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Show GENERAL. It I SMI NCi V TJ ICS ft-rriblj !(-( motive tloodalu luiliuua. Turru Haute, Ind.,2. A di.-ahtroua UomI is rgmg in the vicinity ot'thid city and various otlir:r localities throughout tho state'. The river op-i,onilu op-i,onilu tho city in fully three miles ....,1 ia .till ri.i,... ..Ur,il xmi:lM houaen have Una cd down and Home live uUek. Millions of bushels of wheat in the ntackd and shocks have floated pa.-t. A largo quantity of hay hatt nino guiio down. Little driltl wood is afloat or the bridge could not1 ioHihly remain. The Clinton wagon lindge, seventeen miles above, is floating down on u. So is a saw mill. Over six million bushels of corn aio reported drowned out between be-tween Terrc Haute and lluUoiivillu., below Sugar creek. Tho township is wholly devastated. Nut one thousand r.LiU lii.rln f-nrn and no wheat are left in tho township. Every house in Bloomtown is inundated. Markel's I mill dam, live mi led west, has broken uway. Seven houses .in Keelsviile, on the Vandalia road, together with three miles of embankment, are washed away. Not a train on many of the railroads has lell this city, except ex-cept a passenger to Vincunnes and return with no communication below, be-low, Wo shall have no communication communica-tion in any direction and no mails lor four dajB at least, there being no less than thirty bridges besides trestles tres-tles and ombanknients completely grim?. On. the E. and C, every trestle between Oaktown and Hazle-tou Hazle-tou is (illicr bodly injured or swept away. An engine was overturned by tho bank giving way. No one was hurt. On the Vandalia road the iron bridge at Car-tcrsburg, Car-tcrsburg, Croz Creek bridge, big Sugar Creek trestle, Eagle Creek bridge, and a large bridge at Reels-ville Reels-ville are all gone. Seven bridges are gone on the T. I. H. & C. between this city and Newport. There are soveral very Bcrious breaks on the LogansiiorL road. The I. and St. Louis is in a very bad condition. The bridge at Fern is nearly all gone. The .Paris bridge is gone, and the Wabash trestle is injured, and the river is still rising. |