The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27
SPORT OF THE WAVES
Victims of the Gales on the Lakes.
Five Bodies Yielded Up
by the Waters.
The Woes of the mississippi Valley
---KaskassKia Deserted
six sEen Drowned.

dark hair and reddish moustache, was found
by the life-saving crew near the station. The
body is attired in red flannel shirt, jean pants
and heavy boots, the legs Of which reach to
the hips This is supposed TO be Mahoney,
the man who was shot at by ruffians on the
pier, and in endeavoring to escape leaped into
the lake and was drowned.
The tug Wolf reported at the lfestation that
a body was ,adlift one mile OFF the harbor
Che life crew went out and lowed it in This
is the body of a young manof about 20 years,
and is supposed to be the Young sailor who
was drowned from the schooner NJ. F. Cook
when She went over the exterior breakwater
during the great storm in which the Wells
Burt, Jenny Lind and other vessels we're lost.
A handkerchief found in one Of the pockets is
marked o. R. Bowen. BE-.
The tug Lorena landed the body of a man
at the life station, having picked it up 70 miles
northeast Of the harbor piers II this mans
relatives reside in this neigilborhood there
WILDE no difficulty identifying him. Both
arms are tatooed in most skiliful manner
from the wrists to the shoulders. There is
woman's face, q picture of Jesus Christ, ard
what is supposed to be monument, besides
various stars ETC.. etc. This is supposed to
be one Of the Wells Burt's crew.
The two last mentioned bodies had been In
the water a long fine and are badly decom-.
posed Police patrol wagons were called and
all the bodies were conveyed to the morgue
A body was found near the north line OF
Lake View It is that of a Norwegian or
Swede, 40 to Is years of age, five feet eight
inches in height and weighing $50 pounds
1t is alfred in gssaInens sclothes and is IN
mistaktlbly that OF a sailor
Officer Thomas Men while patroling tho
beach at Hyde park found the body Of Capt
John anderson late conlnmnde,@ of the
schooner Jenny Linds which was wrecked
May A2l~hear Twenty Seventh Street The
body is in horrible state Of decomposition,
having been in the water over a month The
coroner held an inquest in the afternoon CT
the body, and the jury found that he came tc
his death as above stated Several papers
were found on his person which led to the
identification. -.
THE WESTERN FLOOD
ST.. LOUIS, June 26 --Advices FROM Ches
ter, Randolph county. Ill, stste that St
Mary's levee, opposite that point in Mis-
sculi broke Sunday night, and the St Mary's
bottom. large wheat-raisng region. 10 now
acres of wheat are under water OF this bot
tom alone From Chester to Grand Tower
southwark on the Illinois side, distance OF
twenty-five miles, with an average width Of
ten miles. embracing area OF $50
miles, nearly all is submerged and
the crops destroyed, entailing great
loss To the north of Chester, nearly all the
way up to st. Louis, the bottom is said to be
inundated, except here and there high
ridge which is out of water Information
from all this region is of general rather
than specific character, but it is safe TO say
that if all these bottoms are deluged, as
stated, thousands of families are either living
in flooded houses or have fed to the bluffs for
safety, and that the loss to crops and general
farm property is almost incalculable.
The American bottom extends from Alton
to Cairo, something over 200 miles a large
part of which is pretty thickly settled All
this great tract is subject to overflow from
freshets like the present, and it can be readily
imagined that the loss Of property and the
distress and misery brought upon the inhabit-
ants must lie immense.
The town of St. Mary's on the Missouri
side of the river, is partly submerged and
Kaskaskia, in Illinois, is to be abandoned. the
| people there having sent to Chester for a
steamboat to carry them away,
A levee three miles above Cape Girardeau
Mo-, about fifty miles above Cairo, and an
other at Prices Landing twenty Ave miles
farther down the river, broke Sunday night.
and let large volume of water rush over the
bottom Other points on both sides of the
river below here, particularly Oh the Illinois
| side, are in about the same condition as above
described and it may be said that nearly
all the bottom land between here and Cairo
has more or less water on it.
| Heavy losses in Nebraska. Rains overfiowed
| the Big Nemaha river in Nebraska TO such a
degree that thousands of hogs and cattle were
| drowned, inf1icting a loss of $500, 600 The
town of Tecumseh, with population Of z, 900
is bare of groceries and -four
THE LATEST.
The best available information is that the
river is falling slowly in East St Louis, on
the river side of the Chicago & Alton track
and still rising out on the bottom east of that
establishment. The fall, if any is small, but il
| enough to create a strong, hopeful feeling
that the worst is past and that gradual
subsistence of the food will now take place,
Advices from the southeastern section Of
St. Charles county, Mo, in the rigion Of
Portage des Sioux, give the individual losse;
of about one hundred farmers, which aggre
gate over $4,000 These range from Sl0e tc
IS, 000, and represent wheat and corn, no &C
count being taken OF the other property de
stroyed or greatly damaged except in less thar
half a dozen cases o. NJ Gray, 100 aerei
1 and house 5000; David Gray, fifty acre.
and house, 81 800; Mrs Aehille, seventy
acres, 50 600; A, Belchat, forty-five acres
| &, 500; c. G. B0wles, 800 acres and buildings
IS, geo; Captain Lamothe, l0o0 acres ant
buildings, 5000; Charles Moslenner, 20t
acres, So 600; NJ. Smit, 200 acres, $1,000 Tht
total loss In this section alone is estimated a
$500 900 Very little live stock was lost, a
almost all the animals had been driven to thu
high ground in time to save them.
KANSAS CRY, Mo Jane 26-At II o'cloci
the river was twenty-three feet seven inche
above low-water mark and about an incl
higher than last midnight, and thirteen
inches above the gauge Sunday night. 1t i
now nearly stationary, but the indication
are that it will continue slowly to ad
vance Six inches more will start waite
over the east bottoms and West Kansa
City, and the people in thos
suburbs are watctful The Raw is YER.
high, and reported still rising. The waters
now two feet ten inches below tie food c
lssi and as yet has not occasioned seriou
damage about the city but if the presen
conai.iors continue the rise will soon compe
q movement of the people along the outskirt
Of tbs low-lyirg suburbs.
SIX DROWNED.
ST JOINS, N. F., June 26 "A frightfu
, accident occurred at Trepassy last evening
A large fishing boat went dewu and six mel
were drowned Out of a crew Of seven ort
6re ~a; saved II is supposed the boat wa
t overloaded.
f RAILWAY FACTS AND FIGURES
Another Canadian Halfway Enter
prise - Traffic Rates to variou
l Points.