Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-21
pEsoLATloN ON ALL SIDES.

pESOANliON ON ALL SiUES.
Farms and Towns Flooded-Crops, Shell
ter and Food Gens-Death.
CHICAGO, May e1.-That the situation
can not become much worse 10 about
the only consolation for the food
scourged inhabitants of the Mississippi
vallay. From the very source Of the
Father Of Waters down to the Louisiana
delta the story is one Of desolation.
Farms ruined, houses swept away, live
stock drowned, railroads idle. human
HIVES In danger-snch is the history OF
the hg food
From St. Cloud to ST. Louis.
beginning at st. Cloud, north OF Min.
psnpotss, whore the dams are reported
70 be giving away; following the Missis-
app down TO Keokuk. whspe the great
Egyptian levee has yielded. flooding
thousands Of acres of the richest farm
hands On tho continent; thence in sue
oessson passing the cities Of Quincy and
Alton, where the work Of wind and
water has been disastrous. the first
great stage Of the desolate journey ends
at 81 Louis
I'm 50. louis and Vicinity.
II 10 impossible to- make an estimate
Of the damage to property in that city
and vicinity, except to say that millions
win express it, and that the loss en-
braces untold acres Of growing crops do
stpoyed, the wreck Of several villages.
injury b factories. the stoppage Of
trains. and Che Generalization Of busi.
ness.
In North ST. Loais the situation, al
peady bad, threatensstill greater danger.
Devastation hovers over a big and pros
porous manufacturing district. Already
the losses and damages turn over 81 900,
an, and hundreds Of men are In en-
fcgred idleness.
Hast 81. Louia which has borne the
euil force Of the wind. is now an island
mnd in a critical condition; but perhaps
~ most critich situation Of all obtains
% East Carondelet. That village is en-
ureiy surrounded by water, and q re-
port comes that between 800 and 800
spesple are In danger Of their lives, as
large vessels can not approach the place,
and the current rs to swift for small
hoahs. Other places in the vicinity are
badly enough of y
The news from Kaskaskia, lila, b
that tho several hundred people there
ere In great danger. as the town psopes
b already partly submerged, and the
wafer 10 rising raradly.
Merely to name the towns and vii
A6es In Missouri and Illinois that are
suffering from the inundation would
make liss Of appalling length. Tbs
truth b that the destruction Is 30 wide.
spread and overwhelming IN its charac.
tes ne to be difficult not only of descrip-
ton bat Of realization.
On tho Missouri, too, and It's tribu.
earies, tho watens are abroad to greater
extent than ever before known.
Throughout the Dakotas farms are I'm.
der water, bridges have been carried out
and railroad tracks undermined.
Along the Missouri
The horror at Sioux City Is still en-.
gaging attention, and the full story OF
the deluge has not yet been told. Even
W. hundreds Of people are closely fol.
lowing the receding floods, searching
for their ruined homes and missing
relatives. The number OF lives lost In
the vicinity is estimated at from fifty to
one hundred.
Weeks and perhaps months will be
required TO repair the havoc caused by
the food, and il will probably never b.
known exactly how many persisted in
the torrent
The loss by water, even where the
buildings were not carried away, was
very large. Everything is soaked o,
ruined or washed away by the waves OIL
by the timbes hurled along by the cur
rent.
Down through Nebraska the Missouri
and it's affiuents are ON the rampage
The Platte is especially turbulent, ant
all along it's course through the state
until IL enpties into the Big Muddy al
Piattmouth, il has left desoiation OF
each side.
Az Kansas City tho Missouri river Il
higher than at any time since 1874, ant
b rfstng at the rate Of one foot every
twelve hours The town Of Harlem Il
scrt wftnous soul OF Ips popuiace anc
many houses have been carried from
their foundations.
AT NEW ORLEANS,
The Leyees IN Good Condition and Iittl