Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-05-21
ALL UNDER WATER.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 1.-THE Mis-
eouri river Is still rising Rain is fall
tug 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
every house from its foundation.
There is a chance that the river will
change it's course here, throwing open
n great deal of valuable switch land
that is now inaccessible on account of
Mhe 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
Calvin, a railway section boss, was
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 rapid
rate that City Engineer Ellis ordered
the street commissioners to fill up
the sewers with sand. Wagon
load after wagon.lo 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 overflowed 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 less is
estimated by steamboat captain 20 be
more than $3.50 900. Arrow Creek has
sent message to this city for relief,
saying that every ybody is being. driven
out of house and home.
OMAHA, Neb., March 14.-There is
anxiety among business men intere sted
in property in the lower part of the
eastern portion of the city. The river
threatens every moment to return to it's
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
a 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 ole
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 14.-The river at
p. m. passed the danger line, 80 feet
and is still rising. The situation al
along the river front grows worse
60, ,,l,
are to 10 feet under water. Switch
men stand neck-deep to throw switches
and engines push loaded cars with Ions
trains of empties between them and tn,
engines in order to keep in shallow
water and prevent the extinguishing o
the fires. The Farmers elevator is nov
600 yards in the river, but is surrounded
by dead water and in little danger. b,
the gas works the bank is caving il
and 100000 bushels of coke are threat
ened. Arsenal island is washing away
Part of it is gone and more is going.
At Brooklyn 200 acres of trucl
patches are destroyed. Chouteau is
land is under water, thus running 800
acres of farming land for the season
Gabonet island, l,5OO acres, is all unde
water. Carr island is inundated an
the people living in all these places ar
dependent upon the neighboring settle
ments for shelter. The rise is going O
at an inch an hour.
To add to the distress in North S,
Louis two large sewers have bee
broken by the pressure of back waite
and are now aiding to flood that sectio
of town. From all the low points 4
the city near the river the people ar
moving to higher ground, and it will b
many days before they get back agair
DEs MONIES, Ia, May 14.-For tn
first time this season the situation her
is becoming serious. The Des Moine
river and the Raccoon river are far owe
their banks and have already made sa
havoc with farm land and city res
dence property.
BEARDsTowN, ILL.,, May 14.-The sit'