The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-23

and daylight the ground was frozen very
hard. fhe river has risen I've feet since
last evening, aud Is now twcnty-seyen
and half feet higher, Total since
Sunday, about seventeen feet. The rise
is much slower nov than yesterday,
to fall by tomorrow. Railroad
travel is very much interrupted, The only
roads which sent out trains this morning
were the Ohio& Mississippi, Cairo Short Line
st. Louis IL San Francisco and Nandaliai the
last named used the Ohio Il Mississippi
track to Odin, thence by the Illinois
Central to its own road. The only train
from Chicago this morning ar
rived over the yandalia road,
came in by the same line. Incoming
trans on all other roads were
either abandoned or have been in
definitely delayed. The Chicago 4 Alton
Chicago, Burlington IL Quincy and India
napols Il ST. Louis trains are
twenty miles from here, and there are
washouts, bad bridges or overhowed track
at various other places. The Vandalia
and Louisville IL Nashville tracks are
flooded at Silver Creek and other
places. The Wabash eastern division has
trouble beyond Alton, and the western di-
vision has had land slides between
here and the Missouri river. At st.
Charles, on the Missouri Pacific.
within five miles of the city and considerq-
BILE of the track is overtlowed.
The Keokuk Il st. Louis is
also under water in several
places. The Iron Mountain road, besides
land slides reported last night has another
washout about sixteen miles below the city.
The st, Louis Il San Francisco
/ nd trni
have not been stopped The rise in
the river here, is said by the oldest
steamboat men to be unprecedented.
No such amount of water was sver known
to come down so suddenly. Even the
fall amounted to within l7-lOO of an inch OF
as much as the average fall for the entire
winter, for the past eleven years. Tele-
graph lines west of here are still prostrated.
At HELENA.
MEMPHIS, February 2l.-A special dis
patch from Helena, dated last night, says
t e stu alton remains unchanged. The river
has been at stand for the past four
hours. The water in the city continues
rising, and is now over north Main
street, at the Presbyterian church.
part of the city have, suspended
operations, and many laborers are
thrown out of employment. A
few more days of such dis
tress will leave many in. actual want
The only means of Communication between
Main street and West Helena
is by skifTs, for which there
is great demand. Business is
at stand-still. There are no transactions
in mercantile circles, except for act
ual necessities of life. At mary
points between here and Nicksburg
the river is twelve inches higher than ever
known before. This is ac-
counted for by the fact that
the Mississippi river has overilowed
its banks a. 9 Geola Arkansas, ninety
miles up the I'VE. and a, large
column of water pou.. through
that country into the cad
waters of the st. Francis and again finds
way back into the main river fifteen miles
above Helene, where the st. Francis emp
ties into the Mississippi river Every
portion between Memphis and Friar's
Point, Miss, is submerged, and the
water extends back from either shore
fifteen miles Planters are enduring
great hArdships from loss of their
stock by drowning In nearly all
overiowed districts the stock is
suffering. What are saved are kept huddled
together on hastily constructed platforms.