The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-10
FLOODS CAUSE
HEAVY LOSSES
Damage to Crops Alone Will
Reach Million Mark.
CATTLE AND HOGS DROWNED
MIDDLE WEST INUNDATED
HUNDREDS HOMELESS.

DES MONIES, Ia, July e.-The con-
III tinued rains have forced nearly
all Iowa streams from their
banks, and the destruction Of crops,
livestock and other property is assum-
ing immense proportions. 1t is impossi-
BILE to estimate the damage from the
indefinite reports received
The damage is especially extensive
in the central, northern, western and
southwestern parts of the state. The
valleys of the Sioux and Maple rivers
are flooded. and Woodbury. and Monons.
counties are under water The Iowa
river at Marshalltown is the highest
since 1881. Many country bridges have
been destroyed. Cattle and hogs have
been drowned in large numbers in the
Iowa valley At Cedar Rapids 81
inches of rain has fallen since July /
The Cedar Rapids river is out of its
banks, and many families have been
forced from their homes. Numerous
bridges have been swept away in Lynn
county.
The Skunk river and Squaw creek
are out of their banks. and near the
confluence in Storey county thousands
of acres are flooded and crops prac-
tically destroyed. The continuous rains
are paralyzing business in Fort Dodge.
and the railroads are almost out OF
business. The west end of the city is
inundated and families are moving out.
The Des Moines river is up six feet at
that point. Because of the saturation
Of all the insulation on the wires, cleo
trio power has been shut of and the
town is in darkness
Near oxford, in Johnson county, in
a windstorm last night, Jacob Burkhart
a barn on the farm of Wesley Prush-
Half a dozen barns were destroyed in
the same neighborhood. Near North
Liberty the residence of Jacob Neid-
hiser was wrecked and the family had
a narrow escape. All over Johnson
county the storm destroyed windmills
and barns. The damage in the county
is estimated at 1000
A deluge visited the town OF Extra
last night and trains on the Audubon
branch Of the Rock Island could not
pass that point today The town is un-
der four feet of water.
The Raccoon river at Alden. after be-
ing stationary all day, began TO rise
rapidly tonight. 1t shuts of the cleo
tric plant and is doing great damage
Hundreds Are Homeless
The situation II Iowa today is more
serious than at any time in ten years.
The Des Moines, Iowa, Racine. Cedar
and Skunk rivers are from seven to-
fifteen feet above low water mark and
the lowlands are submerged. Hundreds
have been made homeless.
In Des Moines 200 persons have been
forced to abandon their homes, while
their livestock has been drowned and
truck gardens have been destroyed At
Des Moines and elsewhere throughout
the central section of the state con-
in, foil for f(,rr,-
hours, the precipitation at Boone and
Fort Dodge being reported as nearly
four inches.
Rivers continue to rise rapidly and
are filled with drift wood. False work
on a bridge has gone out and two other
bridges are in danger 4 bridge across
the Des Moines river near Boone is re-
ported 10 have gone out Levees in DeS
MOines are weakening. and if a break
occurs hundreds of acres of residence
property will be flooded.
The west half of Extra, a town on
the Rock Island system, is inundated,
and BarrytOWn is in a similar condi-
ton. Onawa, on the Illinois Central.
has experienced a rain almost amount
ing to a cIoudburst. as a consequence Of
which trains can neither enter nor
leave Sioux City from the south.
At Marshalltown the Iowa river has
reached its highest point, and numer-
Gus washouts have seriously delayed
trains on the Northwestern and Great
Western
The Des Moines river is rising two
inches an hour Many persons are
being removed from their homes in
small boats at MarshalItoWn and else
where.
The Milwaukee road has been COM
PEELED to abandon its main line at
Madrid owing to Washouts-
Jacob Burkhart was killed by tor
nado that struck Oxford late yester-
dav evening. devastating many farms
and causing great damage to orchards
and outbuildings-
Governor Cummins has ordered the
state encampment of militia at Fonda
To disband owing to the flood.