The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-06-27
THE FLOOD.
THE FLOOD.
Missouri, Illinois and Nsbras-
ka Suffer.
High Water and More Of It
to Come.

ever known fell here on Friday night.
| The sire ans had already overlooked.
This addition the floods made . rag
ing current of every creek. Fifty
| thousand dollars worth OF bridges
are washed out, and thousands OF
| hogs and hundreds of cattle are
drowned. The crops are badly dam
aged on the bottom lands. The total
loss in the county will exceed $780,
| 600. Eight inches of water fell on
| Friday night, and six inches had al
ready fallen the previous week.
| Houses are washed away and families
are rendered destitute. No one is
drowned, though two peoplel were
killed by lightning. Tecumssh, a
town of. 1000 people, is out of groce-
| ries and flour. The Nemaha, which
is fully 100 miles long, is entirely cut
off from railroads.
ST. LOUIS, June ga large num-
Der of the sufferers referred to in
this resolution r camped in tents
| on ridges surrounded by water,Or are
| in the open air on the bluffs beyond:
many also are housed in box cars on
the railroad track, and a good many
of them will be obliged to be fed.
Their crops are totally destroyed and
they are destitute of money and any
of the necessaries of life.
The National stock yards in East
st. Louis are in no danger of being
flooded as has been reported; they
can easily stand a rise of three feet,
and it would require four feet to stop
business. The Union yards on this
side of the river are also well pro-
tected and are in no danger.
The situation in East Carondelet
| and Cahoka grows worse daily. The
water covers that whole section of
country and some Of the flooded
out families already begin to suffer.
Their wants will probably be sup
piled tomorrow. The railroads
which have lost their tracks have
abandoned the ferryage system be-
tween here and Alton, ard have ar
ranged with the Vandalia road to run
their passenger trains. The Indian
apol's & st. Louis will. send their
trains to Efingham, thence to Mat
toen. The Wabash will use the Van
dalia to Altamont, where it will take
it's own track, and the chicago &
Alton and the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy will run to SouthbOr0. where
thew will connect with their own
roads. All the other Eastern lines
| are using their own tracks and all the
Western roads are getting trains
through in pretty good shape. The
Vandalia track, about which there
was some apprehension yesterday. is
still two feet above water and a
readily be made to resist four or five
feet ~
ST. LOUIS, June 26.-Advices from
Chester, Randolph county, Illinois.
say that St. Mary's levee opposite that
point in Missouri. broke on Sun.
day night, and the St. Mary's Bottom,
a large wheat raising section, is now
nearly all flooded. 1t is said that TO-
600 acres of wheat are under water
on this bottom alene. From Chester
to Grand Rapids. southwest On the
Illinois side, a distance of % miles,
with an average width of 10 miles,
embracing an area OF 25O miles, near
ly all the country is submerged, and
the crops destroyed, entailing great
loss. To the north Of Chester, nearly
all the way to st. Louis, the bottom
has been inundated, except here and
there on high ridges which cut the
water.
The information received from all
this region is Of a general rather than
a special character, but it is safe to
say that if all these bottoms are del
uged as stated, thousands of families
are either living in flooded houses or
have fled to hills for safety, and that
the loss to crops and general farm
property is almost i%ncalculable.
The American Bottom, extends
from Alton to Cairo. something over
200 miles, a large part of which is
pretty thickly settled. All this great
tract is subject to overflow in fresh
cts like the present, and it can be
readily imagined that the loss of prop
erty, and the distress and misery
brought upon its inhabitants must
be very great. The town of St.
Mary's on the Missouri side of the
river is partly submerged, and Kas-
kaskia, on the Illinois side, is said to
be abandoned. The people there have
sent to Chester for a steamboat.