The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-15
RISE OF THB RIVERS.
a Hight Of 80 1-2 Feet Reached at ST.
Louis.

a 1AB Ak VI % IL r66G h66CQ6Q at ST,
Louis.
NEW ORLEANS. May 14,-A dispatch from
United States Engineer E. c. Tollinger to
Maj. Richardson. chief state engineer.
reports that the Panther Forest levee broke
last night at $50 o'clock. This is an inn
portant Arkansas levee just below Gaines
landing, In Chicot county, and any serious
break in 1t means a serious disaster to the
fifth Louisiana district and Tensas basin
section.
THE RISE AT ST. LOUIS.
ST.. LOUIS, May 14.-The river at this
point reached a hight OF 1876 feet this after
noon, which is only eighteen inches below
the big flood of 1883, and rise of about a
foot since last night. AS the water rises
more and more, the land in the northern and
southern parts OF the city becomes SUBJ
merged and hourly encroachments are
made on the railroad tracks and the prop
erty bordering on the river. Moreland is
also inundated on the eastern side of the
river, and nearly all the ground
on the south side of East ST.
Louis, 10 the east of Carondalet, a
distance OF about five miles, is under water.
A large section of the country north OF
East st. Louis, reaching up to the national
stock yards, is also submerged. Within
these boundaries scores of houses are flooded
and their former occupants have been
forced 20 abandon them. Along the levee
in the center of the city the situation is not
materially changed.
Near st. Charles, on sMullappy Island, in
the Missouri, seven families are on the
roofs of their houses. driven there by rising
waters, and are awaiting rescue.
At Alton all the bottoms are flooded and
the river is from four to five miles wide.
The new water works are abandoned and
old Dlant ia haiptr mad Snaplye3
mills are closed and the Illinois glass works,
high water preventing operations. Two
hundred hands are affected
Farther down the river at Madison, the
situation is indeed serious. All the low
lands unprotected by levees are flooded, and
the new levee, according to a telephone
message, will break before morning.
At Venice the water is over the main
street, the highest point in the town, and
the river traffic is at an end,
The national stock yards at East St Louis
are closed. x
Water continually creeps up the bank,
and ground floor stores are being invaded
and their occupants are being driven out.
The prospect now is that three and perhaps
four feet more Of water will come from the
the upper streams and that there will not
only be great Inconvenience to business,
but immense destruction of property.
THE WHOLE VALLEY FLOODED.
WASHINGTON. May IA continuous
story comes from all of the country drained
by he~Mississippi river and its tributaries
of constant rains, streams all out of their
banks and constantly increasing damage. TO
property from high water.
Another feature of the situation is the
uneasiness in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois,
and Indiana, about this years corn crops.
In very large sections the fields are under
water or water soaked and not a fuSrow
turned, where ordinarily at this date plow-
ing has been finished aud much of the seed
ing done. 1t will take some time for the
water to run of the lowlands, after the rise
is checked, aud of that there is yeE no sign.
900 HOUSES VACATED.
KANSAS CITY, May 14.-Six hundred
houses in Armourdae and North Argentine
have been vacated on account OF the food.
They are suburbs of Kansas City, on the
lowlands.
NAPLES UNDER WATER.
JACKSONVILLE, ILL, May 14.-Naples, a
town in the western part OF this county, is
partly under water. and great loss Of prop
erty has ensued. Unless the food subsidies
soon the place will be nearly wiped out.