The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-22
The High Water at st. Louis.


turned very cold about ! O'Clock this morn
ing, and the mercury sank several degrees
below freezing point. Between that hour
and daylight the ground was frozen very
hard. The river has risen five feet since
last evening, and is now twcnty-Seven
and half feet higher. Total since
Sunday, about seventeen feet. The rise
is much slower row than yesterday,
and the water will probably begin
to fall by tomorrow Railroad
travel is very much interrupted, The only
roads which sent out trains this morning
were the Ohio IL Mississippi, Cairo Short Line
| st. Louis 4 San Francisco and Nandalin the
last named used the Ohio & Mississippi
track to Odin, thence by the Illinois
| Central to its own road. The only train
| from Chicago this morning ar
rived over the Nandalia road,
and the only Eastern trains
came in by the same line. Incoming
trans on all other roads we,
either abandoned or have been ia-
definitely delayed. The Chicago 4 Alton
Chicago, Burlington n Quincy and India
nopois & st. Louis trains are
stopped at Wood river, about
twenty miles from here, and there an,
washouts, bad bridges or overlooked tratn
ut various other places. The Nandnlia
and Louisville & Nashville tracks ar,
flooded at Silver Creek and Other
places. The Wabash eastern division bra,
trouble beyond Alton, and the western I'll.
vision has had land slides between
here and the Missouri river. Az 81
Charles, on the Missouri Pacific
there are several land slide,
within five miles of the city and considcra
bic of the track is overlooked
The Keokuk & st. Louis j
also under water in severa
places. The Iron Mountain road, besides
land slides reported last night, has anothc
washout about sixteen miles below the city
; The st. Louis e San Francisco
has suffered serious damage and train
, have not been stopped. The rise il
the river here, is. said by the uldcS
steamboat men to be Unprecedented
No such amount of water was tyrr know
: to come down SO Suddenly. Even ia
! fall amounted to within l7-l00 of an inch q
! as much as the average tall for the entir
winter, for the past eleven years. Tel,
r graph lines west of here are still pruslratCd
e At HELENA.
c MEMPHIS, February 2l-A special iii
= patch from Helena, dated last nieht say
e t 81 luton remains unchanged. The ny,
a has been at u stand for the past iOt
c hours. The water in the city continue
r rising, and is now over north Mai
,. street, at the Presbyterian churvl
y All mills and workshops in the low,
II part of the city have suspend,
& operations, and many laborcrs u
thrown out of employment.
few more days OF such di
tress will leave many in actual wan
The only means OF communication betwe,
n Main street and West Heller
is by skills, for which the
, is great demand. Business
" " at a stand-still There are no transaction
\. in mercantile circles, except for nc
y ual necessities OF life. At MAJ
" points between here and Nicksbu
u the river is twelve inches higher than CIV,
. known before. This is
{, counted Tor by the fact tn
ID the Mississippi river has overilow'
", its banks ut 0sceoa, Arkansas, nine
IN miles up the river, and n lar
~ column of water pours throu
w that country into the he
waters OF the St. Francis and again finds
90 way back into the main river fifteen mil
We above Helene, where the St. Francis EN-
"s ties into the Mississippi river, Eve
,,s portion between Memphis and Fria
'SS Point Miss, is submerged, and I
water extends back from either she
fifteen miles. Planters are enduri
great hardships from loss of tn
stock by drowning In nearly
re- overlooked districts the stock
suffering What are saved are kept hudd
ms together on hastily constructed platforms