Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-06-18
rha Submerged Cairo
A Cairo correspondent of the Chicago Times
writing on the 18th, presents the following wa

Cairo correspondent of the Chicago Times
writing on the 18th, presents the following wa
tery picture
Breakfast was served to the guests OF the lay
lor House in the second story, knee deep IN
water. the culinary department beng carried 70
The third A few families, who resided IN Two
story houses, remained in them until noon TO-
day. They now have TO get out OF Their up
stiirs windows into boats-the water being al
most on q level with them, and rising at the late
Of four inches an hour
The Ohio levee is the only place OF refuge
left, it being only some seVenty-hv ieet T'de'
and three f1urths Of mile in length and here
a mixed sight is presented TO the Dehoider-
every animate and inanimate thing saved from
the jestroving element is seen-"the beggar IN
his raps." crinoline and broadelOth Dutch,
Irish. NEGROES, and the Anglo-SlxOn pigs,
calves, mules and horses /; turkeys, chickens
and geese boxes, barrels and bales bedding,
cooking utensils and baggage-togeiher, with
MANY other articles not necessary TO describe
At one O'Clock, p. m, nearly one-halt OF the
new (unfinished) hotel, on the ievee, fell with 4
deafening crash, preceded by report equal to
six uoander. The building was OF brick, hye
stories high, with attic rOOms, iron door and
wipliox frames cost nearly SlO0, 900. The re-
maining portion was considerably swayed- To-
tal loss.
Gov. Matteson's new bank building, five sto-
ries high, also on the leyes, shows signs OF tal-
ling. Its an unfinished building and cost about
/ S75, 900.
The " Springfield Block, adjoining the bank
still stands firm, but will probably come dowI
with a crash soon, as the water Is sOftenlng the
ground, at the foundation. Nine tenements arc
v thin this building, all occupied. The POst-of
fee is one of them. Cost some S3OO,OOO oil
100000.
A letter to the Cincinnati Ga=etts dated Cair,
June 18th, says;
The distress and suffering here are really
great. and cannot be described. 1t is enong h L
saw that there is from ten to thirteen feet o
water all over the town, and the water on th'
inside is within only foot of the top OF the lie
wee, while the Ohio only lacks two inches o
subnerging US The citizens OF Paducah sen
down last night by the Scott large quantity o
bread and meat, and several hundred dollars II
money, all of which was greatly needed, and w
cannot sufficiently acknowledge the generoslt,
of our neighbors The left wing Of the new
brick hotel, now or lately being built by com
many. fell down Sunday afternoon, and an earth
quake occurred the same day. Mound City i
three feet under water, and the mails and pas
sengers upon the Illinois Central have to b
conveyed to the landing by RATS.
The Missouri, at Kurick's Landing, IS eoyere'
with water to the extent of four feet. The riv
er is still rising here, and there is every Proba
biIty that it will submerge what is lett OF tn
lIeyce ON the Ohio side The break at which tn
water has been pouring in, IS three hundre'
feet in extent 1t was reported last night tina
I thousand feet of the track ofthe Illinois Cen
tral Railroad, near the break, about three mile
from Cairo, was washed away.