Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-05-14
STILL RAGING.
Floods Continue Their Work OF Dcstruc.
tion In Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and

PEORIA, ILL.,, May 9.-Thousands OF
people on Sunday visited the inundated
districts surrounding this city. The
river is still raging torrent, with
roar that can be heard for a long dis
tance. The cattle pens of the lower
sugar works, in which thousands OF
head are fed, are under water, and un-
less the water quickly subsidies the cat
tie must be removed.
AT least 150 families of 500 souls on
the river banks in this city, between
here and Pekin, and in the La Marsh
drainage district, have been driven
from their homes by the rapidly rising
waters. When the dyke in the
La Marsh drainage district broke men
were sent out to warn the people in the
bottom, about thirty families living
there. Some of them were on the roofs
of houses and barns, while others
had climbed trees as measure
of protection. Hogs and calves
had been taken up on the roofs,
too, but horses and cattle were
left to their own resources. One man
had sought refuge in a wagon box and
taken a pig in with him. When the
water raised the box began floating
about the district, and he drifted with
the tide.
All the residents have been accounted
for with the single exception of the
family of George Nichols. Many took
refuge on this side of the river, but they
have all been heard from. Nichols
lived in a small house at the extreme
lower end of the district, so far that it
was impossible to prepare him FOX the
threatened catastrophe.
OTTAWA, H., May 9.-The COOL dry
weather of the last few days has re-
moved load of anxiety from the peo-
pie hereabout. The great flood, un-
PARALLEL since 1914, is subsiding.
Wednesdays cloudburst has cost the
people of the Illinois, Fox and Kanka-
llee valleys some millions of dollars.
AS the waters recede the full extent of
the damage becomes apparent The
heaviest losses are to farmers. Thou
sands of acres of newly planted crops
have been washed out and total
ly destroyed. Roads have been
destroyed and bridges and culverts
swept away. At many points where
the lands lie low whole farT;,S have
been inundated and the only property
saved is that in the second stories of
barns and houses. Along the river
banks in the towns and cities the dam
age to manufacturing interests has
been great, but the loss to farming in
terests is now widespread and will en-
tail great hardship.
The river towns from Joliet to Peoria
are the heaviest sufferers by the stop
| page of nSanufactories. Within a radi-
| us of 10 miles from Ottawa the direct
| losses from the flood are estimated at
$1,000 At Marseilles, Ottawa, Utica,
Peru and LA Sale hundreds of men
have been temporarily thrown out
of employment. The sudden rise
of water has destroyed manufacture
ing plants or rendered them useless.
ALEXANDRIA, Mo-, May 9.-Another
period of high water has struck this de.
voted country and for awhile it looked
as if the unprecedented floods of 1881
were to be repeated. The worst dam.
age has resulted in and around
the town, which is periodically
subject to rapid rises of the
Mississippi. Fox, Skunk and Des
Moines rivers. The great and con
tnued rains of the last few weeks have
swollen the upper rivers and streams
making great lakes of them and sub
merging the surrounding farming
country, carrying off stock ant
small buildings and doing thousand.
of dollars of damage. Thousand.
of acres of wheat in Clark county
Mo-, are now submerged. Stockmen are
taking their animals to the highlands
and the inhabitants of Alexandria are
preparing to take their families to
place of safety. People now go abou
this modern Venice in boats, and ther,
is great demand for, this means of 10
comotion. The business in the town is
in some lines, at a standstill.
GOSHEN, Ind, May 9.-After all dan
ger was thought to be over the bi.
Goshen dam broke Saturday night an,
let an awful flood of water over tn
river bottoms between here and Elk
hart. The water had fallen feet Sat
urday ana every one had begun hoping
that the crisis was past. The dam
which was erected in 1866 at cost o
SIS, 200, will be at once rebuilt.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, May 9.-Report
of extensive devastation by the water
of the st. Joseph, st. Mary an
Maumee rivers continue to com
in. Not less than 500 farm
on the lowlands were overfiowc
and great deal of timber that wa
cut for the mills went down the stream
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 9.-Account
of floods have been coming in from al
over western Missouri and eastern Kan
sas, telling of flooded rivers and over
flowing creeks and streams. i
some localities the towns hav
been flooded and some damage
reported to dwellings by having thei
foundations washed out. The food
came so suddenly in other district
that the farmers had no time to pre-
pare for them, and much of their stoc
has been drowned and washed away
In Oklahoma territory steady poul
ing rain has been falling for twenty
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