Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-19
ALL UNDER WATER.
Great Suffering from Floods in
Kansas and Missouri.
Residents Forced to Move Out of Their
Homes, Using Boats as Means of
Escape Worst Flood for
Many Years.
THE GREAT FREsHET.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 14.-The Mis-
souri, river is still rising. Rain is fall
ing heavily all over Kansas and all
through the Missouri valley. The Kaw
swept away a new bridge at Lawrence
Friday with two carpenters, John
Kenmiller and Herbert Otis, who were
finishing the plank flooring All of Har-
lem is being forced to move by the
watery waste, which is rapidly shaking
every house from its foundation.
There is chance that the river will
change its course here, throwing open
a great deal of valuable switch land
that is now inaccessible on account of
the course of the stream. The steamer
A. L. Mason has been busy removing
families, and the ferries have take1
care of the animals and fowls.
From Arrow Rock, 100 miles down
the river, news comes of the tearing up
of several farm houses The family of
Peter Embery, five in number, living
near there, is missing, and all are be-
lieved to have been drowned. James
Calvin, a railway section boss, was
drowned here Thursday night.
In Armourdale much damage is done
to property. Many houses are half I'M
der water and families are vacating
them on the run. The water has
backed up into the sewers, and this
morning was running out of the catch
basins and manholes at such a rapid
rate that City Engineer Ellis ordered
the street commissioners to fill up
the sewers with sand. Wagon
load after wagon-load was thrown into
the catch basins and manholes by the
street commissioner and his men and
considerable of the flow was shut off.
Shawnee park in Armourdale is to-day
great lake. The water is 3 feet deep.
At Glasgow the Missouri and Grand
rivers have overhowed and the fertile
sections between the Missouri and the
Charlton, known as the big bottom, is
under water Thousands of acres of
growing grain and fine pastures are
being ruined. The loss already is esti-
mated at 500, 900 there. In the river
counties down in Missouri thu loss is
estimated by steamboat captain to be
more than $3.50, 900. Arrow Creek has
sent a message to this city for relief,
saying that everybody is being driven
out of house and home.
ST. LOUIS. May 1.-THE river at z
p. m. passed the danger line, 30 feet,
and is still rising. The situation all
along the river front grows worse
hourly. The Virgins transfer yards
are 2 to 10 feet under water. Switch
men stand neck-deep to throw switches
and engines push loaded cars with long
trains of empties between them and the
engines in order to keep in shallow
water and prevent the extinguishing of
the fires.
At Brooklyn 200 acres of truck
patches are destroyed. Chouteau is
land is under water, thus running 5000
acres of farming land for the season.
| GaboneJ island, 1900 acres, is all under
water. Carr island is inundated and
the people living in all these places are
dependent upon the neighboring settle
| ments for shelter The rise is going on
at an inch an hour.
CARRoLLTON, ILL.,, May 16.-The
Illinois river is still rising at the rate
of one-half inch an hour and great dam
age is being done to meadows and
growing wheat in the western portion
of this county. The Hartwell, Reach
and Kelley levees broke Saturday and
there are now about 5000 acres of
wheat and meadows under water in
this county. Large herds of cattle
have been driven to the hills and fam
lilies are moving out.
CAHoKA, ILL.,, May 16.-The embank-
ment of.the Conlogue Railroad Company,
about 200 feet long, has given way and
the town is flooded to the depth of sew
cal feet. No lives have been lost, but
large amount of damage has been
/ done.
| INDEPENDENCE, Ia, May 16.-Eight
/ days continuous rain and cloudburst
in the eastern part of the county caused
| four bridges to go out and the lowlands
are flooded. A Danish family, consist
/ ing of the man, wife and child, attempt
ed to cross bridge just before it went
down. The bridge gave way while
| they were on it and all were drowned.
/ The damage to seed in the ground is
| enormous. Pine creek rose feet in one
1 hour.
1 New ORLEANS, May 17.-The long
4 impending disaster occurred early Mon
4 day morning when the Bonnie C4rre
levee, one of the strongest in the state
so miles north of the city, gave way
from natural causes. The break oc-
Cured just as the guard of inspection
was passing and four men composing
4 it have not been heard from
since. The crevasse formed is ecc feet
wide and feet deep. Water is rush
ing through like a millrace, carrying
everything before it, inundating miles
of fertile plantations and in many in
stances drowning valuable stock The
Ievee is on the east bank Of the river
and it is feared the iter rushing down
ward viii sweep away the embank-
ment.
ALTON, H., May 1.-THE foods Of
the Mississippi and Missouri rivers ac-
complished the full measure of their