The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-09
The Eastern Rivers Are Everywhere
Out Of Their Banks.
MISSOURI And KANSAS ARE FLOODED.
The Mississippi Is Rising at New Orleans, but 1t Is
DelieTed That The LeVeeS Will
Hold.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

KANSAS CITY, NO., May 8.-The Mis-
souri, River tonight registered 2I feet above
low-water mark. and is rising at the rate Of
an inch an hour. Twenty-three feet Is the
danger line, at which the river overflows its
banks. In the event of that occurring, the
bottoms, where are located the packing
houses. the union depot and the most of
the wholesale business houses OF the city,
will be flooded.
KANSAS CITY, May S.-As result OF the
steady downpour during the last twenty
four hours, w hich formed the climax of the
rainy season for this spring, accounts of
floods are coming in from all over Western
Missouri and Eastern Kansas. Some towns
are completely flooded, and great damage is
reported to dwellings. Considerable farm
ers' stock has been drowned and washed
away, the growing crops badly damaged
and thousands OF fields will have to be re-
planted. Saline County, No.. is one great
lake. Houses are washed away and stock lost
along the Platte River and ''102" rivers.
The whole country is inundated, and
houses and barns destroyed. Livingston,
Grundy and Mercer counties are flooded,
aud the district from Chilieothe to the Iowa
line is sea. All the crops along the Grand
River Valley are washed out. and much
stock has been lost. The railroads have
been more or less damaged and traffic is de-
layed and in some cases abandoned. The
Wabash bridge here is strained 0ut.of line,
SO no trains can pass over it.
Half the streams in Oklahoma Territory
are out of their banks. Many bridges have
been washed away, and nearly all the over
land mails are abandoned. The Santa Fe
suffered several waShOutS, aud trains are
badly delayed. A small cyclone, accom-
panied by rain, passed north OF Guthrie,
and the houses Of John Davis, Henry Smith
and John Crockett were carried sOme dis
tance by the wind and badly damaged.
Barns and other buildings were also de-
strOyed. No loss of life is reported All
trains, with the exception OF the Rock
Island and Union Pacific, from the west
have been delayed by unsafe bridges, land
slides and washOuts.
Rain continues unabated tonight, and
the Missouri, though very high for this sea-
son, is rising rapidly, and there is much
apprehension OF increased damage by the
floods.
PEORIA, H., May S-The river is still
raging torrent and has risen inches in "a
hours up to this morning. Since then the
water has been so rough that no measure
ment could be made. Ii is believed that it
will not rise much more, but strong wind
is dashing the water furiOusly against the
bank, and many bridges are liable to be
washed out. a large force is at work guard
ing against tnis. The cattle pens at the
lower sugar works, ia which thousands Of
head were FED, are foot under water, and
unless the water quickly subsidies the cattle
must be removed.
The dam a. Henry, 40 miles above here,
threatens to go out, and should 1t DO SO the
devastation along the river will be appal-
ling. In LamaTsn district the destruction
continues Many houses have been fOated
of or dashed to pieces by driftwoOd and
by the time the water goes cut nothing will
H., Ill, hi, =,
lost everything and are In destitute eondi-
tion. Several warehouses here are sur
rounded by water and threaten every
minute to be carried away.
KEoKUK, Iowa. May S.-The situation
between here and Quincy is improved. The
water is falling considerably to-day in the
Mississippi and is going down rapidly in the
Des Moines. The st. Louis, keokuk and
Northwestern officials say that passenger
traffic will be resumed Tomorrow. Freight
trains are running to-day. There Is no
change for the worse at Alexandria. The
wind is blowing a gale tonight and may
cause further damage.
BURLINGTON, Iowa, May S.-The Mssis-
sippi River is now u feet above low-water
mark of 1864 at this point. and is
spread out over many miles of the low
LANDS on the Illinois side. All the ST.
Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern trains
are still running by way OF the Ca ,hage
and Quincy branch on account of the flood
at Alexandria, Mo. 1t is thought that the
food will begin to subside tonight. The
Burlington Railroad officials have about
succeeded in strengthening out traffic,
which the floods had demoraliZed.
NEW ORLEANS, May 8.-1he river at this
point has remained almost stationary for
several days, reaching 16 6-10 feet as a max
imum raise. The levees. while subjected to
q great strain, are holding out well. Spe-
eials from upTiver points show that the
water is rising, but the leyees continue 10
good condition.
Chief Engineer Startling, after thorough
inspection Of the levees at North Greenville,
reports that their condition is specially
good. with the water far below the top Of
the lev es. Similar reports from the sOtuh-
ern district are made BY assistant engineers.
The indications are that a further rise of
six or eight inches will be recorded here,
which will make the rise one foot higher
than ever before, yet the people feel con-
fident that the levees will stand it if prop
prlv csua rdpd