The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-07-07

The river at this point fell more rapidly
yesterday than on any day since the de-
cline set in The Government gauge regis
tered thirty-three feet three inches above
low water mark, fall OF eight inches with.
in twenty -four hours. The sidewalks all
along the levee are now above water, and
yesterday afternoon men We're at work
washing off the flooded floors OF the houses
along the levee. Business along the cen
trail levee will be fully resumed by Mon.
day, and considerable activity was notice
able yesterday.
The fiood-waters of Cahokia Creek and
the big sloughs OF East st. Louis are still
suhsiding and fast returning to the ordin-
airy limits. Some of the tracks across Bow
mans Slough are still under water, but
trains on them without difficulty. The
new bridge yards are not yet in condition
to be used, but it is expected that in day
or two the water will decline sufficiently TO
permit resumption of operations. All the
railroads are running as usual and most
trains make better time than before the
flood. The town is suffering seriously from
the encroachment of siepage water, and
measures will be taken TO drain it off TO the
natural bodies OF water. As vet few of the
people driven from their homes by the in
vasion of the fiood-water have been able to
return, and It will he several weeks before
their domciles will he nhahitable.
Business is improving in Venice and IL
gives sigus OF resuming its wonted activity
with the opening of the railroads. A dele
cation came down yesterday from Chou
teau, Kerr and Cabaret Islands and repre-
sented that there was some restitution.
Supplies of actual necessaries were issued,
andduring the day146persons were relieved.
The river fell three and one half inches, and
the back water dropped two inches The
backwater is expected to so down very rap
idly after the gap in the Chicago s. Alton
track is closed. Brooklyn continues to fur
nish great deal of desttution. aud niuty-
eight families were provisoned yesterday.
The fund will suffice for one day, after
which seventy-five families viii be begging
for help. tHNl fHHfq grR
The River Mt BeIana. Ark.
HELENA. ARK, June %.
Col. J. B. Miles furnishes Newspaper
correspondent with the following to-day:
"The indications are that the water has
about reached its highest point, and
we may expect fall in two or there
days. The stage of the river here,
forty feet eight inches, would seem to
indicate at least forty-one feet six
inches or foTty-two feet on the Cairo gauge,
whereas it is only thirty-nine feet three
inches. AT forty-two feet at Cairo there
should be some two feet overflow into the
head of the st. Francis swamp, and we
would expect that swamp to keep the river
stationary or rising for a week or ten days.
should be but little water OVERLOOKING below
New Madrid. The river at Memphis is
about what it should be in comparison with
Helena. The only way in which we can
account for this is that the great flood in
the spring was not out of the Ohio, which
does not supply much sand, and the clear
water of that river secured ou5 the bed OF
the river at Cairo some two feet, but did
not remain high long enough to affect the
bed of the river this low down. Although
the levees were badly broken in this section,
yet there were enough standing to prevent
the bed from washing out"
The river during the past twenty-four
hours ending at one p. m. rose quarter of
an inch and stood forty feet eight inches
above low water and six feet six INCHES
below high water, and is about stationary.
losses by the Flood in Nebraska.
Mau LINCOLN, NEB June 30
Considerable more damage was done by
the recent floods than was at first supposed.
Now that the water has subsidized tho
details of destruction wrought are obtain
able, and it is clear that it will take many
thousand dollars to make good the loss.
The food on the low lands adjacent to this
city has gone down, and the damage is
principally in small houses, gardens de-
stroyed and corn-cribs swept away. OF
the latter there were several we'll filed,
and worth good deal of money. In Saun-
ders County there is scarcely a bridge
standing. Inc large streams OF the county
Cottonwood, Sand Creek, Silver Creek
and Wahoo-for fifteen TO twenty miles in
some localities, are without bridges. The
greatest rise was of the Nemaha, which
overlooked the bottom lands on either side
for distence ofhalf a mile. InRichardson
and Johnson Counties Isany houses were
swept Oft, to say nothing of fences, bridges
and such like property. The steam-mills of
Linn, Cooper 81 Co., were flooded for forty
eight hours. The firm suffers the loss of
considerable -four and corn. The latter was
in cribs near the mills. Six miles out of
Humboldt Mrs. Grubb and children were
drowned while attempting to cross the
river in a skiff. A family by the name of
Baker, consis ing of six persons, residing
on South Fork, a branch of the Nemaha,
were drowned; also seven others on the
same streams whose names are unknown.
In all seventeen persons are supposed to
have lost their lives by drowning in the
Nemaha and its branches during the recent
floods.
r,- A Heceding River.
rFr ~ r- 81 KANSAS CITY, June 30.
River tonight about two inches lower
than twenty -four hours before, and remains
nearly stationary. Trains now more regu-
lar than at any time since high water. The
first Council Bluffs train for several days
came in over the Missouri Pacific. The
Hannibal, Wabash and Rock Island will be
obliged to ferry to Randolph for some time
yet. Travel, however, is rapidly resuming
normal condition. In this vicinity the
damage has been almost entirely To farm
property and railroads.
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