Show 1 1ANY TOWN t UNDER WATER Eastern People Are Now Hav i ing Their Spring Experience Ex-perience DAMAGE MUST BE GREAT Two Inches of Rain in Twenty Minutes at St Joseph Tracks of the B M Arc Threatened Threaten-ed and Are Being Closely Guarded as a Conseunence Railway Traffic Traf-fic Is Also Badly Impeded in Minnesota Min-nesota Many Families Will Doubtless Be Forced from Their Homes I ST JOSEPH Mo May 19At about 1 oclock this afternoon a terrific rainstorm j rain-storm occurred here and about two inches of water fell in twenty minutes min-utes and rain has continued to fall throughout the afternoon The rainfall for the last seven days has been heavier than ever before in the same length of time The country to the north of this city for miles is entirely under water A section of country about ou miles wide is covered to a depth of two feet and if i rises higher many families will have to leave their h mesA mes-A mile or more of track on the Council Coun-cil Bluffs road near Forest City which washed out last Sunday had been repaired re-paired and was ready for use but it is feared this afternoons heavy rain will undo the work Much track on several lines is underwater un-derwater slrralv and all trains proceed very On the west side of the Missouri river I riv-er the B 11 tracks are threatened by the enroachments of the river and track walkers are stationed all along the I line I Money for the Needy ST LOUIS May 19Sixteen hundred hun-dred dollars has been raised here in cne day among the business men of the city for the relief of those who have suffered in the cyclone in Texas last week This amount was immediately immedi-ately forwarded to Texas by telegraph and will be followed by more later I Train Wreckers I SHEBOYGAN WIs May 19Fr Green and Joseph Wilman have been I arrested at Waldo on the charge of i I having caused the wreck of the freight train Friday night in which three men were killed and two were injured This is the third train that has been wrecked wreck-ed at Waldo in six months I A Desperate Struggle i PLYMOUTH Mass May I9The forest fire wardens and a part of the fire department are engaged in a desperate des-perate struggle with a fire in the woods west of the village which threatens the safety of a number of dwellings in the vicinity A southwesterly wind is blowing forty miles an hour In spite of the efforts of the department the fire continues to spread After having swept through St Josephs cemetery the flames sulit one going in a southerly south-erly direction while the other ran toward to-ward Oak Ridge According to the latest advices the fires are still burn ins Heavy Rains in Minnesota I 1 RED LAKE FALLS Minn May 191 From Thursday midnight to Sunday Sun-day midnight it rained incessantly causing an extreme rise of water in Red and Clearwater rivers and their tributaries Both mill dams have been endangered and the Gooding mills crews have worked night and day and I it is considered safe now Between I here and Lambert a distance of twen tyfive miles seven bridges have been swept away The railways have suffered suffer-ed washouts which will interrupt service ser-vice and streets and roads are impassible impas-sible from land slides Red Lake Rises CROOKSTON Minn May 19The Red Lake river is rising at an alarming alarm-ing rate and great fears are entertained enter-tained for the safety of the bridge and dam which furnish power for the water works ana the electric iignt company eleCtrC ltht A great many families have been compelled com-pelled to move off the flats and lower portions of the city and Jerome addition i addi-tion is ilcjried nearly as badly > as at any time in its history At the present rate of increase the vat r will reach a point by night a high as i ever has been in the history of the city The entire southern portion of the city is submerged The river is two feet above high water mark Last night the force at work building a dyke was compelled to abandon the task and at midnight many hours labor had been swept away That portion of the city is under a foot of water The hope that the dyke would be successful deterred many people from moving andgduring the night many w retaken re-taken out in boats from the upper windows win-dows The river is in places a mile wide The bridges still hold but it is impossible to communicate with the south side of the river except by boat The losses to buildings will be largely among the poorer classes and will be felt keenly The electric elec-tric light plant is shut down and the water Is within four inches 6f the fires under the boilers at the water works The greatest individual loss probably will be to the North Dakota Milling association associa-tion 150000 bushels of wheat beingstored in the elevator and the water stands four feet deep above the floor The cause of this great flood in part is the bursting of the St Clair dam yesterday afternoon which added a tremendous Quantity of water to the already overfull RedLake river The Red river is also very high The Last Gncss KANSAS CITY Mo May 19Twen tyeight were killed outright and fifty or more injured some fatally and the I property lost aggregating a million I I dollars is now given as the estimated damage done by Sundays cyclone at lIIarshal Nemaba and Brown counties coun-ties Kansas Further reports may increase in-crease these figures a telegraph communication com-munication with the stricken points is still imperfect and consternation prevails pre-vails Tb dead are distributed a follows 1 rI m > Seneca and neighborhood 8 Oneida 6 Reserve 5 Sabetha 5 Morril 5 Seneca suffered property amage of about 350000 Frankfort 100000 Reserve Re-serve 60000 Sabetha 50000 Morrill 20000 Thousands dollars were lost in the country between the towns Although I Al-though the pecuniary loss at Frankfort Frank-fort was great not a life was lost there Destruction meets the eye at every turn Many were rendered absolutely penniless and many victims escaped with only the clothes they wore Appeals Ap-peals for outside aid have been issued |