Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-08
MISSOURI TOWN Is UNI
DER TEN FEET OF WATER
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tCOnllnuSu pIOul \ et5S ~
Maryville with their teams. were re,
covered yesterday.
St Joseph experienced one OF the
1 hardest rains of the year Much GAM
/ age was done in the suburbs.
! The Missouri river is up TO 1874 "a
1 still rising Large sections of the |
/ French bottoms, west of the city aTe
| under water.
Topeka is Flooded
Topeka, Kas., July Topeka TO-
day experienced the first food of the |
season following six foot rise IN Ihe
| Kaw river during the night. During
the last % hours the precipitation
amounted to five inches. There was
heavy rains west OF Topeka also and
other streams are up, causing damage.
Trains are delayed but no loss of life
Is reported in Topeka. Shunganunga
creek was out of its banks and many
houses were flooded, gardens destroy
4 ed and streets and sidewalks washed
out.
!! Council Bluffs Flooded
Council Bluffs, July THE rain
storm which began at O'Clock MON.
day night continued practically al
last night and reports from the result
ing foods indicate heavy damage along
the Missouri valley. The food IN
Council Bluffs had not entirely SUD
sided this morning and numerous
washouts up the river occurred in the
smaller towns. In the vicinity OF MIS-
souri, Valley twenty-five miles nortn OF
Council Bluffs, the entire valley Is
i under water.
In Omaha many washouts are re-
) ported and at least two suburban car
lines were put out OF commission
temporarily The lines to Florence
and Ralston We're washed out and
the cross river line was still under
water in many places Crops on low
I lands are almost entirely destroyed.
4 With one exception, when the Mis-
I souri, river overfowed and inundated
!. west Council Bluffs, which was many
years ago. the flood was the worst
ever known in this city. Hundreds Of
q people experienced terrific incidents in
4 the inSy darkness. Thousands of geo
4 pie who attended the celebration at
4 Lake Manawa were unable to reach
q their homes and at O'Clock yesterday
a morning the Council Bluffs & Omaha
a Motor company chartered special
u train of six cars on the Burlington
81 railroad and sent several thousand Of
II Omaha people home in that way.
q Many hundreds of others were
q maroned at the lake and at hotels in
a this city.
u Indian creek, which flows through
"a the city, was out of its banks and did
81 enormous damage estimated at at
III least $4,000 in the city. In the new
I5 opera house, located across the street
"a from the postoffice, mud is knee deep
"a in the dress circle, the water having
D Monday night been neck deep in the
ia pit A small building on Broadway
n collapsed, precipitating the contents OF
" billiard hall into the basement full
E of water.
Hi No fatalities are reported, but there
n were hundreds of narrow escapes
n Colorado Landsides Block Trains.
b Denver. Col, July Thousands o
u eastern tourists bound for the Pacific
n coast are blockaded by landslides anc
III floods in the mountains in various
u parts of Colorado. Along the line o
"a the Denver & Rio Grande railroad ives
81 of CANYON City in the famous Roya
gorge, the recent rains have covered
~ the track to a depth of from six Il
N5 twenty I6Sl. uG llIouSu lldiuS dit
"a held at Canyon City, carrying abou
M 1000 passengers, including passenger
II to the Elxs' national convention at Lo
ID Angeles, the Christian Endeavor con
AZ vention in Portland and the Epwortl
VI convention at Seattle.
81 At Ramah, Col, the rains Of Monda,
n night washed away quarter of mil
u of the Rock Island tracks and toda
VA CO, HI
N have been detoured by way of Denver
Es Today six hundred men were engage
III in clearing the Colorado & Souther,
81 track in Clear creek canyon nea
q Idaho Springs
Ii The Condition In Nebraska.
- Lincoln, Neb., July Train servic
is demoralized in southeast Nebrask
~ on account of the floods. Three day
~, Of heavy rainfall have caused all tn
iu small streams to leave their bank
81, Six and half feet of water cover tn
Union Pacific tracks south Of Beatric
an and there is another washout betwee
Sc, Beatrice and Lincoln The Burlingto
OF has washout near Beatrice, b,
II trains are able to run by making d
,uy tours Water is over the tracks
ing the Burlington at Elk creek and thel
II. are small washouts on the same line
of between Tecumseh and Table Roc
Law and Tecumseh and Barnum. The Mi
500 souri, Pacific has bad washout on i
Crete branch. Farm lands have bee
flooded and damage done to crops.
80 keoI<uk Reports Damage.
rth Keokuk, July Northern Missou1
mo near the Iowa line, is submerge
Near Memphis, Mo-, 5000 feet of Ke
kuk & Western track was washed o
Vho and trains started west yesterd;
ltS' running to Keokuk. Thousands
acraS of corn in the Fahins hnttnr