Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-06
Islands hos. 10 and 30 Sub
merged.
The Water EncrOaching on the
LeYees.
Probable Flooding of the Lower
Arkansas Valley.
Loss $12,OOO,OOO along the
Wabash.
Great Destruction of Crops i'm
Ohio and Indiana.


confirmed. Tie railroad bridge is still
standing.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 5.-A heavy rain storm
this morning. Reports from above state
that plantations on islands ten and thirty
five are being submerged, and at Madrid
the overflow is running through sunken
lands to st. Francis valley. The water
here is steadily and slowly enTOaching on
exposed plantations below. The erevasse at
DeSoto Front has been repaired. Planters
between here and Helena are working hard
| to protect their lands. A private dispatch
from Pine Bluff, Ark, says the river rose
six inches this morning, and is within four
feet of high water. A telegram from Little
| Rock reports another rise, with twenty-five
feet on the gauge. Signal Service tables
show that twenty-five feet on that gauge
! foods the lower Arkansas valley.
LATER.-The river at this point is rising
steadily and now stands thirty three feet by
the guage, OF within nine inches Of the
March rise, and with the rise reported al
Paducah of ten and half feet, and at Cairo
of six inches, 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 21st of March the river
AGdELlCO AOlkN-AuECC lCtl ElELb 4lllllGo al
Cairo, the highest point, and at st. Louis
it stood az nine feet, while at present Cairo
shows fOrty-fOur feet eleven inches, and st.
Louis twenty-seven feet eleven inches, or
threea times the depth it had when
the spring flood was at its height at
Cairo. Taking this as a comparison
with an excess of a foot and three
inches at Cairo, and nearly nineteen feet at
I tn cF Of ,F
time. The outlook is not assuring. During
that flood, which reached its highest point
here on the first Of April, or ten DAYS after
it reached its highest point at Cairo, all
exposed lands were inundated, but planters
had not commenced plOWing, and after the
water receded, planted the lands lately
flooded Between this point and OsceOla
mostly in corn, which is already greatly
damaged or totally lost. Capt. Japlin, Of
the steamer Frank Forrest, estimates that
one-half the corn crop along the river be-
tween here and OsceO,a is ruined, and
fully One-ffth Of the cotton crop, with
water slowly and steadily encroaching upon
cotton lands below here. On the Missis-
sippi side very little damage has been done,
and planters are still hopeful and busily en-
gagged in strengthening levees, but on the
Arkansas side, where lands are unprotected,
the damage already done is considerable,
and planters are generally unable to do
anything to avert the danger. Il is feared
the freshet in Arkansas river will cause
great damage to fine planting lands where
it meets the back water from the Missis-
sippi.
The StOPPage Of Travel
TERRE HAUTE, IND, Aug. 5.-The
Wabash is slowly falling. The first mail
from the East since Saturday came in late
last night. Trains will not run through
from indianapolis without transfer for a
week. The LOgansport and Terre Haute
road will not be able to run trains through
for two weeks or more. Trains
will probably get through to Dan
vile by transferring Monday. Trains
are running regularly on the Illinois, |
Midland and Evansville Railroads. Trans
fers are made between this city and st.
Louis on both the Vandalia and IndianapO-
lis and St. Louis. On the Vandalia, be-
tween here and indianapolis, trains will be
run to morrow, transferring az two places.
The Cincinnati Railroad will be able to
run trains by the middle of next week.
The Express Of this morning estimates
that the loss TO crops and destruction of
property in fourteen counties tributary to
Terre Haute is not less than twelve million
dollars. There isprOfound discOuTagement
among all classes.
Cairo Safe from InundaGiOn.
CAIRO, ILL.,, Aug. 5.-To correct an erro-
neOUs impression which seems TO prevail
abroad as to danger Of this city from inun
datiOn, it is only necessary to say that the
levees are considered safe at the highest
water mark, and the rivers are still six
feet below that point. No uneasiness is
felt here.
Damage TO Crops in the Ohio Valley.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 5.-It is. difficult at
this time to form more than a rough esti-
mate of the damage done to crops by rains
and overflow III the Ohio Valley, but il is
believed they will be quite heavy. The
wheat crop had suffered severely by the
cold weather In the spring, and half of the
wheat planted was winter killed; Of the re-
maindeT it is believed One-third is hopeless
ly lost, and the remaining twOthirds par
TALLY damaged, though il is believed the
damage will be much less than is general
ly expected. The average Of wheat sOWn,
was larger than last year, and the relative
yield compared with last year will be fifty
in the river bottoms, where the crop is a
totai loss; that planted on high ground has
suffered principally from being
broken down. The acreage was much
larger shan last year, and prospects
before the food were favorable for an un-
usually heavy crop, II is now thought
tbs,-a will be a fair average crop, not much,
if sn,- los than last year. Much depends,
bowsyeT Inon favorable weather for the
remainder of the season.. Ihe oaI crop
has suffered more severely than Hheat OF
corn, having been beaten fiat and so Dadly
damaged that it will be impossible to bar
vest it. The per cent saved will be very
small. Barley suffered severely from cold
weather, and but little was growing. Of
this grain the quantity saved in condition
for mailing will be comparatively insig-
ni6cant. Hay promises a good crop, but
Of inferior quality, should favorable
weather follow. Much had been left out
uncut and was rendered nearly worthless
by the rains.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 5.-No very relia-
bic estimate Of the aggregate loss to wheat,
corn, and other crops in the State can be
made at present. In some sections the es-
timaied damage is so per cent, in Others
much greater per cent, and IN many lOcall-
ties the entire crop is destroyed. From the
most reliable information the loss in the
central and southern portion of the State
will aggregate 80 to 90 per cent. of the en-
tire crop in the low lands. Along the
Wabash river it has been estimated that
1000 acres of corn have been entirely de-
strOyed by the flood, which alone, at fifteen
dollars per acre, would aggregate three mil
lion dollars.
LAFAYETTE, IND., Aug. 5.-The loss to
/ crops in TippecahOe county is half a mil
lion: Carroll, Warren, and Fountain coun-
Ties a quarter Of a million each. This is
the estimated loss to crops by the high
water overflow, and does not include dam
| ACE by wet weather TO crops on uplands.
| Some estimates are much higher and Others
/ a little lower.
NEW ALBANY, Aug. 1T is impossible
to give even the general estimate at present,
/ frSm the fact of the Ohio river rising here
at tie rate an inch an hour and Overlooking
4 all the bottom lands below the city since
morning. The loss to farmers in that sec
iiOn, which include gardeners, will be total
. ] Io rr-Ia Sc Fnfal Oats total.