| Show A FLOOD wll wil amie tho the mayor of the city of new now york ja Js calling upon 4 flie the inhabitants to husband the sinal sinai supply of water now available and announcing that unless there is rain the he r supply will be exhausted in six teen een days the tho people in tile the mississippi s pi valley are almost drowned out re the tho river is said to be higher than ever before and the water is still rising to give bome some idea of the Dosi position tion of things along the banks of the father of waters we clip from rom the philadelphia news Z the following statement of tile the situation in tho the neighbor neighborhood bood hood of Quiney quincy illinois the railroad freight houses and other buildings along the tho levee front are entirely surrounded by water and many of the floors are covered from bome gome of them everything has been removed the island between the bay and the river is completely submerged with the exception of a small piece of ground in tu th e ere re rot r of the marine ways people on this island hate have all been compelled to leave leava as the water rose so rapidly y that it covered the floors of aalthe buildings situated across tho the river nil all the lowlands are inundated to the bluffs seven miles from the river almost all the inhabitants have moved to the bluffs bl unna uffa numbers of cattle and have bato been drowned and many more killed by the rall nali rod trains the animals having climbed to embankments which were the only ground above water the lone tree prairie commencing about five miles mites north of the river is under water for a distance of 12 miles 4 the water in some places reaching the second story of the houses the warsaw levee above quincy which reclaims acres of land broke last night an immense volume of water ia is pouring through the crevice and rapidly spreading over the most productive land inthe in the state a large portion of ot which was sown with winter winten wheat this has all ail been destroyed destro yede word world has been sent to all the inhabitants of the valley to tb prepare for the worst the flood at this time will prove more disastrous than the great flood of laats a Qt spring pring the Thel site large crop on the bottom lands had not yet been secured and hundreds of thousands of bushels will vill be W 16 jostand at d to add to the general rise in the tho river has come coine xin ion the people BO so suddenly and so unexpectedly r that the bottoms ar are estill still full of cattle horses and other othel live jive stock irwill it will be impossible to save either grain or live stock and in many cases farmers will loz lose lozo o their household effects Is |
