New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-22
SNOU. UINU AND E.fIN

DISASTROUS FLOODS ~ THE SOUTH AND
WrsT-A BLIZZARD TRAVELLING EAST.
Salt Lake CITY March 2l-W. II. Bancroft. general
inanaecr II the Mountain Division Of the Union
Pacinc Railroad. arrived here yesterday and con-
nrracl the recent reports of serious washouts and
damage 70 railroad property IN Idaho Moat of the
damage was done by the br0 aNrg Of the Orchard
Irrigation Reservoir. when the water In a torrent
twelve feet hi@h rushed down and swept everything
before H. Near Owa.ucza lake three miles wide
has been formed by melting snow and an ice-gorge
In tho river valley The overflow caused thirty
families 10 seek safety in other localities Six hun
drcI Passengers were transferred at OwaincZa yes
terday and to-day the trans are running on ieSuar
schedule.
Hot Springs. Ark. March 2-Raln continued 20
fall all day yesterday. making the nfth day and
might IL has poured without ccasing. Tho Ouachltl
River IS sweeping away everything in It's path. No
trains have yet moved the Hot Springs Railroad.
as the track IS siill under water to the depth OF
nearly eight feet AZ point where It runs
near the river The fcrryboats along the river have
been swept away. and all farms in the bottoms have
been cleared Of fencing. - .r,, ,-,,...
pcricnccd a rainstorm. with thunder and lightning.
FOR forty-eight hours The rainfall for the twen,
~ four hOurg ending this morning WAS eight ana
onc-half Inches Trains are all delayed. the rivers
and creeks overnowed. and the lands much washed
and planting Is retarded. 1t Is the worst storm
oT enYer .o Col March 2The blizzard which ragged
ahot an u"H ~ o'clock last night Ii is showing hard
Ti,tin Rock Ark. March 2.-The greatest food
e., Tho history OF South Central Arkansas is now
on and that part Of the state is rapidly approach
INK the condition Of an inland ocean II has rainsi
"inos, inregsartly all over the state and In the
milan Territory for four days. Railway communi-
cation since Monday has been almost entirely cut
az frnr, The South 10 TsXarkana. and from recent
rnports II Is not improbable that the same, rate
awaits the country on the north ana west ana pos
siby the cast -, A. l., 80, .,o.o ,.o,..
,or,b v,ero made up In this city. Many feet more
| ~ Tho Iron Mountain tracks between her" and
,'.x1rkana have gone under water since Yesterday:
On the southern end Of the Cotton Belt road
rne ahondoned last night on account or the over
Now ~ the Red River tn" Iron Mountain
In ,ber trains over this road yesterday. and now
hnv can do nothing but wait until the water re-
ccdcs. ,,, y, rho boav,os, erou
,orr, since March 1915 broke over this region yes.
,crIv and mas continued until now. y foot OF
NO." ios fallen and with high north wind has
| driffed badly cattle AID sheep on the ranges VIII
,nr ,orri6lv and tho loss vii! BE- heavy. The
s:orm extends west as f1r as Casper ,Wsyo.' and
ar horo' lost as far as heard hut business IS nearly
D,snen1ca The Elkhorn and Burlington railways
ha,ie NO, run any trains to-day. the latter having
nhandmncl lie trains. and the former has four pas
ncer irains stuck in tho snow between here and
! Hay Springs. and two between Lusk and Douglass