Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-04-01
LOSS IN THE MILLIONS
ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE BY
RAGING FLOODS.

Indiana md Ohio the Chief suffesers
by foundations Which in Some Sec.
tions Have Reached an Unprece.
denied Height-Trafic Suspended.
People Driven from Home.
Flood damage reaching into the millions
md Ohio. Thousands OF families are
homeless and many of them are dependent
upon charity. Many cities report that the
water is at the highest stage ever known.
Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania and West
Nirginia also report rivers turned into
raging torrents, but in those States the
damage thus far done is comparatively in-
significant.
Two railroad wrecks have resulted from
washouts. One was in Ohio, where u Bal
timore and Ohio passenger train went
through a bridge near Frazeysburg. The
other n the more serious one was near
Columbus, Ind, where a wrccking train
met disaster.
Property loss in Indiana will exceed
$1,000,O00. All the streams are overflow
ing their banks, houses and railroad
tricks have been washed away, and grow
ing crops have been seriously damaged.
Near Greensburg. the loss of two lives is
reported. Franklin has 200 homeless FAM
lilies to care for, while Shelbyville has 300
and Nashville $50. These are simply
sample figures from entire hoosierdom.
Throughout central and southern Ohio
all the railroads are either crippled OF
totally disabled. The damage in the State
may amount to $1,500,000. Dayton re-
ports the conditions worse than ut any
period since 1866, when the central part
OF that populous city was inundated. Del
aware has four business blocks under
water and n much wider territory threat
ened. Canal Dover is cut off from the
outside world, and unless the waters soon
subside many lives will he placed in jeop-
ardy. The list of homeless in GAINESVILLE
foots up to 1000. In Columbus 1000 per-
sons are imprisoned in the upper stories of
dwellings i'll the western part of the city.
An idea of the Hood conditions in vari-
Gus sections can be CLEANED from condens-
ed press dispatches given below:
Indiana.
The White river is still rising.
The Richmond electric light plant is
drowned out.
The canal north of Warsaw overfowed,
flooding the entire vicinity. !,
Between 100 and $50 Rushville families
have been driven from their homes.
AT st. Paul, the Bickhart flour mills
have been washed out and destroyed.
The property loss in Decatur County is
about 100000, and two lives have been
lost in the flood.
Several bridges on the Big -Four and
Cambridge railroads are out, us well as
ten miles of roadbed.
The loss to the farming community
around Shelbyville is estimated at from
100000 to 100000.
Many important towns are temporarily
cut off IL trains have been entirely aban-
dOned ON some roads.
The northeastern section of indianapolis
is submerged, and many people have been
driven from their homes or forced to the
second stories.
Between thirty and forty miles OF track
Of the Louisville division of the Pan
Handle are washed away between Louis.
vile and indianapolis.
Ohio.
Hundreds are homeless at Newark.
AT Cincinnati the Ohio will probably
reach tifty-tive feet.
Floods have caused n shutdown of near.
ly every factory in Hamilton.
II. G.. Ross was killed as n bridge coll
lapsed in Muskingum County.
-Four thousand GAINESVILLE people have
been driven from their homes. and few of
them saved any household effects.
-Four squares of Delaware business
houses are under water, md scores Of
wagon IL foot bridges have been carried
away.
Nearly all railroads in central and SOUTH
ern Ohio IRE either crippled OF totally dis.
abled because of washouts or destroyed
bridges.
The Tuscarawas river has broken loose
in II of the biggest floods ever known,
and Canal Dover is entirely cut off from
the outside world.
A bridge over the wakatomika creek at
Frazeysburg gave.way while a Baltimore
and Ohio passengeS train was crossing,
and the whole train Mas submerged. Pas
sengers crawled to the tops of the cars
and were soon taken Away by farmers in
sk:iffs. No one was serion-sy injured.