Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-02
ENORMOUS LOSSES.
The Flood Damage In Five States
Aggregates S32,OOO,OOO.
Illinois and Missouri suffer Most Heavily
Towns Wiped Out in Arkansas
Many Persons Persisted
Farms Laid Waste.

NEW YORK, May Especial advices
10 Bradstreet's from regions affected
more seriously by floods point to an ag-
gregate loss in five states of $50, OOO, 600,
which includes damage to railway
property, destruction of or damage to
levees, to farm buildings, machin-
cry, live stock and crops. as well as loss
on other property. Louisiana and Ar
kansas have lost less in this respect
than has been reported. and Illinois
and Missouri probably more. Losses
in Iowa and Kansas have been greatly
exaggerated.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, May 2S.-The
story of food, suffering and destruc-
ton in the valleys of the White and
Arkansas rivers has not been half told.
There is not a thousand acres of dry
soil left in Desha county The towns
of Hollendel. Chicot City, Red
Fork and Pendleton have been
wiped off the earth, and not a living
being is at any of them All have been
rescued and are now on high ground,
but actually starving, so difficult of ac-
cess are they to the relief steamers.
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the Arkansas valley are utterly ruined.
As the river falls the terrible work of
the flood is plainly seen here. Dozens
of valuable farms are ruined the water
washing out bitches on some and on
others leaving sand ranging from to
feet in depth. All fencing has been
carried away. No estimate of the loss
can as yet be made. 1t will run far up
into the thousands. The work of re-
lieving the sufferers continues, but re-
ports of half-starved people are still
being received. The river is still
falling.
SHREVEPORT, La. May 2S.-Three crew
asses occurred Friday below the city
in the same levee, inundating large
tract of the finest farming land in the
world The water poured through the
breaks wit. roar that could be heard
for miles. The loss by the three breaks
will be not less than $500, 600. Three
million dollars will scarcely cover the
loss to property and crops in the upper
Red river valley by this years floods.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 30,--A terrific
tornado at 10 o'clock Saturday night
swept down the lines of the levees for
miles on both sides of the river. A great
deal of damage has been done in weak
eniug levees, though up till now no
breaks have been reported. AS the
river has fallen considerably here it is
evident that several breaks must have
occurred The damage must prove
enormous.
The newspaper men here are not
sending out truthful reports at all of
flood damage for fear of hurting this
territory, and the worst that has been
sent regarding the lower Mississippi
has not been exaggerated. Thousands
of dollars worth of property are be-
ing eaten up daily by the encroaching
waters. Desha and Chicot counties in
Arkansas, that month ago had
a population of $4,000, to-day have
not one-ffth that remaining Most
of them have moved out never to
return Up in the valleys of the
st. Francis, the White and Arkansas
rivers the destruction has been simply
indescrioable, and many poor whites
and negroes are in actual restitution.
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those valleys have been swept away
and will never be rebuilt until adequate
protection is provided against floods.
Arkansas City is entirely flooded by
at least 6 feet of water and there is not
a dry spot within miles of town. All
railroad traffic has been stopped, as the
tracks are flooded and business is at a
standstill The waters continue to rise
everywhere in the south
WEBB CITY, Mo, May 91.-A terrific
cloudburst flooded this city and the
surrounding country Sunday night.
The water fell in great masses and
flooded the streets to a depth of IS
inches on the level All the lead and
zinc mines in this city are flooded near
ly to their tops and the loss will be
enormous.
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