St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-09
KANSAS AND MISSOURI.
The Heavy Rains Result in I'm
mense Damage.

The Heavy Rains Result in I'm
mense Damage.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May S.-The past
twenty-four hours have furnished the ell
max for the rainy weather of this spring.
A heavy downpour of water as been
falling all day and since midnight last
night, so that the already soaked
ground has been giving off the water
into the swollen creeks and streams.
The result is that accounts of floods
have been coming in from all over
Western Missouri and Eastern
Kansas, telling of flooded rivers,
oVerflowed creeks and streams.
In some localities the towns
have been flooded and some dam
age is reported to dwellings by having
their foundations washed out. The
floods came so suddenly in OthC dis
tricts that the farmers had no M to
prepare for it, and much Of their stock
has been drowned and washed away
Growing crops have been badly dam
aged, and thousands of fields will have
TO be replanted. In Saline county, Mis-
souri,. all the streams are reported out
OF their banks, and the whole county
has been turned into lake. Some
houses have been washed away and
much stock has been lost. Along the
Platte river and the One Hundred and
Two river the whole country has been
inundated, and houses and barns
have been destroyed. In Living
ston, Grundy and Mercer counties
the Grand river and its forks
have flooded the whole country. and the
district from Chillicothe to the Iowa
line is one sea of water. All the crops
have been washed out for miles
throughout the Grand river valley, and
much stock has been lost. All the rail-
roads in the district have been more or
less damaged and traffic is greatly
delayed, and in some cases has been
abandoned altogether. The Wabash
bridge here has been strained out of
line, so that no trains can pass over.
IN Oklahoma territory a steady pour
Ing rain has been falling for twenty
four hours, and half the streams in the
territory are out of their banks. Many
bridges have been washed away.
Nearly al the overland mails have
been abandoned. The Santa Fe
has suffered several washOuts and
trains are badly delayed. A small
cyclone accompanied the rain north of
Guthrie and did considerable damage.
The houses OF John Davis, Henry Smith
and John Crockett were carried some
distance by the cyclone and badly dam
aged. Many barns and other buildings
were destroyed. There was no loss of
life so far as is known.
All the trains from every direction,
with the exception of the Rock Island
and Union Pacific from the west, are
late in arriving in this city. All are de-
layed by unsafe bridges, landslides or
washouts. The rain continues tonight
with unabated steadiness. The Mis-
souri, river, which IS very high for this
season of the year, is rising rapidly,
and there is much apprehension lest the
steady pour of water into it from its
tributaries will cause it to go on the
rampage and increase the alrea ady
heavy damages by floods.
The Missouri river registers 81 feet
above low water mark at this place and
is rising at the rate of an inch an hour.
Twenty-Five feet is the danger line at
which the river Overflows its banks. In
the event of the occurrence the bottoms,
where are located the packing houses,
union depots and most of the wholesale
business houses of the city, will be
flooded.