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Show FLOODS" RUIN CROPS Iowa and Missouri Farmers Lose All Their Grain. HUNDREDS ARE PENNILESS Between Keokuk nnd Hannllnl Threo Hundred Square Miles of Country Has Been Devastated Whero n Few Days Ago Orowlng Corn Indicated In-dicated Eighty Bushels to the Acre All Has Boon Wiped Out by the Deluge One Township Is Under Boven Feet of Water. Keokuk, Ii , July 12 The flood conditions con-ditions weio much worse today nnd the Mls'lsslppl river Is from two to ten miles wide for seventy-tlvo miles below Keokuk and Is rising lnpldly. The lloo 1 Is rearhing fur outlying farms Hnd fnrmeis In the low lands on the Missouri Mis-souri side have lost everything but their cltndcls on high knolls nnd a few fields behind tho highest levees Dam-ago Dam-ago Is also caused on tho Illinois eldo between here nnd Qulmy. The Lima nnd Hunt levees, opposite Cauton, Mo, tho most dangcroua places, and which protect many square miles of corn In Illinois, nro being loii-stnntly loii-stnntly patrolled, and hopes iro entertained enter-tained that they may possibly hold, DAMAGE IN MISSOURI. The greatest damage Is on the Missouri Mis-souri sldo of the Mlrslsslppl river between be-tween Keokuk nnd Hannibal, territory covering 300 snunre miles, an I on which the corn was estimated at eighty bushels bush-els to the aero n few days ngn. Hundreds Hun-dreds of farmers nro tenants who lost crops by lust year's drought In tho uplands anl moved to the low lands this year, They are now penniless and hunting work In towns nnd cities. Re-ports Re-ports today are thit In the territory Indicated In-dicated the loss will be over JI0O0 0O0 chiefly to corn, In splendid condition previously. UNDER SIX PEET OP WATER. The damage done up the Mississippi river li greater than expected or than at first leports One township In this county. Green Ry, Is under six or seven feet of water. It contains over 11 000 acres nf crops. Teoplo were driven driv-en out hurriedly nnd ttomo cattln drowned Corn there wns the very finest In this section of tho country last week. The leveo eight miles north of Hurllngton. that hod been considered snfe. broke, Inundating three square miles. HiailEST EVER KNOWN. Tho Skunk river, tho most destrue-tlvo destrue-tlvo tributary of tho Mississippi, Is roaring down with a flood exceeded hut twice In the history of the Stnte In 1M1 and 189.' The water topped tho record of 1892 nnd has touched tho highest high-est record of 1851. This river rises In the center of Iowa and empties Into tho Mississippi twonty-tlve miles north of Keokuk, greatly Increasing the flood nt points below, RAILROADS PATROLLED. Rnllroids In Iowa will bo put to great cost n tho maintenance of tho tracks jnd safety of trains Tho Hurllngton nnd Rock Island systems nro closely patrolled by watchmen nt all brldgei and culverts Nn gicnt damage has occurred to them on nccount of tho systematic prevention, but this has NEW ELEMENT APPEARS. Thousands of acres aro submerged tn Appanoose county, la , nnd there Is much small grain cnught In the Ileitis. The crop In other places Is chiefly corn A new clement that baa appeared nil over the Hood section of Iowa Is disease dis-ease among the stock from the condition con-dition of the pastures overflowed slightly before and used after temporary tempo-rary subsidenco of tho waters. |