Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-06-25
TIM supnsneED CArno.--A Cair

The SUBMERGED CAIRo.--A Cairo Cor
respondent of the Chicago Times writing on
the 18th, presents the following watery pic
ture: @
Breakfast was served up to the guests of
the Taylor House in the second story. knee
deep in water, the culinary department be-
ing carried on in 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 stairs windows into
boa,s-the water being almost on a level
with ttfem, and rising at the rate of four inch
es an hour.
The Ohio Ievee is the uniy place of refuge
left, II being only some seventy-6Fe feet
wide, and three fourihs of a mile in length;
and here a "mixed" sight is presented tothe
beholder--every animate and inanimate
thing saved from the destroying element is
seeu-''the 5eggar in his rags" criaoliue
and broadcloth; Dutch and Irish, negroes.
and the Anglo~saxon; pigs, calves, mules
and horses; turkeys, chickens and geese;
boxes, barrels and bales; beddiag, cooking
utensils and baggage-tegether, with many
other articles not necessary to describe.
AT one 0'ctocs, p. m, nearly oue-haH of
the new (uninished} hoel, On the ievee, Tell
with a deatnlng crash, proceeded by a re-
port equal to a six pounIer. The building
was of brick, five stories high, with attic
rooms, iron door and window frames; costing
nearly 100000. The remaining portion
was considerably swayed. Total loss.
Gov. Matteson's new bank building, FIVE
stories high, also on the lesee, shows signs
~ .tE.- IL =. - - Iii T.
cost about $75 zoe.
The Springfield Biock.' adjoining the
bank still stands firm, but will probably come
down with a tremendous crash s5on, as the
water is softening the ground, at the foun.
dation. Nine tenemeu are within this
building, all occupied. The post Office is
one of .hem. Cost some $500. 600 or $780,
o0e.
n letter to the Cincinnati Gazette dated
Cairo June 18th, says:
The distress and suffering here ere really
great, and cannot be described. 1t ia enough,
to say that there are from ten to thirteen
feet of water all over town, and the water
on the inside is within only a foot of the top
OF the leyee, while the Oho lacks only Two
inches of subnferging US. The citizens of
Paducah sent dow n last night by the scott
a large quantity OF bread and meat, and sew
erai hundred dollars in money, all of which
was greatly needed, and we CAM not sufficient
ly acknowledge the generosity of our neigh
bprs. The left wing OF the new brick hotel.
now or lately being built by a company. fell
Gown on Sunday afternoon, and an earth
quake occurred the same day. Mound City
Is three feet under water, and the mails and
passengers upon the Illinois Central have to
be conveyed to the landing by ssfts.
The Missouri, at kurick's landing, is COW
cred with wafer 10 the extent of four feet
The river is still rising here, and there is ev-
cry probability that it will subnerge what
is left of the o hio levee. The break at
which the water has been pouring in, is three
hundred feet in extent. 1t was reported last
night that a thousand feet OF the track Of the
Illinois Central Railroad, near the break, u
bout three miles from Cairo, was washed
away.