New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-25

is reasonably secure, considerable apprehension is
| felt lest the RATS should be broken up and swept
| down by the flood.
In East ST. Louis proper the situation is much the
same as yesterday. The Bowman dixie is still
| intact, and protects the business part of the
city, but outside there is nothing but a
watery waste Early this forenoon the water
which broke through tho Madison dixie yesterday
morning reached point short distance above
Venice, and broke fearful crevasse in the Chicago
and Alton Railroad embankment. About
600 feet of track seemed to sink
and disappear in an instant, and the
gap has been widening ever since. Parallel
Indianapolis and st; Louis and the Wabash
roads. These tracks could not withstand
R RTouh ho ohSSgC and Thcn xtcn brss
they TOO went down In quick succession, cutting OH
all direct rall connection with the North. These
pre- m gave tne water speedy exit to the
passing ont toward the bluff. The water is now
spreading over al the bottom land north Of
the old Ohio and Mississippi Railroad embamkment
which crosses the bottom between East st. Louis
and Caseyyile. 1t does not possible TO restore
these tracks, and the probabilities are that no
until the water recedes. Meantime this Chicago and
Alton, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the
Indianapolis and st. LOUIS roads will convey pas
sengers TO and from st. LOUIS and Alton by steamer
and trains from the North and East will be made
up at the latter place. The Wabash will use the
Fandalla and Illinois Central line to Decatur,
whence they will uss their own road.
Late-Ihe break in the Chicago and Alton track
has flooded nearly all the eastern part of Venice
and forced many families 10 vacate their houses
Another part of the town is also
submerged The Venice and Enterprise elevators
are closed, and the steckyards on the bank of the
ryer are no longer available for use. The damage
TO tho elevators and stockyards 10 said
to be from $4,000 to $4,000. All the
Venice is inundated. The amount of farm land
on the American bottoms north of East st. Louis is
said to be from ten to fifteen thousand acres The
loss TO crops is computed at not less than $2OOO0O.
This is the most moderate estimate, other state
ments putting both the area of land overiowed and
the loss 10 the crops at much higher figures.
At East Carondelet, six miles below hero, on tho
deporable. Fully ree-fourths of the families in
the town are quartered IN three schOol-houses and
few residences on ridge of high ground along
the track of the st. Louis and Cairo
Railroad. Most of these people are in adesttute con-
CitOn and unless they receive assistance there will be
great suffering among them. From this point TO the
Bluffs distance of four miles. and southwark for
and presents scene of the utmost desolntion and
ruin. Had the floods held back two weeks longer
the farmers could have saved most of their wheat
and potatoes, as both we're nearly ready for har
vesting; but now everything is lost and nearly all
of the farmers ruined. This also be said OF
very many Farmers elsewhere on the bottom lands
The little town of Cahokia, a short distance from
can move about only in sklns. The previous esil-
mate of the damage in this regoI is said 10 be much
too low. 1t isnow stated that fully 10000 acres
are covered with water.