The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-19
MANY FARMERS
WILL BE RUINED
Crop Losses in Missouri EST.
mated at 81, 500, 600.
FLOODS ARE PLAYING HAVOC
MISSISSIPPI RIVER RAPIDLY
RISING.

! HEOKUK, Ia, July 1S.--Heavy rains
| n in central Iowa yesterday and to-
day are sending a flood down upon
prosperous Missouri farmers. which
win ruin many of them and cause
losses aggregaung at a conservative es-
innate S2.50O.OOO.
| Ihere seems to be no hope tonight
( for the country between the Mississippi
/ river and its Missouri bluffs between
/ keokuk and Hannibal. 300 square miles
mostly planted in corn. with some
thousands OF acres of wheat in the
snock. The water had touched the
danger line the first of the week. and
had begun TO recede, when heavy floods
| started again in the Des Moines. skunk
and Iowa rivers.
With a stage in the Des Moines
| river only three feet below the tops of
| the great levees, the river began TO
rise three inches an hour at its mouth
mere today, continuing until the factor
OF sa1ety was wiped out this evening.
A rise of one and half feet in a
snort time this morning at Ottumwa
ana a further rise throughout its
iength below the capital city was pre-
vented from running out freely by a
rise OF foot and a half at DayenDort
last night, increasing and coming down
rapidly
This afternoon the observer of the
weather bureau at Keokuk sent tele-
graphic warning to all points south
to prepare for danger. The crest ir
expected here Saturday or Sunday. The
egyptian levee. which stood the flood
Just receding after strenuous efforts 10
mold 1t, including the destruction of
farm houses to secure lumber for
STRENGTHENING the dixie. is only slightly
above the water now, and the coming
Hood in the Des Moines will top If
certainly. This Will let the water into
hundreds of square miles, including
the town of Alexandra, Mo.
Preparing for Danger.
The inhabitants there are preparing
Tor an overflow of the entire town to
depth of several feet The corn crop
IN the Hooded district is all made. and
wheat is in the shock. and as a result
the farmers viii lose all their years
work Grain men say the foregoing
estimate OF value is to low, and nut
the ngures of the loss from the over
now at nearer $4,000, 600 between Keo-
kuk and Hannibal.
IT Is believed the Illinois levee viii
hold, and the damage there is likely
10 De only $4,000 to $4,000 between
keokuk and Quincy Heavy rains are
V I
and tonight there are Indications Of !
sun higher water. Low land farmers.
river men and the weather bureau OBJ |
server alike predict the greatest dam |
age ever known from the food from |
the upper river.
reports tonight show tremendous |
rains along the Des Moines river and /
tributaries. Six inches fell at Cory |
don, and nearly that much at Otturn- |
wa. Rains all over this section con- |
unue tonight, with two inches as a /
generai minimum rainfall. and many
reporting I'VE inches.
These recommendations will reach |
me lower river and flooded districts
Oy Sunday with still further rise and
1eVastation. Both the Des Moines and
mississippi rivers are rising faster as
light progresses Late reports show
nat half the country for a distance
II thirty miles between La Grange and
1ahnipal Was already under water
ong before the crest OF the flood ar
lived.