Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1898 — Ohio Farms Under Water. [ARTICLE]

Ohio Farms Under Water.

Springfield, 0., April 7. —A report has reached this city that 400 feet of the waste way of the reservoir at Lewiston, Logan county, had given way under the pressure of flood water and that thousand* of acres of farm land below were inundated. Many small buildings were carried away and much damage done to fences and wheat crops. No lives were lost, but the loss to property is estimated at (50,000.