The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 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
aood ha been reached and the river
10 falling. At 1890 o'clock this morning
the u registered 81 feet, indicat-
Ing = fall Of feur-tenths, OF q foot since
4 O'Clock Monday evening.
Reports from along the Missouri river
Indicate that 1t Is falling rapidly, and
he Mississippi is nearly stationary at
Hannibal and falling steadily north OF
there.
So great an extent of territory is COW
ered by the hood. SO constantly chang
Ing are the conditions as tho water
creeps higher and renders b xitna-
ton more chaotic, and SO unreliable
arc The various rumors OF the dsvaste-
ton. that q substantial summary Of the
losses OF lives and property can not be
obtained. but UP to 8 o'clock last night
Information from apparently the most
be Is follows:
Twenty-Five lives known to have
been lost,
Over 10000 . acres of rich farming
lands under water.
All of Venice and the greater part Of
Madison n Granite City under WA
ter.
twenty-five thousand people rem
dered homeless.
Freight trafic completely paralyzed
and passenger traffic practically 80.
The shipping and manufacturing dis
trict Of Gas st. Lou1 for three miles
along the river front under from 2 to s
feet OF water.
Hundreds. ana probably thousands.
OF head Of stool drowned.
East st. Louis threatened with COM
plete
st Louis flooded only along the wa
ter front.
Entire property loss estimated at
s.. 900. 600.
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, wkch is still rising.
Deaths from drowning are v%artously
estimated at from five to twenty.
Eight thousand people were driven
from their homes. Very little confirm
story reports of drownings can be had.
as these places are all cut of from
railroad service and telephone com
munication. is uncertain at best. AS
far as knoGn casualties are as follows:
John Crtttenden. aged 10, drowned.
aE Ntiita1t <llN ESCNSik XII n swept
from a fence by flood in sight OF the
terminal railway operator at Madison
who attempted to ave them.
Woman drowned at Madison.
Woman and baby seen ciinging to
telegraph pole at Madison.
Manager Shipley Of the Madison Car
works reports seeing seven employees
pany drowned.
Business Suspended.
In East st. Louis on proclamation OF
Mayor Cook business is suspended, sa-
looms are closed a III eve body at work
on lesees In desperate eG9rt to save the
city.
This afternoon the viaoact 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 I to 1 feet be-
low level of water which presses up
against entertainments. Hastily con-
structed ievee OF sandbags and mud is
all that stands between the city and
almost complete submersion. Il the
levee gives away all the main part OF
the city will be quickly flooded, and not
a street in the business section viii be
left out of water.
River Is Silk Rising.
St Louis. June io.-According 10 the
loGIl "SaSIS uNESao ESklSls SSS12eS TO
be In sight for the flooded districts In
the vicinity of St Louis. This morn
ing the stage recorded by the governs
ment gauge is S7.5 feet. a rise during
the past t~wenty-four hours OF 1.3 feet.
This breaks all records but tina OF
1874.
II is expected the river Will rise very
slowly from now on until tonight or
tomorrow morning. and that the pre-
dicted stage of IS feet win be barely
attained.
Then. after remaining stationary for
3 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 it's extreme
lower portion, ana the Mississippi is
falling north Of Hannibal.
Nc News from Ma addison.
Inability to secure communication
With Madison and Granite City, III, w
ing q few miles north of ST. Louis
where q number of people late las,
night were reported In danger of losins
their lives from encroachiag food
caused great snxiety here.
At Madison nine persons are report-
ed drowned. Others are either on the
crurablfng eves or In unsafe buildings
From Ferdinand Cole. president O,
the board OF eve commissioners OF
Madison county. living at Venice
comes the report OF lives lost througt
the collapse OF a brick hotel at NORTH
Venice or Newport Communicates
between Granite City and Venice is i'm.
possible.
Two men are said to have braved the
food by swimming from Venice L
Madison. being forced by the watel
from the roof OF a house, where tre,
were living Six feet of water Is re
ported sweeping through the cfaces O.
the Hedges hotel at Madison. witt
guests imprisoned In the upper stories
Granite City in Danger.
Residents OF Granite City are /,
grent peril from several breaks In III,
ieyeeA Persons living about the man,
ufaceurins plants In which they ar,
employed are reported seeing from tn.
Hood thst from the north and
fresh break In the abutment to tn.
west
Adjacent farm lands are being food.
ed and residents of the lowiands ar
aeekiuS SefeSy. Efforts are hsirr rsi,