The Russellville Democrat., 1881-11-17
DROWNDED OUT.
Condition of Affairs in ihs LowiaBds About ouIncy-A Great Extent of Valuable Farming Property
 Devastated


 A Quincy special says: The water re- cedes very slowly, and it will be several days before such branches of business as have been interrupted can get back into their natural grooves again. The sufferers in the lowlauds are greatly at a loss what to do for their winters subsistence. and are even yet ignorant of the full extent Cf their losses, unless perhaps the case of those who admit at once that they have lost every thing,
 The more wealthy of the land owners in the bottoms south of here evince a determ- ination not to give up the reclamation Of their lands. They are now c4nvasslng ways and means of repairing the dams ged levees and placing them out of danger of damage by flood. If the weather will not permit of this work being done this fall all prepartions will be made so that it can be completed early in the spring All the open country lying between the north end of the Shy levee and seuth of Quincy. is also to be leveed as soon as the work can be done. This will materially protect the Shy emhankment which has always been endangered by the pressure of water from the open district lyiyg north.
 THEY DON'T GIVE UP.
 The people interested in the Indian Grave district, north of Quincy, are already getting in position to repair the damage done there, and to complete the cross levee at the head of Quincy bay, piece of work which is necessary to close the embankments around the district Nothing can yet be done in the way of building levees, the flood being yet more than 17l feet above low water, but there is a large amount of dredging to be done at the head of the bay, most of it in places that cannot be reached in low water. and this has now been commenced. It will he pushed night and day, not even except. | ing Sundays in hopes of getting it finished | before the water gets too low to let the dredge-boats up to the ground where the work is needed.
 DAMAGE ESTIMATES.
 | A great many estimates have been made as to the amount of damage done by the | flood on this part of the river. None of them, however, can be accepted as accurate, ] for the reason that no oHe can possibly tell | how much the loss is. An old citizen, who haa been here for nearly sixty years, and l who has recently gone over most of the | overhowed district, makes up figures as | follows. They are probably as nearly &C., curate as any that have been made. They | fix the entire losses in the Warsaw drainage l district at $500 900; in the Indian Grave | district at S750000i in the Shy Island | district, sl COG, GOO; on Quincy bay and the city from $50, 900; in and about Alexandria, 1 Mo, $25o, 900; in the low lands frem Alex andna 10 Hannibal, on the Missouri side, | S250 900; to the Keokuk and St. Louis rail road, $100, ,0o0; to all other railroads, $60 900; and to the open lands north of the Shy l levee and immediately south Of this city, | Sl5O00, making total of $3 ,005 900. Ol l coarse the full extent of the loss can only | be seen after the river shall have retired | within it's banks and left the scene of de- struction visible in all it's magnitude.