The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-05-29
LIVES AND CROPS
LOST IN FLOODS
SEVEN DEAD AND HUNDREDS
HOMELESS IN OKLAHOMA.
HOUSES WASHED AWAY
Many Deaths and immense Damage
Done in Texas-loWa Farmers
Suffer from Heavy
Rains.

500 are homeless, thousands of acres
Of lowlands are inundated, hundreds
of houses are washed away or dam
aged, railroad and wagon bridges are
gone over large area of the southern
part of the state; several railroad
bridges are damaged, and the tracks
of nearly every railroad company OPP
Grating in the state are either washed
away entirely or disarranged in those
sections visited by the heaviest rains
and most disastrous floods.
More than 700 houses in West Guth-
RE are submerged. The flood has
fallen, but the bottoms are still SUBJ
merged and water knee deep is run
ming through the streets. Transpor-
tation from one part of town to an
other is by means of boats.
Along the valleys of the North and
South Canadian rivers the Cimarron,
the Arkansas, the Washita and Red
river thousands of acres Of growing
crops have been damaged and many
homes washed away.
Four Dead at Dallas.
known to have been lost, more than
million dollars worth of property de-
stroyed, 1000 people rendered home
less and telegraph and telephone
wires, west and southwest, put out of
commission, the result of a record
breaking rise and overflow of the Trim
ity river Sunday night and Monday,
making the greatest volume of water
ever known in this city The food at
nightfall passed the record made by
the rise in 1866, So feet, when business
houses in what is now a poorer resi-
dence section of Dallas were swamped.
The water works plant is out of COM
mission and the light plant is
swamped.
Fort Worth Hard Hit.
Fort Worth, Tex, May 26.-The
flood which descended upen Fort
Worth Sunday reached it's crest Mon
day morning and Trinity river and it's
tributaries have receded. The police
department estimates that ten persons
met death in Fort Worth and vicinity
and that $1,0OO,OOO damages has been
done. Five thousand people are home
less and Texas cities are subscribing
to relief fund. All railroads an
nounced that the observances of sched-
ules will be indefinitely delayed. One
hundred thousand acres of wheat and
corn are under water in north Texas.
Heavy Rains in Iowa.
Des Moines, Ia, May 26.-Swollen
by heavy rains in the valley to the
north, both the Des Moines and Rae
coon rivers are rising rapidly at Des
Moines. Many families in the low por-
tons of the city have packed their
household goods and are prepared to
move to the high lands at a mo-
ment's notice.
The excessive rains have become
serious proposition to the farmers
throughout the state. Corn planting
was we'll under way but the rains
have made field work impossible, and
the planting has stopped. d,
Storm Blows Down Gospel Tent.
Creston, Ia, May ga severe
storm Sunday night struck the NAM
luOIu Icl1I Ill WIlCu dISSllOI DlSuSI-
wolff has been holding revival meet
ings. Just as the ushers began TAX
ing up the collection the center pole
snapped off and the huge canvas fell
upon the struggling, terror-stricken
people who had crowded the enclosure
A panic lasted for several minutes
Mrs. August Smith, who was struck
by the pole and received broken leg,
was the only one seriously injured.
Small Tornado Wrecks Dwelling.
Paramount, Mimi, May ga minia-
ture tornado wrecked dwelling
house on the Manley farm east of the
city and severely injured the family.
All were carried considerable dis
lance through the air. ]. A. Manley, a
civil war veteran, was dropped into a
slough and nearly drowned as he was
helpless with badly injured back.
His injuries may prove fatal.