The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-03-02
THE STORMS and THEIR DAMAGING
WORK.

SHREVEPORT, La, Feb 2G.-By heavy
rise in the river many levees have been car
ried away, submurging plantations, above
and below. On Letter plantation, below
here, the water has cut the lcvee. making a
channel, saving the steamboats, seven miles
around the bend. The hanks are caying all
the way down, and it is impossible to esti-
mate the damage.
HELENA, Ark, Feb. 26.-Tbe suffering up
the st. Francis continues, and the reports
from Clarendon, forty-eight miles west, say
that White river is overlooking the country
generally and causing muca loss. Many OF
the rations voted by the Mississippi Lesisla-
turc, expected to arrive on the way down to.
night, will be distributed near here in Goa
homa and Tunica counties The people, both
white and colored in the bottoms, feel CRATE
fui to Congress for the aid voted to-day, and
to General j. A. Chalmers in particular
The city authorities have $3.50 in cash to re-
pair the levee Immediately in front of the
city, and work will be begun at once to meet
the big rise.
SEDALIA, Mo, Feb. aG.-The destruction
of property by ice has been immense all over
Central and Western Missouri. On the Mis-
souri,, Kansas X Texas, more than half the
| telegraph poles are down for one hundred
| miles west of this place. The ice extends
| only short distance south of Nevada. in
Vernon county, but between here and there
| the damage it has done is very great. When
| the blizzard came the ground was so warm
| that the water falling on ii did not freeze,
but the cold air chilled everything near the
| surface of the ground. so that wherever the
water touched trees, telegraph wires and
poles, etc., 1t froZe at once, and soon formed
| masses OF ice, under the burden of which
| trees bent and broke, in forest. orchard and
yard, and telegraph poles either broke off
near the surface of the ground, or bulged
| the earth up on one side, and came out of the
ground unbroken.
CAIRO, H.. Feb. 23.-Accordng to to-
| days reports, the condition of things be-
| tween here and Hickman is deploraale; no
| land Visible between here and Hickman on
| the Missouri side. Stock is standing deep in
| the water, and hundreds must perish very
| soon. Families could be seen sitting on the
roof of houses, but too lar inland to render
| assistance possible by the boat.
But little change is to be noted with regard
| to the flood. The river has thus far failed TO
| come to stand, rising slowly, about two
inches in twenty-four hours. Our leyecs re-
main in good condition. Railroad communi
| cation, except via the Illinois Central, is en-
tireIy interrupted by washouts.
NANDALIA, Ill.,, Feb. 26.-Thc flood j. sub
siding here, but the whole surface of the
country for miles in Okaw bottom above and
below the city, is yet covered with one vast
| sheet of water. The damage to farms in that
region is heavy, but no estimate thereof can
be made until the flood fully subsidies. 1t
can be safely said that this flood will cause
great suffering and financial ruin, and to
| those who have been SO unfortunate a help
ing hand from the public without doubt
will be needed. The people were lily pre-
pared for such misfortune, having had a
| failure of the crops last season, and difficult
time in pulling through the winter.
ST. Louis, Mo-, Feb. 2G.-During the late
heavy rainfall, Mr.. Thomas Winsianley had
a large drove of horses in pasture near the
stock yards in East st. Louis. The enclos-
ure was in a bottom. and the accumulated
rain water completely flooded it. The hor-
SEES were driven by the encroaehing waters
from one place to another until the pasture
was submerged, and they waded almost up
to their tanks in the water. Nothing was
thought by the owner Of his horses until
Thursday afternoon. On going to the place
he discouercd that all the stock, forty-six
head, were frozen to death.