New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-03
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four principal RAILROADS running east from
this city were either flooded in places Of
damaged 90 that trains can not run, and
most Of the railroads in this State are in q
river had risen three feet since Saturday
night, aud was still rising at the ratb of two
inches per hour.
Accounts from tho upper Mississippi,
Missouri and Illinois riv .rs say that all
those rivers are rising rapidly. and the trib-
utaries within 200 miles Of here are all
greatly swollen, many of them pouring out
in floods.
: Dispatches from various parts of this
State cay that immense damage has been
done to crops and farm property generally.
In Spring River bottom alone the damage
suffered by the farmers 10 estimated at
81. SOC, 900. The Usage, LIE mine and Black
water Rivers, are higher than ever before,
and IN fact all streams in the State are at
food height aud are causing great destruo-
ton Of property.
The railroads are also Puffering seriously
from wash-Onts. the loss of bridges and
oyerhows. The trains are badly delayed or
stopped entirely, turnpike roads are also
being washed away in places and bridges
sdeAtfOyed.
Travel Of all kinks is impeded. Probably
there was never so widely extendedAdsmagD
by rain in the State.
High W.ter-Travel Stopped and Crops
Ruined.
CINCINNATI, August THE river has
risen three feet since last night, and is
swelling at the rate OF two inches per
hour. All the upper streams aro rising, and
the prospects are the river here will be as
high or higher than any previous time this
season within . day or two.
CINCINNATI, August "a dispatch
hn -
the banks. The water in the western
part Of the city is three or four
feet deep. No treins out last night on the
Pan Handle, or Cincinnati, Hamilton ahd
Dayton roads.
A dispatch from Athens, Ohio, says the
Hooking valley is completely submerged.
The river ls within thre6 inches of 'the
greatest height ever known. The crops are
= total loss. Reports of othee losses come
in constsn.ly, No trains were run ON the
Hooking Valley railroad to. day. The water
lis over the track of tie Msr3esta and Gin
cinnsti railroad below town, where two
trains are blockaded, one passenger train,
full of pet pie, standing completely isolated
for some time. The loss ct the Salina salt
mines will be heavy. The bridge on the
and Cincinnati road west of here
is gone. tn heavy bridges are standing
the strain we'll.
Rivers Higher S0aA 1oR XeaRos
COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 2.-The heavy
rains last night filed the cellars heretofore
dry, and covered the corn and wheat folds
even more deeply :han they were before.
The SciOto river is higher than for years,
but NO fears are felt for the levee. The
Hooking Valley Railroad Comp my only 1
run trains to Lancaster. The president re-
ports more severe floods between that point
and Athens along the line Of railroad than
known tor many years. The Panhandle
trains all come in ON time. The Litsle
Miami roads, by reason of the floods, sent
Cincinnati traius to-day by way of Dayton
Che Overflow sf the Mississippi Inevitable.
MEMPHIS, August 2.-Press telegraGb
rom above, last night, dispellell the last
nope of averting an overflow. The river
,ere is still fising slowly. The pereury
ell rapidly last evening; at six O'Clock this
morning it stood at 60, which is unprece
tented in this latitude on the second of
August. The cotton on the uplands 10 re
ported suffering from the ince essant showers,
md cunning to weed.
The situation along tho river 10 vary
gloomy and planters are very despondent
n view of the foods reported in all the
upper rivers. The rise here to-day was
,nly an inch, but the head of the secOndsI
Use at Cairo probably will reach here to-
morrow, though the river probably may
lot rise rapidly before the latter part Of the !
resent week.
The Damage in illinois, /
CHICAGO, August Especial dispatches
his morning report that heavy and dam.
gng rainD have prevailed in central and |
nd Northern. Illinois and in portions Of |
owa during the past forty eight hours.
he crops have been almost entirely de-
troyed in some of the lowland sections,
nd even the highlands have suffered to q
reat extent. The railroads have been |
'ashed out at some points, but no serious
ccidents are reported as yet
Rain In New Work.
New YORK, august "A very heavy
ain storm has prevailed here since carly |
his morning.