The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-05-19
ALL UNDER WATER.
Missouri Towns Suffer Greatly from tho
Freshet-Property and Life Lost.

Missouri Towns Suffer Greatly from tho
Freshet-Property and Life Lost.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 1.-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 it's foundation.
There is a chance that the river will
change it's course here, throwing open
| 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 taken
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
drowned here Thursday night.
In Armourdale much damage is done
to property. Many houses are half un-
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 ill 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.
| At Glasgow the Missouri and Grand
rivers have Overfowed 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 the loss is
estimated by steamboat captain to be
more than S25O,O0O Arrow Creek has
sent a message to this city for relief,
saying that every body is being driven
out of house and home.
OMAHA, Neb., March 14.-There is
anxiety among business men interested
in property in the lower part of the
eastern portion of the city. The river
| threatens every moment to return to its
original channel on the Nebraska side.
The property is devoted to manufacto-
ries, wholesale houses, the Grant smell
ter and railroad tracks.
Separating the extended northern
area of the lake proper and the river is
space of not more than fifty yards,
and this is being encroached upon with
a velocity which will not require long
to turn the raging waters in the
channel cut years before the
settlement of the country. Already
fully fifty acres have been sliced off
and gone whirling on their way to the
gulf. The thunder of caving banks is
heard at frequent intervals above the
continuous heavy roar of the river, and
it is not an infrequent occurrence to
see hundreds of tons of earth, brush
and general riffraff part from the solid
bank and go boiling into the water.
The prevailing opinion among the
men watching the earth-annihilating
torrent is, that if the rise continues the
river must inevitably plunge through
and over the ancient bed. The old
wagon timber road that formerly swept
completely round the head of the lake
has been utterly swallowed up, along
with acres of tangled willows and un-
dergrowth.
ST. LOUIS. May 1.-THE river at Z
p. m. passed the danger line, 80 feet,
and is still rising. The situation all
along the river front grows worse
hourly. The Virgins transfer yards
are 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. The Farmers elevator is now
900 yards in the river, but is surrounded
by dead water and in little danger BY
the gas works the bank is caving in
ened. Arsenal island is washing away.
Part of it is gone and more is going
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.
Gabonet island, 1.50O 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.
| To add to the distress in North St.
Louis two large sewers have been
broken by the pressure of back water
and are now aiding to food that section
of town. From all the low points of
the city near the river the people are
moving to higher ground, and it will be
many days before they get back again.
DEs MONIES, Ia, May 14.-For the
first time this season the situation here
is becoming serious. The Des Moines
river and the Raccoon river are far over
their banks and have already made sad
havoc with farm land and city resi-
dence property.
BEARDsTowN, ILL.,, May 1.-THE stu
alton here is becoming quite serious.
The Illinois river is rising rapidly and
is doing great damage to the property
of farmers living in the valley. Thou
sands of acres of wheat are destroyed
and some live stock lost. This city is
now upon an island, being entirely sur
rounded by water.
DESTROYED BY A CYCLONE.
Fifteen Houses In a Kansas Town Smashed
Into kindiing Wood.
AUGUSTA, Kan, May IA cyclone
struck this city at 6 o'clock Friday.
1t tore through the south end of town,