Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-24
The FIoOd In Pawnee County. Eeb.-Six.
teen RersOna Drowned.

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The FIo0d In Pawnee County, Seb.-Six.
Teen PersOna Drowned.
OMAHA, NEB, June 23-W. G. Stsrkey
arrived here yesterday on the first train out
Of Pawnee county since the food which has
prevailed there. He relates Ihst the whole
southern country was flooded by the rising of
the Nemaha river, caused by a heavy and
extensive Tair-slorm. John Bsrges's family.
living near Cincinnati, Pawnse couaty. were
compelled, Sunday night, by the food to
leave their home, snd tnsy started in a sm sli
boat Tor the ighboring hIlls. While or So
log the stream the boat was upset and the
wife and four children drowned. All The
bodies were recovered The funeral occurring
Thursday at Bakers ford, seven miles above
Cincinnati. An old man named Aker and
his wife were drowned while trying 10 escape
from their submerged house. In the same
vicinity a Bohemian family Of tsn per
cons undertook to reach place OF fely and
were drowned. One won sn saved herself by
tying herself to tree, where she remained
for eighteen hours, and wss nearly dead
when rescued. 1t is also reported that Two
men were drowned 10 Long Branch creek,
near Table Rock. This swells tue list OF
the drowned in Pawues county TO sixteen.
The damage to crops and personal property
ia very great. The floods have now sUbsided
The Situation aG ST. LOuis-Two Breaks
la the % adis0n Dyke
ST. LOUIS, June 23-The Madison dyke,
between here and Alton, on the Illinois side
OF the river, broke about s O'clock this
morning 10 two places; one near Mitchell,
twelve miles from East 81. Louis, the other
further north, near the head OF the yke,
not far from Alton. The crevssses are not
very wide yet but are growing rapidly, and
the water is rushing through them at fear
full rate. 1t is expected that the entire bot
tom north Of East S.. Louis, embracing fifty
to sixty square miles, will be flooded. Farm
ers are leaving their homes as rapidly as poe
slble, many Of Them going 10 Alton, others
10 different points of the bluffs five or six
miles back from the river. The destruction
OF crops and damage to farm property gener-
ally will be very great.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
A special to the Post Dispatch from Al
ton, ILL.,, Gays: The levee at NJ .dison broke
at 8:I5 O'Clock this morning. The break oc-
Cured at two places at the same time. The
pressure against the banks, which was the
immediate cause OF the disaster, came from
the additional rise in the Missouri river, The
meuth of which IS directly opposite the he ad
of the levee. A body of water about twenty
feet in hight rushed through the gaps, and
in few minutes flooded all the adjacent
bottom. The panic among the people was
very great and universal. They fed toward
the bluffs, carrying with them whatever of
live stock and household goods they could
save. Many head of live stock were drowned.
There is foot rise coming down the river,
and this will no doubt augment
the food until the waters reach
the bluffs, seven miles from the river As il il,
all the country between Mitchell aud Venice
is or soon will be, overhoWed, and the tot al
destruction of crops will osusc loss Of hua-
dreds OF thousands of dollars. Not only are
the crops ruined, but the force of the over
flow has torn the lands to pieces, and in
many places saud-piles will take the plsce
of fertile ground. The Kansas City express,
on the Chicsgo and Alton railroad, did not
reach here to-day. The track is oyerh owed
south of Mitchell.
THE LATEST.
Midnight M-Reportera who have returned
from Madison dyke tonight, say that Fl We
crevasses were opened during the day, and
that when they left the scene all the upper
end, or new part of the dyke, was radically
washed away, and that there was clean
sweep of water 160 yards wide and fifteen
feet deep rushing inland, and spreading
out over all that part OF the bottom Wesi
of the Chicago and Alton railroad
track, which is on high embankmenl,
and laying wsste scores Of farms and thou
sands Of acres of wheat, corn and vegetables.
The water reached Mitchell, on Long Iske
three and a half miles east OF the break, this
evening, and it is now making lis way south
ward, it having been turOed 10 that course
by the Chicago and Alton track. 1t has a so
spread out to the westward again, and will
reach Venice tonight. A large fofcs of men
are now working 10 cut the levee q couple of
miles below the break, to equalize the pres
sure and permit some of the water to run
back into the river, if it will. A good deal
OF water also found its way into Long lake,
at and near Mitchell, and this, after rsisipg
the lake TO common level, will OVERT W and
spread out to the eastward aud southwark,
down the base of the bluff, and only stop
when it reaches the Ohio and Mississippi
railroad embankment, which crosses the bot
toms directly east of East ST. Louis, and
should it pass this barrier it wou run di.
rectly into East 81. Louis from the rear, aud
inundate nearly, il not quite all the town
The Chicago and Alton track is still in pre-
earious condition in spots, but large force
of men is doing all that be done to save
it, and the prospects are largely in favor OF
its preservation. The rails are under water
i'll two or three places, but sn elevated track
has been laid where necessary, and trains
still run. The situation in East ST.. Louis
proper is about the same as last night, exc pit
that the water is little higher. All bsrri- re-
which really protect the business part are
still intact, and will resist any rise of several
inches. Southwark, in the vicinity of E ,st
CsrondeIet aud the bottoms, which was
flooded yesterday by the breaking OF Fish
Lake dyke, presents no other change than a
greater breadth of land submerged. All the
settlers, excepting few negroes who still
cling 10 the second stories or roofs
of their habitalious, have abandoned
them and sought safetY on the bluffs
aud in neighboring towns. A good many
negroes huddled together in churches and
schoolhouses on high and dry ground, aud
are making the most of their unfortunate
situation. The river at this point has riaen
five inches since last night, and now marks
thirty-four feet four incnes, With the prospect