Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-04-29
FLOOD STILL ON.
Portions Of the West Inundated
and Situation Getting Worse.
DISASTROUS Breaks OF Levees Near Keoltulr,
Ia.-Alarm at New Orleans-Kansas
and Nebraska Visited Oltla-
homa Flooded.

KEoKUK Ia, April 27.--Hunt levee,
on the Illinois side, ten miles below
this city, broke yesterday morning UNI
expectedly and threw the inhabitants
OF the district in the widest state of
alarm. Twenty-Five thousand acres of
rich land will be overhowed. People
had felt secure and were not prepared
for the break. A wild rush to get
families and stock out of the bottoms
Is being made. Much stock will be
drowned and there may be loss of
human life. The levee at Gregory,
Mo-, broke yesterday and the water
has been running through the town
like mill race. Thousands of bushels
OF corn belonging to KeolSuls and
Missouri parties are in danger of
being swept away. The Egyptian
levee at Alexandria is practically use
less. The water has come upon the
rear of the levee and the town is under
water.
All Missouri bottoms between st.
Louis and Quincy are overlooked about
four feet. Alexandria, Sprawls and
Gregory, Mo-, are inundated. Only
about 100 square feet of land in Alex
andria remains above the water. The
crest Of the flood Is here.
Kansa0 and Nebraska Visited.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 96.-Special
dispatches tend to show that the ter
ritory including portions of Kansas,
Nahroclxo ond TO,ya acknowledgement tla
heaviest transforms in their history
between midnight and morning Sun
day. In northern Kansas more rain
fell within six hours than often falls
In six months. Many small buildings
were washed away and there was
actual fear that entire towns would
be swept off into the swelling
streams. The rise of the water in
parts of Nebraska was so rapid that
people sleeping in the first stories of
their homes narrowly escaped drown
ing in their beds. They were COM
PEELED to take refuge in the upper
stories and on the roofs, and in many
instances, rescuers, with boats, took
half-dressed people from trees, into
which they had climbed in their forced
retreat.
New Orleans Much Alarmed.
New ORLEANS, April 2s,--A break
occurred yesterday on Melrose planta-
ton on the opposite bank of the river,
about so miles below the city.
The levee is of clay, about five
feet high, and the break, caused by an
old wooden rice fume, is 35 feet wide
and four feet deep, The plantation is
flooded and the Grant Isle railroad is
under three inches of water. A feel
ing of alarm is active and general.
The wall of water has been rising to
an overwhelming height at Vicksburg.
With the river here at 10 feet above
low water, this means 20 feet.
Floods Reach Oklahoma.
GUTHRIE, Ok, April 2S.-The hardest
rain ever known in the'history of Okla
homa fell yesterday, For over 19 hours
it rained in torrents. Southeast of
the city there were two cloudbursts
The Cimarron and Cottonwood rivers
and small creeks are overlooking their
banks and inundating cotton and
wheat fields. 1t is feared great dam
age has been done to young cotton.
Near Edmond several good farms
have been destroyed Yesterday
evening the big bridge leading to
the waterworks plant went out,
taking with it 100 feet of ten-inch pipe.
This knocks out the city's water sup
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