The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-04-28
RIVERS RISING AGAIN.
Rains swell the Streams Entering
the Mfssfssfppi.

k&ohmn SVEN the Sureoms
the Mississippi.
st. Louis, April 26.-Heavy rains have
swollen the Des Moines, Skunk and
| Iowa rivers, whose waters eventually
flow into the Mississippi river, and as
result at Warsaw, H., the outlook is
the worst so far this season. Maj.
Meigs, of the government engineers, is
acting in conjunction with the commits
s;oners of that drainage district and
protecting the levees. The north and
south forks of the Fabios river, flowing
through Missouri near Quincy, ILL.,, are
over their banks and all other streams
are booming. All the lowlands in the
vicinity of Hannibal, Mo-, are now sub
merged and the outlook is not encour-
aging.
Knoxville, Ia, April 26.-The heavy
rains have caused the overflow of Des
Moines and Whitebreast rivers and
ruined the lowlands for farming pur-
poses this season. All farming opera
tons are stopped for an indefinite pc
| Rod and farmers are much discour-
aged.
Creston, Ia, April 26.--The tremen-
dous rains caused the dam of the Cres-
ten Waterworks company at Summit
Lake to break. flooding the country be-
| low, drowning n great deal of live stock
and carrying out bridges. The city is
left without fire protection. The dam
was erected at a cost of about 500, 900
and is owned principally by Omaha cap
italists.
Ottumwa, Ia, April 26.-The river
| broke over the levees Saturday night
and flooded the bottoms, carrying sew
] eral houses down stream. In some
| places the water wns above the first
story of the houses. On the Burlington
main line the track was impossible.
The situation is critical, but it is be-
lieved the Burlington will keep the line
open. The Wabash and Milwaukee
track has gone here distance of 400
feet. Other roads are tied up. The Rock
Island is still abandoned, and miles of
track are under water. Twcnty-one
hundred feet of the Abba q Des Moines
branch of the Burlington are out at
Swan. The st. Joseph and Indianola
branches are abandoned. There are
several bad washouts. The Iowa Cen
trail has IL bridges out between Center
Vile and Moravia. No attempt is made
to run trains. The river is still rising
slowly.
Quincy, H., April 26.-Eight inches
more were added to the height of the
Mississippi flood Sunday, and the stage
is now IL feet inches. A rise of few
inches more will close the big mills and
factories on the river front, for the
water is in the easements of many of
them now, and a little more rise will
put out the fires under the boilers. The
st. Louis, Keokuk e. Northwestern
tracks are under three feet of water for
miles between here and Keokuk, and
trains have been abandoned. All the
steamboats, in this harbor were in serv-
ice Sunday, taking excursion parties
over the farms of the submerged bot
toms to view the damage wrought by the
flood. The steamers follow the wagon
roads as channels through the treetops,
and were able to go from seven to ten
miles inland.
Beatrice, Neb., April 26.-Heavy rain
caused the Blue river to overflow its
banks about one o'clock Saturday morn
ing. The river came up so rapidly that
people on the lowlands were unable to
escape from their dwellings and took
refuge in the upper stories and in tree
tops. Citizens with boats worked until
daylight rescuing the imprisoned PEG
PIE, and it is not thought any lives have
been lost, though the damage to prop
erty will be great. The work of rescue
was made more difficult by the torrents
Of rain falling and a wind which
amounted almost to gale.
Dallas, Tex, April ga special to
the News from Eufala, /. T., says: A
series of cloudbursts, heavy wind and
transforms occurred in and around Eu.
fala all of Saturday night and extended
over about 100 square miles of terri
tory. The rain fell in torrents and was
the heaviest for so years. Farmhouses
fences and crops were washed away t,
an extent amounting to a calamity.
Many trains are tied up at this poin'
and there is a series of washouts for q
miles that are impossible for the pres
, ent. The damage to crops is beyond
estimate. Nearly every acre of ground
for many miles in all directions will
have 10 be replanted. Many farms ar,
entirely under water. Several covered
J wagons hoSted down the South Cana
dian river, accompanied by small houses
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