The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-21
TORRENTIAL Rains
DESTROY THE CROPS
Great Damage In Ohio, Indiana
and Kentucky.
STORM CAUSES 100000 Loss
Thousanes Of Acres Of Tobacco Have Been
DsstrOyed---An Streams Are Out
Of Banks.

Louisville, Ky.-Widespread dam
age in several counties in Kentucky
and Indiana mas resulted from the
cloudbursts which broke after three
weeks of almost daily rain. Hender-
son, Union, Webster and Nicholas
counties in Kentucky suffered most.
Estimates of the damage have been
variously estimated, but it is known
that it is very heavy.
A quarter Of mile of the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad track be-
tween Paris and Maysyille was wash
ed away, and three steel bridges were
totally wrecked. Many houses were
carried off by the waters, and a large
acreage Of tobacco, corn and wheat
is a complete loss. Live stock also
suffered heavily.
In Carlisle City tobacco stored III
warehouses of the Burley Tobacco So
ciety was soaked and badly damaged.
Eight blocks of the city and lumber
yards were inundated and much tim
Der washed away. The loss in Car
Isle and Nicholas counties alone Is
estimated at 100000.
Two inches of rain fell in Mays
vile, KY, and the waters swept
through the houses, carrying off fur
niture and everything movable. To
bacco plants were washed out and the
swollen creeks carried everything in
their paths. The bridges at Need
more and Moransburg were swept
away
Washouts occurred on the Monon
and Indiana Central Railroads in In
diana and traffic was tied up to some
extent.
Practically all the lowlands in JET
ferson county (Louisville) are under
water and much damage is reported.
y Henderson, ky.-Reports reaching
here from Henderson, Union and WEB
ster counties indicate that damage ap-
proximating $2,000,000- was done by a
cloudburst. 1t is estimated that fifty
thousand acres of pooled tobacco in
Henderson county alone have been de-
stroyed and one tobacco plantation of
200 acres is a total loss. All streams
are out of bank ard many bridges
have been carried away.
The tracks of the Illinois Central
Railroad, near Highland creek, are
under water for two miles No lives
are reported lost, but hundreds of cat
tie, sheep and hogs were swept away
by the foods. Many fields, with the
entire crops of tobacco, corn and
wheat, were totally ruined. Crops on
the hill lands were saved, but they
were injured by the beating rain.
Ierre Haute, lnd.-Rain, which fell.
in torrents for eighteen hours, flood.
ed this entire section of the country,
and did untold damage to crops, Hun
Ndreds of acres of wheat in shocks
Nave been washed away, and most of
The, bottom land corn mas gone
Evansville, Ind.-After having spent
all night in an open launch, exposed
to a driving rain, Miss, Rose Lieber
OF Louisville and six other young
women We're rescued by party that
had been searching for them for sew
eral hours. The young women had
gone out on the Ohio river, and
squall had driven their launch into
the creek.
Heavy wind and rain storms nave
done great damage to crops in south
ern Indiana All the smaller streams
are swollen out Of their banks.
Cincinnati, Ohio.-Torrential rains
visited large section of southern
Ohio, northern Kentucky and south.
eastern Indiana, adding to the large
damage done by the cloudburst.
The damage to crops in the three
states, within radius of so miles IF
Cincinnati, it is estimated will reach
into the hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars.
Lexington, Ky.-Anotner disastrous
rain storm, accompanied by lightning
swept over central Kentucky, and did
heavy damage to the wheat, tobacco
and corn crops.