Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-06-19
River News.

LsKiver News.
GREAT FLooD AT CAIRO The Town NEARLY DE
srRoYED.-Dispatches from Cairo state that on Sun
day last crevasse opened the Mississippi side
of the town, through which the water poured at
fearful rate, filling up the whole space between tn,
lcvee. The EN- bankments on the Ohio side and about
a Thousand feet Of the Central Railroad are washed
away. The left wing of the new no Ell fell asan.
der, and the balance expected to fall during the
night Nearly all the houses were tumbling down
drifting away sinking. Scarcely building in
the city is expected to withstand the flood. } The
water is two and half deep in the second stories
of the Taylor House and still rising rapidly at
last accounts. Mound City is also in danger Of be-
ing overfowed.
| On Friday boat dispatched from St. Louis
to the relief of the nh abtants of Cairo, and Other
towns, who, without much assistance, it was feared
might be swept away by the food.
! The FLooD AT ST. LouIs.-On last Sunday after
neon the water rising at St. Louis, at the rat e
of half an inch hour, while the news from the
upper Mississippi and the Missouri indicated that
the waters would not fall for days at lc ,st.
The high water has already reached within some
three feet the high water Of the disastrous flood of
lS44, and is higher than the food of 1851, which
did much injury. The levce at St. Louis is over
flowed, and the water is nearly up to the second
floors Of many of the buildings, while some of the
machine shops at the upper end Of the city are com
p!etely flooded. The bottom lands opposite the city
are completely su Emerged back to the bluff, dis
tancc, in places, of nearly five miles. Illinois
town is flooded, and the people have deserted it,
Thousands of farms arc under water and seriously
damaged, while large quantity Of stock has been
destroyed. The growing crops are of course entirely
rnined. ... ... ..' 40 rr. .... f:.t.
| BUs1NEss.-A number of boats have laid up on
account of the low rates and scarcity Of fregh
The Mary Cook and Belfas. have laid up at Davcn-
port; Sam Young, Brazil and several other boats Of
his trade nt St. Louis. The rate of freight on
wheat from this port to St. Louis is only I2A cen
per sack passage S. to S. We are glad to observe
that the packets ;loing larger passenger bust
ness than some weeks ago. They are also carrying
freights through to St. Louis since the new Arrange
ment Of running the Rapids.
The river fell six inches at Dubuque on Monday
last. So says the Express and Herald Of Tuesday.
1t continues to fall also at this place.
The FLcoD.-TAe river commenced receding at
St. Louis on Wednesday, after reaching a height
only feet and about inches below the food of
1874. Cairo, at the Junction of the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers, is nearly if not quite in total rum
On Monday forenoon the correspondent of the st.
Louis Republican wrote as follows:
"Care is overaowed, submerged, nundat ed. The
levee broke on the Mississippi side at half past four
o'clock Saturday afternoon, and the town was He'd
with water by nine O'Clock Saturday night. Every
body (includng your correspondent has been
ployed all day in saving the lives of the peopl,-
the property being permitted take Of tsel land
the male part of the population have had a good
chance to try their swimming propensties. 1t is
impossible to do justice to the subject. Nobody
| ever such wet place."