Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-08

Waters-The River Six TO Forty Muos
Wide. and Five Feet Higher Than Ever
KnOwn-One Hundred and Forty Houses
Wrecked and Carried Away on the Tor
rent.
i .gfsszs EVANSVILLE, md, February %.
The condition of the people at shawnee
town ILL.,, Is woful in the extreme, the situa-
ton being greatly ag .rav ated blythe fact tha~
they are isolated from the balance OF the
world, and their distress has not hereeoIoro
been known to the public. NO raiirosss''no
tee graph line, reaches the town, the only
means of ingress or egress being an occa-
'sional steamboat down and up the Ohio ana
almost the entire population are prisoners IN
the upper stories of the houses, the river
there being six miles wide and the streets
having an average water depth OF fifteen ieet.
The actual condition is well set forth in the
following dispatch, which was to-day for
warded to Chicago: Sff k@4 f.iF
-.t.. AN URGENT APPEAL tti Fade ug
sHAwNEETowN, ILL..,,tyr EVANSVILLE, Feb
ruarv A.-To Marshall Field \ Co., Chicago:
Our people are. overwhelmed with theinost
appalling misfortune ever visited upon Sny
higher than ever Inown and still rising. OR
wealth has gone down with the angry waves.
Hundreds are DESTITUTE, renniess and suffer
I'VE to thirty five miles wide. and carrying
utter destruction before it.. The loss in this
We appeal to the charitable for assistance in
this time of,need We have been under water
for nearly three weeks, and it will take four
weeks for IL to subSide. ~ 4ese y. .f5 -st,.4
1881 o-a ..e' A4 :. SwoFFoRn Bros,
..,..-,..g. ALLEN 4 HARRINGTON,
S't+.f ff'H 'ff4 NJ. ~ Pool, ee4 Es
NIB I.1-sg }a .-gt THOs. s. RIDGEwAY,
aE5.,.- j. w. MILLsPAUGH, Mayor.
The situation at Shawneetown is by no
means exaggerated in the above dispatch.
fTlfe Inhabitants have thus far sustained them
selves by what they had on hand when the
dalnpe Init This hnan eNhoIlSfed
and scores of families are '... "+&-
'' GOING HUNGRY Fl. .gealls.t
from day to day. One hundred, and forty
houses have been wrecked or fioated off, and
only thirty of the residences are now tenable
even in, their upper stories. People, white
and black, are unfortunately iiuadled in
the third stories of the Court-hOuse, Pools
pork house, the Catholic Convent, the public
school, house, Wisehart's warehouse and
numerous other buildings, that have high
.tioors., A high wind mas been blowing all
day, and there is great fear chat some Of Che
structures. many Of which are weak, may give
way and A fearful catastrophe occur. sdf "a.
Doctors Binckel1 andFas,. the Is aiding ply
sicians, report that there has been a serious
increase in the death rate. the undertaken
being called on to furnish about .'s
THREE CoFFISs ADAY ,1rf@a%
for the town and vicinity. The water is six
f, ct deep on the fevces and fourteen feet on
the lower portion of Main and churc h streets,
the principal business thoroughiares but at
the upper end Of the town, where many
houses and the Ohio & Mississippi and Louis
vile 4 Nashville Railroad depots are situated.
it is twenty five feet deep. UP to six o clock
this morning the river was still slowly rising
at the rate OF two inches a day. q daily in
crease which has heen regularly maintained
for the past week. While the river is falling
above, at Evansville and below at Cairo. 1T Is
yet on the rise at Shawneetown, q circum-
stance which is due to the mighty volume
which pours in just above from the Wabash.
and the fact that at Caseyville, inst below, it
is only half mile from bank, to hauk, where
immense lime stone cliffs, loom up on both
sides OF the river and form a sort of narrow
funn ell for the ocean of water to rush through.
The riv en- from Evansville to Shawneetown
has aniavernge width of FIVE, or more miles.
For nttren miles, be- inn ng at tile point
called Bald Peak, on the indiana shore to
Round Pend Hill, ON the Illinois side, there is
a width OF ten miles and opposite Union
town, Ky, near the confluence OF, the Ohio
and Wabash there is an inland lake
.'i ''fsS FORTY MILES WIDE. 8t#s*ii3t8
Nort,, of shawneetown land can be reached
within two miles, but to the west and north
west there Is an unbroken sl1cetiof water for
nearly twenty miles. Two thirds of Gallatin
County, in which the town is Situated. IL un
der water Thus it will be seem THAT Shaw
Hee.own is surrounded BY Il moving &c which
can not be ernptied into the Missis,fppi FOR
weeks to come and that month will proba-
bly, eiapse before even her streets are aga n
visible l,s fgsE lite varfszor15 MT
lead 1lg banker, said to-tiay that shawnee
town would be lucky il her streets were clear
q, water in i've wenks: There - not y dollar
Ridgeway of the FIRST NATIONAL Bank here.
fas thus far assam all bids for groceries,and
hSs IN Z viii ee Hes
ti-latnre to apptopriate slo9op one fourth OF
NJ he q, lie y this a ahuiln
rounded the town. Some nd. however, is al
ready on its way to t,w sci erin9 inhabitants.
The steaml. oat sabel left here this evening
having on board four CARLOADS OF provisions
b oe st OF atT has
gone down in charge of the cargo, and he said
that indianapolis had plenty m IRE to send.
.s.,s.s. .,gaA Big River at Cairo.
,...-. ..f,, CAIRO, ILL., February %.
The sitliati IN here Is unchanged, far as
the general condition of things is concerned.
Toe waters appear to he swelling very little,
and to night recorded on the gau se fifty two
feet one incn, an unprecedest ed stage! two
inches higher tiian the great flood OF Febru
AIRY last. 1t, is thought TO night the rise has
reached its utmost. We have no rcljorts of
suffering from tic surrounding couptey. and
It may be settled that people generallv in tho
bot,om lands have been provide |, for. and
nothing remains to be damaged. 4 thorough
tour OF the levees this afternoon ronnIth
in splendid condition, with no. washes or
abrasions from the heavy winds, which pre-
val ed last night. Dispatches from the Col
conda repor. a tail OF one inch, and about on
a stand at Padpcah;, Tie Wabash 10 falling
an fncil an hour mt GRANVILLE The influence
OF the great Ohio fiood is felt 81 Harrisburg.
I'LL. on the Wabash Railway. tliiftt miles in
the interior where the waters of the Saline,
bac ed By the Ohio, is sixteen inches ON the
r;,iiroad acks, and the town Is almost an
island from ,lla backwaters Private advices
C~t,. fvarN fnn h.
merged to the depth OF ten feet and stores on
higher ground have three feet of waiter on the
floors. Mound City holds out bfavely, and Is
i"es1'hefaha 'h el sa's. Z - 3agj tafYk
| ..s3 q III The Wabash Falling.
Il stH9!tfya eyINCESNEs, IND, February Is.
The Wabash River has gradually fallen, un.
til it is nos but twenty feet in the channel.
Tais is still high, and aagreat amount of water
is yet covering the lands bordering upon the