Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-05-19

been reached and the mighty stream
has already spread itself over territory
not rightfully its own, doing great dam
age to its banks and to the movable
property of citizens along the shore be.
tween Bremen on the north and River
des Peres on the south. The rise came
within thirty-six hours, and the water
is still creeping up. Near the Merchants
bridge, in North st. Louis, scores of men
in the employ OF the lumber companies
are at work securing lumber piles from the
water. Last Saturday these piles were
from twenty to thirty feet from the wa
ter. Where the river seems to have
created the greatest havoc is a squat
ter" settlement about half mile below
the Merchants bridge, called okla
homa." The greater number OF the
squatters' homes are small fatboats or
floating houses, some of them in the
water, others on land supported on
stilts.
The danger line is 90 feet for a num-
Der of houses along the river front. AT
last reports the water was ~ feet 2
inches.
Damage Beyond Estimation.
Near Brunswick, Mo-, the Missouri
and Grand Rivers have been rising rap
idly for several days. Monday was
spent In rescuing the inhabitants of the
bar south of that place, which was
formed about twenty years ago by the
Missouri River changing its channel,
and has lately become valuable farming
land. Much stock was also taken of
the bar. Hundreds of acres are COW
cred by the floods and dozens of homes
destroyed. Monday evening the ferry
boat, loaded with people and horses,
was broken from its cable by drift and
floated down the stream. One woman
fell into the river, but was rescued.
The drifting ferryboat was carried
down the stream for almost four miles,
where 1t landed on bar in the Missouri
River and the people were rescued by
some fishermen.
Much Suffering In Nebraska
Never has Nebraska experienced such
a long g-continued down-pour Of rain.
The Missouri River is nine feet above
low water mark. There is no flood at
Omaha, but reports from points below
indicate that the river Is rising rapidly
and already out of its banks and flood
ing the Iowa and Missouri bottom lands.
Reports from all along the lines Of the
Omaha roads tell of rain and snow in
the Black Hills and in Western Ne
braska and cloudiness all the way
to Salt Lake. All trains were
late and there are number
of washouts reported, though none of
them have caused accidents. There is
washout between Beatrice and Lincoln
on the Union Pacific branch, and the
Rock Island main line trains are using
the Burlington tracks instead. The rain
has so filled the approaches of the Mis-
souri Pacific Plattsmouth bridge that the
opening of the bridge has been delayed
until June. Snow has fallen in Western
Nebraska, ranging in depth from six
teen inches in the northwestern portion
TO two inches in the southwestern por-
tion of the State.
IOwans May Seek the Hills.
At Ottumwa, Iowa, a heavy rain has
set the Des Moines River booming
again. The water has risen rapidly and
continues to rise. The rain, it Is feared,
will swell the river to the highest point
since 1856, when all the city except that
part on the hills was submerged.
Dead Farm Animals Floating by.
The Maumee near Toledo, Ohio, Is on
the rampage, being higher than was
ever known before, except at the floods
caused by ice gorge in 1883 and 1881.
Parts of buildings, trees, fence rails,
dead cattle, hogs, sheep and general
debris came down Reports tell OF ex-
tensive devastation at Defiance, Ant
werp, Napoleon, Fort Wayne, Maumee
and Perrysburg. Marengo Island, off
Perrysburg, where are many summer
cottages, was nearly covered, and six or
seven houses have been washed away.
Had Snow In South Dakota.
At Redfield, S. D., quite a heavy
snowstorm occurred Tuesday morning,
but melted almost as fast as IL fell
Rain has been falling all the time since.
During the past forty days eight inches
of water has fallen there, the heaviest
downpour known since the settlement Of
the country. There has been no dam
age to crops.
Five Children Killed Outright.
William Wilkins and wife and FIVE
children, colored, thinking storm was
brewing, retired into cyclone cave
at their home In the southwest part of
Anthony, Kan. The heavy rain 80 un-
dermined the house that the roof fell on
the sleeping people. wilkins succeed
ed in getting out and arousing the
neighbors, who assisted him in rescuing
the wife alive. The five children, from
6 months to IA years Of age, were taken