The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-23

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Mississippi will move trains tomorrow
but viii be entirely out of trouble befor
Saturday. The water in all streams is sui
siding rapidly. The rolling mills will b
able to resume work Saturday The storm
among other things, did considerable dam
age to the grounds about the Lincoln mon
ument. The entire damage in Sangamol
county is estimated at $4,000.
ASSISTANCE ASKED FOR.
| MEMPHIS, Feb. 90. A citizens meetini
Will De held tomorrow afternoon to tax
action on the following letter received her.
to-day:
JACKSON, Feb. 22.-The Senators AM
Representatives of the river districts fo
the state, have just held meeting and re
Iquested me to communicate to you tha
there is great loss of property and stool
by flood. In many localities starvation il
imminent An appropriation will be mad,
tomorrow by the Legislature. The coun
try over1owed and subject yet to go under
comprises the best part of our state. 1t il
believed by the members representing
| Yazoo and the Delta, that their commercial
relations with you justify them in making
known their suffering and distress, and
that you viii aid them in their efforts fo1
| relief A similar telegram has been for
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New Orleans and St. Louis.
ROBERT Lowry, Gov
/ SIX CHILDREN DROWNED
MEMPHIS Feb. 21.-Passengers arriving
this afternoon from ST. Francis bring in.
telligence of sad accident which occurred
Monday on Tyronzo, small bay which
empties into the St Francis river, about
twenty miles above Madison, Ark The
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! longing to Mr.. Jamison. While engaged
in removing his wife and six children to a
| place of safety on the high lands, the dug
out which contained them capsized, drown
| ing all the children, two of whom were
| grown young ladies'. The remaining four
were aged from 6 to Il years. Jamison
saved his wife, but could render no assist
| ance to the children.
| The officers of the steamer Dean Adams
| which arrived tonight, report a break in
the levee at Nouns place in Bolivar
| county, Miss, opposite Arkansas city,
which mandates. large area Of country
and will destroy many cattle and other
| stock. The break occurred early yester-
day, during the prevalence of a strong
| wind
The Avazaaches special from Helena,
Ark, says the river is declining slowly at
Mississippi side of the river.
MADISON, Ind, Feb. 22,-Ths river
stopped swelling about 1870 O'Clock last
night and up to noon to-day had reached
tive inches. Paducah reports that Little,
who went in skiff to the rescue of per-
sons on a fiat boat during Sunday nights
storm was not drowned. When his skiff
reached the boat that night it was taken
possession Of by two of the persons in
the boat, who capsized in it and both were
drowned. Little. with two others renamed
on the hull of the boat which was blown
across the river and went undera drift
pile turning upside down and drowning all
on board but Little and negro. Little
swan to a tree and climbed to the fork
where he remained six hours and was
taken of,
THE LEVERS.
VICKsBURe, Feb. 22.-D. G. Pepper, a
passenger from Helena this morning, gives
the following discouraging particulars con-
corning the devastation and wide spread
ruin caused by the breaking oflevees along
the river from Memphis to Greenville
The latest breaks are in Euncia county,
and at the Trotter and Gordon place,
mile and half below Yazoo Pass; in Cam
pana county, at Wards Lake and in the
opening at Louis swamp. A large volume
of water is going through to the Sunfower
bottoms. There was temporary levee at
Trotter's bridge, which is gone. The we
ter is higher than ever known and many
places above the main land Is only kept
out by small ridges being thrown up on the
outer edges of the levee with dirt taken
from inside the levees. The levee at
Mound place gave way Monday night.
A telegram was received at Hayes Land
ing yesterday that the Bolivar levse had
broken From Greenville down on the
Mississippi side the levees are still
intact and it is to be hoped they
will be Athletic stand the heavy pressure.
THE SITUATION AT ST. LOUIS.
ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 22.-There is but little
to add tonight about the storm or its
effects The Wabash did not send out a
train for the west tonight, nor did the
Missouri Pacific, but both roads expect to
be in running order tomorrow. The tele
graph wires are still greatly damaged, and
the actual condition Of some of the roads
is not yet fully known. The Missouri Pa
cific and Wabash wires were not yet work
ing. No direct telegraphic communication
with Kansas City and other points west Of
here since Sunday.
DAMAGE AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 22.-At Portland
the water had risen several inches above
the high water mark of 1866. At IL
O'Clock it was about at stand The
amount Of damage done cannot be accut
rately calculated until the waters subside.
A most serious loss occurred at the dis
tillery of T. G. Mattaigly 81 Sons, at the
foot Of High street. A number of cattle
were taken out last night, as long as the
men could see to work, and until the water
became too deep. 1t was deemed advan-
tageous to kill a number of steers that
there was no possible chance to get out
alive the water having risen so high in
pens during the night it was impossible to
get any more of them out, and when the
reporter left the pens the cattle were
standing with their heads just above water.
It cannot be ascertained how many are ly-
ing dead in the pens on account of the
water The number, however, is consid
cradle
The doors of Messrs. Graves & Reaches
bonded warehouse on Front street were
carried away, and in order to keep the
whisky from floating down stream an
empty barge was mevod across the open |
ing. Five or six lower tiers of whisky in /
the warehouse were under water. There |
are at the least calculation, 5000 barrels |
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