The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-07-11

N. Davis's store on The North East cor
ner of Front street. The water was uI
along Battle row nearly to the door latch.
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At ]. & E, Walsh's store. corner O.
: Vine and Front streets, the water wa;
about I'd inches on the first Aoor Al
the corner of Locust and Front it was up
to within about ID inches Of the locks ON
the doors. The lower pa OF the city in
the vicinity of Mill Creek sall submerged.
The water has covered Second street be-
low the bridge. Mr.. Stcles, and most Of
the people in that quarter, especially along
Convent street, have removed. and the
communication is maintained by means
of boats Several houses along up ia The
direction of the dam are several feet iu
water. Uf course all the low lands in
SouIard's addition and 81. Georges are
OVERLOOKED.
On The opposite side every thing is I'M
der water. Al Cahokia village the inhabi.
ants have been forced 10 fly to he bluffs
They have sustained, as we learn by a
gentleman from there yesterday, 10 them)
a heavy loss in the destruction other
furniture, crops gardens, &c. and the
drowning Of their cattle. During the vi
client wind and rain of Tuesday night, we
are told, several houses in Illinois town
We're removed from their foundations, aud
some overturned. All the other towns
and the farmers in the bottoms are sut-
iering in like manner. 1t the water
were now to subside it would be too
late in the season to repair the inju-
res.
The Mungo Park, from the Illinois
river, reports that as rising fast al Otawas
and Peru, on Monday evening. 1t is re-
ported there as several feet higher than
1t has been known 10 have been Tor II
years. Naples is reported TO be complete
ly inundated. Boats could run in The
streets. The inhabitants had chiefly gone
TO the bluffs. The water was up TO the
stores in Beardstown-lhe only approach
to Fishers hotel was by boats.
We learn that the Upper Mississippi,
below the Rapids, was still rising. The
waller was over the banks at Marion City
landing. and the ware houses there were
inundated The town of Lagrange was
completely flooded, the wafer being more
than foot deep in The principle streets.
The 81. Louis Reporter OF June 2
says:
The river is still rising at the rate Of
foot in "a hours. The levee from the
water works to Mill creek is entirely in |
The fisl floor OF all the stores
on Front street is covered many Of them
20 the depth of three or four feet. The
South par. Of the city along Mill creek
is impossible except in boats, and many
houses are submerged, Steamers at GER
tain points on The levee lie agaist the stores |
and no business is done except at the ln-
lerseclon of the cross streets.
All OF the rivers above are rising, and
the low lands are flooded, In some places
10 the depth OF eight or ten feet. Below
the same melancholy scene is presented
The American Bottom is now under wa.
Ter {; lIlinoisown scarcely visible, aud
other villages on The bottom submerged
From Appearances The present rise a0iU e1
coed any aohsch has taken place during
The present century. Greal distress VIII
necessarily be produced along all of our
large rivers, and immense losses OF prop
erty be sustained.
The skif connected with the ferry boat
on the other side of the river was upset
yesterday, aud three men were drowned.
A letter from Independence Landing,
River, of June IA, says
Vino L,c
it was last year, and is still rising rapidly
The bottoms are all inundated. Much |
destruction has already taken place, aud
should it continue to rises and the prospect
is far Tor II 10 do so, for 1t has been RAIN
ing for the last forty days, much more
will take place. Our Grmers, owing to
he continued rains, have not as yet pllch,
ed their crops, and no prospects Tor them
10 do SO for ten days 10 come.
The CINCINNATI Gazeue OF june II,
says:-No abatement vet of the food IN
he Mississippi! II was sweeping on de-
sIructively Oh the 22d, aud farther rise
The river is now three six,
nine, and even fifteen miles wide al pia-
ces. The curb-sloue on Front street, east
ofthe market house at ST. LOUIS, was GOV.
cred some three or four inches by water.
The Steam Boat Balloon left Weston
on the Missouri, on Tuesday, the 18th.
at A. M. The ware. house at WAN
1otte City was gone, and the entire bot
om covered from ten 10 fifteen feet, aud
not house left sttnding. A, Weslport,
he ware house is gvne. AT Choeea as
landing, the buildings are all swept oil.
AT Liberty Landing the ware houses
are all ia the water, aud fhe loss OF gro.
;eries and produca estimated at from ii We
% seven thousand dollars. RichheId
ware house gone, and other damage done.
In Camden Bend, all the houses gone,
and great loss of stock, furniture 81. Al
lexington the water il par! Of the ware