Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-12
THE OVERFLOW.
Tho Mississippi Gradually Returning
Within its Banks-Busincss Being Re-
sumed. IA 80 FRI ~ a.

Within its Banks-Business Being Re-
sumed. tNs w fri II -
sGT Louis. Mo, June 50.
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 were at work
washing off the flooded floors of the houses
along the leyee. Business along the CEN
trail levee will be fully resumed by Mon
day, and considerable activity was notice
able yesterday. !
The flood waters of Cahokia Creek and
the big sloughs of East st. Louis are still
subsiding and fast returning to the ordln'
airy limits. Some of the tracks across Bow
mans Slough are still under water, but
trains IL on them without difficulty. The
new bridge yards are not yet in condition
to be used, but it is expected that in a day
or two the water win decline sufficiently to
permit a resumption of operations. All the
railroads are running 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
naturafbodies OF water. As yet few OF the
people driven from their homes by the in
vasion of the f1ood-water have been able to
return. and it will be several weeks before
their drInicles viii be inhabitable.
Business is improving in Venice and it
gives signs of resuming its wonted activity
with the opening of the railroads. dele
cation came down yesterday from Chou
steau, Kerr and Cabaret Islands and repre-
scented that there was some restitution.
Supplies of actual necessaries were issued,
andduringt the day 14e persons were relieved.
The river fell three and one-half inches, and
the ba ok water dropped two inches The
Abackwater is expected to go down very rap
idly after the gap in the. Chicago & Alton
tra2k is closed. Brooklyn continues to fur
nish great deal of restitution. and ninty-
eight families were provisioned yesterday.
Tie fund will suffice for one day, after
which seventy-fve families win be begging
for help. sd .~-
The River at He1ana, Ark.
-@ A.n HELENA, ARK, June g.
Col. ]. B. Miles furnishes a 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 fortytwo 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 week or ten days.
But at thirty-nine feet three inches there
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 out 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.
LINCOLN, NEB., June 80.
Considerable more damage was done by
the recent floods than was at first supposed.
Now that the water has subsidized the
details of destruction wrought are obtain
able, and it is clear that it will take many
thousand dollars to make good the loss.
The flood 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 filled,
and worth good deal of money. InSaun-
ders County there is scarcely a bridge
standing. The 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
overfiowed the bottom lands on either side
for distence ofhalf mile. In Richardson
and johnson Counties many houses were
swept off. to say nothing of fences, bridges
and such like property. The steam-mills of
Linn, Cooper & 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 skitf. A family by the name of
Baker, consisting of six persons, residing
on South Fork, 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.
A Receding River. =
g. Es~s KANSAS CITY, June 80.
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 ana Rock Island will be
obliged to ferry to Randolph for some time
yet. Travel, however, is rapidly resuming
a normal condition. In this vicinity the
damage has been almost entirely to farm
and railroads.
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