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Show "latest dispatches,! GENERAL. niL n oon. TremtMMloiiM ltniue Ooae to Crop. Tt:riH ILmte, Ind., 5. The river in oluwly riniui;. The Kxureas, ttiu morning, esiiniaii-a the los to crops and property in fourteen counties tributary to this city, at not lesa than iVJ., xnj, i(fl). There is profound discouragement dis-couragement o! all ehuneH. Indianapolis,.1. No very reliable : estimate of the aggregate la?8 to wheat, corn and other crops in the nUte can be made now. Some sections sec-tions put the damage at 70 per cent; others much higher, and in many places the entire crop is destroyed. Tho most reliable information shows the loss in central and southern parts, tHSK regatta from 50 to (0 per cent ol the entire crop. In low lands on the Wabash river it lias been put at io00,(XK). Corn is wholly destroyed by tho flood, which at $f5 an acre would amount to 000,000. Lafayette, Ind., 5. Loss to crops in this county, half a million; Carroll, Warren and Fountain counties, quarter quar-ter of a million. This is an estimate of tho loss tc crops by water overflow, and does not include the damage by wet weather to crops on up lands. Some put the damage higher and others lower. |