The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-06-13
NINETY FtET DEEP.
TIE MISSISSIPPI AT FLOOD TIDE
AT ST. LOUIS.

Is Half Mile Wide-East St
Louis Entirely Under Water
The Property Loss Aggre-
gates Many Millions
Other News.
st. Louis, June 9.-At the rate ot
from eight to ten miles an hour tbs
Mississippi river, over half mi {
wide aad 80 feet deep in the chan.
mel, is pouriag past S.. Louis to
ward Cue gulf. For week toe riv-
or, slowly at first, and chen gaining
10 speed, crept out of it's ordinary
confines until on June s, 1903, it
had established high wat-r mark
of 37.5 feer, the highest fo ID tide
since the same mark was unofficial
ly established in 1858. The river
is now receding. Thirty feet above
Iw water MAX is the. danger line
for Sg. Louis and the wafer rose
seven and one-half feet above the
danger line. The crest of the food
has passed St. Louis and any fn,th.
er destruction to be wrought will be
frona the possible crumbIing of uu-
deru1ined buildings and o the coun-
try below this point, the daugar of
which is lessened by the spreading
of She river over the lowiands.
Rapid falling of the water, it is
expected, will quickly drain the in
undated section n the Illinois SIDE,
where the property loss will be the
heaviest and repair, to the dam sg-
ed nroperty will soon .bs possible.
Reports are coming in from Mad
ison, Granite CITY and Venice,
which indicate that the death list
may be larger than first estimated.
At least 20 people have been drown
ed in that vicinity. A, report vas
received early to day from Newport,
a small town three miles from
Graaite City. that school build
ing in which are sheltered so chill
dren, was tottering and threatened
TO Collapse at any moment.
ST. Louis, June 1U.-The entire
cisy OF East St. L ,uis is doomed.
Before aigbtiall every portion will
be url der torrent of mad rushing
water Fifty thousands of meD,
won en- and children will be all but
helpless Nsa-ly al will be bone
less.
Appeals from tEe'e this after
noo,a cay that not less than 10000
lives WiIl be imper led. The &C .nes
are 10 awful !, he accurately del
scxibsu. Cries Of horror from the
hopeless peOple, who are hem med in
without f. chance of esca pc, are
heart-reniiGg. j
Men. women aud little children
are endeayorirg to escape to places
Of safety. Some of these terrified
people have hardly clothing enough
upon them 70 cover th5ir nak4dness.
District Alto -ney Dyer ordered
10 the rame o. lUrited States gov {
srument, that the Virgins Ferry
Company seize every boat available
of ownership and with
hem, hasten to the scene of the ter
tible foods. II
Persons who refuse to work are
snstantly shot. Mllitiamen are ar
irving at the flooded district and
are forming cordons around the
devastated districts. The Est
Broad way embankment has given
way and this disaster cuts off all
means of escape. When the dixie
went out 80 people, who were work.
ing to save it, met death by drown
ing.
St. Paul, Mimi, June 8-Divi-
sion superintendent Egan of the
Great N Northern, who so mysteriously
disappeared and was lost in the
at Bolton, Mont, last
while on a hunting ex-
pedition, met his death after horrible
suffering within ten minutes walk
of safety and almost within call of
the friends who were sear, hing for
him. He died on the first night of
his disappearance.
The official report on the search
and discovery of the body prepared
by detectives and the searchers was
received at Great Northern head
quarters late to day, and establish
ed these facts.
Mr.. Egan froze to death after
having been felled to the ground
by fir tree, blown down in the
binding snowstorm Of that night.
But before death overlook him he
spent hours Of terrible suffering,
suffering from the cold, terror-strick-
en- and dazed, wandering about in
little circles over a tract of ground