Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-06
COTTON MILLS

Atlanta, Ga, June "a cloudburst
last night between Greenville and
Spartanburg, S. C., sent the Tiger
river out of its banks. y span of the
Southern railway bridge at Greer was
washed out. Mill No. of the Pacolet
Cotton company at Pacolet was wash
ed away. Mill NO. ? was totally de-
stroyed.
1t is feared there viii be loss of
life, as the mills employed a large
number of operatives who lived near
the mills
y hotel, the Presbyterian church,
livery stable and many other build
ings in the town were wrecked.
The loss of property in this part of
the country is appalling. The flood
is moving with the river, sweeping ev-
erything before it.
Twelve lives were lost in the South
Carolina cloudburst, according to re-
ports received late this afternoon.
Conditions at st. Louis.
St. Louis, June 6.-The river con-
tinues rising and along the levee the
water is up to the stores and houses.
The break in the great Madison coun-
ty levee has widened and this morn
ing the water is rushing through
gap 100 yards wide, covering 10000
acres of farm land and the villages of
0ldenburg and West Granite. About
900 persons were driven from their
homes and East St. Louis and other
Illinois towns are seriously threaten
ed with the flood.
Two boys were drowned today in
East St. Louis. Passenger traffic on
all railroads entering St Louis is
seriously crippled as the result of
the flood.
From all parts of Missouri travellers
bring stories of tremendous destruc-
ton of crops by high water.
The break in the Sny levee opposite
Louisiana is now 300 yards wide and
growing steadily. Another break in
the levee north of there is reported.
No trains are being run out of Louisi-
ana and all wires are down.
ST Louis. June 6.-The terrific force
and the destructive magnitude of the
Mississippi is steadily increasing in
volume, surmounting and demolishing
barriers OF protection, and greedily
tapping at property and reaching for
lives as it resistlessly extends farther
and farther beyond the ordinary riv-
-er confines, is now being felt in St
Louis and vicinity to an alarming eX-
tent The flood is the one absorbing
topic of converse ton, and Thongs of
people congregate upon Eads bridge
and fill the street approaches to the
flooded levee to view the torrent of
muddy water that is swirling past st.
Louis and spreading out over the low
lands with devastating energy.
Great sny Levee Gives Way.
Government FOrecaster Bowie issues
bulletin in which he predicts a stage
of thirty-seven feet on Monday. The
Mississippi north of the mouth of the
Missouri is rising still, but the rapid
ity of the rise has been diminished
because of the breaks in 1evees. Tie
great Sny levee, which extends for
miles along the Illinois shore from
Hannibal northward, has broken, and
lne duSIS WATERS nave gone TusDluS
through the crevasse to devastate thou
sands of acres of fertile farming lands.
Possibly some lives may be lost, but
no reports of loss of life has been re-
eeived at this time.
Treachery of Sewer.
Later in the day the food forced a
passage through the levee at Madison.
ILL.,, just north of st. Louis This
feyee is fifteen miles long and for days
men had been hard at work endeavor-
ing to strengthen it, but the river
found it's weak point in sewer, and
the water broke through like a geyser.
Carloads of bags of sand and all other
available material We're hurried to the
break and dumped in but the force of
the flood washed out the filling and
the break constantly widened. West
Granite, town of 1000 people, is To-
Gated in. depression between the
Ievee and railroad embankment Am
pie warning had been sounded and the
inhabitants had sought safety when
the deluge came. 1t is believed all es-
capped. but the town is under water.
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