| Show nonus AM I Herald The great floods In the West Wc l follow fullow followIng lag Ins ten days dG of contInuous and heavy rainfall furnish turn Ish another of those mark snark marked ed lId contrasts that hall boor 50 o tIe fre frequent quent between tin tilt and ond w SectIons s of tho ho country a al 08 regards regard weather conditions The fIte mont flood extreme of tit n use tho two sectIons section have alt with the tue of ot storm and orul culm And now nol four great states an SIC al under unde underwater water while hers here III In th III K st we have been from rum M II II t for lor a month mantis no ho ot of there from To ro be hoe sure thin lila Is III n it great coun emma country countr try tr but It t would eem to be to lu hope that Its Ha rains antI and UH may be mote mOla evenly distributed Cleveland Plain Denier Dealer While the reports of loss lOBI of ot life by hy bytho hythe bythe the tho Kansas loathe floods pem to have been heen ex cx the this of property Is II liable to be greeter shown b by early estimates I rho Ih lints hlll no not 1 Un tn to no go 0 down th tIle loss loan tn to but bus hll lace will III ha increased with nIh endl nf or n the Hood flood Added to 10 this lola sore are the Ih tl I II of ot get frt gettin tin to the us il the Imminent dunger of an nn of Ills dig paw ace rn The Tue nf f th t sti inken n corn com communities are arc snaking making a It brave effort to tIlt the f and that thai for tOI the thA sent they ran provide for tor forthe forthe the th destitute The rh ta tak taek k m lORY Insy y c a prove them theno th m antI and In that case th to nay n tall fall for help hip will lIe nn ns n n as It Il woN WAN in tIm tho th cases caie ca nf tot Johnstown and arid Galveston Boston no ton Transcript TInt Hut Kansas Hanas Is I not tho the only state to 10 suffer Iowa lown Is hardly Vet Ind l lur lurand and and Indian Territory have helm thell sluice to tn toll tell 1 11 of ot and loss 11 It Jt I h probable that the th first re reports reo ports lorts mry have hao been unduly colored os pa with reference rele nce to the thu number of nl lives II lost lOHl but hut time the best het must mutt milte int an appalling chapter In th noa B eU a sons eons retard A gentle divide In loa Iowa has hus Icil the th eastern experiences of ot tho the half and curiously enough h the th haS nf nt the Hoods has ham seemed to 10 fol fob follow follow low loss kelly cloudy tho the track of ot the th tornadoes Now cow York Tork Evening Sun from a n trip In the southern anti and counties of New ev Dye of ot the State Board Hoard of ot says The Tho damage to lo tho the crops 1 I have seen In forty fori years yearn of ot my experience Time Tho cm era and mm ad have hlo already lost Just half hair of their theli early car crops and only a n heavy ny rainfall will wm save pave their late Inte crops On sloe to have faith of ot course coune to count on nn b d precipitation From Frosi the middle of ot March n theme were overe superabundant supers rains The Tho Thel pendulum l then sorting the lie other way I Js Is It not rational to expect a n reverse swIng of ot the pendulum Normally May MayIs Is a n rainy month May having usurped the function of June usually a month of warm sunshine toad and clear skies the law bow of compensation culls calls for tor the tho con on stunt slant rains which the tie torment farmerr rr are nrc pray prayIng log Ing In for foi Nature Is perverse tofu disappointing but she usually makes mn kes amends u m Chicago News Bo So far as ns can cnn bo determined the con conditions which make such disasters dIsaster pos poe possible sible are growIng Browing worse rather than better hetter It lt may be whether r the of or forests has hns not tended Ih much to the tho danger Tho The drenching rains now flow unchecked where formerly the lie fOIl I held belt them theno In their foliage and regulated te d the flow of ot water by b the nr riCh nit and deposit of nf sediment It II lone has beim belll estimated that the tho river banks formerly t conformed more nearly to the flood plane piano of some sonoe of these rIvers than they the do now |
