Valley Tan | 1859-06-22 | Page 1 | The Mississippi

tue TUB mississippi this stream 13 getting much too bir big for its banks and matters on the levee begin to look some what as thou though we ft ere threatened with another flood many cellars on front street are already filled with water and the merchants have taken the pro precaution caution to remove their goods above the first floors the railroad tracks on oil the other side ide s arcin in danger of being submerged and the whole i hole american bottom bottom inundated the tributary streams above are full and are sending vast volumes of water into the hourly Th the river here was avas still rising rising loot last evening 10 IO rep may 20