Show FLOODS CAUSE HEAVY HEA Y LOSSES t i Damage to Crops Alone Will I Reach Million Mark t I CATTLE AND HOGS DROWNED tr t r 4 MIDDLE huDDLE WEST INUNDATED INUNDATE j HUNDREDS HOMELESS f ES MOINES la In I July 9 The eon con continued CO DES D tinned rains have hae forced nearly all Iowa streams from their banks and the destruction of crops livestock and other property Is assum assuming assumIng assuming ing immense proportions It Is s Impossible ble to estimate te tae damage from the tho indefinite reports received The damage Is especially extensive In the central northern western and southwestern parts of the state The valleys of the Sioux and Maple rivers are flooded and Woodbury and Monona counties are under water The Iowa river at Marshalltown Is the highest since 1881 Many country bridges have been destroyed Cattle and hogs have been drowned in large numbers In the Iowa lotta valley At Cedar Rapids 54 Inches of rain has fallen since July 1 L The Cedar Rapids river Is out of its banks and many man families famili s have been forced from their homes Numerous bridges swept away awa in Lynn county The Skunk river and Squaw creek arc are out of their banks and near the confluence In ha Storey county thousands of acres are flooded hooded and crops practically practically practically destroyed The continuous rains are paralyzing business in Fort Dodge and the railroads are almost out of or business busin s The west end of the city is inundated and families are moving out The Des Moines river is up six feet at that point Because of the saturation of all an the insulation on the wires nice elec electric lec power has been shut off and the town is in darkness Near Oxford in Johnson county In Ina ina Ina a windstorm last night Jacob Burkhart was crushed to death by the falling of ofa ofa ofa a barn on the farm of Wesley Fresh Prush Half a dozen barns were destroyed In Inthe Inthe inthe the same neighborhood Near North Liberty the residence of Jacob Neld hiser was wrecked and the family had hada a narrow escape All AU over Johnson county the storm destroyed windmills and barns The damage in the county is estimated at A deluge visited the town of Extra Era last night and trains on the Audubon branch of the Rock Island could not pass that point today toda The town is un ua under under der four feet of water The Raccoon river at Aden after be being being being ing stationary all aU day da began to rise rapidly tonight It shuts off the elec dee electric electric inc plant and is doing great damage Hundreds Are Homeless itu in t Iowa a j isi e serious seiI us r at t any an tIm time The Des Moines Iowa Raceine C aar aarand and Skunk rivers are from seven to tOJ fifteen feet above low water mark and the lowlands are submerged Hundreds have been made homeless x xIn In Des Moines persons have been forced to abandon their homes while their livestock has been drowned downed and truck gardens have been destroyed At Des Moines and elsewhere throughout the central section of the state con continued continued r rain has fallen for hours the precipitation at Boone and Fort Dodge being reported as nearly nearl four inches Rivers continue to rise rapidly and andare andare andare are filled with drift wood False work on a bridge has gone out and two other bridges are in danger A bridge across the Des Moines river near Boone is re reported reported reported ported to have gone out Levees in Des DesMoines Moines are weakening and if it a break occurs hundreds of acres of residence property will be flooded The west half hal of Exira a town on the Rock Island system is inundated and Barrytown Barry town is ls in a similar condi condition condition condition tion Onawa Ottawa on the Illinois Central has experienced e a rain almost amount amounting amounting amounting ing to a cloudburst as a consequence of ot which trains can neither enter nor not leave Sioux City from the south At Marshalltown Marshallton the Iowa river has reached re ched its highest point and numer numerous numerous numerous ous washouts have seriously delayed trains on the Northwestern estern and Great Western The Des Moines river is rising two inches an hour Many persons are being bein removed from their homes in small sma boats at Marshalltown and else elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere where The Milwaukee road has been b en com compelled compelled to abandon its main line at Madrid owing to washouts Jacob Burkhart was killed by a tor tornado tornado tornado nado that struck Oxford late yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day evening devastating many farms and causing great reat damage to orchards and outbuildings Governor Cummins has ordered the state encampment of militia at Fonda to disband owing owins to the flood TERRIFIC ELECTRIC STORM STORMI IN VICINITY OF PEORIA Peoria Ills July 9 A terrific dee elec electric and rainstorm swept over Peoria and the adjacent country countr last night Rain fell in torrents for several hours and the damage wrought was extensive All the railroad lines en entering entering terin the city are more or less ices affect affected ed A Lake Erie Western freight went through a bridge brId e at six miles from here The engine and several everal freight cars are piled in the bottom of Farm creek The engineer was fatally injured and the fireman lies dead beneath the engine It will willbe wIllbe willbe be several days da S before traffic is re restored restored restored stored The Toledo Peoria Western pas passenger passenger passenger train due here Acre last evening struck a landslide twelve miles mUes east of here and the engine entine was derailed The damage to the timothy and oats crop Is very heavy Several inches S of ol rainfall was recorded Cloudburst in Colorado Pueblo Colo lolo July 9 Accounts ts are coming In tonight of a cloudburst which Continued on Page 2 t FLOODS CAUSE GAUSE I HEAVY LOSSES I Continued rom front page 1 L wept ept the Wet W t Mountain valley the i Grape creek region and other portions of or Fremont county Water Vater was four feet deep In a portion of ot Florence I The Santa Fe railroad lost two iron bridges and 1500 feet fe t of track It is reported rep orte d that Chandler creek ran Into the Chandler coal mine and filled it hut but this thin may be exaggerated Crops in Inthe the Jie Wet et Mountain valley valey were washed out It I is feared feard that that Grape creek crek the most terrible stream stam In inthe the county in time of freshet has damaged the fine irrigation system there which supplied 1 orchards and nurseries around South c canyon The Arkansas ks river rose six si breIght or r eight feet here but has done no yet yeL yet I |