The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-05-24
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The Loss of Life and Destruction OF
Property Mt Sioux City.

Property at Sioux City.
SIOUX CITY, Ia, May 23.-The flood
has entirely subsidized All the railroads
are running trains. The loss of cattle
and hogs has been greatly overesti-
mated. The actual loss was about 100
cattle and 500 hogs.
Two bodies were recovered Friday.
The total number of bodies found is
four; still missing, ten.
The relief association is actively at
work relieving distress and providing
food and clothing. The citizens have
raised a fund of $4,000 TO provide for
immediate necessities. Offers of aid
from other cities have been received.
Flood and storm Notes.
The pontoon bridge at Leavenworth,
Kan, has been carried away
The damage at Omaha is estimated now
at 81 so, 900 and still increasing.
AT Beatrice, Neb., fully forty families
have been driven from their homes The
Blue river was higher than it has been since
1888. Fully $4,000 worth of property has
been swept away or destroyed.
The American National Red Cross So
ciety Will work in behalf of the flood suf-
ferers
Miss Ella Osborne and her brother Iry-
ing, children of prominent people of EIbing.
Butler county, were drowned in the White
water near Wichita, Kan. Tuesday night.
They were in buggy, and not realizing
how swollen was the river they attempted
to drive across at the usual ford
Thomas Murphy and Willie Hanson.
boys, We're downed while attempting to
ford river at Dunsmuir. Cal
There was.a binding snowstorIn in the
southern, central and northwestern parts
of Wisconsin Thursday evening and after
noon.
A funnelshaped cloud that scurried over
st Louis county, Mo-, knocking down
houses, added to the horrors of the flood
situation.
The Burlington bridge, with a mile of
track, has been swept away by the Mis-
souri,, near Plattsmouth, Neb. Keg creek
is badly swollen
The back waters from tile rivers in Ne
braska have converted vast Stretches of
country into lakes that vary from one to
twenty feet in depth.
The Red river flood has greatly weak
ened all railroad bridges so that trains
are no longer run over them. No mails
from st. Louis have been received at Tex.
arkana, Ark, since Saturday last
There is 500 feet of the Chicago. NIL
waukee and st. Paul track and one bridge
gone two miles east of Spencer, Ia. Numer-
Gus other small washouts are reported.
leaving Spencer without any railroad COM
munication whatever
Reports from ten counties in central Illi-
nois indicate condition of affairs as.to
farm work and crop prospects, the like of
which has never before been known in that
state The farms are vast expanses of mud
and ponds Should the rain cease now it
would require whole week TO dry the
ground so that work could go on
Reports from many points near Spencer,
Ia, show great damage to crops of ali
kinds and stock Numerous herds OF cat
tie grazing along the Sioux and Ochoydan
rivers were surrounded by rapidly rising
water and lost The dam at the head of
one of the lakes at Willard broke, causing a
two-foot rise in the Sioux river at Spencer,
the water being foot higher than ever
known.
AT Fort Dodge, Ia, the property loss was
from $4,000 to $4,000
The Union Pacific bridge between Coun-
Gil Bluffs and Omaha is in first-class con
dition and trains are running over it at all
hours of the day and night without the
slightest delay.