The Cairo bulletin., 1904-04-03
General River News.

The stage of the river at 4 p. m
yesterday was 1874, showing a rise
If 0.5 in twcnty-four hours,
The Stacker Lee arrived from ST
Louis at / p m. yesterday with a
good trip.
The Dick Fowler was detained here
until 6 p. N yesterday repairing q
supply pipe.
The Carrie V, arrived from below
Yesterday afternoon with one barge
Of logs.
Since about 500 feet of the NJ. K @
railroad went into the river below
Wickliife. the heavy traffice of tho
Illinois Central and Mobile and Ohil
has been done over single track
from Wicklffe to Fort Jefferson. This
has been a handicap to the roads and
a great many plans have been consid'
cred by the railroad officials, but a
great many more remedies have been
suggested by rumor and conjecture
Many lines have been run, and the
wise ones. who have no plans OF their
own, have been able to tell what CIV
cry move meant and just what the
railroad intended to do Be this as il
may, Contractor NJ CASTILLO has ar
rived in Wickliffe with twenty-sis
teams and two car loads Of scrapers
and as soon as the water will permit
will build track inside of the Mo-
bile and Ohio track where the orig
inal line ran close to the river. The
new track will be built close to the
Illinois Central. When this is finished
it will restore the double device sys
tenn. 1t will only be a temporary
device If David Neal fails to hold the
bank but in view of the success SC
far attending his efforts, IT is dollar
to dough nuts that he will hold it.
There is the usual high water &C
tivity in this neighborhood in the mat
ter of sand bags. The Illinois Central
has some new road dump above Wick
life, which has suffered some by the
recent high winds and they are en-
gagged in putting sand bags in to pro
tect it from the wash of the waves.
There are three gangs of rafters IL
the bottom back of Fillmore. abou.
100 men in all, floating logs out OF
Willow creek They are being paid
$500 per day and board. Some Of the
gang that sun on the stone wall
might get a job over there.
There is real live survivor of the
SultaBa horror in the city. 1t is not
the purpose Of this reporter TO re
hash the details Of this disaster II
has long since taken its place in his
tory and no good purpose can be serv
ed by again relating the awful story
Mr. A. T.. Mclean. of Rochester, n
T.. who is a guest at the Planters
House. was one of the 2,207 soldiers
who embarked on the Sultana at
Vicksburg at 10 a m, April 22 1865
II has been generally supposed that
the explosion On the Sultana was al
explosion Of the boilers. but Mr.. Nc
Lean says that torpedo had been Sc
creted in the coal. which caused tht
explosion when thrown into the fur
mace. The Olive Branch left Vicks.
burg on the same day with 1000 sol
dicrs with which she arrived at JEFF
forson barracks Mr. Mclean is the
author of the first published work on
Andersonville prison. where he was
prisoner.
One evening after supper on the
Dick Fowler going up. Bill Edwards
was on watch and the captain and
Jno Wallace, who was off watch.
we're in the pilot house A very awk
ward young man slouched into the
pilot house and asked few very sills
questions and then worked his way
down stairs with great care a.
though steps we're new to him. Bill
Edwards said: They will have TIC
bang that fclIow W In the dry house
a thousand years" What drf