Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-12
RIVERS RISE AGAIN.
Rains Amounting Almost to a
Cloudburst Do Great Damage.
MANY TOWNS HAVE BEEN INUNDATED.
Railroads Washed Out and Trains
Tied Up-Some Loss of Life Re-
pOrted-Ruin by a Furious
Hurricane.

Cincinnati, March 6.-The recent
heavy rains, amounting almost to a
cloudburst, have caused sudden SWELL
ing of all the little streams and there
will certainly be rise in the Miami
und Licking rivers, which will imme-
diately swell the Ohio at this point.
Already great damage has been done
to the gardens along Mill creek, which
Is a raging torrent. Both the steam
eailroad and the electric line to College
hill are closed on account of flooded
tracks. Great loss has been caused
throughout the country about Cincin-
natl from the overflow from small
streams.
caused by the heavy rains of Thursday
night. The town of Lockland, o., is
inundated. At Somminsville, in the
northern part of the city, the flood is
doing more harm than the recent high
water of the Ohio, because the latter
was still, back water, while this is rag
ing torrent. Houses weakened by tie
Ohio river were moved from their foun-
dations by this overflow. All small
streams are swollen and the rain still
falls heavily, while in Cincinnati the
low-lying smokes produces an almost
inky darkness. Anderson's Ferry is in
undated from surface flood, causing
more loss than the high water of the
Ohio river. All the houses on the river
front are in danger. North of the city
the flood is beyond precedent.
a. nj n, %bo - ,.,.,,, 80.
~ feet 5h inches and rising 1H.inches
per hour. 1t is expected that before the
danger line, As feet, is reached, the tide
shall have begun to recede. The damage
from the Ohio SO far has been trit1ing
in comparison to that of the flood of
last week.
Railroads Suffer Greatly.
The only railroads not affected by
the flood are those that enter Cincinnati
from the SOUTH, The Cincinnati di-
vision of the Big Four ran no trains Fri
day. The Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
ern reported more washouts than ever
before in its history. No trains are rum
ming on the Ohio division. The Cincin-
natl, Portsmouth d. Virginia trains are
blocked by high water at Batavia juno
ton. Every railroad by which Cincin-
natl may be reached from Columbus
is cut Off by the floods. A landslide at
Trautman's Station carried away part
OF the Big Four railroad track and
covered other parts, preventing any
trains Oh that road reaching this city.
The newspaper train on the Baltimore
K Ohio Southwestern ran into washout
at Cochran, Ind. The engine and tender
plunged into hole. No one was re-
ported hurt. Passenger train lO5, from
Pittsburgh to Cincinnati, was stopped
by wnshout near Hills Station. A
freight following in the heavy fog ran
into and wrecked the rear sleeper. One
person was seriously hurt and ten
others slightly.
Damage mt franklin, Ind.
Franklin, Ind, March 6.-Thursday
nights rain raised the water in the
streams in this vicinity higher than
ever before and much damage has re-
suited in this city. The Home avenue
bridge was washed out Friday morning
and other bridges are under water.
Main street is four feet deep in water.
Much damage is also reported from the
country and much more is anticipa ted
from the larger streams, which are
rapidly rising.
st. Louis Suburbs Wnterbound.
st. Louis, March Cat midnight
Thursday night the rain which had
fallen steadily for 36 hours suddenly
became of cloudburst proportions and
all the low lying parts of the city were
soon under water. The river Des Peres,
which drains about 12 square miles of
the city's western suburbs, overfiowed
its banks and the villages of Chelten-
ham. Clifton, Howard, Benton, Ellen
aale and Edgewood were waterbound.
The tracks OF the Frisco road was COW
cred. The river Des Peres, ordinarily IS
inches deep, was IL feet deep and mile
wide. But one railway track, the Mis-
souri, Pacific's, was above water.
Two Men Drowned.
| a footbridge at the Sublette avenue
crossing was carried away and two men
were drowned. One of them was An
drew Brown, negro, and the other is
unknown. People living in the flooded
district took refuge in the tops of their
houses. The police and volunteers
brought boats from Forest Park lake
and began taking the unfortunates to
high ground. This work went on till
daylight, when the water receded rap
idly.
| LOSS VIII BE Heavy.
The loss will be enormous. Along the
Mill creek valley which bisects the city
into the northern and southern divi-
sions the flow WAS too great to be car
ried off by sewers and great damage
was done to railway tracks. The Mill
creek sewer, the largest in the city,
was overlooked and gave way at two
points.
The Iron Mountain tracks along the
river were washed out at three points,
though traffic is continued over the Illi-
nois Central to Cairo. Every incoming
train was late from two to four hours.
On the east side Of the Mississippi river
/, the food did great damage, principally
to railroads. The Vandalia and B. & o.
are the NEST serious sufferers. Canteen
creek, near the bluffs, grew to the PRO-
portions of lake near Collipsyille and
Caseyville. Serious washpHts at these
points caused the abandonment of all
trains on the Vandalia and b. Il q.
| There are two breaks on the Vandalia
road near ColliDsyille, 200 yards wide
| and the water is rushing under the
track IN torrents. The loss to farmers
in the American bottoms and south to
the Chester bluffs will be very heavy
/ &C s<rl,% 81,