Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-07-12
THE OVERFLOW
The Mississippi Gradually Returning
Within its Banks-Business Being Re-

The Mississippi Gradually Returning
Within its Banks-Business Being Re-
Sumed.
s.. LOUIS, NO.. June 50
The river at this point fell more rapidly
yesterday than on any day since the de-
cline set in. The Government gauge regis
tered thirty-three feet three inches above
low water mark, fall of eight inches with
in twenty-four hours. The sidewalks all
along the levee are now above water, and
yesterday afternoon men were at work
washing OF the flooded floors Of the houses
along the 1evee. Business along the CEN
tral Ievee will be fully resumed by Mon
day, and considerable activity was notice
able yesterday.
The food-waters of Cahokia Greek and
the big sloughs of East st. Louis are still
subsiding and fast returning to the ordin-
airy limits. Some of the tracks across Bow
mans Slough are still under water, but
trains IN on them without difficulty. The
new bridge yards are not yet in q condition
to be used, but it is expected that IN 8 day
or two the water will decline sufficiently to
permit resumption of operations. All the
railroads are running as usual and most
trains make better time than before the
food. The town is suffering seriously from
the encroachment OF Siepage water, ana
measures will be taken to drain 1T of to the
natural bodies of water. AS yet few Of the
people driven from their homes by the in
vaSien of the hood-water have been able to
return, and it will be several weeks before
their domicileS will be inhabitable.
Business is improving in Venice and IL
gives signs of resuming its wonted activity
with the opening of the railroads. A dele
cation came down yesterday from Chou
teau, Kerr and Cabaret Islands and repre-
scented that there was some restitution.
Supplies of actual necessaries were issued,
andduring the y146persons were relieved.
The river fell three and one-half inches, and
the backwater dropped two inches. The
backwater is expected to go down very rap
idly after the gap in the Chicago & Alton
track is closed. Brooklyn continues to FUR
nish great deal Of restitution, and ninty-
eight families were provisioned yesterday.
The fund will suffice for one day, after
which Seventy-hVe families Will be begging
for help.
The River at Helana, Ark
HELENA, ARR, June =.
Col. J. B. Miles furnishes q newpapoF
correspondent with the following to-day:
''The indications are that the water has
about reached its highest point, and
we may expect a fall in two or there
days. The stage of the river here,
forty feet eight inches, would seem to
indicate at least forty-one feet six
inches or forty-two feet on the Cairo gauge,
whereas it is only thirty-nine feet three
inches. At forty-twO feet at Cairo there
should be some two feet overflow into the
head OF the FRANCIS swamp ana we
would expect that sw amp to keep the river
stationary or rising for week or ten days.
But at thirty-nine feet three inches there
should be but little water OVERLOOKING below
New Madrid. The river at Memphis is
about what it should be in comparison with
Helena. The only way in which we can
account for this is that the great food in
the spring was not out OF the Ohio, which
does not supply much sand, and the clear
water of that river secured out the bed or
the river at Cairo some two feet, but did
not remain high long enough to affect the
bed Of the river this low down. Although
| the levees were badly broken in this section,
yet there were enough standing to prevent
the bed from washing out"
The river during the past twenty-fouI
hours ending at one p. m. rose quarter or
an inch and stood forty feet eight inches
above low water and six feet six inches
below high water, and is about stationary.
Losses by the Flood in Nebraska.
LINCOLN, NEB., June 30.
Considerable more damage was done by
the recent floods than was first supposed.
Now that the water has subsidized tho
details of destruction wrought are obtain
| able, and it is clear that it will take many
thousand dollars to make good the loss.
| The food on the low lands adjacent to this
| city has gone down, and the damage is
principally in small houses, gardens de-
strOyed and corn-cribs swept away. OF
| the latter there were several well filed,
and worth good deal of money. In Saun-
! ders County there is scarcely a bridge
standing. The large streams of the county
! Cottonwood, Sand Greek, Silver Creek
and Wahoo-for fifteen to twenty miles in
some localities, are without bridges. The
greatest rise was Of the Nemaha, which
| Overhowed the bottom lands on either side
| for distence ofhalf mile. In Richardson
| and Johnson Counties many houses were
swept off, to say nothing Of fences, bridges
| and such like property. The steam-mills of
| Linn, Cooper & Co., were flooded for forty
| eight hours. The firm suffers the loss of
considerable -four and corn. The latter was
in cribs near the mills. Six miles out OF
! Humboldt Mrs. Grubb and children were
| drowned while attempting to cross the
| river in slIiff. A family by the name Of
on South Fork, a branch of the Nemaha,
| were drowned; also seven others on the
same streams whose names are unknown.
! In all seventeen persons are supposed to
have lost their lives by drowning in the
Nemaha and its branches during the recent
floods.
a Receding River.
KANSAS CITY, June g.
River tonight about two inches lower
than twenty-four hours before, and remains
nearly stationary. Trains now more regu-
lar than at any time since high water. The
first Council Bluffs train for several days
came in over the Missouri Pacific. The
Hannibal, Wabash and Rock Island will be
obliged to ferry to Randolph for some time
yet. Travel, however, is rapidly resuming
a normal condition. In this vicinity the
damage has been almost entirely to farm
property and railroads.