Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-02-23
THIRD edition.
UNDER WAFER.

u Dh1 " a AADs
Railroad Tracks Swept away
Levees BPoken Families Driven
from their Homes Live S'Ock
Drowned DevsstaIisn Every
whore.
MEMPHIS Feb. 22.-The officers O
the steamer City of Greenville confirm
the report published concerning the sac
condition of affairs now existing
thro' ghout the Mississippi Valley
Thousands OF men are on constant
guard along the levees, and are u ine
every possible means to strengthen the
power of resistance, and to elevate tn.
crests 10 prevent the water from inun
dating the whole country. The Green
vile brought several thousand sacks,
to be used by filling with earth, to aid
in STRENGTHENING the embankments,
Twenty-Five hundred sacks were put
of at Bolivar Landing, where the dan
ger of a break was imminent. Wash.
ington, Issoquena, Bolivar, Coahoma
and TuDica counties, Mississippi, in
fact the whole shore line between Mem
phis and Vicksburg, on the Mississippi,
and the whole eastern shore of Arkan.
sas are either under ware or threatened
with inundatiou. The inhabitants of a
vast area of country are in great dis.
tress.
Many of them have been forced from
their houses and are living as best they
may on RATS, and some on knobs or
parts of old levees The destruction of
live stock is beyond calculation. Nav
igation of the river itself is regarded by
seamen as dangerous at its present
stage on account of the great expanse
of water in many localities and the bill.
lowy character of the waves when the
surface is swept by heavy gusts OF
wind, ALTO because of the Difficult y ut
getting to safe ports. The governm. mt
lights along the river are maintained
with admirable regularity. These lights
prove of incalculable benefit to steam
boatmen now, since all the bank land
marks have disappeared
ARKANSAS CITY
is completely submerged. Not a single
house in that city is tree from the pres
ence OF the muddy food. The water
there is represented as being eight
inches higher than the flood of 1876.
The houses were built so as to be above
the high food level of that year, but in
all of them there Is from seven to eight
inches of water
Between Cairo and Memphis the fol-
lowing points OF land only are lhIe
above the surging flood The bluffs AT
Columbus, the hills back OF Hickman,
the land on the Tennessee side opposite
Island No. 10, New Madrid, Point
Pleasant, Tipronvilie, Fulton Bluffs,
Randolph, Richardson : Islands, Nos.
30 and 80, and Deans Island, above the
head OF the Ceutennia. cut off forty
miles above Memphis.
HOPEFUL NEWS.
ST, LOUIS, Feb. 22-Tbe effects Of
the late storm are fast disappearing,
and the railroads are rapidly get ing
into good order again. All the tracks
are not yet fully repaired, buG enough
OF them are re.tored to epable trains
to move by the companies using each
Others road for short distances TIE
track OF the Louisville aud Nashville
is still impossible at Silver creek, some
50 miles from here. The Missouri Pa
clhc sent out train this morning over
the ST. Louis a. d San Francisco track
to Spring feld, Missouri, thence to Kan.
sas City, and will probably have It's
own road in order by tomorrow
The Wabash east will use the Chicago
and Alton road to point beyond the
obstruction on its own track, and the
NaDdalia will continue to use the Ohio
and Mississippi until its own repairs
are completed. The river came to
stand this morning, and is now falling
slowly. 1t is expected 10 90 down
with "a rush, which will meaSurably re
ileve the pressure On the Mississippi be.
low Cairo. The weather had moderat.
ed great deal, and thaaing had CON-
n6Dced.
A sOKROwTuL SCENE.
NJ IhrHIS, Tenn, Feb. % -Passel.
gers now arriViGg from the S. Francis
river Urlng Intelligence OF a sad acct.
dent which occurred on Monday on the
Tyronza, a small bayou which eInpties
into The St Francis river, about tw,nry
miles above the Madison Ark. High
ing to Mr.. Jamison, and while en-
gagged in removing mis- wife and six
children to place Of safety on the
highlands, the dugout which contained
them Capslzed, drowning all the chill
dren, two of whom were grown up
young ladies, the remaining four being
aged from six to fourteen years.
Jahlson saved his wife but he could
render no assistance to the drowning
children.
RELIEF CALLED FOR
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. ga
citizens meeting will be held to- MOT
row to act on the following telegram
received to-day:
JACKSON, Miss, Feb. 22.-The Sena-
tors and Representatives of the River
district of this State have Just held a
meeting, and requested me to com
municate to you that there is great loss
of property and stock by the flood, and
in many localities starvation is i'm
minent. An appropriation will be-
made Tomorrow by the Legislature.
The country overfowed, and which
may yet go under, comprises the best
part of our State. 1t is believed by
members representing the Yazoo Delta
that their commercial relations with
you justify them in making kno N
their sufferings and distress, and that
you will aid them in efforts of relief A
similar telegram has been forwarded 10
the Cham RS of Commerce at New Or.
leans and St. Louis.
ROBERT LOwERY. -Governor.
Number Of Accidents
DE William Weir WAS fatally hnrned