The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-02-25

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field, In this state. Around Carinville
the praries were one vast lake. Macoupin
Creek was two miles wide and many houses
on It's banks were swept away. The loss &c
farmers In Macoupin county alone is cstimat
ed at 5000, 900, while all the adjoining coun
ties are alike heavy sufferers.
Up the OHIO the rain extended as tar as
Plttsburg. At Cincinnati the river on Monday
was within . feet of the grca, flood of 1882
and still rising. AZ Louisville the river was
still rising with "a = feet IN the canal and 29l
feet in the chute on the falls. The foot Of
Fourth street was cut of by water from all
communication with the river. The water
had extended some distance up Fourth street
and cellars as far up as Grays alley were fill
ing with water. All the frs, floors of houses
around the corner ofFourth and River streets
were covered with water, and all houses along
the wharf from Fourth street down were IN
water. Teams were busy hauling stuff Oft the
levce, and many people were moving.
At Memphis and below the Mississippi was
up to high ttood-tide and break in the levee
below that city, just above Austin, had been
widcned to three miles, and all the region
known AS LacOna circle was under water.
There are eighteen large plantations in the
circle, several being owned by Gov. Lake
Blackburn, of Kentucky, and his relatives,
Planters are all busy at work trying to save
their stock, which. whenever possible, is being
boatcd away to The ridges Great fear exists
that the rise now coming down the Ohio will
check the decline that had set IN, and add TO
the disaster in the inundated sections. AT He.
lena, Ark, the water has backed up in the CITY
until the largest portion Is covered to the
depth of tour feet, and 1t is rising at the rate
of a foot day.. Her citizens are conveyed to
their dwellings by skifts. Planting through.
out the section of country from Memphis as
far down as Vicksburg must necessarily be
delayed this season.
At Macoupin Station, Hi, on Monday even
ING two boys who undertook to cross the geek,
then mile wlde on a raft found their raft
gong TO pieces, and one was drowned the 9TH
er being rescued nearly dead after clingng all
night to tree.
At PaduCah four persons IN sklt were
blown into the river and so fierce was the gale
that the sklff was capslzed and they were
drowned.
st. LOUIS on Tuesday was cut OFT south,
north and west from outside communication
by rail. The overhanging bluffs on the Mis-
souri, Pacific IN the vicinity of Herman have
cayed off and buried the tracks in three or
four places, and no trains had arrived or de.
parted by that road since Sunday. The west
crn division of the Wabash was rendered mop
erativs by the falling IN of deep cut at Hunt
ley Heights and by the partial destruction of
the bridge at st Charles. THIS also cut off
the Kcokuk and St Charles Officers oil the
road do not pretend to say yet when trains Will
be running again. The Chicago Burlington
and Quincy, the Chicago and Alton, the lndl
annapolis and St Louis, and the eastern divls-
ion of the Wabash, WATCH runs north ward
along tue east shore OF the river from st Louis
we're in the same tiX-tracks overlooked and
not a train moving.