The Cairo bulletin., 1913-04-30
! DESOLATI0N AND
RUIN IN WAKE OF
REcEDING WATERS
Concluded from PAGE one-l

into operation for al least week.
Al various points along the line,
washouts occurred and in several
places the tracks are covered with
sediment of several feet. II it not
an uncommon thing 10 see house
or barn partly stretched across the
rails, and where such is not the ease.
piles OF driftwood and lumber takes
the place.
The farmers in the district are
making efforts 10 re-occupy heir
places. The majority of them have
moved their stock and personal eff
feets hack into their homes and not
a few of them are doing some pillow
ing.
Along with this faint activity on
the part of the land owners. III ,
various industries are cleaning up
their premises and making an eff
'ort towards repairing the damage
lone to the machinery in the fac
tories and mills.
The road commissioners of Dis
rict No Z, Messrs. Serbian, kessler
md Woods have big task on their
land clearing the county thorough
ares of the mud and ether obstacles
order that traffic can be again re.
sumed
For the past week the commission
RS have supervised gangs of men
With teams and scrapers in cleaning
nd filling the roads and at the pres
nj time they are in fair shape to be
raversed. In another week or ten
lays the commissioners hope TO
ave the highways all in good con-
dition.
Some of the worst stretches exist
rom the city limits 10 the old Halt
Way house site. The Beech Ridge
Dad from Patier's place to a point
apostle Peter Kessler's place on the
/ vest side of the Illinois Central EN-
lankment is bad The rest of the
DAD paralleling the Mobile and
ohio embankment clear into Beech
iidge is in fine shape with no evil
fence OF harm done by the inunda-
ton.
A strange and freaklsh stroke OF
he water is presented at a stretch
If the Mound City road opposite the
ormer Cairo Country Club grounds,
About 100 feet OF the asphalted
horoughfare put down there last
all, is lying to the side. the tar ard
'ock mixture having been erambled
md rolled like SO much paper The
water evidently undermined this
portion.
Some idea of the waters pressure
S gained from the great number OF
stones that were washed from the
vest side of the Illinois Central en-
| lankment upon several acres OF
Peter kessler's farm near there.
some OF them. huge bouIders, weigh
| ng possibly ton. were carried a
distance Of 800 feet.
The rocks were dumped into the
/ abway there. which is near Cairo
Junction, just before the Drainage
District levees gave way, the rail
road thinking thereby to keep the
water out of the west side The eff
forts were to no avail, however, foi
the water went over the top
The Woodside school building
that fioated away from the east side
Of the district now consists of a pill
Of wreckage lying beside the NJ anf
To- embankment near Abell's farm.
The big warehouse of Samue
Hastings company that stood alonf
the tracks of the NJ. and o. LEADING
to the bridge floated some severa
hundred yards and landed near tht
bloekhouse at the "Y".
A survey OF the whole situation
Humber and debris scattered every
where, damaged houses and barn,
lodged against trees or stretched
across roadways or possibly in som,
abandoned field, sediment of mud
an inch in depth or possibly severa
ON the roads and the fields
sums up incalculable damage at 1
II RIa mn