Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-05
CROPS BADLY
DUE
TO TORNADO
(By Dispatch A. P. wlrs>

& II l & A u y, Sept. A.
Damage to crops from rain
storms and tornadoes which
visited seven mid-western
states during the week
gained pre-eminence today,
over property losses esti-
mated at $550,0O0, the flood
ing OF 800 homes at Hanni-
bal, Mo-, the closing Of a
factory at that place where
1900 men are employed and
the toll of three dead.
Freak happenings and humorous in
cidents were recorded along with the
saving from possible wreckage of the
Rocky Mountain Limited on the Rock
Island railroad near here when a gov
ernment lock tender discovered weak
spot in the roadbed and reported it in
time for the train to detour. Crops
Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas,
Indiana and Missouri suffered from
WdSHOuCS, IOTDdQOeS ana neaVY TalnIail
generally.
Fifty per cent of the Illinois corn
crop was reported as damaged in GER
tain areas by rain and tornadoes. The
crop was already considered as delayed
due to inclement weather. The heav-
lest agriculture and industrial losses
were reporter from Iowa and Illinois,
with Missoui next.
Large amounts of small grain still in
the fields are partial losses. Tornadoes
which accompanied the rain storms In
several sections did $4,000 damage
along the Nebraska line near
Pawnee City, Nebr., and 100000 dam
age south of Joliet, Ill, where hun
dreds of acres of corn were flattened.
At Hannibal Mo-, where almost six
inches of rain fell in "a hours. more
than 800 homes were flooded, shoe
factory employing, 1900 persons was
closed by flood, and fire and street de-
partment worked without sleep to
maintain levee along swollen
stream. An undertaken at Hannibal
called to care for body, put a row
boat in his hearse and made the last
part of his journey in the boat in which
the body was conveyed to the hearse.
A home on the same Hannibal street
was lifted bodily by the flood and de-
posted a block away. Rescue workers
braved water waist deep to rescue
children from flooded homes. Water
which covered the paved streets be-
tween E1gin and Rockford, Ill. re-
ceded, leaving the road black with
thousands of frogs through which mo-
torists found it impossible to drive
safely.
Baseball leage teams in Illinois found
their closing schedules wrecked and
i half dozen county fairs computed
losses from lack of attendance.
Five and a half inches Of rain fell at
Springfield, Ill.,, last night and today.
the closing of roads and
the re-routin gof the paved highway
to Chicago Ten flags were stuck
along the paving near Illiopolis, Ill, to
show motorists the path through the
water Fifty motor cars were ditched
at the roadside near ottawa, when
bridge was washed out.
A farmer milking cow near Paw
nee City, Nebr., was struck by tor
nado and laid low by a piece of tim
ber. When he regained, consciousness
the twister had carried the COW away.
In the same vicinity the wind smash
ed bottle of acid against wall, burn
ing childs face.
Lewiston and Galesburg. ILL.,, were
without city water, the latter for the
second time this week and the former
with it's pump house floor covered with
seven feet of water. Estimates Of dam
age to grain crops fixed the amount of
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