Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-15
FLEEING TO HOUSETOPS,
Many People Drowned Out
of Their Homes.
The Father Of Waters Still sOn
the Rampage.
The Low Portions Of st. Louis and
Its Suburbs Flooded.
A Broken Levee Near Greenville, Miss,
The Big Muddy Getting Higher
Hourly-Storms In Iowa and
Oklahoma.
A ssociated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press DISPATCHES.
Sr. LOUIS, May 14.-The Mississippi
is rising at the rate of tenth of foot
an hour. Along the river front the
damage is not vet of momentous char
,acter. Train switching is almost all at
a standstill along the lower tracks, and
the handling of freight on the wharf and
river bottoms is much interfered with.
This, with flooded cellars and back water
in the sewers, constitutes the worst
feature Of the food in the city proper.
Above and below the worst damage is
being done.
From as far up the Missouri as st.
Charles and Alton on the Mississippi
come stories of damage done and threat
ened. Near St. Charles, on Mullappi
island, seven families are on the roofs Of
the houses, waiting the arrival of tug
which has gone to their assistance.
At Alton the bottoms are flooded and
the river is four or five miles wide. The
water works have been abandoned and
the old plant is being used.
Sparks Touring mills are closed on
account of the floods, as are also the
glass works. The Bluff Line railroad
trestles are being held down by loaded
traine. The quarries are flooded and
thousands of acres of farming land on
both sides of the river are ruined for the
season.
At Madison the low lands are flooded
and the new levee will break before
morning.
At Venice the water is over the main
street, and traffic is at an end.
At Brooklyn the situation is growing
orse.
STOCK YARDS UNDER WATER.
The National stock yards at East st.
Louis are more like a sea than land,
though the town itself is not much
affected, as is the case with East Csron-
delet.
In South St. Louis the Missouri car
works are suffering from high water.
The Missouri Pacific shops have two
ieet of water in them. The St. Louis
and Pepper cotton compresses are dam
aged to the extent of SIS, 900.
In Carondelet houses are damaged
and considerable other damage is being
done. The bridge over the river at
Despere is likely to 60 out at any mo-
ment. The Glendale zinc works have
suspended operations, and so it goes
throughout the flooded district.
Hundreds of poor people in the
flooded districts have been driven from
their homes to shelter offered by friends.
STILL RISING RAPIDLY.
At the rate the river is rising two and
half feet is added each day, and unless
fair weather comes at once the greatest
food in the emory of the oldest St.
Louisan will be thrown into the back
ground. The continued rise necessi-
tated the closing of several Touring
mills today, and will force all the river
bank mills to quit work till the food
subsidies. 1t is probable the Riverside
grain elevators will be forced to do like
wise. The river is running through the
Farmers elevator, and there are grave
fears that the building may be destroyed
before the food subsidies.
BROKEN LEvEE.
GREENvILLE, Miss, May 14.-The
great levee at Panther's forest, on the
Arkansas side of the river, succumbed
to the awful pressure of the river last
night. The crevasse is about thirty
miles, by the river, above Greenville.
This evening the crevasse was $50 feet
wide. The water from the break flows
first into Coon bayou, then over the en-
tire county of Chicot.
1t is feared the entire country will be
flooded, making cotton crop impossi-
BILE. Corn ie already washed out, and
sequence of the break, the river has
fallen nearly two-tenths of foot in the
past twelve hours.
THE BIG MUDDY RISING STEADILY.
KANSAS Cry, May 15.-The Big
Muddy has risen steadily all day, and
at O'Clock tonight the signal service
gauge registered 1880 feet. From
until 10 O'Clock tonight the rise was one
inch. Six hundred houses at Armour
dale and North Argentine have been
vacated on account of the flood.
The damage to property is increasing
hourly. The Kaw river overhowed its
banks this morning, doing great dam
age to the packing interests at Armour
dale.
At the suburban town of Argentine
the water burst the reservoir, 80 that
there is now no public water supply,
and the electrical light plant is
flooded, so there is no light tonight.
All the houses on the bottoms are food
ed to the second stories.
THE WORST YET TO COME.
JEFFERSON CRY, Mo-, May 14.-The
Missouri river is rising two inches an
hour and has already foodrd many
farms and driven hundreds of people
from their homes. But the worst is not
yet, as an immense rise is coming from
above. The Usage is over its banks and
the Grsconade is running over for miles
back and flooding the Moreau bottoms.
The rivers are all within few inches of
the disastrous floods of 1881 and the in
dications are they will 60 higher.
DE SoTo, Mo-, May 14.-The Iron
Mountain railroad was washed out near
Arcadia, Hogan and Labula by heavy
rain early this morning.
MARSHALL, Mo-, May 14.--The Mis-.
souri, river rose ten inches last night.
At Arrow Rock, east of this place, the
water covers thousands of acres oi
farms. The damage to grain is hun
dreds of thousands Of dollars.
DELUGE IN IOWA.
WATERLOO, Iowa, May 14.-A terrific