The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-06-12
The CRITICAL STAGE
HAS Been REACHED
Crest of the Flood Passes ST
Louis and Waters Are
Slowly Receding.
TWENTY LIVES ARE LOST
A Score Are Known to Have Drowned,
but Rumors Of Dozens Of Other
Fatalities Cannot Be
Confirmed.

st. Louis, June 10.-The crest Of the
food has been reached and the river
is falling. At 1880 o'clock this morning
the gauge registered 81 feet, indicat-
ing a fall of four-tenths of a foot since
Z O'clock Monday evening.
Reports from along the Missouri river
Indicate that it is falling rapidly, and
the Mississippi is nearly stationary at
Hannibal and falling steadily north of
there.
So great an extent Of territory is COW
cred by the food, so constantly chang
ing are the conditions as the water
creeps higher and renders the sltua-
ton more chaotic, and so unreliable
are the various rumors Of the deVasta-
t1on, that a substantial IN of the
losses Of lives and property can not be
obtained, but up to s o'clock last night
information from apparently the most
reliat,ie sources shows the situation to
be as follows:
Twenty-Five lives known to have
been lost.
lands under water.
All Of Venice and the greater part Of
Madison and Granite City under wa
ter.
Twenty-Five thousand people rem
dered homeless.
FielSlll lIaillC completely pdTalyZeQ
and passenger traffic practically so.
The shipping and manufacturing dis
etrict Of East ST. Louis for three miles
along the river front under from 2 to 8
feet of water.
Hundreds. and probably thousands,
of head of stock drowned.
East st. Louis threatened with COM
plete inundation.
st. Louis flooded only along the wa
ter front.
Entire property loss estimated at
$4,000, 900.
ST. Louis, June S.-The entire group
OF east side cities lying Just north
OF East st. Louis, including Ven
ice, Madison, West Madison, New
port, Brooklyn, Granite City,
are under water from ten to eighteen
feet, which is still rising.
Deaths from drowning are v%ariously
estimated at from FIVE to twenty.
Eight thousand people were driven
from their homes. Very little confirms
atory reports OF ~drownings can be had,
as these places are all cut off from
railroad service ard telephone COM
munication is uncertain at best. AS
far as known casualties are as follows:
John C~rittenden. aged 10, drowned.
Woman and seven children swept
from a fence by flood in sight of the
terminal railway operator at Madison
who attempted to save them.
Woman drowned at Madison.
Woman and baby seen clinging to
telegraph pole at Madison.
Manager Shipiey of the Madison Car
works reports seeing seven employees
of the American Car AND Foundry COM
pany drowned.
Business Suspended.
In East st. Louis on proclamation of
Mayor Cook business is suspended, sa-
looms are closed and everybody at work
on levees in desperate effort to save the
city.
This afternoon the viaduct connecting
East st. Louis with the Eads bridge
was condemned as unsafe. Street cars
are stopped and not allowed to cross
the bridge which is from / to 4 feet be-
low level of water which presses up
against entertainments. Hastily con-
structed levee of sandbags n mud is
all that stands between the city and
almost complete submersion. If the
levee gives away all the main part Of
the city will be quickly flooded, and not
q street in the business section will be
left out OF water.
River Is Still Rising.
st. Louis, June 1O.-According to the
local weather bureau relief seems to
be i'll sight for the flooded districts in
the Vicinity of ST. Louis. This morn
ing the stage recorded by the govern
ment gauge is 37.5 feet, a rise during
the past twenty-four hours Of 1.3 feet.
This breaks all records Out that of
1914.
It is expected the river will rise very
slowly from now on until tonight or
tomorrow morning, and that the pre-
dicted stage Of 3S feet will be barely
attained.
Then, after remaining stationary for
q short time, the government officials
say the river will begin falling Tues
day evening or Wednesday, but will
continue rising below here. The Mis-
souri, is falling except over its extreme
lower portion, and the Mississippi is
falling north of Hannibal.
No News from Madison.
Inability to secure communication
with Madison and Granite City, H., ~
ing a few miles north Of st. Louis.
Where a number of people late last
night were reported in danger of losing
their lives from encroaching flood,
caused great anxiety here.
AT Madison nine persons are report
ed drowned, others are either on the
crumbling levee or in unsafe buildings.
From Ferdinand Cole, president of
Madison county, living at Venice,
comes the report of lives lost through
the collapse OF a brick hotel at North
Venice or Newport. Communicat ton
between Granite City and Venice is i'm
possible.
Two men are said to have braved the
food by swimming from Venice to
Madison, being forced by the water
from the roof Of a house, where they
We're living. Six feet of water is re-
ported sweeping through the Offices Of
the Hedges hotel at Madison, with
guests imprisoned in the upper stories.
Granite City in Danger.
Residents of Granite City are inI
great peril from several breaks in the
levees. Persons living about the man.
ufacturing plants in which they are
employed are reported fleeing from the
flood that comes from the north and al
fresh break in the abutment to the
west.
Adjacent farm lands are being flood
ed and residents of the lowlands are
seeking safety. Efforts are being made
IN various ways to reach these placesl
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