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Show A Fearful Rn'n Storm. Ch 'Cairo, 8. Tho rain storm which prevailed throughout central Illinois on Thursday and Thursday nighl, was one of tlio moat severe ever experienced, tlood'ng the whole country, doing immense im-mense damage to roads, railways, and crops, drowning hundreds of live stock, and io tlio river and creek bottoms, it swi'pt away houses, barns, fences, etc. Great damage is dono to all the railways rail-ways running through central Illinois. . The Chicago, Burlington and yuincy i road had several milos of track washed away, and a groat number of bridge and culverts destroyed. Tho Toledo, I Peoria and Western railway kUo suf- 1 cred grently, and on tho CjniiK-y and, Alton railway, which run-; for ab'Mit thirty miles along tho A!isiMppi river bottom, there have been no trains since , rhurfday. Throughout Peoria. Hancock, Han-cock, Fulton, Sehuvler, Adams Brown, j and other counties, in what is known as tho military tract, nearly every bridge was swept away. The Ulinni river overflowed, and a singular result has fallowed fal-lowed tho imruenso water which forced into it from the creeks. At a point JiO miles above tho mouth, the current H changed, and it i9 now running north. Tho loss will roach many hundred thousands of dollars. |