Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-17
THE FLOOD SITUATION.
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 ST. LoUIs, Mo, May 17.--By the Riv- ing way of the Madison leyse thousands ofacres of farm land are flooded. Fourteen men, women and children, all residents of Mnllanphy Island. located in the Mis- souri River, 16 miles north of the mouth and 80 miles from St. Louis. were saved from . watery grave by volunteer corps of 20 prominent citizsns of St. Louis under the command of Mayor Noonau and Assistant Chief of Police Reedy, who imperiled their own lives in doing so.
 A trip down the river for about forty miles shows the situation to be most serious.
 Thousands of acres, an which week ago the waving wheat was growing, making rich carpet of green, are now vast lakes of water, their surfaces broken by floating pieces of furniture, dwellings,, and here and there body of COW or hog. From bluff to bIuff this is the un- broken monotony that greets the eye. Ten miles is the average width of the river as far down as the steamer pro- ceeded.
 Hundreds of homes have been aban. doned and the number of cattle destroyed iS expected to reach into the thousands.
 At Monte Sano and R0ckbridge number of rafts are transporting house holds from these places to the bluffs. Just below Smith Point, on . small piece of land, are over hundred cattle, whose death rapidily encroaching water makes but the question of . few hours. { Bends Island, on the Illinois side, is three feet under water. Near there, on the Missouri side, in the vicinity of the White House, is the St. Louis, Iron Mountain 6 Southern railway track. The embankment, which is dealt vigor- ous blows by the rapidly flowing current, has in many places been undermined, and no trains have been run over the track for thirty-six hours. Untold damage will be suffered by the railroad company at this point alone. E Up the Merrimac River the back water has undermined the foundations of over hundred houses.
 At Fosters Island, A,O 600 acres of fine farming are covered with two feet of water and all hope of raising crop this year has been given up.
 Reporters stationed on the Merchants' Bridge in North St. Louis have seen sew eral dead bodies floating in the water. Most of them have evidently come long distance. gls
 It is now . common sight to see small houses and various articles of furniture floating past.
 All railway traffic over the Eads Bridge has been abandoned, owing to the flooded tracks in Illinois. The Bur lington, Alton and other roadssrun pas senger trains in over the Merchants Bridge.
 PORTLAND, Ind, May 17.-The fall of rain has continued for six days almost uninterruptedly. It is reported that the Celina reservoir. twenty miles east of here, covering 17,O00 acres, is full of water, and should the levess give way it would carry destruction to the prosper ous farmers who live in the upper Wabash valley, and perhaps cause . heavy loss of life.
 The waste way or overflow at Celina empties into Beaver Creek and that into the Wabash at New Corydon, this county.
 The conditions exist here for another Johnstown horror, but the water would scatter over more country and be less destructive to life.