The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-10-22
Floods in the Northwest,

CHICAGO, Oct. 14.-Despatches from points
on the upper Mississippi report that the re-
cent rains have caused heavy rise of the ri
yer at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. The trib-
utaries were never higher. The bridges on all
the smaller streams are gone, and most OF the
upriver roads are impossible. Trains are
delayed, and work of all kinds is at q compar-
alive standstill. Every mill at Eau Claire,
Wis, has suspended work, and while no loss
of logs or damage toproperty is apprehended,
the suspension of operations is a serious
drawback to numbering operations. Besides
the mills every manufacturing industry IN the
city has been suspended. Reports say that
the Coon Fork Dam has gone out of the Eau
Claire, and an unusually heavy rise is pre-
dicted. The Chippewa showed thirteen feet
above low water mark last night, and was
still rising.
CHICAGO, Oct. lit has been raining al
most steadily throughout the Northwest for
more than a week, and nearly all the rivers
are out of their banks and still rising. The
Mississippi is eight or ten miles wide in some
places At Hannibal, Mo-, the water is with
in eighteen inches of the high water mark in
1880, when the great levee broke; and at Bur.
lington, McGregor, Prairie du Chen, and
many other cities the water has Hooded
wharyes, warehouses, mills, and railroads to
a utplu Oi TWO Ut ulOEC leGb. n AloC va NhANO
feet was reported to-day along the upper
Mississippi, and it is thought that when this
volume of water reaches this latitude great
damage will result 1t has been on the rise
for the past three weeks, some days rising as
much as two feet. Farms lying near the III
yer have been flooded by water two and three
feet deep. In some fields it destroyed much
corn that was shocked and hay in stacks. AT
Dubuque the people are confident that anoth'
er food is coming and are greatly excited.
All the river front is under water, and mills
and factories are flooded At least 1000
employees are idle on this account. Poor
families living on the flats are Hooded out
and are living in freight cars, near the round
house of the river road.
QUINCY, ILL.,, Oct. pa dispatch from
New Canton and Rockport announces a dls-
astrous break in the Sny levees, two miles
above SCOTS Landing. The water Is pour
ing through the crevasse in torrents, and a
vast area Of highly cultivated land is being rap
idly inundated Runners were sent out 10
warn the people Of the disaster, and the farm
srs are using super human efforts to save
their stock and their household effects. The
disaster occurring at this time is much great
er than ever before, as o very large area OF
winter wheat has been sowed. The corn and
other crops have not been secured, aud the
bottoms are full Of cattle, horses and other
live stock. Both levees are expected to break
Il the rise continues twenty four hours longer.
The water is several inches higher than AZ the
spring rise. At Hannibal the water is across
the railroad track and Up to the door OF the
National Hotel. The keokuk and St. LoHis
Railroad track is under water from keokuk
to Hannibal, and the rails az several points
below Hannibal and ST. Louis will have to
be abandoned tomorrow. North Of Quincy
several farms are overlooked by the back
water from Quincy, and the farmers are gath
ering their corn in skiffs.
Many Of the streams in Illinois and WiscOn-
sin have overaowed their banks. Transport
taiion on the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST.
Paul Railroad has been AlmOs, eniirely sas-
peaded. Three Thousand tons Of bay arc
aaoas al Moline, Illinois. Qaincy- H., is IN
imminen, danger Of being overfoWed by the
Mississippi. Hundreds Of cattle are wander.
ing about on the Missouri bottoms, and, as
they take the railroad track 10 keep out Of
the water, they greatly impede the trains