Out Of Its Banks

RUSHIXQ MAlElls. QriN'OY. 111., May 15.- Tlio flood has done ts worsi and the expectations of loss have n fully realized. Both levees have broken and over 300,000 acres of growing crops are ruined and hundrods of head of stock drowned. ïhe Jirst crevasse occurred in the Indian Grove leveo Siuiday night at a point a few miles above the city, and since then the evee has given way in two other places. The breaks were accompanied by a roaring, rushing sound that eould be heard fully two miles away. "When the lirst break occurred a large forcé of men was set at. work to try and repair the damage. A steamboat and barges were rashed into service haiüing rock. The men worked with the courage of desperation, but to no avail, as nothing could withstand the mighty force of water pouring througli the rapidly-widening brcach. The sight was one never to be forgotten. (ireat trees were bent and broken and huge rocks were torn away. The three bi'eaks were each origiually about 100 fect wide, and are being cut away at the rate f ten or twelve feet an hour. People living in the doomed district, which is about twenty miles long üy eight wide, were forced to flee for their lives, saving only such articles as they could piek up in their fiight. What was Sunday night 100 square miles of fertile, growing fields is now a lake fr.om eight to ten feet in depth. Individual escapes f rom the onward rush óf the water are numerous. and many thrilling stories :iave been told of families going to sleep Sunday night in fancied security and waking up to flnd their dwelling rocked to and fro by the motion of the water. The town of Cantón, JIo., is half inder water and much loss and suffering will ensue. Louisiana. Mo.. May 15. - The Sny lovee succumbed to the pressure Monday morning and opened at a point at the foot of Murphy's bay. known as "TurkeyFoot," about eight miles above this city. An opening over 1Ü0 yards wide was made, and a vast volume of water rushed through with a loud roar, rapidy inundating Sny valley and drivïni,' the farmers from their homes :o seek safety in the bluffs. Some idea can be f ormed of the damage that will result from this inundation when it is considered that thc Sny valley extends from a point flve miles below this city to a point opposite Hannibal, with an average width of five miles, and possessing as rich soil as there is in the State of Illinois. On the Missouri sido the break at Alexandria has caused a great sea covering 80,000 acres of land. in the midst of which is a modern Venice with impromptu craft of all kinds and sizes. The water (loods the town of Alexandria from two to six feet deep. The people were in a manner prepared for the flood and the suffering is not great. The bottom was planted in wheat and corn and the f arming coinmunity reckon on their loss at figures aggregating f300.000. Host of the live stock has been driven to the bluffs. Burlington-, Ia., May 15.- The river here acks but two inches of thc high water of 1SSI - the biggest flood since lhñl - and may possibly tome to it, although it can not pass it. Beveral small herds of cattle in ihe adjacent bottom lands of Illinois and towa have been drowned and much loss to [armera occasioneel. PiTTPFiKi.D, 111., May 16.- The break in the Sny levee inereases, and 103,(KK) acres of land that have been protected will soon be the bottom of an immense lake. Owners and tenants are hurrying to the ujüands for personal safety, only having time to take their alreadyloaded wagons and live stock and leaving most of their property to the floods. Hundreds of families are camped in the open ticlils out oí reach of the water, having nowhere fco go. A cold rain has set in, making their desolation more dreary aud complete. St. Louis, May 16.- The Mississippi is very high tiere, but not up to the danger line. The island in Ea st St. Louis is partially covered. Reporta t'rom Louisiana, Mo., gay the Sny Levee break is steadily anlarging and torrente of water are rushIng through and submerging the entire valley. Already man; bornea have been ruined. The break occurred at about the center of the levee. so that the upper portion will be compuratively uninjured, bilt th&lower lialf is praetioally a total loss. Out of about 75,000 acres of wbeat and corn over 50,000 acres are cntirely destroyed. Farmers succecded in driving most of their cattle to the bluffs. The Chicago & Alton railroad tracks are threatened and the St. Louis & Keokuk is under water lor a long distanee. At O'Fallon, Mo., the water is still rising and has destroyed a largc acreage of wheat and corn. Should the local rain which set in here at noon continue until midnight the Cuivre river will pour into the Mississippi a volume of water that will inúndate the entire Mississippi bottom from Monroe to St. Peters. Cleveland, O., May 11.- A cyclone passed over portions of Northern Ohio yesterday afternoon. Considerable damage was done to farm buildings, fences and orchards, but no loss of life is reported. At West View, Lorain County, trees two fcet in diameter were twisted off. At New Phüadelphia, Tuscarawas County, shade trees were blown down, Windows broken and chimnays demolished. Fultox, 111.. May 12.- This city is completely surrounded and partly inundated by the MlssiBsippi. The river is now eighteen feet nine inches a'iove low-water mark, and is still rising at the rate of nine iuches in twenty-four hours. In June, lsO, the river was never nineteen leet ten niches above low-water mark, and thisycar itwillprobablyexucedthatheight. Four miles above the city the rivcr is six miles in width and is flowing swiftly over improved farms. Farmers hare DO grass, and are removing thcir cattle back from the river for pasture, Freepokt, 111.. May 12.- A cyclone paesed south of ihis place Thursday night, demollihing the brewery buildings of Haegele Roth. causlng a loss of $10,000, and ruinlng the brick residence and barns of William Brockhausen, a few rods distant, causing an equal loss. Valparaíso, Ind., May 12.- On the Nickel-Plato raílroad at Winslow Siding, sixteen cars were blown off their wheels during a tornado yesterday and at Wanatah roofs, rhiinm s. fences and trees suffered severol.v. Little Rock, Ark., May 16.- A cyclone in Baxter ( tounty yesterday wrtvked many dwellings and dostroj'ed crops, causing heavy losses to farmers. No lives were reportcd lost.