New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-25
THE SOTTHVESTERN FLOODS.
RIVERS CONTINUE TO RISE AND DO DAM
AGE-TRAINS DELAYED AND FARM
LANDS OVERFLOWED.

Little Rock. Ark Dec. 2f-The Arkansas River
has continued to rise during the last forty-eigh.
hours The river is full OF trees brush and debris
At Fort Smith between 5000 and 10000 feet OF
bridge timber was washed away. the water rising
% rapidly that 1t impossible to save It, All
work for the time being has been abandoned.
Traffic on the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Rail-
road has been abandoned because Of the washing
away OF the steel bridge at Fort Gibson |. T. The
through Kansas City train. which leaves here at
a. m has no: made the trip since Friday.
The river :s only one foot below the danger line
81 Louis Dec 24-Yesterdays subsistence Of the
foods throughout the State was only temporary.
Rain and snow fell over large area
last night. and this morning again flooded
the streams rescue party left Seneca
this morning to aid Walter Hems and
Dave Beenan and their families who were forced
to take refuge in treeops in the Spring River bot
toms The Usage River for 200 miles is again over
it's banks. and rising. TIE damage throughout the
State has already reached the sl,o0O,OoO mark.
Dallas Tex Dec 2i-The storm for years
prevailed over Northern and Central Texas from
midnight until o'clock this morning. The wind
blew hurricane, and rain fell In torrents. Much
damage has been done 10 railways. and all trains
are late. Big washouts are reported on the Mis-
souri, Kansas and Texas Railroad and the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe in Northern Texas. The In
dian Territory and Arkansas trains are reported
from, seven TO twelve hours late and trains on the
Santa re are entirely lost far as ability 10 hear
from them is concerned Telegraphic commmunica-
ton between Dallas and Kansas City anu Dallas
and New Orleans is badly crippled. There is a bad
wreck reported on the Santa Fe system to the
north but where it is how serious has not been
learned.
Kansas CITY. Mo- Dec. 2i-Rain began falling
here last evening and has continued unnterruptedy
since throughout Missouri the storm has been
unusually severe At jefferson the heavy rain last
night caused great alarm in the Usage and Moreau
River valleys The already swollen streams
rising and It IL feared that the high water of last
week will be greatly augmented. on the bottom
farms fencing haystacks shock corn and many
outbuildIncs have been swept away. and many ami
mails have been drowned. and If the rain continues
for twentv-four hours longer the river valleys will
be devastated.
Several lives are reported to have been lost along
the Usage Valley.
Word from Tuscurb bia sixty miles M the Usage.
is that more than 10000 bushels or corn Wlthin
small radius OF bottom land was washed away last
night and thousands OF railroad ties and bridge
tmbers have foatcd away The Usage RIVER is
now higher than it was in lSs2 when II broke the
than II ever was before The Missouri Is not danger
ously high. but is rising and promises 70 De oooh'-
ing soon. - -, -,
The Missouri Kansas and Texas tracks nave
been washed away In Vernon County.
During the flood two families camped on the
White farm near Smthfeld Mo, were missing,
and were supposed to have been drowned The Rus
sci bows the eder under sixteen years OF age,
began search for them, and finally found them-
box a haystack, with a mile OF water around
them in every direction The lads conveyed them.
two at time, IN safety to land IN tba, section
At COneyvile. Kan. the weather IN tnat section
for the last week ls without a parallel The heavy
snow of last Thursday has melted. and rain has
been pouring down almost lncessantly for twenty
four hours. This makes the eighth day Of continu-
Qua rain or snow Streams are out OF their banks
and great damage is said to be the result