The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-11-20
BIG RISE SWEEPS
PADUCAH HARB0R
RUSH or WATER IN TWO RIVERS
CARRIES AWAY MUCH
VALUABLE PROPERTY.
over MILLION IS LOST
Everything Torn From Moor'ngs,
Floating Down Stream in Torrent
Dozens Of Mills and Fac
tories Suffer Greatly.

| Paducah, NOV l9.-Damage 20 the
amount of 81 900 900 or more has
been done by the rains that have
turned the Tennessee, Cumberland
and Ohio rivers at and above Paducah
! into raging torrents. The rivers at
Padncah have risen from stage of
feet . inches Saturday night 10 90
| feet inches at o'clock this after
noon. This braks all records in the
memory of the oldest mariners of
Paducah. When the width of the
rivers at Paducah, the spread play"
Of the water k considered the rise in
The last As hours has been phenome
| nal
| Dozens of paducah mills. factories
and timber owners with property
along the banks of the Tennessee
river. as we'll as hundreds of rafts-
men and tie cutters along the streams
have suffered untold loss by the
| floods. At some places in the narrows
Of the rivers above paducah the
water has risen twenty feet or more
since Sunday night.
II would be hard to estimate the
total damage done to shipping and
| timber interests of Paducah, but one
redeeming feature is that none Of the
damage was the result of the natural
construction of the Paducah harbor,
but from the carelessness of the
owners.
When the water began coming out
of the Tennessee river Sunday in a
whirling torrent. nearly If not all OF
the RATS and boats tied along the
bank for several miles above Paducah
were unprepared. Among the first to
be torn loose from their moorings
were several RATS between Paducah
and the mouth of Clark river, con
tanning thousand of logs. The RATS
came spinning down into the center
of the Paducah harboF.f The logs
trlck the bo0ms at The Paducah We
neer and Lumber company's plant
the frontier mill of fredericksburg.
With a roar and rumble the hundreds
Df logs belonging to that mill broke
loose and joined in the race.
Steamears, boats. launches, house
boats. barges. yawls, logs. dressed
lumber and railroad ties were gath
cred IN the grasp OF the surging de
bris as it passed
feet moored below Island creek
and consisting of the steamers Mary
Michael and Monte Bauer and sixteen
barges withstOod acres of logs and
wrackage, but in a few minutes
The feet, together with an old barge
to which their lines had been made
fast was dragged into the river. A
mass of humping. creaking crafts the
eighteen passed the Broadway wharf
md swung into the grand Ohio and
started for the gulf. The Joe Fowler
with steam up was at the Broadway
wharf and the wachman gave the
alarm She was soon in pursuit Of the
runaways and caught the two
steamer and barges opposite the
lower Illinois Central incline, as they
were bearing down upon the steamer
SaltilIo. coming in from ST. Louis.
The Fowler's crew succeeded in
getting ropes on the feet and landing
all of them at the incline,
The Electra and Henry Harley tied
al the Elizabeth street wharf, came
near being washing awak, but having
big lines out to well buried dead
men" on shore. they held The wheel
| OF the Electra had been taken on sew
eral days ago and was many feet out
on the bank, but the water came up
20 rapidly that the wheel was sub
merged and in grave danger Of
being rolled into midsiret.
The Wilford at the foot of Ohio
street is in dire straits as the result
of over an acre of logs and drift pill
ing in above her. Her crew have run
many extra lines 10 the shore aud
done everything possible to ease her
position. and she will probably pass
through the food in good snaps.
Reports hat reached Paducah this
afternoon from Dyeusburg. several
miles up the Tennessee from Paducah
that every ferryboat between that
point and Dover. Tenn. had been
washed away. At the time the news
was sent to Paducah six Of the ferry.
boats had been headed OF and landed
at Dycusburg.
Thousands Of logs. Cross ties, RATS.
pumpkins and the contents of barns
and corn cribs have passed Paducah
tOday mixed with the iudescribable
drift of wood. trees. corn stalks and