Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-12-25

months with hammer sledge, and spade
endeavoring to get things Strengthened
out and have done exceedingly well
Between Red Line and Gray distance
of seventeen miles by wagon road,
buildings have gone up all summer long
as If by magic the exact number of
which cannot give.
Between these two points thirty new
barns, nine houses, six school houses
and two churches have been erected,
besides numerous corn cribs, hog houses,
chicken houses and other out building
total of fully one hundred but more
likely half that number again of new
buildings. The farmers of the cyclone
belt that have put up barns betwixt then
and now are Jim Michaelson, Jim
Bartleson, Chris Bartleson, Jens An
derson, Clarence Jacobsen, Lawrence
Oleson, Christoffer Anderson, Pete.
Peterson, James Peterson, Phillip
Krause, Jens Whittier, Leonard Jordan,
Soren Hansen, Jake Oleson, j. T.
Bobenmoyer, Aaron McCuen, Homer
Kaufman, Liberty Creamery, Andrew
Anderson, Rob Wiley, Henry Paulsen,
Mrs Newell, Gus Hagedorne, Aug.
Porsh, Mrs Rudnick, Chris Peterson
and George Bald in which FIVE of the
above are tenants residing on the land
Houses have been built on the places
owned or occupied by the following
families, Aaron McCuen, A. H. Spease,
Liberty Creamery, Homer Kaufman,
Pete Petersen, Chris Lansmen ST.,
Clarence Jacobsen, Jens Andersen and
Jim Bartleson.
AT the very same time that Omaha
and other sections in the middle west
were getting torn TO pieces, heavy rains
were falling in Ohio and the east and
had been doing so for several weeks
with the result that for the last week
of March and first few days of April
millions of acres of territory and many
towns were deluged in one of the worst
floods of recent years. The Mama
river of Ohio and the Wabash of Indiana
became inland raging seas covering
land with water that had never been
submerged before. Three cities Lima,
Dayton, Hamilton and many smaller
towns were flooded sending hundreds of
human beings to watery graves. Many
| families lost all their worldly goods
while many were confined in the second
story of houses for many days; the
writer had cousin and family in Day
| ton that were in second story
room for seven days and nights being
finally rescued in boat. After the
water went down the streets of towns
were covered with mud in many in
stances being several feet deep, while
the buildings presented very gloomy
aspect
Lowland farms were covered with
drift loan to such a depth that it will
be some years before same can again be
profitably farmed. This was one of the
most disastrous catastrophes of the year
and will long be remembered by those
that were in contact with the same. A
period of dry weather beginning in
early summer and continuing until
early autumn prevailed over many
states destroying growing crops and
making water famine in many places.
Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, southern
Iowa and Nebraska were hit the hardest
though many other places experienced
a severe drought Oklahoma and Kan
sas without doubt were the greatest
sufferers, the hot winds cooking field
after field of grain, and whiting all
green vegetation. Water became so
scarce in many places that stock suffer
ed untold agony and in certain towns
it became necessary to have drinking
water shipped in by rail, 49,.
i The lcses to ranchers and stockmen
were tremendous stock being marketed