Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-19
WESTERN FLOODS.
Over Three Score Lives Lost at Sioul
City, Iowa.
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AGAIN RISES
lynching in Tennessee Early This
Morning.
PRESBYTERIANS IN SESSION.
PRESBYTERIANS IN SESSION.
Early Estimates of Disaster at sioux Css,
Increased.

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Increased.
Sioux CRY, Iows. MAY I9.-According 30 The
latest telegram the food has been even more
disastrous in its results than at first antici-
pated. The estimates 20 the loss Of life vary
from sixty to one hundred. No list can bs
given of the dead In fact q terrified people
have sought refuge in so many quarters that ID
Is impossible 70 exactly figure what their num-
ber ON the death roll will be.
Some heroic scenes were witnessed in the at
tempts 20 save the unhappy victims. At the
Omaha bridge Mrs. West and her little hve-
year-oid girl were unable TO get away from the
Hood in time. The father and two children
were safe and the rescuing party return
ing for Mrs. wes, and her child, when the
swept the house away. They noated down with
the roaring current until the bridge Was
reached. An engineer succeeded in saving the
woman, but her strength failed her and she was
compelled 20 relinquish her hold on her child
With despairing cry of "Mamma" the child dis
appeared beneath the waves.
AT the manufacturing suburb Leeds nine
persons are known TO be drowned. -Four were
drowned at springdale Observers ON the high
bridge counted fifteen bodies that swept
under il. Matt Roe, an old sailor, saved
twenty-eight lives. woman who managed
TO wade 20 a box car was there seized
with labor pains and gave birth to child and
two hours later was rescued. A woman named
their own house. Two Swedish families were
swept away.
ST. LoUrs, Mo-. NAV l9.-The river IL stiu
rising and il swells in volume and the danger
grows. South from Alton, in the American
bottoms, the damage In the aggregate is almost
inconceivable. In Monroe county alone not
less than 5000 acres of cultivated land are
ruined for the season at least, entailing a loss
Of not less than sI,O00OO0. Many other resi-
dents in that section are still In water-sur-
rounded homes, dependent upon such help ne rs
sent them In the way of food, &C.
FLED TO HIGHER GROUND.
Practically all the rest Of the people there
have fed to higher ground, abandoniug their
homes 10 thieves, whose work among the sbsn-
doned houses is becoming all too general. The
break az Nameod is letting a large amount Of
water into Madison and washout in the Clover
Left track Is giving venie ample bathing fscili-
ties.
On this side the river. in North St. Louis, the
rise in the river il greatly increasing the dam
age. The lumber companies Of the city, n.arly
all OF whom have their yards in that section,
have been compelled to cease business with two
or three exceptions. The Farmer Elevator
Companys building Madison street is in
thirteen feet Of water and operations have bvea
suspended.
Here, too. the river il encroaching upon the
banks, washing away large sections and neces-
stating hard work TO prevent the serious
erosion. In this vicinity hundreds of poor
people living in the lowlands have been COM
PEELED TO move.
Along the levee in front Of the city the great
father of waters is making his way farther into
the first floors of buildings there located and all
business Is transacted by boat TO sec
ond floors, except in some few
looms, where patrons stand on rafts in
more than knee deep water while pouring down
their particular brands. Boats are still able 10
take N hut NTH lev md 4
rise goes much farther il will be impossible for
freight TO reach the wharf boats and business
will have to be suspended pending fall
In South st. Louis frame houses and other
light material are mere sport for the rising
waters and the losses by the Hood increases each
day.
The Missouri Pacific's southern wards are now
in serious danger and all the morning msnufac-
turers Of the south end shut down.
destructive cyclone passed over ". Louis
county yesterday contributing 10 the MISERY Of
the hood-stricken inhabitants. A funnel
shaped cloud wrecked several farm houses.
Great damage done to crops, trees and fences.
RIVER RISING THIS MORNING.
At am. the river had passed the thirty -six-,
foot mark and was still slowly rising.
The ware houses at 72l to 739 s. Main street
fell in yesterday with thousands of dollars
worth Of cement, tobacco, sugar, malt and bar
ley, which will be total loss, having all gone
INTO tne Water. lnt tAuct loss cannot De
given.
A special from Sioux City. Ia., SAYS: A par
tial list Of the persons known 10 have been
drowned is as follows: Frank Henderson, wife
and child; two boatmen, names unknown; A. r.
McClarert, an unknown Scandinavian nj
loungs ice house, Mrs. Peter Rasmussen and
two children, two unknown men near 4th street,
unknown man at Sioux City and Northern
yards.
THE MISSOURI ON THE RAMPAGE.
A special from Nebraska City, Neb.. saws:
The Missouri is on the rampage at this city.
The water has risen three feet during the
past twenty-four hours and Iowa bottoms are
flooded. Heavy rain, accompanied by violent
winds last night did much damage I'm this local
ity. The packing houses dam gave way One
freak Of the wind lifted b. Perrin's wagon shop
fifteen feet a square TO a height Of twenty-five
feet over his barn where il landed right side up.
SAIL, Iowa, May l9-This town is five feet
under water. The damage TO property and
stock is immense. All business is at q stand
still.
BOONE, Iowa, May l9.-The rivers are all
swollen as they have not been since the foods
Of 1876, and many bridges are washed away.
Water covers all the lower tracts Of the land.