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Show EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN IN NEBRASKA OMAHA. ' Ksb.'. July 14. Report received re-ceived In thle cttr from Oege and John-eon John-eon counties In the southeast portion of the state Indicate that eectlon was visited vis-ited Sunday by one of the hesvlest rain-telle rain-telle ever recorded In the vtoinltv. .At Teeumeeh, ha Johnaoa county, roar Inches of rein fell In four hours. During Dur-ing the seme time over ei Inche fell at Crab Orchard and five and one-half Inchee et Elk Ckeefc. Near Crab Orchard two mllss of the track of the Nebraska Cltv-Holdredse line of the Bnrllnatoa railroad la waahae out. from Beatrice come ths retort that the Bovernment sauce recorded a fall of eiaht Inchee of rain and that the Blue river rnee twentv-slx feet. The Blue river early thle morning rose at the rate of three feet en hour, eubmeraing the re I roe d yards and endanaerlng the residence resi-dence end buslneec dletrtota Women aad child rea were rescued from the tope of box can. hoata belaa ueed In the rescue work. Ae tar ae oaa be learned no Uvea were loeL All the rollroade wars hard hM by ths floods Ths Burlington brides over Bear creek and nearlv all the trackege la the Burlington. Rock Island and Union Pacific Pa-cific yards at Beatrice were waehed out or Inundated. For twelve mils between Dewitt and Beatrice most of the track Is gons. No tralaa ar ruauihaaT In or out of Beatrice and R Is caps teed to be several daye before the 01 lu can be resumed. Prom eg nortiona of she Bhsa river waller wal-ler come reoorte of heavy property losses. Henry Brandt, a farter Dries; southwest of Beatrice, lost earhty head of cattle end ell his earn croe. At HoUn eevllle. seven miles southeast of Beatrice, Be-atrice, six feet of water le runnlac through the dsoot. The Bsetstee eieo-trlc eieo-trlc light plant la shut dowa and th wassrworks plant Is threatened. Ths Dempster mill manufactunna nlastt was damaa-ed to the extent of 1401. Last sveslng the waters began So -cede, and the worst, it le hoped, le over. |