Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-05
sSTILL BOOMING.

.,,.as6TILL BOOMING.
Tho Anaeracan Bottom Flooded by the Ris-
ing Hiyer--The Loss Becoming some
"a thing EnornIous.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-. June rs.
The rise Of the Mississippi continued I'M
i'll Yesterday afternoon, the gauge at three
D. M showingan increased depth OF three
inches within tventy-four hours. The meas
Surement gave thirty-four feet and ten
inches above low-water mark, the river
being one foot higher than in the Hood OF
1881, and seven feet two inehesAI6Fex tAan
in the great food OF 1874. Later in the day
the depth seemed about stationary, and the
general opinibn famonk sr!Vff Aef {s>Athed
to be that to-day would show slight sub
sidence of the w1ters:
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st, Louis. q general feeling OF alarm exist
ing among the people Of that city, and but
partial faith existing in the work de4a 20
preserve the town from inundation, though
effort in every direction was not abated.
and weak points in the dikes strengthened
as far as practicable. Were the dangerto
East st. Louis confined to single. weak
point there would be no dihicuity u meet-
ing the emergency, but the aood threatens
from so many different directions, and the
pressure of water at many localities Is 80
great, that it, seemed Yesterday gHrgely .
matter of chance whether or not the fight
could be maintained SUCCESS lilly ts9fA the
slow subsistence Of the Mississippi lAssens
the strain upon the weakening emtiAnk-
ments. ne .e',sI si@s"sstE Is '3t'syu as
n Later reports. from the flooded farming
region to the north and south tof Easy st:
Louis show that hundreds of thousands Of
dollars worth of ripening crops have Heen
destroyed and hundreds OF farmers ruined.
A great number Of 4 families have 1 18T
absolutely homeless. d 80. ,t,u M
Nor further loss resulting from the Ho9d
is reported on the ST. Louis side oftRe
river, and a rise of several inches wYst still
come to affect seriously the well,pFoteeted
lumber-yards and manufactures in aths
northern part of the city, gs,il, uqasoL
Immense Loss Above ChesterS ~
.-a1f""g' EAST CARoNDE1Er. Ill, June IS.
The water at this point is still rising, and
It is now believed that in two or three days,
should the river continue to rise, there will
not be dry spot between the river and the
bluff, except ridge known as the ''bench,"
living parallel with the bluff, about two
miles from the river. Most of the farmers
have retreated to this tract with their stock
for safety. Further south, in the vicinity
of Fish Lake, the ruin wrought by the
waters simply beggars description. Attic
eastern end of the dixie, which crosses the
lake, is narrow strip Of land connecting
two ridges across which the farmers of the
neighborhood had constructed temporary
levee, which up to twelve O'Clock to-day
held the water back from about 1,000Acres
of corn, potatoes and wheat. For seven
days and nights the farmers have battisd
in the hope that just this little spet at le4st
might possibly be saved. but ALI theltef
crept up the crumbling banks, and at noon
the workers threw down their shovels,: as
the waters burst through, laying, waste the
In the vicinity of Smiths LanradingrHar
risonville, Chester and Grand Tower, the
situation was but a duplicate of stahat pre-
sented in the Fish Lake country. "a Che
entire bottoms from East st. LOUIE ito
Nary's to Bailey's Landing on the'Missouri
side being inundated, save an OCCASIONAL
knoll here and there ffg!sf Ina .sstv gp4 be-
In an interview with Mr..Welsh, ex.
Sheriff Of Randolph County, twas learned
broke last might, loosening the, waters of
the Mississippi upon 200, 900 acres Of wheat
that was ready for the reaper, apd ACCORD
ing Ito the iopinions ofathose -eanpetept to
j. sod &C. g .spe E Asss ss1ass sssis
partly submerged, and is still further
threatened unless the water should subside.
From Chester to Grand Tower a dis
tance of twenty five miles. the situation, is
even worse than in the st. Mary.s Bottom,
The bottoms between These points repre-
sent an average width of ten miles; hence
in this locality alone an tareasof $50 square
miles is said to be fully three-fourths under
water, while the influx continues. to spread
out, swallowing up the rich fields.
In the neighborhood of Kaskaskia the
same .doleful aspect presents itself. The
town is to be utterly abandoned to the Eis-
telegraphed to Chester for boat to convey
them to the latter place. The breaking Of
Levee No. 1, in the vicinity of Smiths
Landing, which occurred at two O'Clock
tho Ia Of hny,o of sou
ing anything in that part of, the, bottom. f.a
The Missouri Mt Atchison. u -
ArcH1soN. KAN, June Is,
Since Sunday forenoon the Missouri
River at this point has risen sixteen inches,
now makiug eighteen Feet three inches
above low-water mark, with the volume
gradually Increasing, having gained 3eAHH
five inches to-day. All adyices from points
further north Sioux City. Nebraska City
and Omaha--are to the effect that the river
is on a decline. Such streams as the
Nemaha and Platte, which have poured most
of the water into the mainriver, owing toex-
cessive rains, are also subsidjng, as the
former has lowered four feet in the past
twenty-four hours. Old .riyermea here in
cline tolthe opinion ehatswRils Gle present
frsssss may may s ssss sge sb Ssi
cause disastrous results. iThfS isl pArtfahy
confirmed by reports ~ the Govefhment
Engineer that the Yeliowstonef aiid Upper
Missouri are rising. How much or how
theory that high water may yet he antici-
pated and that all danger is not passed
The high water has at last affected the bot
toms and low lanis snpppsitef hygesins Mis-
souri,, as it has cut through what is denomi-
mated thelSand-C Cut, near Nashville, inun.
dating that section. @,~..,',.',,,',.a.
A Bad Break in the Leyee..
.4rnz- ss!fes - CAIRO, ILL.,. June n
While the John A. Scudder was lying at
Prices Landing, No., last night, twenty
five miles above.here, and during the heavy,
storm which prevailed, about $50 yards Of
the levee was washed away bv the high
waves, and an immense body of water is
now devastating iargetarea of grain coun-
try. An outlet Is found at James, Bayou,
forty miles below Cairo4 TIE sffm was
very severk, atconpani1d bJ Hgh winds
and the widest of thunder and lightning.
Some fewitreas were hloMndpNPs -aRd the
mQored at the .whar fboat, Jsus-'
tanned considerable damage. alt lasted