The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-11

tempted TO eSCmate was done 10 prop
erty. Since Tuesday morning 5000
men, under the leadership of Mayor
Cook, without stop, with little rest and
food snatched at intervals, had tOiled
increasingly in East St. Louis,
strengthening levees, building them up,
erecting additional safeguards and do
ing everything in the power of man to
save the city, but it was a fight that
so far has terminated half in victory
and half in defeat. Notwithstanding
all this ceaseless. labor, the arms Of
East st. Louis were extended 10 those
in distress, and refugees from adjacent
food-stricl1en towns were received and
fed and sheltered.
Not a Wheel Turning.
Not a wheel of industry is turning in
East St Louis The vast railroad
yards are made apparent by hundreds
OF half submerged cars, and here and
Shere stand locomotives only half Wis
ible. Huge grain elevators are sur
rounded by a Veritable sea. To the
south, beyond the railway yard, are
thousands Of homes, the greater num-
Der Of them being humble cottages,
owned by laborers and containing their
AL. submerged to the caves.
In northern East st. Louis the de-
EtructiOn is repeated, but not on so
large a scale. The business portion of
the city and the district containing the
better residences is still intact
Water Seeping Through.
Broadway, running from Eads bridge
east to the limits. a wide street built
&C sand and walled with stone fifteen
feet high, divides the city in halves.
Over ten feet Of water is pressing
against Broadway from the south and
In many places is seeping through in
Streams as thick as a mans body
Traffic over certain portions of the
thOrOughfare has been prohibited and
even pedestrians are not allowed %
traverse those threatened portions. If
Broadway breaks the water viii rush
over much of the city until Missouri
avenue, running parallel one block
north, is encountered.
All along the river front to the west
1evee a wall Of sandbags from two to
six feet high and two miles long shuts
the river out,
Alarm Sounded.
When the emDankment broke last
night the alarm spread like wildfre.
AID whistles were blown, bells rung,
shots were fired and cries of warning
were sounded. but even with all this
pandemOnium, the majority of the
aroused inhabitants failed TO leave
Their homes.
A wall Of water rushed onward. and
within an hour the houses stood in
water with only their roofs visible II
As said that numbers of people fed TO
the Central hotel, a fOur-stOry brick
structure, and the large brick Wash
sugtOn and Franklin High schools. But /
none of these buildings today contained
over $50 persons. and although the res
.cue boats found many people in second
stories and on hOusetOps, there are
rows upon rows Of cottages that early
this morn ing did not show a sign of
life. 1t is not known what became of
the occupants. From apparently re-
T1o -
gathered that the following eleven per
sons were drowned last night. four of
whom persisted on the north side early
in the evening:
The Dead.
John Koolish and three children, |
Drowned on north side.
Unknown baby
E H. Sherwood.
Lawrence Day.
Two unknown women.
One unknown man
One unknown COlOred IabOrer.
It was currently reported today that
seven negroes caught in the act of loot
ing houses last night were all shot to
death. They were all on a raft and /
were surprised by guards, who shot /
them down and threw their bodies into I
the water. While this was not con-
firmed, it is known that there was /
heavy firing on the north side early
NO have been killed.
The deaths OF John KOOlish, a Polish 1
carpenter, and his three children were
caused by trying to save three kegs /
of beer.
Tents For Refugees.
Business being entirely suspended in I
East St. Louis thousands Of people con .
Eregated near the many landings along /.
Broadway. all eager to render assistance
wagons were brought to convey refugees }
10 places Of refuge.
In the eastern extremity of the city at 4
Washington Place and Rock Road where Z
there IS vacant area of many squares {
on high ground covered with grass 200 !
tents were utilized in erecting a camp OF /
refuge.
A commissary department was estab- I
lshed. From the Broadway landing TO Z
transferred IN wagons Each family was I
given the occupancy of a tent The citv /
nan, court house, vacant public build {
lngs and otner available structures were !
thrown open and temporarily turned into /
relief stations There is urgent need OF !
food for the camp.
Energy Of the Mayor.
With unflagging energy Mayor Cook. i
who had passed through flood exfgencies /
at ShaWneetoWfn, where he formerly lived 4
and knows how TO deal with high water.
urged the laborers TO work upon the 4
temporary Ievees I'm the fear that an
hours rise during the night might fur
Their inundate the city As the night /
drew on anoLher fear confronted the in /
habitants. The water that had steadily 1
poured through the Broadway embank-
meut tn heavy streams was surely un-
dermining that bulwark and il was gen
erallv acknowledged that the street could
not restrain the heavy pressure from its l.
south side for many ho-rs longer with ,
the seepage water eating away at the in
terror
River Still Rising.
The belief is held that the river is ris-
ing and is confirmed by the St Louis
government gauge. which registered 37.g5
at Z O'Clock tonight a rise Of fiTe-tenthS
of foot during the past twenty-four
hours No attempt is made TO explain
this rise other than that the wind is
blowing water from the lowlands into the
channels of the Mississippi and Missouri /
rivers 20 swell the torrent az St Louis.
Denverside. a suburb Of East St. Louis.
was completely inundated. and Altasita,
farther to the east. was half flooded last
night If the river rises even TO a small
additional extent the water must swamp
Altasita From the ordinary course Of ]
the Mississippi to the Illinois bluffs is a
distance Of five to eight miles. and the
flood LAYS at the foot OF the bluffs.
Riot Guns Collected
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