Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-06-05 | Page 2 | Train Service Abandoned

TRAIN SERVICE ABANDONED Break in Hunt Levee Inundates Railroad Rail-road Tracks Burlington JH June iBy the breaking of Hunt levee south of Warsaw War-saw in the lowlands the Carthage branch of Burlington has been flooded and the train service has been cut off Consequently there arc no through trains from Burlington to St5 Louis The only means of getting to S1 Louis from here is via Gnlesburg It is reported that the Green Bay bottom tom levee south of Burlington Is out Hooding hundreds of acres of fine farmIng farm-Ing land Tho river here is eight miles wide Residents In the bottom lands north of Burlington arc fleeing to Iqua waka III In boats to find refuge All the inhabited islands in the Mississippi north and south of here has been deserted de-serted and the stock taken off by steamboats steam-boats Both river packet offices here are under water