Telegram-herald., 1890-03-14
4 DEUCE
Serious Flood in the Lower Ms
slssippi Valley.
RAILROAD TRAFFIC sTLSIsyDSIILL
Psovls Desert Their Homes aud Eies for
1heir Ilsss- H0&sss Mashe9 Away.
st0ek Dresasa I'D Crops Destroyed
The NSrst Net - Coaae.
EIyERs oUT o. THEIB BANks


from CAIRO u Nlcksogrg and below ~lll
be one OF the highest known. Without
desiring - create general alarm Ia tie
valley ~ the lower Mississippi, yet II
would seen that the coming stage OF
water warrants the adyisabilty " time
" removals Of stOck ana such other
property as uould be destroyed BY a.
extreme flood
ST. Louis. March l8-lt IS quite evil
dent from news received from points
along the lower Mississippi that tue
people fully calize mat Hood Is upon
them which, before the waters subslde.
will sUrpass IN disastrous results the
great calamity Of 1858, when 90 much
property was destroyed and so many
E human lives were lost To show the
present and prospective condition of
affairs il Is well 10 go with the current,
as IL were. Reports from points on the
Missouri and Mississippi above here
show the rivers 10 De rising. kilograms
from the interior show al the smaller
streams 10 be very high. and the low
lands IN the vicinity of creeks and riy-
ers 70 be under water. Here Is a sample
dispatch from Simpson, H.:
All streams from CarDOnoale 10 Paducah,
KY are nj es ana miles Out OF their banks.
I Grab orchard creek above here IL eight miles
wide whlIe Big Bay covers a territory hardly
short OF ten miles wide -Four trains are water
bound here and can not turn wheel until the
. atsrs suDside and All bridges are nxed The
/ loss 10 the rauroad company and farnersWiil DC
/ thousands Of dollars The Ohio below mere and
+ near Metropolis Is or q wild tear"
/ A dispatch from Vienna, Ill, says
+ that number of families in the east
+ ern part of that town have vacated
their homes, while fences and a
vast amount Of lumber from the
1 planing-mill near the depot have float
/ ed away. A Burlington (lA.) dispatch
saws that the lowlands In various
portions of illinois, Iowa and Missouri
are more than ever overfowed- Flint
creek, north OF Burlington, Is reported
! TO be out of it's banks and covering the
surrounding farms to depth of four
feet. From Poplar Bluff, Mo-, comes
! news that the Black river is rising rap
| idly and that waters cover the whole
country.
Following the course of the Missis-
sippi southwark similar reports come
from every point where there is tele-
graphic communication. Charleston,
Mo. telegram says that Southeast
Missouri in all probability will soon see
a repetition OF the same distress
ing times that were occasioned
in 1858 on account of the overflow. The
entire lower part of the county is now
covered by water, and families are NOV
ing their goods to that city. Houses are
washed away, stock drowned, and the
entire crop is destroyed. On high knobs
wild game has taken refuge aud is now
perishing Hunters are reaping rich
harvest All are expecting even q
greater overflow than that Of 1883.
Similar reports come from Southern
tributaries of the Mississippi From
the head waters of White river comes
the almost incredible report. of an
eighteen foot rise in twenty four
hours. A telegram, known TO be
perfectly reliable, from Fort Smith on
the upper Arkansas, reports a rise
OF seventeen feet in twenty hours and
the flood is still menacing. This OF
course means that thousands OF acres OF
the richest farming lands in the world
are under water; that hundreds of heads
of live stock have perished, and many
families are forced 10 abandon their
homes.
an this great body of water must find
it's way to the gulf, and the father OF
waters is already at food tide. Since
1883 an immense sum Of money has been
spent and thousands of men have been
employed almost constantly elevating
and strengthening the leyees on both
sides OF the great stream. On the
Mississippi side, so far, the leyces hold
out well, but even should they prove OF
sufficient strength 10 withst nd the
great pressure. the water that must yet
come down upon them will raise the
river at least foot over their tops Or
the Arkansas aud Louisiana side there
are many weak places. Already two
very disastrous breaks have occurred
one near Arkansas City. the other at AL
sstia. La
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March l3.-Only
meager details OF the foods in Arkan
sas have been received. At Bates
Vile the White river rose thirty
two feet in twenty-four hours and
all the lower part of the tow
is flooded The depot and freight
houses Of the Iron Mountain rail
road are two feet under water. The De
struction to property g Black Rock viii
DC heavy. The water stands six feer
deep I'm the hotels and business places
A special from Little Rock says the
news from the interior towns is all ths
streams are high, and that :
large number OF bridges have
been washed away 40 train.
have reached there from For
Smith since Monday and al the road
traffic is badly delayed. TIE Arkansas
river is rising rapidly At Pine Bluff. and
there IS danger Of the Government
dikes being destroyed. The situation
between tbat point and the Mississippi
river Is said 20 be alarming.
CAIRO. Ill, March I3-The Ohio /.
falling fast at Sbswneetovn. aud il i'
thought now that the rise reported
above there will not cause much. f.
any. further rise hera The frst trair
FOR the past two days from tht
North arrived va The Illinois Centrs
this morning Nc train or ths Mobil,
& Ohio. Or OF the Cleveland. Cincinna
#. Cbicszo & 81 Louis. from ths North
or ths Iron Mountain 4 - Louis, ~ 81
/ Louis Arkansas = TEXAS from the south,
hss arrived
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