New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-06
THE FRESHET.
The Flood in Cincinnati,

THE FRESHET.
The Flood i'm Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, August 5.-The water is in
vading the cellars ON Broad way, Sycamore
Main, Walnut and Vine tree t !. as high al
Second street..
This city appeared t, be the centre O
the tt)rm,. extending about 100 miles il
each direction. The t tai damage TO rail
roads, crops and priv Is property in this
congressional district is estimat,d q
$l0,00O,0 900.
The Wabash Failing.
A dispatch from Terre Haute says tn,
Wabash river is steadily falling. Railwayt
have began transferring passengers and
mails. They can &c: through tomorrow
At Seymour the Ohio and Mississippi bridge
is gone, and there have been several wash
cuts on that road beside.
Tho Terrors Of tho flood.
MEMPHIS; August 5.-Heavy rain storm
this morning. Reports from above state
plantations on Islands Nos. 10 aud 81 are
being submerged, and at New Madrid the
overflow is running through sunken lands
to the st. Francis valley. The water here ia
rising steadily, and slowly encrosching upon
exposed plantations below. The crevasse
at De Soto front has be en- repaired. Plant
ers bet ween here and Helena are working
hard to protect their lands.
A private dispatch from Pine Bluff, Ar
kansas, says the river rose six inches this
morning. and is within four feet of high
water mark.
A telegram from Little Rock reports
another rise. with twenty two feet on gauge.
The river at this point is rising steadily.
1t now stands thirty three feet by the
gauge. or within nine inches of the March
rise and with the rise reported at Paducah
Of ten aud half feet and at Cairo of six
inchee, the most hopeful persons here
have abandoned all hopes Of the river not
passing that rise. 1t may be Of interest to
state that on the twenty-6rst of March the
river reached forty-three feet eight inches
at Cairo, the highest point, while at st.
Louis it stood at nine feet, while at present
Cairo shows forty -four feet. eleven inches
and St. Louis twenty seven feet eleven
inches, or three times the depth il had
when the spring flood was at its height
at Cairo. Taking this as comparison, with
an excess Of one foot three inches at Cairo
and nearly nineteen feet at St. Louis over
the stage of the river at that time, the out
look is not assuring. During that fl,od,
which reached its highest point here on the
first OF April, or six days after it reached
its highest point at Cairo, all exposed lands
we're inundated; but the planters had not
commenced plOwing, and after the water
receded planted lands lately flooded be-
tween this point and Osceola, mostly in
corn, which is already greatly damaged or
totally lost.
Captain Joplin. of tho steamer Frank
Forrest, estima' es that one half of the corn
crop along the river between here and Os-
ceola 10 ruined, and fully one-tifth of the
cotton crop, with water slowly and steadily
encrOachiDg upon cotton lands below here.
On the Mississippi side very little damage
has been done. and planters are still hope.
fui and busily engaged in strengthening
the levees. But on the Arkansas side,
whore lands are unprotected, the damage
already doae is considerable, and planters
generally are unable to do anything to
freshet in Arkansas river will cause great
damage to fine planting lands where it
meets the back water from the Mississippi.
0estructfon Of the Crops.
TERRE HAUrE, August 5.-The Wabash
ia slowly falling. The first mail from the
East since Saturday came on last nights
train. The Express OF this morning esti-
mates the loss Ju the crops and the destruc.
tion Of property in fourteen counties tribu-
tary to Terre Hauto not less than el2,-
100000.
A Rough Estimate OF the Damage by the
Floods.
1t is difficult at this time to form more
than a rough estimate Of the damages done
70 crops by the rain and overflow in the
valley, but it is believed they will be
heavy. The wheat crop had suffered &C.
verely by the cold weather in the spring,
and half of what was planted was winter
killed; of the remainder it is believed one
third is hopelessly lost and the balance
partially damaged, though it is believed the
1amage will be much less than is generally
expected.
The acreage of wheat sOwn was larger
han last year, and the relative yield COM
pared with last year will be fifty per cent |
ess. The chief damage to corn is in the |
liver bottoms, where the crop is q total |
Oss; that planted ON high ground has sui. |
cred principally from being broken down. |
The acreage was much larger than last year,
md the prospects before the food were
avOrabls for an unusually large crop. 1t |
9 now thought there will be fair average |
,rop-not much, if any, less than last year. |
Much depends, however, upon favorable |
Weather for the remainder of the season.
The 0at crop has suffered more seriously |
han either the wheat or corn, having been
'eaten fat and SO badly damaged that it |
vii be impossible to harvest it. The per |
ent saved will be very small.
The barley suffered severely from the cold |
weather. and but little was growing. Of |
his grain the quantity saved in condition |
Or mailing will be comparatively insignifi- |
ant.
The hay promises partial crop, but OF
1teriOr quality.