The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-24
TWENTY-FIVE DIE
IN FLOOD TIDES
Newport, Ark, and St. Louis
Hard Hit by
Waters.
CYCLONE LOSS, 100000
Parts of Hanover. N. Y. Swept Away
by Wind-Saratoga Springs
Another Sufferer.
CYCLONE LOSS, 100000

Newport, Ark. Aug. 23.-Ten persons
| We're drowned and the entire city of
| Newport was flooded early today when
the big levee protecting the town from
| White river broke just above Newport
Steamboats, arc running over corn and
| cotton fields rescuing farmers and their
families who are marooned. The river
| is still rising.
4 Causeway over the lake built at a
| cost of 80 eco. was washed away IN the
flood. and it is reported that three
negroes were caught in the path of the
! flood when it struck the causeway and
were drowned.
Thousands OF persons were homeless
| today in the White River bottoms near
| this city. Damage to property in this
section was estimated at $4,000.
st. Louis Hit by Flood.
St Louis, Mo. Aug eS-The county
of ST. Louis today staggered under the
weight of second disastrous flood.
| Twelve lives were the toll of the last
| escapade of the Overlooking rivers in
| this section. All were lost along the
Meramac River. which was out of its
! banks
There Were reported 100 other per-
! sons missing. and fully 1000 families
| were homeless as the result of last
nights sudden rise of the Meramac.
! Hundreds of summer cottages that had
lined the river were swept away and
the occupants of the frail structures
escaped death by narrow margins in
scores of instances
! \ report from along the Meramac
a short distance above where it flows
into the Mississippi River stated that
men in motor boats and on RATS were
still working to rescue marooned per-
sons from tree tops and the roofs of
houses that Were being swept down
stream.
Cyclone Damage. 100000.
Hanover. Pa. Aug. eS-It took just two
minutes to cause loss of 500, go here
when cyclone struck this city Saturday
night and Sunday morning.
The area travrrsed by the spiral wind
was south to north. The storm over Han
over was freakish skipping certain dis
| triCts entirely. The E.lks' Home and
many business buildings were damaged
| and roofs Were blown off of frame houses.
The town of Annville. in Lebanon VAL
| ley. estimates its loss at s5N.OC0 In all
this desolation not a single person was
killed or even seriously injured.
| Hanover WAS completely cut off from
|
! telephone, telegraph and trolley wires
! being blown down.
Saratoga Suffers.
Saratoga Springs. " Y. Aug. %
with twenty-four hours of steady rain,
| following a month of almost daily
rains. this section has suffered unprec-
| edented damage. Formers have lost
entire crops from flooded fields Sar-
atOga Lake is the highest il has been
at this time of the year in twenty five
years. Cottages occupied by summer
guests have had to be abandoned on
the shore. and many are several feet
under water. The lake road is under
water in several sections.
Ellenville n. Y. Aug. 23.-It was
estimated today that about 10000
damage was done by the cloudburst
which visited this city yesterday. Two
houses were demolished and two
others torn from their foundations
when the ClOudbUrst caused the over
flowing of Sandburg Brook and the
flooding of Chapel street, in the east
ern section of the city.