Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-06-11
Rleed n the Upper Mississippi.
ST PAUL LEVEE SUBMERGED.


$1,000. 900 Lose Loot .. 81. Aassosy.
Tie River 7isea.y One Feet adore Lo,c
Wafer Marx.
Our Minnesota exchanges are filled with
reports of another food in the Mississippi,
exceeding the highest stage Of water known
to the oldest inhabitant. We copy the
chief items of interest embracing the losses
as far - ascertained.
Yron the St. Paul Ninnesssian. June s;h.)
On Saturday morning. early, the turbu-
lent waters began closing up the little strip
of levee that was left at the lower landing.
and soon came tumbling into the war ehouse
cellars. along between Jackson and Sibley
streets Then there was hurrying TO and
fro" and many busy hands were engaged
in hosting the freight, wares aud goods
into the upper stories. We hope no dam
age will be done to any Of the warehouses
or their contents there. The steamboats,
were compelled to land at the foet Of Rob-
ert street, where, the descent being more
declivitous. 3 better landing was found
Above that, the new levee is completely
submerged, and we fear the sweeping cur.
rent may injure it, as it was hardly finished,
being recently filled in with loose dirt and
stone.
The river rose on Saturday about three
quarters of an inch an hour, and from six
o'clock p. m. on Saturday, to yesterday
evening, the rise had decreased, having
only risen during those fifteen hours, about
h .,u
On the upper fiat. the roof and pipe Of
Cobb's saw mill still glmmer above the
water 1t will sustain much injury, while
some logs and timber have foated away
The few houses at the foot Of sEsyife sire: :
are isolated and surrounded and partly TILED
with water. On the lower fiat, the road
between the gas works and Dayton's bluff
is neck deep under water, and the inhabi
tants are compelled to 60 around by way
of the Saltwater road. The road is made
OF sand and dirt, and will sustain damage
A steamboat has gone far up the fiat, back
OF the sawmill, where none ever went be-
fore, as far as we can learn. The steamboat
Clarion, which was stove up by the ice
boat last spring and lett in damaged con-
dition at the upper levee, floated off on Fri
day night OF its own free will. We have
not heard from it.
We cannot pretend to give any figures of
the loss and damage occasioned by the
Hood. In the aggregate it will be enor-
nous, if the waters do not eubside. Coming
as it does, in the hardest of hard times here.
it will be more severely felt. After this
flood, we predict no one will want to settle
On bottom lands again, while our high,
rich. rolling prairies invite settlement.
Along the river there has been much
wood foated off, hay. DC. destroyed. We
have no definite particulars Of the flood be-
low, but some Of the towns must possess
valuable water privileges soon.
at st. Anthony and Minneapolis. the
storm and flood has teen terribly destruc-
tive, and property to the amount Of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars has been de
stroyed and lost. The pier on which the
turn-table of the upper bridge at st.
thony stands, (the bridge is a drawhridge.)
has been moved down stream some thirty
feet Another pier nearer the shore has
been swept away, taking about one hundred
feet of the bridge with IT, The water was
level with the bridge at 10 a. IN. to- day. and
is probably over it by this tine There Is
great danger OF the whole bridge going
The Suspension bridge is as yet intact, be-
ing about three feet above the water. The
fifth pier (froni the St Anthony sde) of the
lower bridge has gone. taking about one
hundred and fifty feet of the bridge with
it! Both adjoining piers are being under
mined by the flood. The Suspension Bridge
is probably safe, unless the one above il
should come down in body.
At least $4,000 worth OF lumber and
logs have gone over the falls within three
days. Two small single mills were carried
away.
The Falls we ore told present an appear
ance both fearful and sublime. The tor
rents pour over the precipice with terrible
force and increased roar. and the spectacle
has attracted even persons from this city
Portions of the rocks, we learn, over which
those torrents have poured since the time
that the Almighty first set creation in mo-
ton, have given way to the pressure Of wa
ters and fallen down, creating a still more
rugged cataract. spirit Island, just be-
low the cascade, has also been nearly
swept away, The Minneapolis Mill Com
pany's dam still stands intact, while the
drift flood does not yet reach the only
bridge that can be crossed-the Suspen-
sion.
The water, according to measurement
made here, is twenty one feet above low
water mark. The w. l.. Ewing, Capt. Hill
house informs us, could not 20 under the
bridge, lacking about four feet, as her pipes
require seventy-two feet, and about sixty
nine remains, out of ninety at low water,
between the timbers and the river
The business men along the Ievee are keep
Ing register OF the flood by taking its
altitude on their doors, as the water crawls
up the posts. The last mark will be point
ed to in after times, as "the height of the
great flood" in 1859.
From the st. Anthony News.
The river is now Thursday morning)
higher than it has been known for eight
years, and within foot and half of the
extraordinary water mark of 1850.
The storm of Tuesday raised the river at
st. Cloud two feet in single night, and the
water at this place shows similar increase
in volume. Last night it rose ii inches At
six o'clock this morning. the boom of the
st. Anthony Water Power Company gave
way under the long pressure, and about S.
900 900 Of logs, valued at 100000 went
over the Falls. About 4,Oo0,O 900 OF them
to the value of $4,000, were the property
Of the mill Company. The boom at Coon
Creek contains about O,O00, 900 logs, and il
momentarily expected to give way. One
of the piers Of the upper bridge is badly
washed. The water is up level with the
floor of the st. Anthony Mills. The stone
mill owned by Farnham & Simpson, Oh
Hennepin Island. Is badly flooded. being
entirely surrounded by water, and the first
floor overfowed. The water pours over the
Minneapolis dam the entire length--a cir
cumstance which has not happened before
since its construction. Logs are continual
ly ccming down the river from booms abov G.
The water has risen to within four feet Of
the platform OF the Suspension Bridge, and
one foot of the Upper Bridge.
LATEs.-The Coon Greek boom hae Civ en-
way, and hundreds of the citizens Of st.
Anthony and Minneapolis, in a state of in
tense oycitpment are gro - dino IN fba sbny "a