Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-17
WIDE WASTES OF WATER
The Mississippi Still Rising
at st. Louis.
Several Serious CrevasseS in the
Southern States.
The Area Of OverfiOwed Farm Lands
Daily Increasing.
Terrible Tornado aud Heavy Rains In
Texas-A Severe Storm in Ohio and
aCyclone in Pennsyl-
vania.
BY the Associated Press.1

BY the Associated Press.]
ST. LOUIS, May 16.-The rise in the
Mississippi continues at the rate OF about
half an inch per hour. The damage to
crops, ETC., in the bottom lands grows
with each day. An immense dis
trict is now under water. and many
small bridges are reported carried
away, and other similar damage. The
situation at Madison, ILL.,, and Eaet st.
Louis is considerably improved. Every
point of danger along the river is
guarded carefully and ample warning
will be given where breaks occur.
The steamer Idlewild has returned
from trip down the river and reports
the rescue OF thirty-six families, 200 per-
sons, from various islands below here
now covered with water. No loss of
life is yet reported in the vicinity of the
river, but such reports are expected to
come to hand tomorrow.
A coal famine is threatened on ac-
count of the food. Today the coal
dealers found that the supply on hand
could not last more than two days, and
that if the coal did not come in by
Wednesday night some factories and
manufacturing plants would be COM
PEELED to shut down for lack of fuel.
THE FLOOD IN THE SOUTH.
GREENvILLE, Miss, May 16.-The
water from the Panther forest break ia
inundating the entire surrounding
country, and the crevasse is not yet
closed. A number of cattle and
stock have been drowned. All the
levees are reported in good condition
this evening, but constant watch
is being kept, though the engineers ex-
press the opinion that the levee will
withstand all the water in sight. At
Lake Providence fears OF deluge in
that levee district are entertained, and
many crops will be destroyed. Informa-
tion from Shreveport says Red river is
rising rapidly.
NEW ORLEANS, May 16.-The Bonnet
Care levee. eighteen miles above the
city, on the east bank of the river,
broke early this morning. The opening
is now 100 feet wide and Eve teet deer.
THE ILLINOIS OVERFLOW.
WHITEHALL, ILL.,, May 16.-Commenc-
ing at Happyyille, eight miles west, the
Illinois river extends from bluff to bluff,
distance of four and a half miles. The
area. of overfowed land in this county is
fully $4,000 acres. No crop will be raised
on this land this year. The water is
still rising.
KANSAS CITY FLOOD RECEDING.
KANSAS Cry, Mo-, May l6.-The
waters of the Missouri and Kaw rivers
are receding. The panic in Argentina
and Armourdale is subsiding. The
people are returning to their homes. In
the latter place all the big packing
houses are resuming business.
LOSS OF LIFE IN IOWA.
INDEPENDENCE, Iowa, May 16.-Many
bridges have been washed away by the
floods. A family consisting of man,
his wife and one child were crossing one
as it went down, and were drowned.
HEAVY RAINS IN TEXAS.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May 16.-South.
western Texas was visited in the past
twenty-four hours by heavy rains; in
some places the first for three years.
Rain fell over an area of 800 miles
square, from Brownsville to Ell Paso,
and to Corpus Christi.
GAINESVILLE, Tex, May 16.-The
rains of Saturday night proved deluge.
Crops are ruined for miles, and more
than 100 feet of the Santa Fe track is
washed out between this city and Pur-
cell, Indian Territory, while nearly
every bridge is gone.
FLOODS IN ARKANSAS.
RENTONvIrJE Ark Nav 1R Tho ra
cent heavy rains put all the creeks out
of their banks. Silver Springs, small
town west of here, has been wrecked,
and DR.. Swallow, wife and mother
drowned.