The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-02
THE FLOODS,
The Water Generally Subsiding.
DESTITUTION AND SUFFERING IN
THE SUBMERGED DISTRICTS.

KANSAS CITY, April 30.-The rise in the
river in the past twenty-four hours has been
twenty inches, but the waters have made no
further encroachment upon the city. Fowler
Bros. and Wood Bros ice houses are giving
way and will be almost total wreck. man
was killed by Government steamer crashing
into the balcony of house on which he Stood
There is great deal of suffering among 5000
or 1000 people driven from their homes by the
food but active measures of relief have been
instituted. The tracks of all railroads, except
ing the Chicago & Alton, are more or less un-
der water, and business with the East is almost
entirely suspended. IL is expected the river
will be at stand by tomorrow morning and a
rapid decline SOON commence.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, April 30.--The Pioneer
Press latest advices from various points on the
Minnesota river show the water to be falling
rapidly at st. Peter. It is twenty inches below
the highest point and falling fast at Carver,
and it receded nearly three inches to-day. AT
Cottonwood the rect Ssion has been twelve feet
and all danger is passed. The trestle work has
been repaired and trains running to Sleepy
Eye. Beyond that place trains are still sus-
pended, but Superintendent Sanborn expects
to have all damages repaired SO as to allow
trains to run TO Marshall by the tirstof next
week. There is no great change in the situa-
tion at St. Paul. The water at p. m. was
eleven feet five and half inches, aud since
then has been nearly stationary Relief work
for those driven from their homes in West St.
dui 10 SOluS Idpluly lOIWdIu DdTIdChS have
been built for those who have not found shell
ter, and the city will appropriate money, which,
with personal subscriptions, will provide for all
the needy.
ATcH1soN, April 3O.-The river has fallen
three inches. The village of Oak Mills has
been almost destroyed by the flood. All the
bottom lands in Danapan county are flooded.
The inhabitants will need assistance. At Troy
there are stacks of mail matter and the ex-
press company has $117 900 in gold bars from
the Pacific coast which it is unable to send
East Troy is practically the eastern end of
the st. Joseph railway.
ST. PAUL, April 30.-The Mississippi reached
its highest point last evening-nineteen feet
Six inches-and after remaining stationary all
day is now receding. Information from the
upper river and from the Minnesota shows the
waters falling rapidly. Affairs are assumin g
the usual condition, all danger being past.
YANKTON, April 39.-All Geographic COM
munication being destroyed, this telegram goes
to Sioux City by mail:
The Missouri flood has subsidized and the river is
falling almost rapidly as it rose For week past
the river has been out Of banks and been overflow
ing the bottom below Yankto, is again submerged
and large part of the land overfowed by the Mis-
souri, river rise: The worst of this flood is now
over. The Jim has been full from bluff to bluff
and from a mile to mile and a half wide Its low
water width is about ten rods. All its bottom lands
for seventy-fve miles were overfowed and most of
the houses upon the bottom have been swept away.
Great restitution prevails The food sufferers are
still being cared for in Yankton. Twenty five
thousand Government rations have been issued and
probably as much more furnished by the Yankton
people. Six boxes of clothing have been received
from Omaha and distributed in venion, Clay, Bon
greater than the supply. Gov. Hand is taking steps
to secure the burial of the dead cattle, horses and
dogs in the bottoms the carcasses are beginning
to decompose. Steamers Helena Big Horn and
Rosebug, which were cast upon the prairie by the
flood have been launched and are ready for work.
Steames Black Hills and Nellie Peck cannot be
10 thar lon ~, Tho rsH
Weather is warm, pleasant the grass is green on
the hillsides and farmers are putting in grain. s