Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-05-14
IN GREAT DANGER.

Other Flooded Sections.
PEORIA, ILL.,, May 7.-The,e is great
CONSERVATION in Pekin and in the coun-
try thereabouts. The big dixie in the
Lamarsh drainage district began giving
way Friday evening and the people are
fleeing for their lives. The dixie wac
commenced in 1890 and was completed
this year at an enormous cost. 1t is 10
miles long and IL feet high. There is q
big pumping station and much valua-
BILE machinery already under water.
The people in the entire district are
getting out as fast as they can. No at
tempt is being made to save any prop
erty, as there is no time to spare. is
feared in this city that there will be
many lives lost as all the people in the
valley cannot be warned. The loss al
ready in sight will reach into millions
sof dollars. IS
The Illinois river at this point is ris-
ing at an alarming rate. 1t is now 20
feet above low-water mark and is ris-
ing at the rate of feet in twenty-four
hours. 1t is now higher than it has
been since 1874. The lowlands on the
Tazewell side are completely inundated.
One farmer lost four horses Thursday
night and narrowly escaped with his
life. All travel over the bridges has been
stopped, as there is an average of feet
=, of water over the approaches for dis
tance of a mile. Some farmers who
rode through Friday morning report
the approaches washed out. They had
to take passage on a steamer to Spring
Bay in order to get home. All the
docks in the city are covered with wa
ter, and the river is now encroaching
on the railroad tracks.
The people who live in the valley
have been forced to move to the hills
and their houses are filed with water
to depth of feet. Great damage is
being done to the crops. 1t is said that
nearly all the bridges on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy road between
here and Galeshurg are twisted out of
shape. All trains are late and numer-
Gus small wrecks are reported.
ID, OTTAWA, ILL.,, May Seas of water
are over and in the five unfortunate
Illinois cities, Ottawa, Marseilles, Peru,
La Sale and Utica. The Illinois has
risen steadily. Friday night the cities
were in total darkness, the result of
the flooding of the electric light and
gas plants. Boats are used for
communication. Despite all eff
forts, the manufacturing district was
totally covered py water Friday after
noon. AS the water rose building after
building would close down and the en-
ployes leave to await the subsiding of
the flood. 1t will be two or three days
before the more fortunate of the tic sd
ed factories can be entered at all, and it
will take as much longer to remove the
accumulations of mud and debris which
came with the inundation. Ottawa will
be helpless for week at least.
Marsellles, La Sale and Utica are in
an even more desperate condition. At
Marseilles the river, steadily rising, is
more and more dreaded as the levees
weaken. There is little hope they will
stand much longer and everyone
i'm the district threatened has re-
moved all property TO high ground.
AT La Sale the situation is even more
desperate than it was Thursday night,
the water having advanced from
two to three feet all around the city
and the manufactures, the water
works, street railway and electric light
plants still being under water. At
Utica the waters have encroached still
further upon the lower end of the vii
lage from the river and the outlets east
and west are blocked by water.
PANA, Ill, May About 10 o'clock
Thursday night u cyclone passed in an
easterly direction through the country
about miles from here. All the win
dows in a newly erected farmhouse
owned by Mr.. Barth were blown in and
the house split wide open. A great
deal of damage was done to buildings
and fences, but no lives were lost.
-,GosHEN, Ind, May 1.-The Elkhart
river is higher than ever before known
and is still rising. 1t is now half way
up the temporary embanllments which
had been placed on the approaches to
the dam and grave fears are enter
tertained as to the latter's safety
WABASH, Ind, May "A small cy-
clone swept through the northwest par,
of this county late Friday night, doing
considerable damage to fences anC
buildings. The roof of a dwelling on the
farm of Maj. Kidd was torn off and car
ried some distance, and large trees in the
vicinity We're twisted and hundreds o1
rods of fence laid fiat.
rLiNI, Mtch., may '.-l HIS puTU o.
the state has been visited by heavy
rains lately. Thursday nights fall was
so great that Flint river is flooded ant
serious damage is looked for The
Flint p Smith Lumber Company's boom
gave way and about 1000, 900 feet OF
Norway pine logs went rushing down
stream. The loss will be heavy.
KEoKUK, Ia, May THE Mississippi
river has been rapidly rising for two
days, approaching the extreme higl
water mark. The lowlands are sub
merged and crops are ruined. Farmers
have taken their stock and families t.
high ground for protection. The small
levees along the Des Moines and Fo,
rivers have broken and large tracts ar,
submerged, but the main levee protect
ing 1900 acres is yet safe. Alexandria
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