'
tine victim Of a fierce February biz
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