Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-02-22
Serious Results From the
Floods on the Lower
Mississippi.
Indian Depredations Reported From
the British Northwest
Territory.
Chicag0's Board Of Trade Max.
ing War on the Bucket
Shops.
High Water.

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lished Of the sad condition of affairs ex.
lsting throughout the Missouri valley.
Thousands of men are on constant guard
along the levces between here and vlcks-
burg. using every possible means to
strengthen their power of resistance and
elevate their crates t. prevent the
water from inundating the
whole country. Greenville brought
up several thousand empty sacks to be
used by filling with earth to aid to
strengthen the embankments. A batch
OF $500 were put off at Boliver landing
where the danger of break was immi-
nent.
Many have beentorcedtfr their homes
and are subsieting as best they may on
RATS and some on knolls, or on parts of
the old levees. The destruction to live
stock is beyond calculation. The waste
to property by the great submersion is
outside the present computation. The
navigation of the river itself is regarded
by steamboatmen as dangerous at its
present stage on account of the great ex.
panse of water in many localities and the
waves have a billowy character when the
surface is swept by heavy gusts OF wind:
also because of great difficulty in getting
to safe port. Government lights along
the river are maintained with admirable
regularity. These lights prove of incal-
culable benefit to boat men now,
since all banks and land marks have dis.
appeared. Arkansas City is com.
p'etely submerged and not
single house in the city is free from IL e
presence OF II muddy floor. The water
th' re is represented as being inches
higher than the flood of 1876. The
houses were built SO as to be above The
nigh flood level of that year, but in all
OF them there is from to6 inches oil
water. Between Cairo aud Memphis the
following points of land only are visible
above the raging flood: The bluffs at
Columbus, hills back of Hickman's
Island OH the Tennessee side, opposite
Island No. 10, New Madrid, Point Pleas
ant. Tiitonvllle, fulton bluffs, Ran.
dolph, Richardson, Island 35 and 3S, and
Dennis Island, above the head Of Cont.
mental cut of, 40 miles below Memphis
| Washington. Feb. 22-Issaquena, Boil
i,ar. Coahma aud Tunica. Miss, in fact
the whole shore line between Memphi.
and vicksburg on the Mississippi side
and the whole eastern shore of Arkansas
are either under water or threatened
with inundatlon. The inhabitants q
this vast area of country are N great
distress
| Cincinnati, Fob. 22.-The river la,
fallen nearly two feet from the highes
mark and Is falling rapidly. weathe
clear and cold. A Adispatch from up tn,
river shows the r1ver still rising and i
may rise again here, bat tho cold wealth
or gives . promise that the worst is over
No change in the general situation.
Washington, February 22-There i.
now thought to be more truth in the re
ports of distresss in eastern Arkansa,
and northern Louisiana than was at frs
supposed. Congressman Dunn, of Ar
kansas, has received . number of letter
and dispatches from public officers ant
prominent citizens and the chairman o
the relief committee, asking aid. Il,
has introduced q resolution t. authoriz,
tho secretary of war to issue rstions i,
his discretion and extend such other al,
as shall appear necessary. The resolu
ton has been referred to the COMMITTEE
on appropriations.