New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-08
STORMY TOPICS IN ssT J0E.r


THE RECENT MISSOURI FLO0Ds-M0RNoNIsM AZ
sAFPGUAED AGAINST CYCLONES.
FROM AN OCCASIONAL CoRREsPosDENToF rHxTnrDuu(
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-. July PA captive Sci free
such Is the sensation Of city with disabled ralways
again in running order st. Joseph. In with the
whole Missouri Valley, has suffered from noods 1t has
passed through within the last works. the novel OK
perience Of being almost shut ont from the world al
though 1t has five great lines Of railway communication
Mail eastward bound had to start ont westward nos
obliged to make the circuit of the earth and up on
the other side but II taken to Topeka, Kan, ana
thence southeast Kansas City, and TO st.
Louis on the Missouri Pacific. Express matter and
freight were bockaded: nearly and woudbe
eers were reduced to the necessity Of enforced quiet
For several days the city without Chicago or New
York papers, and during that period only one railway
line ran trains into of the cty and that only for
short distance. One road had nine bridges down In
sevsntynve miles; another had several miles Of track
washed out; and another landslide had buried the
road-bed But little by little these damages have been
repaired and ali the railroads now open, running 10
great part temporary tracks and far out Of schedule
time, but still running
The rains descended aud the floods and the tor
nado threatened making life burden; and now comes
fresh cause of alarm The Mlssouri River las begun
It's June RISE swelled by melted SHOWS from the Rockies
At the great food in 1881 IL twenty feet ten inches
above lowwater mark, aud flooded tho entire bottom
lands both the Kansas and Missouri sdes endanser
ing fs destroying property and desolatug many nne
farms This year the has been gradual and SLOW be-
ginning several weeks ago. On June 20 word was re-
ceived here Sioux City that the Missouri at that
point had risen eighteen feet spread forth
with but when the body OF water reached st. Joseph
t"st ten inches above low water thus leaving room for
rae Of two feet more before II would ovcrnow the Ii
ger is small As there 10 little probability OF any further
rise after this date. the experienced river men say
The A.sys md% IL
strong and deep current PUSHES with speed that repre-
best place Of observation Just nora the estsss depth
Of channel Is eighty feet and cosseqgsnt the greatest
tween the piers With VT velocity Ike that Of torrent
breaking into whirlpools, eddies and foam Tne bridge
n iron rsn aesr Da S
ton of the few boats that ply those waters inasmuch
ssps i proud Of IT, but possibly St. Joseph is not proud
ofits entire history. 1t was narrated recentv on what
plsted II increased the taxes much in return for which
the city government could neither NOR compel
and they conceived the brilliant desgn Of presenting IL
to Jay Gould M Could who also had no use Tor White
and took H. straightway it became paying institution
in its owners hands. simply by charsins TIL Every
wagon, 10 cents; foot passenger. cents; horses.
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Of it's construction and Mr. Gould reAps rich harvest
NOW thai Cyclones are out of rs gen.
orally the limit OF high windsthe city congratulate IT.
sef on escaping the desolation from which surrounding
towns have suffered. St. Joseph has been threatened
several tines toradoes, but they have always ell
ber spent their force too touch the city
overshot it. This happy circumstance has Its
legitimate cause-according to the Mormon
here. These peculiar people claim that no place
where they maintain church has ever been
touched by the breath Of cyclone aud that Providence
aoda an speoia charge M0raonism and its chosen
ats In this case, IN others, the ordinary un
rmation and begs to doubt But from some cause
h 10 St Joseph has had several very narrow
gone to their cellars for safety The timorous who 1.-Two
In brick houses seek refuge In frame buildings aud
the storm passed southward and struck Kansas City.
recon and destroyed half million dollars worth Of
property in q small town fifteen miles distant