The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-05-18
DRIVEN TO THE BLUFFS.
Residents Along the Mississippi Made
Homeless by the F1oods-No Loss OF
Life Reported-AIiles of Fertile Lands
Ruined-Loss, 81 100000.

residents Along the mississippi Maze
Homeless by the Floods-No Loss of
Life Reported-AIiles of Fertile Lands
! Ruined-Loss, $1,o0O,000.
| QUINCY, H., May 16-The flood situation,
| appalling as it was Monday is even worse.
and it is now almost certain that the In
| dian Grove district will be abandoned for
| years to come. The cross levee which
| protected the northern half of the district
| gave way Monday night, 800 feet of
the bank going out This crevasse has
since been doubled. People living in the
| doomed region were at once warned of
| their danger and Immediately commenced
a hurried, disorderly retreat for the bluffs,
All night long mass of men, women and
| children, with wagons and farm stock,
| poured along all the roads leading to the
| higher ground to the east and by daylight
| this morning the entire region was covered
| with water. A pouring rain yesterday
added to the miseries of the homeless I'M
| fortunates driven out by the floods.
| Measures viii be taken to afford them
needed temporary relief The crevasse of
| the Sny levee below the city is flooding
the lower half of that district-twenty-
| five miles in length-and the people are
abandoning every thing in their fight. An
! other crevasse is threatened between this
| city and Hannibal, and If the levee breaks
then the whole region will be submerged.
| No loss of life has yet been reported, but
hundreds of head of stock have been
| drowned. The loss in the two districts will
| not be far from 81 800, 900.
| In this city the situation is practically
unchanged, except that the water has made
| greater encroachments and has covered a
| few more miles of railroad track The
river rose five inches yesterday and at 6
| o'clock last night stood eighteen feet six
| inches.
PITTsFIELD, Ill, May 16.-The break
| in the Sny levee increases, and 1922
| 600 acres of land that have been pro-
| tected will soon be the bottom of an i'm
mense lake. Owners and tenants are hur-
rying to the uplands for personal safety,
only having time to take their already
loaded wagons and live stock and leaving
most of their property to the floods Hun
| dreds of families are camped in the open
| fields out of reach of the water, having
nowhere to go. A cold rain has set in,
making their desolation more dreary and
complete
ST. LOUIS, May 16.-The Mississippi is
very high here, but not up to the danger
line. The island in Ea st St. Louis is par
TALLY covered. Reports from Louisiana,
Mo-, say the Sny levee break is steadily
charging and torrents of water are rush
ing through and submerging the entire val
ley. Already many homes have been ruined.
The break occurred at about the center
of the levee, so that the upper portion will
be comparatively uninjured but the lower
half is practically a total loss. Out of
about Is, 900 acres of wheat and corn over
1000 acres are entirely destroyed Farm
ers succeeded in driving most of their cat
tie to the bluffs. The Chicago & Alton
railroad tracks are threatened and the ST..
Louis & Keokuk is under water for long
distance i
AT OFallon, Mo-, the water is still rising
and has destroyed large acreage of wheat
and corn. Should the local rain which set
in here at noon continue until midnight the
Cuivre river will pour into the Mississippi
a volume of water that will inundate the
entire Mississippi bottom from Monroe to
| st. Peters.
MUscATINE, Ia, May 49, = The water
| reached seventeen feet five inches above
low water mark at noon yesterday, one
inch higher than ever before recorded here.
An east wind is blowing and the levee pro-
tecting Muscatine island is in imminent
danger.