The record-union., 1895-12-25

IOSSSSSlOuS Dy Tue wa
KANSAS CITY (Mo.), Dec. 24.-Rain
began falling here last evening, and has
continued uninterruptedly 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
are rising, and it is feared that the
high water of last week will be greatly
augmented. On the bottom farms fenc-
ing, haystacks, shock corn and many
outbuildings have been swept away,
and many animals have been drowned.
II the rain continues for twentyfour
hours longer the river valleys will be
devastated.
Several lives are reported to have
been lost along the Usage Valley.
Word from Tuscumbia, on the Usage,
is that more than 1000 bushels of
corn within small radius of bottom
land were washed away last night, and
thousands of railroad ties and bridge
timbers have f1oated away. The Usage
River is now higher than it was in
1882, when it broke the record.
"A telegram says the N1eI dI1SC 10
higher than it ever was before. The
Missouri is not dangerously high, but is
rising and promises to be booming
soon.
Warsaw, the county seat of Benton
County, is threatened with destruction
by floods from the Usage River. The
Sedalia, Warsaw and Southwestern
passenger station is adrift. The Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas tracks have
been washed away in Vernon County.
At Clinton, Mo-, rain has been falling
the last twelve hours, and Grand River
is rising rapidly again. The Usage Is
rising rapidly at Rockville, and has
damaged the Missouri, Kansas ana
Texas Railway tracks so that trains
have not crossed for two days. All COM
munication with the South from here is
by the way of Kansas City.
The Oldest inhabitant has no recol-
lection of such a time as this before in
the country. Several families who were
camped on the White farm near Smith
field, Mo-, were reported missing, and
supposed to have been drowned. The
Russell boys, the oldest 16 years of
age, began a search for them, and IL
nally found them, thirteen men,
women and children, on wagon DoX
on a haystack, with a mile OF water
around them in every direction. These
lads conveyed them two at a time III
safety to land.
At Coffeyville, Kansas, the flood for
the past week is without a parallel so
far as the oldest settler can recall. The
heavy snowstorm of last Thursday has
gone off with a rain that has been pour
ing down almost necessarily Lor
twenty-four hours. This makes the
eighth day of continuous rain or snow.
Streams are out of their banks and
great damage is sure to result.
Cherokee Kansas, reports three
inches of water falling during the day,
and all the streams are out of their
banks.
At Arkansas City, Kansas. rain has
been falling steadily since before day
light this morning, and more water is
standing in the fields than has been
known for many years. The Arkansas
and Walnut Rivers are rapidly rising.
Joseph Cummings of Tuscumbia, Mo,
estimates that in small scope OF val
ley adjacent to that place no less than
100000 bushels of corn in the shock
was swept away by the flood. There is
no estimating the loss of ties and tim
bers at this time, but it will be very
heavy. Thousands of ties were on the
banks ready for rafting as no one
dreamed of such an unprecedented
freshet at this season of the year.
At Bagnell, the terminus of the JEFF
ferson City, Lebanon and Southwestern
branch of the Missouri Pacific, The
water is still three and half feet
deep in the station. The telegraph in
struments, after having been sub
merged several days, are just above the
top of the water now. A circular track
surrounds the yards at Bagnell, and
when the flood came along string OF
empty cars was run on this track 70
boom in the ties. The tops Of some of
these cars have been under water Cor
three days.
From all along the valleys of the
streams in this section are coming re-
ports of people driven from homes
ruined by the floods. In many instances
they have lost all of their possessions, |
and are destitute of food and clothing.
1t has been raining for the past twenty
four hours, not hard, it is true, but if
the rain prevails over the territory
drained by the Usage, still higher
water is feared.
STORM IN TEXAS.
DALLAS (Tex.), Dec. 24.-The worst
storm for years prevailed over North |
and Central Texas from midnight until
6 o'clock this morning. The wind blew
hurricane and rain fell in torrents |
Much damage has been done to rail-
ways, and all trains are late. Wash |
outs are reported on the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas road, and the Gulf, Colo
rado and Santa Fe in Northern Texas |
The Indian Territory and Arkansas
trains are reported from seven to twelve |
hours late, and trains on the Santa Fe |
are entirely lost SO far as ability to hear
from them is concerned. Telegraphic |
communication between Dallas and |
Kansas City and Dallas and New Or |
leans is badly crippled. There is a bad |
wreck reported on the Santa Fe north, |
but where it is, or how serious, has not |
been learned.
WHAT WE PAY TO THE BRITISH. |
Value of Imports From Great Britain |
and Her Dependencies.
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