The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-06-09
& Louis is Now the Scene
of Death and De-
vdstdtiOn
MANY LIVES HAVE BEEN LOST
Parts Of City Under Eighteen
Feet of Wate-River
Still Rising

ST. LOUIS, June S.-The entire
uoup of East Side sites lying just
north of East St Louis and includ-
ng Venice, Madison, West Madison,
Newport, Brooklyn and Granite City.
are under from ten to eighteen feet
Of water, which is still rising, and
deaths from drowning are various.y
estimated at from five to twenty. Eight
thousand persons were driven from
their homes.
Very little confirmation of the re-
prts of drownings can be had, as
these places are all cut of from rail
read service and telephone commun-
tation is uncertain at best.
The weather bureau promises relief
after the river shall have risen to
about thirty y-eight feet 1t is now with
iu few inches of that mark. but ris-
ing slowly.
The harbor boat Mark Twain and
| Private Yacht Annie Russell, with
several tugs, have gone TO Madison
/ and Granite City, where the floods
have caused a number OF deaths and
where scores of families cut OF from
escape are at the mercy of the rising
water.
Dummy trains Of Terminal Asso-
ciation. connecting with skiffs. COM
minced this morning the work OF
bringing across the river more than
seven hundred persons who spent Sun
DAY afternoon and night on the tops
Of houses and at other points Of ele-
yatiOn above the flood in Madison,
Venice and Newport
Four drownings were reported by
the refugees but none of the names OF
the victims are known. One said that
a father, mother and child had been
drowned while trying to reach a point
Of safety and another told of the death
Of man under like circumstances.
In East ST. Louis on proclamation
Of Mayor Cook, business is suspend
3D. the saloons are closed and every
body is at work on the levees in a
desperate effort TO save the city, which
Is from one 10 four feet below the
level of the water that presses up
against the embankment-
hastily constructed levee of SAND
bags and mud is all that stands be-
tween the city and almost complete
submersion.
II the levee gives way all the main
part of the city will be quickly flood
ed and not a street in the business
section will be left out Of water.
The Relay station is now surround
ed by water.
Train service in every direction is
laid out by the high water and no
freight business is being done at all
In the east side.
Two roads, the Missouri Pacific and
'he Frisco, are the only ones running
uains between here and Kansas City
Passenger tramc and the most ur-
gent freight business is all that the
railroads will handle west
1t is too early to estimate the dam
age that will result. but it will run
INTO the millions, and the loss due to
he Interference with business
It is expected the river will rise
'fom now on until tomorrow night
ana that the predicted 3s feet. IL al
sli' VIII be barely attained
lhen after remaining stationary for
snort time the government officials
%! the water will begin falling Tues
uay evening or Wednesday.
Unofficial reports from ST. Charles
"a Ihe Missouri river. to the north OF
D Louis. are to the effect that the
''er is rising very little. If any.
inability to secure communication
'Nh Ma4.son and Granite City, Ill.
sihg few miles north of ST. Louis,
'lere a number of people were last
~sht reported in danger Of losing
~elr lives from the encroaching
-'od, caused great anxiety here.
Al Madison nine persons are re-
pof1ed drowned and others either on
erumbling leyee or in unsafe build
Ags are in peril.
Communication between Granite
s and Venice is impossible
Two men are said to have braved