The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-30
Floods in the West and Southwest.
Six Thousand Cattle Drowned Thou
sands of Acres Submerged-Cities
and Towns Flooded - Thou.
sands OF People Homeless.

ST.. LOUIS, June 24.-The river is still ris-
ing at this point, but more slowly than here
| tofore. A rise of another foot will inundate
the lumber Yards, and 0,000, 900 feet of lum-
| Der will be surrounded by from two to eight
feet of water.
In East ST. Louis proper the situation is
about unchanged. The water which broke
through the Madison dyke yesterday made a
fearful crevasse in the Chicago and Alton en-
bankment to-day. About 600 feet of track
sank and disappeared in an instant. The gap
has widened ever since. Parallel with this
embankment run the Indianapolis and st.
Louis and the Wabash tracks, which also went
down after the Chicago and Alton, and thus
cut off all direct rail connection with the
North
The Fish Lake levee, which protects about
fifteen square miles of rich farming land in
American Bottom, on the Illinois side of the
river, below East Carondelet, Mo-, broke on
Friday night, and about 10000 acres of fine
farms are now under water. The damage to
crops and other property is estimated at $780,
600. What is known as the Isabella bridge,
on the Missouri Pacific Railway, spanning the
creek about ten miles east of jefferson City,
was carried away on Saturday.
At East Carondelet, six miles below here,
on the Illinois side, the situation is deplora-
BILE. Three fourths of the families are quar-
tered in three schOolhouses and few resi-
dences on higher ground. From that point
to the bluffs, a distance of four miles, and
southwark for 10 miles the country is sub
merged and desolate 1t is now said that
fully $1,000 acres of wheat and as much more
of corn, potatoes and other crops are sub
merged causing loss of 5000, 900. The st.
Louis and Cairo Road and the Belt Road will
lose fully $4,000.
LATER.-The break in the Chicago and Al
ton track has flooded nearly all the eastern
part of Venice, and forced many families to
vacate their houses and seek safety on higher
ground. Another part of the town is also
submerged. The Venice and Enterprise ele-
vators are closed and the stock-yards on The
bank of the river cannot be used. The loss
to crops alone will be over $4,000
ST. LOUIS, June 25.-There has been no
material change in the flooded region during
the day. Every effort is being made to
strengthen the dykes in East st. Louis. The
Ohio and Mississippi and the Vandalia Rail-
road entertainments still hold out. Down the
river on the Illinois side there has been great
destruction of property. Hundreds of people
have been driven from their homes, and it is
estimated that 5000 head of cattle have been
drowned. The Missouri river is rising at
some points and falling at others. tits feared
that flood in the Yellowstone will reach the
Missouri before the present overflow subsidies.
There is dispute between the people liv
ing above and below the Madison county
dyke as to whether that embankment should
be cut, and the people of the village of Brook
Ign, whose misfortunes would be increased
by the cutting of the dyke, guarded it all last
night with shot guns. The Missouri river
marked % feet 4 inches on signal-service
gauge at Kansas City at p. M, and was still
rising. The residents of West Kansas City
are preparing to leave their homes.
ST. LOUIS, June 26.-The water is falling
on the river side of the Chicago and Alton
Railroad at East st. Louis, but is rising out
on the bottoms In the flooded region below
many people are camped on the bluffs, and
some are living in box cars on the railroads.
In East St. Louis all the lowlands are inun-
dated from ten to twenty feet, hundreds of
houses have their lower floors flooded, and
many of them their second stories. South of
the city the entire bottom for an indefinite
distance, including the villages of East Caron-
delet and Cahokia, is submerged, and all the
farms for miles down the river are under wa
ter and the crops are destroyed.
Most of the bottom lands on the Missouri
side of the river are under water, and hun
dreds of thousands of acres along the Mis-
souri, river and its tributaries between here
and Kansas City are now overfowed.
The Mississippi river fell five inches at St.
Louis on Thursday. The railroad companies
are repairing their tracks, and no further
damage is apprehended.