St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-02
WATERS CREEPING UP
Many Villages Around St.
Louis Flooded by the Old
Mississippi.
A Warehouse Collapses at
East st. Louis, One Man
Being Killed.
Venice, ILL.,, Rapidly Beco M
ing a Rival Of Its Euro
pean Namesake.
Water Very Near the 1882
Flood Mark at Emerson
Man.

ST. LOUIS, May 1.-Another foot OF
rise in the river and more flooded vii
lagos on the East side; collapsed ware
house, which resulted i'll one death.
and prospect for repetition
of a year ago. All this tells
the story of the high water here tonight.
The river at o'clock this evening
showed a rise of fraction of an inch
over a foot since. last night and the
water is still creeping up on the gauge.
There is every probability that by to-
morrow night the danger mark, thirty
two feet, will be reached. There are
two causes, however, OF the high water
which greatly lessen the danger OF
breaking embankmentS. Most OF the
high water now in the river is due
to purely local rains between here and
Alton. A dam at Hermann, Mo-, keeps
back much Of the Missouri river water,
which would otherwise make a still
higher rise. The raging torrent of the
Ohio at Cairo also tends to keep the
water this side of the Ohio's mouth
back, and, while this, of course, will
prolong the period of high water, yet it
prevents the swift currents which are
SO disastrous to embankments and
levees There is probability. however.
that the water will be by this means
kept here until the rise above reaches
here, and that is what causes most ap-
prehension.
Buildings Washed Away.
Up to 6 O'Clock this evening the water
had caused the abandonment OF the
greater portion of East CarOndalet. The
telegraph office of the st. Louis con-
Meeting railway was wrecked this morn
ing, and several small buildings were
washed away. The body of man was
washed ashore this morning near the
site of the wrecked telegraph office.
The body has not been identified.
Many persons who have been living in
the second story of their homes were
forced to move out altogether today,
and several had narrow escapes, barely
escaping before their residences col
lapsed or floated away. Another foot OF
water will cause the abandonment Of
the roundhouse at the crossing of the
connecting road and the Mobile d Ohio:
In East st. Louis the water in Canokia
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flood level. Last years experience,
be thrown up, and the damage of that
time will not be repeated unless the
high water mark of 1892 is exceeded. AT
BeIleville Richland creek has over
flowed it's banks and filled many base
ments. Several manufacturing estab-
Iishments have been forced to shut
down, their boiler rooms being mum
dated.
On this side of the river North st.
Louis is so far the worst sufferer. The
Knapp-Stout Lumber cOmpany'S yard is
in imminent danger OF being washed
away. The district of squatters known
as ''OklahOma" is now vast lake, with
here and there hastily vacated shanty
protruding few feet
Above the Waters Surface.
South of the city proper, between Ar
senal street and Carondalet. the scene
is repetition of year ago. The low
have been forced to yacate their
shanties and grounded fiat boats. All,
or nearly all, their few possessions have
been washed away.
Trainmen coming in from the East
tonight say the water practically covers
all of Brooklyn, and that numbers of
people are moving ont of their houses.
Venice, too. seems again to suffer, as
the flood tonight is encroachlng rapidly
upon that place, and the whole village
will soon be rival to the city of which
it is namesake, so far as visible dry
land is concerned. The East st. Louis
dock warehouse, Immediately south of
the Eads bridge, gave way before
the rush Of water about noon,
and fully one-fourth of the vast
building, with the heavy contents, fell
in heap. the roof sinking and
settling upon the wreck. Thousands of
barrels of flour, sacks of grain, boxes of
canned goods, bundles of shingles of
both cypress and pine and miscel-
laneous lot of other goods were precipi
tated through the ground floor and into
the water. One of the laborers, Cicero
Pate. colored man, was crushed to
death under the debris. and has not yet
been found. Two other laborers were
injured. The loss to the building and
stock of goods Will be quite heavy. as
much that was not broken will be
spoiled by the water. The building is
said to belong to Chicago people, and
was used as general warehouse.