Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-07-14
AL MOST FIVE
INCHES OF RAIN
TREMENDOUS PRECIPITATION oc-
Ours IN IOWA.
STREAMS OUT OF BANKS

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Bottom Lands Flooded, Railroad
Tracks Inundated and Trains De-
Iayed-Damage Will Run Far Up
Into the Thousands-Rivers Rising
Continually.
Oskaloosa, Iowa, July 10.-Almost
five inches of rain have fallen in Ma
haska county during the past twenty
four hours. All streams are out of
their banks, and damage in this city
and surrounding country is general.
Wholesale Devastation.
| Des Moines, July 10.-The Des
| Moines river reached 20 feet, the high
water mark of '92, at midnight At
| that hour the levee on the north side
| of the town broke, flooding a large
residence section. Most of the fam
lilies had removed the evening before.
A small break occurred in the Raccoon
river levee just after midnight and
large force of men was attempting to
hold the flood in check. Two Rock
Island eastbound passenger trains due
here Tuesday night are held at Com
merce, twenty miles west, where the
| tracks are covered with water. Fifty
or sixty families were driven from their
! homes Tuesday. The false work In
the new Sixth avenue bridge which
| iobf
| swept away five spans of the Chicago
and Great Western railroad bridge over
the Des Moines. Communication with
the city by wagon bridges over streams
is being prevented because of the dan
ger. All railroad trains are from to
hours late.
| Railroads Suffer.
Sioux City, July 10.-Damage to the
extent of many thousands of dollars
have been done in the bottom lands
southeast of Sioux City by floods.
Rain ceased falling at noon and the
worst is believed to be over. Rail-
roads suffered severely from washouts
and their loss will be heavy Farmers,
however, are the greatest sufferers.
Reports from towns nearby tell of
heavy loss Otto, Hornic, Luton and
Mapleton are flooded and surrounded
! by vast expanses of water.
Tracks Inundated.
Kansas City, July 10-The rainfall
in Kansas City thus far in July is four
inches in excess of the normal for the
whole month. Rain fell generally yes
terday in Kansas, Nebraska and west
ern Missouri. Many passenger trains
arrived here late because Of inundated
tracks. The Missouri river is rising
steadily and will reach the danger
point before morning Rain is fall
ing. Andrew Erickson, farmer, was
, drowned at ST. Marys, Kansas, yes
terday.
Raccoon River Rises.
Des Moines, July 10.-The Raccoon
river at Abel, after being stationary
all day, began to rise rapidly last
night and shut off the electric light
plant, doing great damage.
Serious in Nebraska.
Lincoln, Neb., July 10.-The flood
situation here is becoming serious.
Reports of a rise in Salt Creek, south
Of here, caused the police to warn the
people to escape from the lowlands
A carload of flour donated to flood suf
ferers is being distributed.
Loss to Crops.
Springfield, ILL.,, July 10.-The state
board of agriculture has received re-
ports showing that in northern portion
OF the state about IL per cent. of the
growing corn crop has been destroy ed
by recent rains; in the central por-
ton 8 per cent, in the northern per
cen, an average of per cent for the
entire state. In the central division
IL per cent of the wheat has been lost,
in the northern part 6, in the southern
/ Z per cent. The loss of oats in the
state is about II per cent.
Nebraska Loss a Million.
Omaha, July 10.-At Bennington the
Papio river is mile in width. A num-
Der of houses have been washed from
their foundations and 20 families
forced to abandon their homes. Fiji
teen hundred feet of the Elkhorn track
disappeared during the night, and sew
eral trains were blocked on both sides
of the washouts. A great number of
bridges have been washed out and
crops on low ground are a total loss.