Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-03-31
IN DESPERATE STRAITS.
Rivers In Indiana Are OVERLOOKING and
Flooding Cities and Farms and
Tying Up Business.

Brownstown, lnd., Marcn Zo.-Ine
country for miles around Brownstown
is under several feet of water and
White river Is still rising rapidly.
The White river rose three feet Sat
urday at Petersburg and is still ris-
ing. In many places the river is ten
miles wide and much stock has been
drowned.
The flood at Noblesville began to re-
cede yesterday, leaving behind 1t much
desolation. The damage done sur
passes all records. The large bridge on
the Central Indiana railroad near
Noblesville is a twisted mass Of steel
lying at the bottom of the river.
A dispatch from Vincennes yesterday
says that 1870 feet of the levee along
the Wabash river near Oaktown broke
yesterday and the water rushed
through, covering thousands Of acres
and driving the people from their
homes. Many left barely in time to
save their lives and considerable live
stock was destroyed.
A dispatch from Bluffton said that
the Wabash river Saturday night was
higher than for 20 years. Hundreds
of acres of low lands are under water
and people there are fearful that the
reservoir at Celina may break, causing
great loss of life. The White and Pa
toka rivers are also rising very rapidly.
The property loss has already reached
100000 in southwestern Indiana.
Three lives have been lost in the
flood between Gas City and jones'
boro, and another man, taken out of a
floating house after more than ~ hours
spent IN the flood, is dying from ex-
posure.
600 Families Homeless mt Hamilton. O.
Cincinnati, March 27.-The heaviest
transforms in years prevailed through
out Ohio and floods are causing dam
age along all the tributaries of the
Ohio river in this state. At Hamilton
the big Miami rose Is feet in four
hours, rendering over 200 families
homeless. The reservoir north of
Hamilton broke, flooding paper mills
and tying up railway and traction
lines. All towns west of Cincinnati
along the Big Miami are flooded. The
same is true of all towns east OF Gin
clnnati along the Little Mama river
from Loveland to Coney Island. The
Findlay, O., the Blanchard river has
flooded the city so that street cars
are stopped and business houses are
suffering.
Poplar Blur Surrounded by Water.
st. Louis, March ga special to
the Republic from Poplar Bluff, Mo-,
says: Black river is out of its banks
and Poplar Bluff, city of 1000 inhab-
itants. is completely surrounded by
water. Railroad connections are cut
of from all directions, and there is
considerable interruption to commune
cation by telegraph and telephone
lines.
Michigan Streams Out Of Their Banks.
Grand Rapids, Mich, March 2S.-
Conditions in this city and nearby
towns along the Grand river are very
grave, as result of the unprecedented
food that has swollen the stream far
out of its banks for the past three
days. The inhabitants of flooded
houses are suffering greatly from cold
and lack of food.
Hundreds of Indianapolis Homes Flooded.
Indianapolis, Ind, March 27.-Sev-
eral hundred houses in Indianapolis
are flooded and 300 families have been
driven from their homes. The property
damage will be very heavy.