The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-06-27
NUMBER 164
TIE FLOOD.
he Tale Grows Moore Distressing As
Fuller Reports Come In.

Fuller Reports Come In.
SE ouIs. June % Advicps from Ches-
ter, Randolph county, linuis, say tnat ST.
VI trv's iuNpc, opposite tht point in Nil
souri,, broke SUNDAY night AMI the st.
Mays bottom. large wheat raising
region. Is now nearly all Hooded It is
s.ui 10000 acres ut Nhcat are under water
ON THIS bottom alone. From Chester tn
Grand Tower sOulhwnd, on the Illinois
side, distance Ut % nile, with an average
width OF ten miles. nearly all
is submerged AMI crops destroyed 10
the north ui hester, nearly all tue way
mp iu ST Louis, tue bottom is said to be-
Inundated, except here and there "a high
ridge which b, ont ui water Information
from alt this region n of a general rather
than % Specific chuuct e., but II is safe To
''tN that II nil tl.osc bottom, are dnlugcd,
tr stated, thousand, ui tam lies ARE either
lNug 10 flooded houses or have
nud to the hIuns Tor safety,
aud tnH' the loss to crops and general
farm property ls almost nculculable.
The American bottom extends from Al
tom tu Cairo, something over 100 miles, IA
large part of which X pretty thickll set
tied, Nll this great tract Is subject to
overflow ~ trr-hrtH like the pr emit
audi II eau ice readily imagined hat the
tos- NJ property aud dirtrcsS and misery
brought ON tho iuhuhtnut. must he i'm
muuso. Tho town NJ St Mnrys, uu the
Missouri side of the river IL partly
submerged and ka,hn>hia, ON the ILLINOIS
sll', Is Ia hn abandoned, pcui lc there huy-
tus sent to Chester tor steamboat to
carry thcm away, a lrvcr three miles
above 'upc tiruicu, Mo. ab ut hlty
miles above Cairo. amt another Al Iricc'S
Lodge lNruiN live m les WtihHr down
the tNUr. hruhr SUNDAY night and let
ay &C. VOLUME of NuttI iu-h over the bot
TOM Otbcr puI.t, on both side, uI the
river below here, bat patityu iuly On the
lluuor dc. ur In about the same
condition as above described. aud
DO may lee SUD that pru much
.ul the bottom land between
here and Cairo has more or lrss water
ON 1t the best available information
is tlmt the river iH falling SLOWLY IN East
ST Loul., uu the river side uf the 4 hi
cUgu and Alton track, and still risin
nui ON the bottom east oft that cmbnnk-
mvut. The falling tx small but IL enough
/ tu create % strongly hopeful feeling TINT
/ the worst rs pnsscd, aud that u gradual
I ubsIdcucr ut the flood will now take
. plucc. The situation at Eust
ST. Looms and ON the bot
tom toward the north presents
NO noticeable change. From Brooklyn
Ia Venice, on the river bank uorthward
tu Newport aud mitchell, uu both sidcH
. ~ the Chicago aud Alton cmbuukment,
aud from lluug tine Nrudj,I track east
wurl, thence nor h up the bottom for a
I doom mllrs or more, there IL nothing
but % broad cNpnusv of water l'uu
sccuv ~ one at dcsulatluu aud ruin.
Perhaps there Is mot u farm iu all hir
ItHtf ftttnI fine "a tht. Hmm TINT
is not submrrgcd to "a greater or lrss
depth, aud Oult Ia re- aud there eau II
bit NJ land ho secu, where the top Ol u
knoll higher than the common level
shows above the wHtcry waste. Some
distance north ui Mitchell the bottom
rsrs, and M Alton Is approached, whore
the blum touches the river some at the
land has escaped humiliation. Tnrcr-uulr-
lrls OF BIuUhlyn IL under water. only
one street In Venice aud u Bit vi high
ground In The forth part at the town Il
above the Hood level. In Etst II. Louis
Nll the Tow land h in nIllCi To q depth
ranging from ten To twenty trcr, ard hun
dryds OF houses within the city
lmi's have their lower no ~
ilouird, and many their second vt rlcH
South Of the city the entire bottom for
an indefinite ii stance including e val.
lcys uf laus Cnruuirlct, CnhukH aud
other small hnmlrts are sub ucrgod. All
the farms for mil down tho river a.
under water, thu crops Dies rpyrd, aud
the farmers who owned or rented them
scattered along the ridge aud bluff,
seeking shelter wherever they can find
It, Many uf II, 7c poor people Hrc III u
destitute OndIluu, aud wholly depend
cut upon the gene, oNty aud charity
NJ others aud will have to bc