The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-17
4 FIGHT OVER A Dixie.
. SENSATIONAL INCIDENT IN THE
GREAT FLOOD.

Brooklyn, Mo, Farmers Want the
Bank Cut While the People of Venice
Arm Themselves to Protect 1t.
Yevees Giving Way In Every Direc-
t,on in the Flooded District.
ST. LOUIS, May 16.-Opposite Jefferson
barracks a number Of houses have been
undermined by the food and wrecked. 1t
tg believed that all their occupants have
escaped. On Mullanphy Island, thirty-f
miles north of st. Louis in the Missouri
river. fourteen women and children were
rascued by a volunteer corps. Several dead
hoJies have been seen floating in the water.
Most of them evidently came from long
distance. Il is now common sight to see
small houses and various articles OF fur-
niture travelling past.
All railroad traffic over the Eads bridge
has been abandoned owing to flooded tracks
in Illinois. The Burlington, Alton aud
other roads run passenger trains in over the
Merchants bridge.
The Walker soap works, Latin Powder
Companys depot. the Meyer q Hansons
Fsrtilizer Company's establishment and
several daries and warehouses are flooded
and work Is stopped.
About two hundred more houses have
been wrecked. The most serious aspect is
fonnd near Venice. Between there and
Jolpin is a small dixie. The water backing
10 on the Brooklyn side is flooding several
fine farms, and the owners of these went
down Yesterday morning to cut the dixie, as
by doing this the water would run through
on the Venice side, where the land is
lower. The Venetians. however, are satis>
fed with the amount of water they possess,
and about twenty of them armed with shot
guns patroled the dixie to prevent any at
tempt to cut it. The Brooklyn men are
said to be determined to drain their side.
Up to midnight no serious trouble was re-
ported, but both sides we're on the alert.
Dixie GIVES WAY.
The Bowman dixie, which protected a
large section of the low land on the north
aud east sides of East 81. Louis. has broken
and hundreds of acres Of land are now sub
merged. The residents were warned and
escaped The water works in East. ST.
Louis are in great danger. A large force of
men is working to save them.
A LOUISIANA LEvEE BREAKS.
NEW ORLEANS, La, May 16.-Bonne
Care Ievee, eighteen miles above the city,
broke this morning at 2 o'clock. The OPEN
ing Is now 100 feet wide and five feet deep
RAILROAD EMBANKMENT GONE.
CAHoNA. Ill, May 16.-The embank-
ment of the Cologne Railroad Company,
about 200 feet long, has given way and the
town is flooded to depth Of several feet.
No lives have been lost, but large amount
Of damage has been done.
NEW MADISON IN DANGER.
NEW MADISON. ILL, May 16.-The Mad
ison levee is broken, and all that protects
this town from being flooded Is the Chicago
and Alton railroad embankment. The
water is within two feet of the top Of this
and If it gives way, which it threatens to
do in several places, the town will be
flooded and very serious damage done. The
levees guarding Horseshoe lake are threat
ening to give way at any moment and the
danger Of food in that direction is also
imminent
RIVER BECOMES A LAKE.
WHITEHALL. ILL, May 16.-Commenc-
ing at Happyville, eight mil es west Of this
place, the Illinois river extends from blu Il
to bluff, a distance of AZ miles. The area
OF the overtiowed land in this county alone
Is fully $4,000 acres, half of which hos been
In cultivation for years. No crops of any
Kind will be produced there this season. The
water is still rising and small port of the
SAND ridge north of the Chicago and Alton
track that is yet above water, will proba
oily be covered. The water is within q foot
OF the top of the draw table of the Chicago
ana Alton bridge over the Illinois river IL
thought now that the dry Ievee, about
"nlch last week grave apprehensious were
IeIV, VIII be able to Withstand the immense
water pressure exerted against it.