Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-25

ST.. LOUIS. June 24.-The river is still
rising at this point, but more slowly than
heretofore. The exact measurement can
not be given at this writing, the official
report not having been made as yet. The
flooded district in the northern part of the
city presents about the same appearance
that it has for several days past. In the
lumber districts large gangs of men are
still working en- the leEees and dykes
which protect the different yards, and so
far none OF them have been flooded. A rise
of another feot, however, will inundate
all of them and 7O,6OO,OGO feet of sawed
lumber will be surrounded by from two to
eight feet of water. Should this dreaded
event occsr it is expected thai fully one
half of this lumber will upset, in which a
great quantity Of it no doubt would be
foated away and lost.
At the Alton slough, about twenty miles
above here, among some of the islands IN
the Mississippi river which are used as
deposit for lumber, about 100000 sawed
boards in RATS are moored. and while the
slough is in reasonably secure place con-
siderable approximations are felt lest the
RATS should be broken u5Y and swept down
by the raging flood.
In East st. Louis proper the situation is
much the same as yesterday. The Bow
man dyke is still intact and protects the
business part Of the city, but outside there
is nothing bat watery waste. Early
this forenoon the water which broke
through the Madison dyke yesterday
morning, reached a point short distance
above Venice, and broke fearful crevasse
in the Chicage& Alton railroad embank-
ment. About 500 feet of the track SEEM
ed to sink and disappear in an instant and
the gap has been widening ever since.
Parallel with this embankment run
the Indianapolis & st. Louis
and the Wabash tracks. which
could not withstand the terrible current
which set in through the Chicago and Alton
break, and they too went down in quick
succession, cutting off all direct rail con-
nection with the north. These breaks gave
the water a steady exit to the eastward,
and all day a steady rapid current has
been passing out toward the bluff and the
water is now spreading over all the bot
tom land north Of the old Ohio & Missis-
sippi railroad embankment, which crosses
the bottom between East St. Louis and
Caseyville.
1t does not seem possible to restore these
tracks, and the probabilities are that no
effort will be made to repair the embank-
ments until the water recedes. Meantime
the Chicago & Alton, the Chicago, Burling
ton & Quincy, and the Indianapolis d St.
Louis roads will convey passengers to and
from st. Louis and Alton by steamers and
trains for the north and east made up at
the latter place. The Wabash will use the
Vandalia ndsIllino1s Central lines to De-
xrzI,o will boir
The break in the Chicago & Alton track
has flooded nearly all the eastern part of
the country and forced many families to
yacate their houses and seek safety on high
er ground. Considerable of the town
west of the Chicago d Alton, and which
runs directly through the place, is also
submerged. The Venice Enterprise eleva-
tors are closed and the transfer stock
yards on the bank of the river are no
longer available for use. The damage to
the elevators aud stock yards in said to be
$4,000 to $4,000. All the country in
the rear and east of Venice is inundated.
The amount of farm land on the Ameri-
can lsbottoms north of East ST. Louis
said to be from 10000 TO $4,000 acres. and
the loss to crops is computed at not less
than 100000. This is the moderate esti-
mate. Ten other estimates are made, put
ting both the acres of land and the loss to
crops at much higher figures.
At CarOndolet, six miles below here, on
the Illinois side of the river, the situation
is said to be deplorable. Fully three
fourths of the families in town are quar-
tered in the school house and in few resi-
dences on tie ridge of high ground along
the track of the Cairo railway. Most of
these people are in a destitute condition,
mil %ha,-
will be a great deal of suffering among
them. From this point to the bluffs, four
miles, and southwark for ten Or twelve
miles, the entire country is submerged
and presents scene of the utmost destitu-
ton.
Had the food held back two weeks long
er the farmers could have saved most of
their wheat and potatoes, as both were
nearly ready for harvesting. but now
everything is lost and nearly all the farm
ers are ruined. This can also be said of
very many farmers elsewhere on the bot
tom. The little town of Cahohia, a short
distance from CarCndoIet is all under
water and the inhabitants move about only
IN skitfs. Previous estimates of damage
in this region are said to be much too low.
1t IS now stated that fully 10000 acres of
wheat alone e.from two to six feet under
water, and as much more of corn potatoeS
and other crops are submerged, ca using
loss of 100000. Il is also stated that the
st. Louis d Cairo ana the Belt road. a
part of which extends to East Carondelet,
have been damaged fully $4,000.
Creve Occur lake, twenty miles west of
here, which came into some prominence
as i rowing course last season, HanIau.
Trickett and other oarsmen appearing up
on it. and which is really an old bayou of
the Missouri river, has swollen so much
from the high water in the river that it has
overlooked its western bank and done great
damage. An immense ice house belong
ing to the CreVe Lake Ice Co. was under
mned and fell. Loss $4,000, and the rail
road depot, hotel and other property has
sustained considerable damage.
The chief apprehension tonight seems
to DE that the track of the Vandalia road,
against which great body of water from
the break in the Chicago & Alton now lies,
anc which is constantly increasing, will be
Hooded. This track is north of the Ohio
d Mississippi aud much lower than the
road, and will bear up bat a little more.
The Ohio d. MississipDi il above tho food