Show flood in iii the upper mississippi CHICAGO june 7 from st paul papers ot of saturday and sunday i we v e learn that that city and other towns a above b 0 v e and below have suffered seriously from the flood in in the upper mississippi much damage has been done to property in in ware warehouses bouses on the levee in st paul brooklyn on the opposite side of the river is is entirely submerged and the inhabitants compelled to abandon their du div ellings on account of the general inundation at st anthony the damage to property la i s im immense several hundred thousand feet of logs belonging to the saw mills along the river river have been swept away and the mills greatly damaged the upper bridge which cost twenty thousand ollars dollars has as been swept away and the lower one built at a cost of sixty thousand dollars has been greatly damaged reports from various quarters along the upper mississippi state that nearly all the bridges across the str streams e ams are gone the river is is higher than it has been for a number of years |