The record-union., 1897-03-24
it's banks and encroached upon the

it's banks and encroached upon the
neighboring marshes.
Residents of Thatcher's Park Station
are going about from house to house in
boats, all land communication being
cut off by the waters of the Des PLANES
River, which has overfowed its banks
in that vicinity.
SITUATION IN THE NORTHWEST.
OMAHA, March 23.-The river at this
point shows rise of but six inches for
the day. 1t was stationary at 14.6 feet
from noon till n'ghtfall A special from
Sioux City thi afternoon says the
river there shows a fall of two feet, be
lieved to be on account of gorges formed
above. The Big Sioux River is rising
again.
Mrs. Maxsey, who lived short dis
tance above Sioux City, was drowned
to-day. The Big Sioux River has sur
rounded her house, and she attempted
to escape
A special to the Omaha Bee" from
Sioux Falls, S. D., says: The Big
Sioux at 6 p. m. was 16 inches lower
than at the same hour yesterday, which
was high water mark since 1881, but
feet below the mark of that year Mil
waukee railroad officials arrived at
noon to-day with dynamite to blow out
the big gorge which holds fast above
the town. Two men started in boat
across the bottoms to fix a telephone
wire, an ice foe crushed the boat like
an eggshell, and the men drifted 6OU
feet. They fastened themselves to a
telephone pole with climbers, and were
rescued two hours later, nearly frozen.
Water on the bottoms is 10 feet in
places. Much unthreshed grain on the
bottoms is ruined.
THE MISSOURI RISING.
KANSAS CITY, March 23.-The Mis-
souri, River rose rapidly here to-day
and is still coming up at the rate of
nearly two inches an hour At 6:3O
this morning, the gauge showed 14.1
feet, a rise of 2.S feet since yesterday
morning, and by noon it was about a
foot higher.
MISSOURI TOWNS SUFFER.
ST. LOUIS, March pa special to
the Republic" from charlottesville,
Mo-, says:
The river here rose one inch and a
quarter during the last twentyfour
hours, and continues to weaken the
levees. The situation here is serious.
A terrible windstorm and a three-six-
teenth inch rainfall occurred between
7:30 and 10 o'clock last night, and the
wind blew a gale to-day. The situa-
ton just across the river grows more
u IL. H. - e.
of property and of live stock is fright
full. Even with the three relief tugs,
many have lost all their earthly pos
sessions and barely escaped with their
lives and families. On one little saw
dust heap, half an acre square, near
Tiger Tail Mill, on the Tennessee side,
were crowded twenty people and hun
dred head of live stock, all of which
were picked up by one of the tugs and
carried to Dyersburg.
The crevasse just below the town is
to-day more than 200 feet wide, and
the water is pouring in over the coun-
try. Contrary to expectations, this
water is nowidriving families out in the
upper end of the county
The Vernon is now near Tyler, and is
expected here with a barge of people
and stock. No lives are reported lost.
A guard shot man on the Arkansas
levee last night who was in the act of
cutting the levee, and threw his car
cass into the river No one knew his
name, and no one cared.
If the river rises six inches more 1t
Will sweep over the top of three miles
of levee north of here like a cataract,
unless the people are able to keep
ahead of the rise, which they hope to
Go. The water is now eighteen inches
above the crown of the old levee. Ev-
cry square inch of available room is
occupied by refugees from the flooded
districts. Three families are occupy
ing two deserted school houses and one
family is in the new Jail. The Metho-
dist Church is full of refugees, who are
Eow occupying the two gin and grist
mills.
There are six inches of water in the
Gayoso County Courthouse. Only two
houses are above the water there, and
all the rest of that town has from four
inches to six feet of water.