Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-05-13
Work of the Big Rains 10 Vari
0rs Parts Of tn
West.
All Crops Except Grass Are Suffer
ing Badly Almost Every
where.
ColOred Family Retreats to a Cy
clone Cellar and is Buried
Alive.

BRUNSWICK, No, May g. Rain con.
tinued falling al day at the rate of an
inch an hour and the Grand river is still
rising at an alarming rate. The south
bank is overlooked and from here up into
Gentry county there is an expanse of water
mile wide. Two pars ms on board the
fat boat which parted from cable yester
dav were rescued.
Dies MONIES, Iowa, Map cit has been
raining IN central iowa since Sunday and
tonight seems TO be increasing instead of
abating. A large amount OF water has
fallen and farming prospects are CORES
pondingly gloomy. Not al acre of corn
has been planted and hardly any blowing
done. The only crop succeeding is
grass and that is doing remarkably
well. Wheat and oats, what little has
been planted, begin to look yellow on all
lower lands. Reports all agree that farm
ers are losing courage, and unless there is
a change III the weather great deal of
land lliremain implanted this year.
KEoKuK. Ia, May 9--The Mississippi
river continues full. No further damage
has resulted. st. Louis, Keokuk and
Northwestern trains resumed running be-
tween Keokuk and Quincy today.
ANTHONY, Kas., Nay Civilian Viii
klns, c)l0red, wife and FIVE children, en-
tered a cyclone cave last night, fearing &
cyclone The heavy rains washed away
the foundation and at one o'clock las
night the roof fell in, burying the family
Wilkins managed to crawl out from under
tie mass of mud and brought the neigh
bors to the rescue. The Eve children were
taken out dead. Wilkins and wife we're
badly hurt.
New ORLEANS, May 9.-R port. fr III
up-river DIS far as Vtcks5urg state that it
is It ii steadily rising and muck anxiety
Is felt at all p nints. The levee at Brooks
Mil, on the Arkansas side, twenty-five
miles south Of Greensvi!la, Miss, gave
Way friday aud this evening the crevaSse is
$50 feet wide, and water is rushing through
SIX le3t deep. About 1000 acres of AZ
kansas land, already planted in corn auI
cotton, are inundated, whiia that section
| OF Louisiana near the Bayou Maria EN-
braces a vast amount Of Land in cutiva
tion that will be flooded.
TIE govern meht feet has been appe< d
to by citizens of the affi cted dis
| trjct for assistance. Late this evening
there was rumor that the great Morgan
| Sea Levee, the largest in the United
Sta,es, has given way.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May "a heavy
rain, " ich fell today, caused the river TO
rise still higher. Il is not probable that
the rise will BE- sufficient to cause any
great damage this side of the river, but
Harlem is III danger Of being flooded. A
further rise Of fourteen inches will Cause
| an overflow IL tina: t0wn, and some Of the
inhabitants are making preparati ms to
move. Tonight 1t is colder bur the pros.
poets for more rain seem good
ST. LOUIS, May 9.-The Mississippi
river is booming here 1t reached the
danger line this evening, and much NOV
anie stuff aion the shore has been wnirI
ed away. In the squatter settlement
)Zens Of house boats and cabins are eta
er under water Or travelling down the
river. 1t the rise continues serious dam
age may be done.