The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-03-06
The Middle West Again Swept BY
Cyclones and Floods.
RAILWAY SERVICE BADLY CRIPPLED.
Telegraph Wires Down In Many 'eo''o"''
som. Loss of Life Reported-famiiie
Forced to Leave Their Homes-ihre'
Inches Rainfall in One Nis"'

an the lo.v lying purts of the city were
soon under water. The river Desp0te''
which drains about twelve square mics
~ the clty's western suburbs oVerho"eo
lis hanks, and the villages OF Cneieeiin"Ni'
c,ifton Howard, Benton, EAendale anu
,,,,.o,,,o,a vvere water bound. The track
OF tho Frisco railway was covered. Inc
river Desperes, ordinarily is Inches oeep'
was y feet deep and % mile WIDE but
ona railway track, the Missouri facilc'
WAS above water. ,,... ,.o,,,a
foot bridge at the SuDielt-aNonuo
crossing was carried away, ana wv .' mn
were. drowned. one OF them was AnNiS"
brown. q negro, and the other -
known. People living IN the no0uSu -.
trtct took refuge in the tops OF lhelr
s-.',,sos Vbe pollce and volunteers
brought boats from Forest PARK L"Ae'
and began taking the unfortui~tteS "
nign ground. This work went on li-l oas
urht when the water receoed rApluiy;
t-bs loss will be enormous. Along the MIL
creek Valley, which bisects the clly nv
the Northern and Southern DIVISIONS, 'Ne
flow was too great to be cdIIleu OH "
sewers and great damage was uono "
rahway tracks The Mil creek sewer.
and gave way at two points.
TRAINS ABANDONED.
Tha Iron Mountain tracks along ths
river were washed out at three points.
but traffic IS continued over the LIMOS
Central to Cairo. Every Incoming tralh
was late from two 10 four hours. On tne
east side OF the Mississippi river the Hoou
did great damage, principally 70 ral.loies JUS
arro Vandalla and Baltimore and ONO
creek near the bluffs, grew 10 the pro-
porfions OF a lake near CollinsVlilo anu
e9eevville Serious washOutS at these
noiuts caused the abandonment OF az
trains on the Vandalla and Baltimore ana
OHIO. ,r.,,.
There are two breaks on the Nandalla
road near COllinsvile, two hundred yatus
wide. and the water is rushing under 'ne
frark i'm torrents. The loss 10 farmers IN
me American bottoms and south TO Ches-
| ter Bluffs, viii be very heavy, as lehceS'
ucht structures, and live stock were car
! ried away. ,e.,,-<,
CINCINNATI. o.. March 5.-The ono
river is rising rapidly. There mas peen
| a steady downpour of rain for the last
| fifteen hours. Mill creek is roaring tor
rent half a mile in width. Great damage
is reported from the valley and many
persons have been compelled 10 ny Ior
| their lives. D..
| Ar pane street. Cummnsville, there Is
| danger OF a devastating flood. Bridges
in this and adjoining counties nave Deeh
| threatened. WashOuts are reported from
| AM points. and railroad travel Is greatly
| imneded. The rainfall in this city last
| night was more than three inches.
| AZ milford fifty families have been COM
| pelled to move out on account OF the
| flood. The dttle Miami river at that point
| is rising - the rate Of u foot aand
| half an hOor
| flood are those that enter Cincinnati from
| tho South. The Cincinnati division or the
! BIG -Four ran no trains to-day, neither did
| the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton.
| The baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
| reported more washOuts than ever before
| In it's history. 10 trains are running on
the Ohio division.
| The Pennsylvania tracks are under wa
| ter for some distance out The Indian
| Hiu bridge was carried away by the food
| this afternoon. The Cincinnati, Ports
mouth and Virginia trains are blocked by
| high water at Batavia Junction.
IN WEST VIRGINIA
| HUNTINGTON, W. VA, March 0.-The
| hurricane I'm Southern West Virginia at
| o'clock this afternoon proved far more
disastrous than the recent flood. Hun
! dreds Of buildings were unroofed, ana
| many of the smaller ones were upset. Inc
| south end OF Marshall College building
| collapsed. causing a panic, and many la
! dies falnted. and had 10 be carried from
| the building. In Central City every in
dustrv in town suffered "a heavy loss,
! while the massive chimneys on Washing
ton School fell through the roof and went
| TO tho second floor. \ dozen children
were moro or less injured. Several
| churches were badly damaged. Trees
| falling across the railroad tracks have
| plralyzcd travel and crippled the tele-
graph wres.
DAMAGE KENTCUK.
| LOUISVILLE. KY, March 5.-A cy-
clone ala considerable damage in Central
Kentucky this morning At Winchester
| several buildings were unrO0fed, and
three new ones demolished AT Mount
Sterling the great McBrayer distihery
was unroofed. The Louisville and Nash
vile round house. at Rowland, was wreck
cd and property suffered scverly at
Stanford.
southern Indiana wus flooded last
night by the heaviest rain I'm years.
The baltimore and Ohio Southwestern has
three heavy washouts near Seymour and
the Pennsylvania two. The bridge on the
Evansville and Richmond. between Bed
ford and Seymour. IS washed out One
train was wrecked By going through
culvcrt.
sTEEPLE BLOWN DOWN.
| NASHVILLE. TENN, March "a
| viporous brief but terrific cyclone struck
| Nashville to-day about y:3O clocA ooins
| considerable damage. For the third I'm,
| since its erection nearly half century
40. the sky-piercing splre which adorni
| the McKendree church, possibly tA'
| largest and wealthiest southern Methodls
| congregation Ia the Union. has suffered
| injury This time il has been completel,
wrecked lifted from its base and scat
| tered over the roofs OF adjacent business
| bouees and the nearby alleys. kumOr
we're al once circulated that the Centen
NAL buildings mad been wrecked, but
| strange 10 saw. they came through IN
| scathcd. Scores OF the downtown bIsi
moss houses were unrOofed. and the Ma
sonic Temple slightly damaged. NJ
fatalities have been reported as yet.
NEWSPAPER TRAIN WRECKED.
AURORA, IND, March 5.-The fas
newsnaper train, which left Cincinnati
al 3.45 O'Clock this morning Tor 81 Loul
over the Baltimore and Ohio Southwest
| ern railroad, was wrecked Tour mile
| yvest Of Cochran this morning. The en-
| eine and tender were hurled into Hood
sd creek. Six hundred feet OF track CAV
wav beneath the moving train. and IN
| engine plunged INTO the water. For
tinoa IL was believed that both fireman
and engineer had been killed. but IN
,rainmen found them later in trees. The.
Nd managed TO make their way from n
wreck and had swan 10 the branches
from which they were finally Rescued.
CAUSES A WRECK.
LOVELAND, o.. March 5.-An extr
FREIGHT crashed into Express l05 on In
Raifimore and Ohio Southwestern rail
Wv west bound from Pittsburg. nea
Uiirs station. this morning. A torrent @
water had carried away part of the trac