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Show THE RACINC TORRENTS. Reports from all Sections of the Missouri Valley Show Great Damage. Peobia, Ills. , May 9. The river is still a raging torrent, and has risen seven inches in the twenty-four hours np to yesterday. Since then the water is so rough that no measures were made. It is believed that it will not rise much more, but a strong wind is dashing the water furiously against the bank. Many bridges are liable to be washed out. Large forces are at work guarding against this. Loss in the Missouri Valley. Kansas City, May 9. As a result of the steady downpour for the last twenty-four hours which was the climax of the rainy season this spring, accounts of floods are coming in from all over western Missouri and eastern Kansas. Some towns are flooded, and damage is reported to dwellings. Considerable Con-siderable farmers stock has been drowned and washed away. The growing crops are badly damaged, and thousands of fields will have to be replanted. Davine county, Missouri, is one great lake. Houses were washed away and stock lost. Along the Platte rher and the "103" river, the whole country is under water, and houses and barns destroyed. Livingston, Grundy and Mercer counties are flooded, and the district dis-trict from Chilicothe to Iowa is a sea of water. All the crops along Grand river valley val-ley are washed out and much stock lost. The railroads are more or less damaged; traffic is delayed, and in some cases abandoned. aban-doned. The Wabash bridge here was strained out of line so that no trains can pass over it. Half the streams in Oklahoma Okla-homa territory are out of their banks, many bridges are washed away and nearly all the overland mails abandoned. The Santa Fe l a? suffered several washouts, and trains are b:d'y delayed. There was a small cyclone accompanied by rain north of Guthrie, and the houses of John Davis, Henry Smith and John Crockett were carried car-ried some distance by the cyclone and badly damaged. Barns and other buildings were also destroyed. No loss of life is reported. All trains, with the exception of the Rock Island and Union Pacific, from the west, are delayed by unsafe bridges, land-slides and washouts. The raiu continues unabated tonight, ard the Missouri, though very high for the season, i rising rapidly, and there is much apprehension appre-hension of increased damage by the floods. A Destructive Waterspout. San Angei.o, Tex., May 9. Last night about 7 o'clock a strong wind, accompanied by hail aud a veritable waterspout from the north, struck San Augelo, lasting nearly two hours. Vegetables were beaten into the ground and the trees stripped of their fruit. The Santa Fe Railroad company has several miles of track near town washed away, 't here were no trains in or out of San Angelo today. The Electric Light and Power company's dam in the main Concho river was completely washed away. Reports from Iowa. Bt'hlington. Ia., May 9. -The Mississippi river is now twelve feet above the low water mark sixty-four at this point and spreads out over many miles of low lauds on the Illinois side. All the St. Louis, Keokuk cfe Northern trains are still running by way of the Carthage & Quincy branch, on account of the flood at Alexandria. It is thought that the flood will begin to subside tonight. The Burlington officials have about succeeded suc-ceeded in straightening out this traffic, which the floods demoralized. |