The Portland daily press., 1875-08-04
THE WESTERN FLOODS.


More Favorable Reports from Missouri
ST. LOUIS. Aug 3-The weather has cleared
and yesterday was clear and cool
The river is about thirty feet above low water
mark. but no serious damage is reported.
There is considerable rise in all the river
streams still to come down, however. Probably
a good deal of low land ON the Illinois shore
opposite here and between here and liro will
be Hooded, but disastrous freshet is not looked
for.
Great Damage i'm Central Him ois.
JACKSONVILLE, ILL.,, Ang, 3.-The recent
storms in Central Illinois have done immense
damage TO crops, bridges and railroads. The
loss is estimated at million; that of Morgan
county alone is nearly fourth of this sum.
Fears of IA Disastrous Overflow in Lon
isiann.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. 3-Gen. Thomp
| son, Chief of the State Engineers, says tie
| Arkansas levees near the Louisiana line are
| low and in bad condition, ard Raleigh, Milf
| kens and Omega water proofs are caving in:
| In about ten days the floods will arrive at Red
| River from above, and should the upper levees
| give way, the whole country around bayou
| Macon will be overfowed.
The Ohio Rising Rapidly at Several.
| Points.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 3.-Despatches to the
| Times from Chillicothe says the rain con.
tinues and the flood gains strength. The canal
broke below the city and swept 5000 bushels of
| wheat into the river People living in the
bottom lands are moving their families, fearing
an inundation. At Ironton the Ohio is rising
| five inches an hour, and is also rising rapidly at
| Cincinnati, where it has already entered the
| lower stories of houses on Water street, and
| bids fair to 60 as high as ever known before.
Railroad Submerged in Indiana.
A despatch frem New Albany, Ind, says
trains on the Albany & Chicago Railroad were
| taken off to-day at Gosport the track being
covered by the flood from White River for a
1 o,E fIraa A hno Co. $50
are working to prevent the large railroad bridge
| from floating away. The White River at this
| point is twelve inches higher than ever before
known. Trains south from Lafayette 60 no
farther than Charlottesville, as the track is
washed away in many places.
Athens Flooded.
Dispatches from Athens, O., say at midnight
the river was eight inches over the greatest
elevation known. The gas works are flooded,
| and people are compelled to use candles. No
trains are running on any of the roads and no
m ails have arrived since Saturday last
Crops Destro, ed.
EVANSVILLE, Aug 3.-The crops on the low
bottoms are utterly ruined. The heavy dams age
| to the Evansville & Charlottesville Railroad
| above Patoka will be repaired tomorrow. The
| rivers are still rising.
Tho Situation at Memphis.
MEMPHIS, Aug 3.-The river rose two inches
during the last "a hours, and now stands eleven
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feet below the food of 1867, but reports from
the above indicate that the flood will exceed
| the spring rise.
Great Damage Along the Wabash.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Aug. 3.-The flood in the
Wabash is more than foot above high water
mark of 1850 and several inches higher than
| ever before since the settlement of the county
All its tributaries have been running out and
the low ground is all overfowed. In many
places the river is three to five miles wide. The
| damage is incalculable. Suffering must result
to the tenants on the low lands, whose all is
swept away. The Wabash bottoms for an
average of mile and a half wide the whole
length of the river is submerged and crops,
both harvesting and growing are swept away.
Our city is located on high ground and slight
damage has been experienced, except to manu-
| factories and mills. The destruction of the
Wabash and Erie Canal between here and
| Fort Wayne is complete. 1t Is broken in a
hundred places. The canal and river have
been ON level for 4S hours. The water of the
river is rushing through the canal and running
| over the banks from one to the other at all the
| low places This will be terrible blow to the
| people of this state. 1t is impossible to esti-
mate any more accurately the acreage sub
| merged The Louisville, New Albany & Chi
cago Railroad istmuch damaged between here
| and Battle Ground. The ether railroads are all
! right The portion of the city located on the
| west bank of the Wabash has been cut off for
| two days by high water overlooking the bridge
| l6VoeS ana com muHlcatlOn Is only Kept open by
| skiffs. The river has fallen about half an inch
since O'Clock this morning, and is still very
slowly receding.
Disastrous OverAows i'm West Virginia.
WHEELING, w. Va, Aug. 3.-Wheeling
| Creek was higher yesterday than ever known.
The abutments of bridge two miles east of
this city were moved over foot. At all points
along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, between
this city and Grafton, there is great destruction
of property and loss of lgrain. The town of
Pennington was almost completely submerged,
water being on the first floor of nearly all the
houses. There were a number of heavy land
slides on the railroad. and four bridges were
carried away on the Parkersbury branch. The
loss in slaves, dressed headings, logs and bar
| rels carried away from the vicinity of New
| Martnsville, in this state, will amount to over
| 100000. All the low lands in this section are
| submerged.
| The Damage in Cook County, Hi.
| CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-The foods in this county
have done damage to the amount of about
100000. The chief injury is from the over
| flow of the Calumet river, which has inundated
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