Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-05-30
Stream is Now Out o. Banks from Its
Source to Its Mouth.
TIER STREAMS IN STATE ABOUT AS BAD
People in Lowlands Compelled to Hurriedly
Abandon Their Homes.
GREAT DAMAGE To CROPS AND STOCK
Kansas Streams Are About ns Had
and RRilrOnd Tramc IL Greatly
Impeded by waSh-
outs.

DEs MONIES. Ia, May sO-The Des
Moines river, which fell almost a foot
Friday night, began rising again this morn
ing and has reached twenty-five feet above
low water mark.
Fifteen hundred families are homeless,
500 being driven out since last midnight.
The Eleventh street levee gave way late
Friday night and the factory district Is
flooded. The Center street dam is expected
to go out, and II it shall fall three city
bridges and four railroad bridges across
the Des Moines will be in danger.
Trains have been abandoned on gle
Wabash. Keokuk & Western and Great
Western. The Rock Island is handling
passengers only and this with great eau
ton. South of Des Moines the Great West
ern has abandoned it's tracks.
Rivers All out.
DES MONIES, May 29-From all over
the state come reports to the effect that
the rivers are receding and that further
danger from flood has passed.
In the Des Moines valley from Spirit
Lake to the Missouri river the entire bot
toms were covered with water and the
damage to the corn crop Is inestimable.
In Fort Dodge, Boone, Madrid, Des Moines,
ottumwa and other points fully 500 homes
-@'~ e~NA ahAAAHASh ny llt WdleTh. III
Des Moines alone the damage will reach
S5OO,0OO In South Des Moines the bottoms
present solid sheet OF water, with houses
dotted here and there some turned over
and others with their chimneys peeping
above the water line
The river reached Its highest point at
O'Clock this morning, when II recorded
twenty-one feet and three-tenths above low
water mark. This is the highest mark upon
the records of the government by four
inches
Specials from Van Meter and other points
on the Raccoon river above here this morn
ing are to the effect that the river has con-
tinued to steadily rise and is yet going up.
Authoritative inquiry establishes a similar
condition here. While the Des Moines "a
slowly receding above its confluence with
the Raccoon, # Is rising below. South and
southeast Des Moines, which suffered most
last year, are threatened with further
devastation.
Breaks in levees in this section have sur
| rounded hundreds of homes with water
| and break in north Des Moines this morn
ing inundated Central Place, surrounding
upwards of 200 fine residences.
Contrary to early reports, telegram was
received from Boone at 1880, forty miles
above here, stating that the Des Moines Il
| still slowly rising there, which indicates
that the decline here is but temporary.
Iowa River overAows.
| MARsHALLToWN. Ia. May 2s.-(speciaI
! egram.)-Tremendous damage is being
| done by high water In the Iowa river here
| The lowlands north of the city are over
| flowed and truck farmers will be especially
heavy losers. Pierce's park is inundated
and the river a mile wide at this place
Bottom lands between here and lie Grand
are submerged for miles and the lowlands
between Montour and Tama are like a
sea. Several families have been compelled
to abandon their homes. 1t has been rain
ing steadily all day and with no prospects
| OF improvement. One farmers stock Is
confined on islands and efforts to rescue
1t have been futile. 1t is feared they will
! starve.
Onawa Fears Flood.
oNAwA, Ia, May 2O-(special Telegram.)
1t has been raining here all day, LH inch
having fallen which makes the record for
May 14A inches breaking all records for
| twenty-four years. The water on the bot
toms has risen over one foot today. Turin
reports the highest water OF the season.
The Illinois Central track between Onawa
and Smlthland, north of the milwaukee,
crossing, is washing away bodily, and al
ktrains win be abandoned today on that line
The water is breaking over the grade east
of Onawa and viii soon be coming into
town. The situation is becoming serious.
SIOUX CITY, Ia, May 2s.-(speclal Tele.
gram )-The Sioux river started on a ram.
page today and is threatening trouble. The
Milwaukee railroad bridge is likely to &c
out, Claude Lynch, Union. s. D., farmer
was drowned in the Lewis creek, a tribu
tary to the Sioux river a few, miles north
of here. He became mired in the mud and
the suddenly pislng waters closed over him
1t has rained heavily throughout this sec
ton OF the state. Railroads have beer
washed out and traffic interrupted. A sever,
washout on the Milwaukee is reported from
Westheld, Ia The Little Sioux in Monons
is still flooding the country and farmers
are in despair. The damage being done II
this section OF Iowa Is climbing into tn,