Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-22


rapidly above. The wind has most Injurious
effect on the railroad embankment in Mill
creek valley, as the waves tend to crumble in
the banks. There are serious fears that the
track of the Cincinnati g. Baltimore road will
be seriously injured. II is already abandoned
owing to injury to Government street bridge
All freight business Is practically suspended.
The Cincinnati Southern and the Cincinnati
Northern are the only roads whose tracks are
free from water.
The obstruction of tracks and flooding of
sldetracks of the Cincinnati Southern restricts
the business to running of passenger trains.
The most serious loss this morning Is the
breaking away of eighteen barges of coal from
Collier, Bum Geo There being no steamers
ready to pursue them the chances are that they
will be lost. All the coal yards are submerged
and obliged to suspend business. Great in
convenience is caused by the flooding of the
first floors of stores along the river front
where yesterday only the cellars we're inun.
dated.
MEMPHIS AND EELow.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 2I.-After declining
four inches from the highest point reached,
the river came to stand here this morning,
end will doubtless commence rising again.
The gauge now marks thirty-four feet eleven
inches above low water mark. 1t is eleven
inches above the danger line and within six
teen inches of the extreme high water of 1852,
which proved SO disastrous to the inhabitants
of the Mississippi valley, between Memphis
and Friars' Point, Miss, 100 miles to the
south. Four breaks in the levee have
occurred, the largest one being just
above Austin, Miss, which is six
miles long. While the river at
this point does not, according to the signal
service officers report show an extreme high
stage, yet at many points between here and
Vicksburg the river Is twelve inches higher
than ever known. This is accounted for from
the fact that the Mississippi river has over
flowed its banks above Osceola, Ark, nine
miles up the river, and large volumn Of
water pours through the country into the
head waters of st. Francis river, and again
finds its. way back into the main stream
eighteen miles above Helena, Ark. where the
st. Francis empties into the Mississippi.
Friar's Point is submerged, and the
water extends back from either
shore fifteen miles. Planters are enduring
great hardship from loss of mules, cattle, hogs
and sheep by drowning. In nearly all the
overlooked sections stock is suffering. What
was saved are kept huddled together on hast
lily built platforms. What with the food now
pouring out of the Ohio, Missouri, Tennessee
and Cumberland rivers, the prospects are in
deed gloomy to the inhabitants of the valley.
Between Friar Point and Vicksburg but one
break in the levee has occurred, that at La
coma Circle. reported last night. There are,
however, several weak places, and If the rise
continues the worst Is feared.
sT.LoUIs AND ROUND ABOUT.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2l-The weather turned
cold this morning and the mercury sank sew
eral degrees below the freezing point, and by
daylight the ground was frozen very hard and
all still water had coating of pretty thick
ice. The river has risen five feet since last
evening and now marks twenty-seven and a
half feet by the gauge, total rise since Sum-
day of seventeen feet The river now is much
slower than yesterday and the water will
probably begin to fall again by tomorrow.
Railroad travelis still very much interrupted
The rise IN the river here is said by the best
steamboatmen to be unprecedented. No such
amount was ever known to come down so
suddenly, or in such a short space Of time
before. The rainfall was also very unusual
in quantity, amounting to within l.700 of an
inch as much as the average fall for the entire
winter for the past eleven years.
The only train that arrived from the East
tonight was on the Ohio & Mississippi road.
This road also sent out train, but SO far %
can now be learned no other road did. Three
trains are said to be stalled by landslide near
Franklin, on the Missouri Pacific. "A con-
struction train Is nearly buried In deep cut
at Huntly, on the Wabash road, between here
and st. Charles. The Jacksonville branch Of
the Chicago & Alton is also in trouble, and
trains are delayed. The rain finally ceased at
about II o'clock tonight, since when the
mercury has fallen several degrees and light
snow is now falling. The indications now are
it will freeze hard before morning. A high
northwest wind is blowing, but tie clouds are
still heavy, with no signs or clearing.
EVANSVILLE, IND.
EvANsvI1I E, Feb. 2O.--The rains ceased
about $50 last night with parting shower at
II, when the wind shifted to the west and
after midnight blew fearful gale clouding at
times with flames of snow. The river was
terrible rough and considerable damage was
done. To-day is pretty clear and cold. Wind
still heavy from the west and northwest,
mercury 80, river 4S Is 100 feet and still ris-
ing, feet below food of 1867. During the
gale last night the harbor tug. Uncle Buck,
was swamped and sunk on the wharf at the
foot of Main street, Two families were
wrecked and two women, two men and one
child drowned.
OA41ON3 VI
DAYTON, O.. Feb. 21--Heayy rain has been
falling in the city the past three days and is
still pouring down in torrents. Miami river
aud its tributaries at this point haye reached
the highest point for the past ten years. Re-
ports from the country north of Dayton state
it has oyerAowed its bank. At present no
damage is apprehended here, but the result
must prove serious If the rain does not cease
before morning.
GOOD FOR THE LoGaERs.
GREEN BAY, Wis, Feb. 20--Snow has been
falling here continually since s p N. last even
ing. Reports from the neighboring logging
country are that heavy fall Is being had and
the prospects Of satisfactory harvest are
greatly increased.
GOOD FOR THE LUMBER CAMPS.
GREEN BAY, Wis, Feb. 21.-Snow has been
falling here since o'clock last eE-enipg. Re
ports from the neighboring log ipg camps
are OF heavy snow fall.
Mrs. Gear to the Rescue
The Chicago Times having invested rather
more energy and enterprise than discretion in
writing mn Iowa nnlifics and nO1itciaps--and