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Show TIIE FLOOD IN iOiVA. Qz Fundeil Kcr.fci Washed Away at Clisrobju- Four Persons Lose their Lives in the Awful Torr6uts. QErATDE3TUCTI0"CrF0FESTY The Ihrcags to the KailroaJa ii Almost 'f IncJculabla Eight Person Drowned at Correctionville. PlOlx Citv, Iowa, June 25 Addi-y Addi-y iai particulars of the Hood at Chero-, Chero-, Jof'icate that the west is now over. II k '-ted that a hundred houses weri-.0"'a6d away, n uderiug from 1200 ,0' families homeless. Reports are g in from all itiarters of tin-J'mV tin-J'mV nl ' high water in the streams. Tho u jury to railroad property in loss of bryes is ineaicnable. The water is reetT ug tr.'.s morning. The dustruction of pif-verty in Cherokee ulune is about $.'(K).vOi), bmide almost all tho stock pastik -d alug Hie Sioux 'ting 1 dm''-1"11' No further loss of life is reported re-ported at Cherokee beyond the four whose drowning ha? already been noted. It is now known that eight persons per-sons lost their lives around about Cor rectiooviiio. FtUT DoiifiK, Iowa, June I"). Reports Re-ports say that in sixty miles traversed by tho storm, hundreds of acre of crops were destroyed, and the destruction destruc-tion to other property was enormous. Seventy live houses were destroyed at Cherokee and forty at Southerland, besides be-sides a largo uumber unroofed. Watki.loo, June 25. Cherokee is shut in by a vast expanse of water, and it is feared there will be added to the already suffering citions tho pangs of hunger, as All the surplus stock of provisions pro-visions was destroyed by the Hood. There is no prospect of reaching the people from any direction until the water subs. lies. |