The record-union., 1893-05-02
LOwlands at st. Louis and Vicinity
Now Under Water.
GREAT PORTION OF EAST CARONDE.
LET ABANDONED.
North st. Louis a Vast Lake-South
are Nothing but Watery Wastes
A CIoudburst in Texas Causes Much
Damage to Railroads - Disastrous
Floods in Ohio.
Special to the REcoRD-US1ox.

Special TO the RECoRD-UNIoN.
ST. LOUIS, May 1.-The river at 6
o'clock this evening showed rise of over
a foot since last night, and is still rising.
Up to 6 o'clock this evening the water
caused the abandonment of a greater
portion of East Carondelet. The tele-
graph Office at st. Louis connecting the
railway was wrecked this morning, and
several small buildings washed away.
The body of a man was washed ashore
near the site of the wrecked telegraph
office. Many persons who have been
living in the second story of their homes
were forced to move out altogether to-
day, and several had narrow escapes,
barely escaping before their residences
collapsed or floated away.
At Belleville several manufacturing
establishments were forced to shut down,
the boiler rooms being inundated.
On this side of the river North st.
Louis, so far, is the worst sufferer. The
district known as "Oklahoma' is now a
vast lake, with here and there hastily
vacated shanty protruding few feet
above the waters surface.
Trainmen from the East tonight say
the water practically covers all of Brook
lyn. and number of people are moving
out of their houses. Venice will soon
rival the city of which it is namesake.
The East st. Louis dock warehouse
gave way about noon, and fully one
fourth of the vast buildings, with their
heavy contents, fell in a heap, the roof
sinking and settling upon the wreck.
Thousands of barrels of flour, sacks of
grain, boxed canned goods, bundles of
shingles, and a miscellaneous lot of other
goods were precipitated through the
ground floor and into the water. One
laborer, Cicero Pate, a colored man, was
crushed to death under the debris. Two
other laborers were injured. The loss
will be quite heavy, but it is impossible
to ascertain the exact amount.
FARMS NOTHING BUT wATERY WASTES.
ALTON (Ill.l, May lin the past forty
eight hours the river has risen nearly
three feet, and is still booming. South
and east of here the farms are nothing
but watery wastes. Several bridges are
down at Wood River, and the work of
rescuing has commenced. The Wabash
branch was abandoned this afternoon.
The big pump at the water works had to
be abandoned, and altogether the outlook
is gloomy.
CLOUDBURST IN TEXAS.
PARIS, May IA cloudburst swept the
slope of the mountains yesterday and car
rled away thirty-five miles of the San
Francisco Railroad track. The north
hnnnn M r1ybi laf Col
day was unable to get beyond Mountain
burg, and returned. The southbound
train stopped at Greenland. The
Arkansas River is eight miles wide, and
much damage has been done along the
course. Five farmhouses a few miles
this side of Fort Smith were demolished
by a whirlwind.
FLOODS IN OHIO.
CINCINNATI, May 1.-The rainy and
cold weather which for the past three
weeks has wholly stopped all plowing
and planting in Ohio, is eliminating in a
disastrous flood. Here over two inches
of rain has fallen within the past twenty
four hours, and the Ohio River is leaping
up at the rate of four inches an hour. The
whole of Northwestern Ohio is flooded.
and wheat ruined, while other crops are
so delayed that the yield must be small
wATER-sPoUTs IN ARKANSAS.
VAN BUREN, May 1.-Two water-spouts
struck Northern Crawford County yes
terday and washed out bridges and rail-
road tracks of the Santa Fe. All reports
are not in, and it is feared the damage
done will be immense, aud many lives
lost.
FLOOD AT DAYTON.
DAYTON tOhio), May 1.-The Miami
River has reached an unprecedented
hight. The water has found several
weak points in the levees here, and there
is reason for anxiety. One hundred and
fifty acres of the residence portion of the
city is flooded.
MAD RIVER BREAKS ITS BANKS.
SPRINGFIELD (Ohio), May 1.-At noon
to-day an immense waterspout burst
over fremont City, village near here.
AT about the same time Mad River broke
its banks and within eighteen minutes
the water flooded the town, carrying
away outbuildings and stables and flood
ing the first story of residences. Great
damage was done.
RAT AND SAUSAGE ROWS FLOODED.
CINCINNATI, May 1.-The Ohio River
st midnight is just touching fifty feet
above low-water mark. and rising at the
rate of an inch an hour. Rat Row and
Sausage Row are flooded, but this is
nothing unusual for these perlieus.
FLOOD AT SPRINGFIELD.
SPRINGFIELD (O.). May 1.-At mid
night 100 acres in the northeastern part
OF the city, containing 200 houses, are
flooded, and water rising foot an hour.
Scores of families are in danger, and the
police and patrol force, together with
citizens, are rescuing people, boats and
horses being used. The electric street
car traffic of the entire city has been
stopped.