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Show FLOODS IX IOWA. Hundreds of Families Driven From Their Homes. Thirty-five Miles or Kail road Track M'ashi Away SlOtTJC Cllr Jtine 2oTi he terrible rains of last night have almost devastated devas-tated this portion of Iowa. No roads are running trains from this city east. Floyd river valley is inundated for thirty-five miles north of this city. Many houses in Le Mars are flooded over the first floors, while the towns of Merili, Hinton and James are in a worse condition. Thirty-five miles of track on each of the Illinois Central. Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City. Minneapolis & Omaha, and Sioux City & Northern are flooded north of this city, with had washouts at Le Mars. The.Little Sioux river bottom bot-tom at Cherokee is entirely inundated and thousands of acres" are under water. On the Central Iowa branch 900 feet of track was carried out. On the Sioux Full3 branch seven bridges are washed out. The Chicago' & Jfortbwestern tracks in Sioux valley are out for a half mile at Sutherland. The same road is also washed out at Carroll. . At Merrill, eight miles from this city, the Floyd river rose fifteen feet in three hours this afternoon, and to-night the flood is sweeping through Floyd River valley towards this city and devastating de-vastating hundreds of acres of crops. The manufacturing towns of Leeds, Lynn and Lewiston aTe submerged. Hundreds of families on the Floyd River flats in this city are moving out into higher grounds. The railroad companies have abandoned their yards and shops, and the engines, cars and all kinds of material have been removed to higher ground. Reports from South Dakota are that the Vermillion river is out of its banks and flooding thousands of acres of growing grain. The storm at Souther-land Souther-land Tuesday night destroyed 15 dwellings, dwell-ings, four warehouses and several barns. People took to caves and no one was injured. All the county and railroad bridges are washed out. Sioux City, la., June 25. Additional Addi-tional particulars of the flood at Cherokee Cher-okee indicate that the worst is now over. It is stated that a hundred houses were washed away, rendering 1,200 to 1.500 families homeless. Reports Re-ports are coining in from all quarters of unprecedentedly hinh Avater in the streams. The injury to railroad property prop-erty in loss of bridges is incalculable. The water is receding this morning. The destruction of properly in Cherokee Chero-kee alone is about $200,000 besides almost al-most all the stock pastured along the Sioux being drowned. No further loss of life is reported at Cherokee beyond the four whose drowning has already been noted. It is now known that eight persons lost their lives around about' Correction ville. Fort Dodge, Iowa, June 25. Reports Re-ports say that in sixty miles traversed by the storm, hundreds of acres of crops were destroyed, and the destruction destruc-tion to other property was enormous. Seventy-five houses were destroyed at Cherokee and forty at Sutherland, besides be-sides a large number unroofed. Waterloo, June 25. Cherokee is shut in by a vast expanse of water, and it is feared there will be added to the already suffering citizens the pangs of hunger, as all the surplus stock of provisions pro-visions was destroved by the flood. There is no prospect of reaching the people from any direction until the water subsides. |