New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-19

today the weather Ia clear and pleasant.
Tie accounts of the Hood at Cairo are said TO be
much eXagl erated, and the damay5 Will not De near 90
great us mas Eeen reported.
FALL or A uOTFL-IMNENsE LOSS or PROP
ERTl-rURTHER RISE IN TIE RIVER
Cone spondeuce CT The Chicago Times.
CAIRO, June 10, 1853.
anved in this place at 10 O'Clock a. m, and fourd
everything in the widest confusion |, has rained
almost i1cestany for the past three months, swelling
tie rivers out of their banks, carrying desostion in
their pathway Thousands upon thousands of acres of
Land abe We ard below, has been laid waste, aud mil
liens Of dollars worth of property lost. Yesterday
nornirg distinct shock of en- earthquake was felt
here and al clcck in the evening the cross 9vee
broke when the water, which was twelve or fifteen
feet above the levet Of the town outside came dash
irg foamiDg and seethiCg iHSide The break was so
unexpected that the inhabitants were taken by sur
prise, and many OF them only bad time to escape,
with tlci famles, to the levee, before the torrent
swept away their homes In many instances boats
arc rats had to be resorted to for the means Of es
cape To-day every person is busiy engaged in rec
cuirg what property trey safely can from the floating
houses
Breakfast vas served TO the guests Of the Taylor
House in tie second story, knoe-deep in water the
culinary department being carried TO the third
few who yy h6w yh S1 70 get out Of
their up-stairs windows into boats, the water being
aost on level with them and rising at arate OF four
inches an hour. .
being OILY some seventy five feet wide, and three
lcurths OF mile n length; and hero mixed SIGHT
ia pretcuted to the ANIMATE anu mani
mate thing ssYed from the destroying element Is seen
the beggsr in his rags ciinolne and brosdclothi
Dutch, Ii.h, negroes, and the Anelo-Ss1on; pigs,
csyes mules and hoTes turkies, chickens and geese
hcxea bsrIes and bales, bedding cooking utensils and
baegage together with many other articles not neces-
saly to cesciite.
At o'clock D. NJ, nearly One-hlf Of the new fun
fnishedl hotel, on the evee, fell with des'enIng
crash preceded by report equal 20 asi1.pouncer'
lie building was of brick, 1--WE stores nlgn with
attic rocms iron door and window frames; cost nearly
sloOOO0. The remaining PORTION was CONSIDERABLY
swayed. Total loss.
Gov. Mattesons rev bsrk building, five stories
tioh also on the leyec shows signs OF filling. 1t Il
IN ~ finished building and cost about y wv
The Springfield Beck, Adjoining tee Bsnk, stll
II AIDS firm but will probably co re 90 "n WIN cra.h
socn. az the water is oftenng the grsunc at the
foundation. Nine tenemects are within TINS building,
al occupied. The Post.Chice is IN one OF them Cost
seine 100000 or SiOO,U
Among very lew smu,rg incidentI was the ap-
nsarrnce of Col Hacker q raft, floating around Tor
mn. hlso L,sut. FatOn aid Ed. Nulet. on anO.Aer,
bare legged, polling along tue wrecks Of houses, ard
making IA refiec.ua attmpt to sing the Boa;mans
further rfe of two or three feet will sweep silently
over tie site where Cato oace Stood but where 1t VII
leytr stAId 6BsIn, JorTr
Amnor Is cair-rt mat tie levee was cut by per
son lylrg II Mound City. o. he wa seen IN the neign
berhood tie break very short time after tho wafer
Tie raiiroed track ass been washed away north Of
tie town. will cofsiderabe OF the tres'e won ras
strcers ~ the Illinois Central Railroad are trans eTied
to lie Mound CIV train at the junction. at which place
thy take the packet for this place; ,;...;.; a,,.
Soue 4 rec miles NORTH the MISSISSIPPI sweeps
across 10 the Ohio RIVER with strong current, "bieh
ulacfs this fated place IN an Island IN TACT
Mound City teiog on an elevation, has Jared scms
better than her sister town, but even thefe gres1
ror+;on ~ tie place submerged Inc SGeton li)teI
wa rreDatre today for further Use, by putting IN
stecoId door sOme IS inches high. portion q t'o
f.t deer was covered an irch or Two w'n "a'e'
al ?. n. .,,.;o, of The
uTforrrste inhabitants sway from their now desolate
fou &c. Many Of tie basres men are n10e bankrupt
by the iocd. 49,. -
Msior Rawlings Of Mound City informs me taa. ne
has lived there Gity yeas, and tnat the Vllo hsel
higher now than he hiss ever seen H. slihPiS Peus
.ketob falls far short Of conveying correct dea Of
tic score 80 be appreciated, It must be seeR;
/ co,,s,p.psele, Of TIE Cutisrs,i Gazette.
CuRO June lj-s m.
/ Yen have doubtless heard that Cairo 10 under
water but probably you have no Ite1 GU " =, "a.
extent It j., inundated. The cellars are uIea y .ae
! brip AID everything is aloat. gIeA. mtn! VI sHe
irbabitauts have eft and those who remain are ~
tItuted smorg the louses on The eVee enu On ~
whsrfbosts. Capt Phillips, Of the uPPesb and
boat turpir hin self out, aud hi. potene-s "a 'Siy
gratefully accepted. The Tom. scott, C1-Io anu
1lucsh packet ware filed lsst nlght alto, aIl tie
Wocdford which lays over until this norm Z, sILty
accommodated number Of our citizens anu Oh OH.
els. TIC distress ard suffering, here are ieany
great and carnct be described. II Is enough 20 soy
at there is from ten to thirteen feet CT we,et al over
tie towr end the water on the inside - wl'hln Only
foot Of tie .op Of the evee, while the ONO acA oS
two rchcs OF submerging Tee citizens ol ratS
can ert down last rig int by the scot are
OF bread and meat, and several hu1dred oonats IL
mercy, al Of shich was greatly neee.o, sEa we en-
reehbors. Tie left wing q the ner onik notsI, hYS
or lately berg built by company, lei qS"a oaI.a!
afternoon, and sn earthquake occurred Inc sane as2
Mcurd Civ is three feet under water, ana .ne .l'
ard passengers upon the Illinois Certra' nave '"
conyeyed 10 tie landing by RATS, ., .u;,h
The Missouri, at Kuricks LsrdinZ covsfea w. I'm
water to the extent Of four feet. Ing .NIt , -;
rising here and tIere is every probability tas u VI
subnerre what left of the leyee on the oaio gus
The bieai al which the water has been pouring 10 !.
rieht ibat Thousand feet of the track CT the H!n9,s
Central RAILROAD near the break, about thres mA'e'
I from Cairo. was washed away. 49,,
RIt a. \. NOT the most serious news we nave tn.,
u1,e.ns fox tie Diana brough. Up The intelligence {"