Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-22

ST. LOUIS, February 2l.-The weather
turned very cold about o'clock this morn
ing, and the mercury sank several degrees
below the freezing point between that hour
and daylight. The ground is frozen very
hard. The river has risen over five feet
since last evening, and is now twenty
and a half feet high, a total rise since
Sunday of about seventeen feet. The rise
is much slower now than yesterday, and
the water will probably begin TO fall by to-
morrow. Railroad travel is still very much
interrupted. The only roads which sent
out trains this morning were the Ohio and
Louis and San Francisco, and the Vandalia.
The last named used the Ohio and Missis-
sippi track to Odin, thence by
the Illinois Central to it's own
road. The only train from Chicago this
morning arrived over the Vandalia Road,
and the only eastern train came in by the
same line. The incoming trains on all the
other roads were either abandoned or have
been indefinitely delayed. The Chicago and
Alton, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
and the Indiana and st. Louis trains are
stopped at Wood river, about twenty miles
from here, and have washOuts, bad bridges
or Overfowed tracks at various other places.
The Vaudalia and Louisville and Nash
vile tracks are flooded at Silver Creek and
other places. The Wabash and Eastern di-
vision had trouble bevond Alton. and the
Western division had q bad land slide be-
tween here and the Missouri river. At st.
Charles, on the Missouri Pacific, there are
several land slides within five miles Of the
city, aud considerable of the track Is over
flowed. The Keokuk and st. Louis Road is
also under water in several places. The Iron
Mountain Road, beside the land slide report
ed last night, has an extensive wsshout about
sixteen miles below the city. The st. Louis
and San Francisco has suffered no serious
damage, and their trains have not stopped.
The rise 10 the river here is said by the old
est steamboat men to be unprecedented.
No such amount of water was ever known
to come down SO suddenly. The rainfall
amounted to. within 17-100 OF an inch of as
much as the average fall for the entire WIN
ter for the past eleven years. The tele-
graph lines west ot here are still prostrated.
CINCINNATI, February 21.-The Ohio
river is now higher than It has been since
the great food of 1847. At 11:30 1t was
fifty eight feet and six inches, and rising
half an inch an hour. High winds pre-
vailed this morning, accompanied by colder
weather, with light snow. This will check
the rise, though not at once, as the river is
still rising rapidly above. The wind has
been most injurious in fits effects
on the railroad embapkment in Mil Creek
valley, the waves crum0ling the bank.
There are fears t6at the track of the Gin
cinnati and Baltimore Road will be seriously
injured. II is already abandoned owing tn
racticallv.suspended. The Cincinnati, Ham
ilton and Dayton, and Cincinnati Southern,
and Cincinnati Northern, are the
ouly roads whose tracks are free
from water. The obstruction of other
tracks and the flooding of the side
tracks of the Cincinnati Southern restricts
business to the running of passenger trains.
The wind this morning blew down many
telegraph wires, and the business Of the tele-
graph office is conse quentiy In great con
fusion, and business is much retarded.
The most serious loss this morning Is
the breaking away Of eighteen barges of
coal from Collier, Badde & Co. s landing.
There being no steamers ready to pursue
them the chances are that they will be lost.
All the coal yards are submerged and are
obliged to suspend business. Great incon-
venience is caused BY the flooding of the
first floors OF streets along the river front,
where yesterday only the cellars were inun-
dated.
MEMPHIS, February ola special dis
patch from Helena, dated last night, says:
"The situation remains unchanged. The
river has been az a stapdstill for the past
tweDty-four hours. The water in the city
continues rising and is now over North
Main street at the Presbyterian Church.
All the mills and workshops in the lower
part OF the city, have sus-
ers are thrown out of employment.
A few more days of such distress will leave
many in actual want. The onlV means of
communication between Main street and
West Helena is by skiffs, for which there is
great demand. There are no transactions in
mercantile circles except for the actual
neeessaries Of life. At many points between
this city and Vicksburg the river is twelve
inches higher than it has ever been known
before. This is accounted for by
the fact that the Mississippi river has over
flowed its banks above Osceols, Arkansas,
Ninety miles up the stream, and s large
volume Of water pOurs through that coun-
try into the hesdwaters of the st. Francis
river, and again finds Its way back into the
main stream, fifteen miles above Helena,
where the st. Francis river empties into the
Mississippi. Every plantation between
Memphis and Friar's Point, Mississippi, is
submerged, and the water extends back
from either shore ifteen miles. The plan
ters are enduring great hardships from the
loss of stock by drowning. In nearly all
the overfowed sections the stock is suffer
ing. What were saved are kept huddled
together on hastily built platforms"
JACKSON, Mss, February 2l.-At meet
ing of Senators and Representatives from
the river districts, held this evening in the
office Of Governor Lowry, active measures
were taken for the relief OF the sufferers
from the foods. The Legislature will be
asked for an appropriation. Resolutions
were adopted requesting the Governor 10
inform the Chambers of Commerce OF New
O,leans, Memphis and S.. Louis of the
action of the meeting. and to solicit their
aid In relieving the sufferers, and also
requesting him to call for government aid,
through the Senators and Representatives
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