Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-04
THE WEST.
Missouri.

Floods at St. Louis-The River on n Ram Page-serious Interruption of Business. ST. LOUIS, May 3.-The situation on the extreme north of the river front is very alarming. The water works seem to be en- are only fifteen inches above the water line. Several ice houses and lumber yards in the neighborhood are dangerously exposed, but the most important and unsafe part of this
 section is the Union stock yards which K posed to the pressure of the rising flood. On the east and south sides the superintendent has large body of men and teams fighting the danger. The Eau Claire lumber yards are entirely afoat. The Stamping mill at the foot of Buchanan street is partly under wa ter. The water has put out the fires in the furnace of zebreke's blaming mill. The East Wabash railroad tracks are under water. A dozen neat dwellings have been. flooded in the lower stories and the families have been con- pelled to move to tn 6 second story. Stables and outhouses are ready to float off between the foot of North Market street and Bremen avenue. The damage done by the water is very great, and every inch of rise greatly in creases the danger to all property from North Market street to the water works. In the southern portion of the city the depredations and ravages of the water caused not only suspension of business, but 8 heavy pe- cuniary loss At the foot of Chateau avenue the water is rushing madly through the lower story of the Annex elevator teB'' from which barges are loaded.
 Just below St. Louis the Coal Tar company's oJ,y dad but fho and the fires in their furnaces are all extin- guished and the yards present nothing but a scene of desolation and waste. Barrels, lum-
 Der and other material are floating about in the most promiscuous manner. The keokuk
 Packet companys office and store rooms, sectional dock works, in fact everything
 along the river front north of the arsenal, are
 submerged and the railroad tracks are unfit for use. A large gang of men have been at work the past twenty-four
 hours removing Iron Mountain cars from
 the switches nearest the river, but in some
 cases found it impossible, the tracks having become too weak to allow the passage of
 engines. At one point the bare tops of two freight cars are visible above the water. All along the river bank from Chateau avenue to
 the Arsenal presents one continuous scene of
 the rivers severe havoc in submerged rail- road tracks and factory yards and deserted
 dwellings. Below the Arsenal are further
 evidences of the encroachments made
 by the rising waters. At Carondolet the
 steam ferryboat Fred Hill has ceased run ming. The Jupiter Iron works quit last Sun day, the water being three feet deep in the stock house. At the Vulcan works the river pumps are six feet under water, and with two
 feet more the entire works would have to suspend East Carondolet is in most de- plorable condition. The entire bottom back to the bluffs and for five mics below is under
 water south of the Iron Mountain railroad.
 The Meramec bottom is completely sub merged for nearly two miles west of the mouth of that river. The situation at East
 St. Louis is much the same. The indications are that the river will be still higher.
 Steamboat men count on another foot but can't see where more than that is coming from.