Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-08-03
THE RECENT HOT WINDS
spread Destruction over a Large
Area.
Vast Fields Of Corn and Hay Rendered
Worthiess.-A Gloomy Outlook for
Thousands Of Farmers, Many
Of Whom are Already
Leaving Their
IOmes


arriving on the trains from the
East report widespread destruction
through Kansas aud Nebraska to
all kinds OF crops on account q, the
hot winds, Superintendent Camp
Dell. of the Burlington road, says
that figures will hardly express the
damage that has been wrought
within the past week,
Two weeks ago it was estimated
by experts that Nebraska contrib
uted 400, 100000 bushels of corn to
the worlds product of 1894. Mr.
Campbell prophrsies that it will be
necessary to ship corn into many
counties of Nebraska IN order for
the farmers to live another season.
Hnndieds OF square miles of tli~
finest looking c0Iu hangs dry and
lifeless over an extent of territory
as large as the States of Pennsyl-
vania or New York.
The reports from the lines oi the
Union Pacific, Burl ngton, Rock
Island, Missouri, Pacific ana Santa
Fe are all OF the same tenor. Pas
sengers from their car windows
look out upon vast fields OF corn
and thousands of acres OF hay ren>
dered absolutely worthless by the
breath of the simoOm. In many
places the farmers anticipated the
cJrn destruction that was borne
upon the air, and several days ago
they began to cut the corn as it
stood green in the 6ells. Their OH
iect was tn save the cora for fodder.
Thousands of farmers stood help
less along the fields, watching
With gloomy foreOodings while the
dreaded blast from the southwpS'
did it's deadly work. Their only
hope IS that bOuntrOus rains ma,
start another growth before it is too
late IN the season.
Travellers also report that the
highways leading eastward through
, Nebraska and Kansas are alreaI,
tbronged with dIshrarteneh men
who have abandoned their homes
aud are hucryiug toward Iowa aud
Missouri for relief from the almost
unbearablo heat. A similar sc~n-
has not been Witnessed since 1873.
when the hot winds almost drpop>
ulated Western Kansas.
The year following came the
grass. hopper plague, fIom which
It required Kansss ten years to re.
cover.
Railroad men look on the advent
of hot winds In Kansas aud Ne
braska this year as vastly more
damaging to the railroad interest
than the recent strike. The strike
was of short continuance, but the
falling of in the crops in the re-
e,ons east OF the mountains will bp
keenly felt by the railroad COM
banies for many months to COM.
The disaster will be felt in Col0>
RADIO in many ways. one of which
will be the inability of a large re-
gion to buy coal Wined IN tue
Rocky mountains. Colorado cattle.
men have been accustomed 20 ship
their cattle to Kausas and Nebras-
ka to be fatteued for the market. &.
With the corn more than fifty pei
cent. short, 1t will be a serious nat
ter With the cattlemen To fud "A
fattening ground for their stock.
Denver has drawn large quantities
of produce of all kinds from The
region bich has teen afflicted with
the not winds, A new source +"
supply must be found. Reports al
the railway offices also show thai
there Is great danger of fires along
the railway tracks aud the roads
will be required to take extra pre-
cautious to prevent extensive prn'r;r
H,es, rhe dry grass will be con-
stant source 0t danger for months
to come