Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-07-23
THE GREAT FLOoDz-Lqtest.

The accounts OF the food are most d s.
astrous. Kaskaskia, Chester, &c, are
ruined. The Office Of the Republican at
the former place has been underm ned, and
the press and materials lost in the wafer.
The BUSINESS or Missouri and Illinois is
shdly derang d. Farmers, gardeners, me-
'charcs, all nave suffered; aud brick yards
wood yards, and the ncccssaries of life
along the river, have been Destroyed
Millions of dollars are lost by the flood
The Editor wen, on tour with the Mayor
in search Of la Butte Reynald, the only
point OF land ou; OF water, in 1855.
Al Bon Secour, there are encamped, all
in open camps, one hundred and twenty
two persons. Several Of these families
left their homes with from four TO nine
children, and with less than 30 pounds Of
-four md a small quantity OF mtat-some
of them have been SIX and eigh, days in
their encampmcnl. They have generally
LOST the most, some all, Of their clothes,
and when The flood s1bsidcs they viii not
BE- 10 a better cdnditi5n In all, we believe
We may say, tint We ascertaf med som, thing
Of The cpndfiJa Of .fiI three hundred per-
sons. Hence up L. the Cnniien, aud how
much farther we had not the means Of as
ccr,ainihg, th"y arc scattered along the
Bluffs.
esaw. Yesterday sight which would
have drawn pity from n heart of stone =
A large fam ly Of young children, (>ix IN
number without father or mother, no
were dependent on the charity Of those
who know their parents. How they sub
HI, 4; 4 IA
them without home and Dependent for shell
ter on The hand Of kindness, and that shell
ter only such as boughs, or under tcrs
can afford, wi h scanIy covering and all
the attendant evils, made US feel deeply
how much those who are not subject To-
these privatiou~, should sympat ize and
minister 10 thc wants of others.
There are many other Elements which
We had not time to visit. a few are lodge .
in houses, large, number in the s,me
room, but generally thcJ are in rude tcnts
erected on the spur of the moment. 4 few
we found with indian or Sioux tents, but
in general they have NJ other Covering
than barche, of trees laid thi on poles,
or sheets made nto tents.
Yesterday morning, the Indiana brought
up from kaskaSkia the Sisters Of CharIty
al the Convent the priest, connected with
tho church at that place, aud several iami-
lies and such furniture as thy had saved
The town is from ten TO twenty feet under
water.
Nc o'clock p NJ. on the 27lh, the river
was at a stand.
From the ST. Louis Papers, June &c.
Taking into view the whole region with.
in the range OF the inundalion, we find lha!
the length Of the line affected by il is. or
tho Missouri, 500 mile. on the Illinois,
$50; on the upper and lower Mississ ppi,
1900 and on the several nilluents of the
Missouri, such as the Kansas Usage, Grand
River, &c, some 400 more making the
total Of linear MEASUREMENT no, less than
2.400 miles. The length multiplied by 2
miles, which expresses the average breadth
of the flood, would give the whole country
usually dry. but LAID under water-a su
pcrfces OF 500 ,quaro miles, or three.
millions eight hundred and oriy thousand
acres
There are ofcr FIVE hundred persons al
present in our city, who have henn dr~o,
from their houses by the flood, and others
are hourly arriving. The 6 eatest portion
are in the most destitute condition, and
maay Of them dtirc Al from the exposure
they have already experienced. The com
mitiec Of relief have acted with gre1l
promptness, and are doing all in their pow
err 10 alleviate the sutlerngs of these un
Fortunate people. Six lr1ndred dollars had
been collected during yesterday, and one
hundred appropriated IL those in III. mos
immediate necessity. We imagine it is
hardly necessary to make nm appeal To the
bensvoli nee of our fellow citizens in aid
these suffering strangers, for ST. Louis ha>
never been found wanting CHI irritable
feeling or action.
The Vicksburgh Cons,i,utonalist Of Sa-
mrday, the. Goth uit . SAYS
The work of devastation, destruction
and ruin, continues the water is rising
more than one inch every - hours at this
place. On Monday and Tuesday la t,
NEARLY one thousand hands were employed
on the lcvce at MllIkln's Bend. about 20
Mills above Us, "a creya>sc was checked,
and. if permanent, thousands Of acres will
be saved.
The loss Of stock. particularly cattle, is
truly lamentabc. For many days they,
have been cole citing in large numbers on
tho ridges, near the numerous bayous,
where they were enabled TO find liltle
food, those ridges are now generally under
water; and, IL gentleman from Richmond.
La, (about ~ rifles west of this city, in
formed us that nearly 500 cattle could lie
seen a, one view. dca !, the water on their
last place OF refuge being from IL to III
inches deep! and at the same time assured
us that tho nunb'r OF cs'te lost would not
be los. than one hundred hdesand=-in all
the submerged country, We cannot possibly
form an idea OF the exten, Of the loss
Many, very many planters who have
heretofore escaped and who imagined them
selves above an overflow. are now without
single visible acre. This delugc will
have most serious effect on the value o.
our river lands, aud many of our ent~rpri.
sing planters w,H never again trust their
abors TO the wh!ns and freaks OF the
mighty wmen.'