Show the floods tt t luns may 21 water in cahokia C reek lias has fallen six indies inches and in many man flooded districts the watery waters are beginning to wede ate reports t from sections adjacent to h last abt pt st louis s was more favorable aiu way shave have not yet begun using their abandoned tracks and in fit north hi louis the backwater has lies many ewers to burst and the health of th the e rodent n aident section la is in danger unless there ther 0 i sa s1 speedy peed relief from the tile trouble all danger ot of t the lie coal famine is said to bo be now past IA WELL ind may 21 heavy and destructive bail hall and windstorm wind storm 9 swept wept over the country immediately cast of here last night dost destroying roving a groat great amount ol 01 wheat grass and other gro growing 11 I 1 f crops crop 9 Lnor enormous hail stones cover the aroun around d and the tile weather is very cold PINE may I 1 21 Ite deports ports from the wreck are stall deage the tile government boat carrying the dead I 1 boda and wounded passengers Is cd adhere here tonight to night a pullman slee sleeper perls is buried under ten feet of water and ill divers vers have been sent to be the bottom tonight to night to drag drug for bodies the list of the dead and injured is said to be considerably lar larger er flan was repelled reported in the morning orning lu mr L L L brook of bisco texas who was painfully injured arrived this evening and gevea the following additional berrt report kives mrs ir irs s clark wife of prof dark clark 0 of f vin cheit cr tenn was killed mrs 0 ander eon son of damerville texas was killed and hr tier brother in law mr jenki jenkens lis of virginia virgnia is slightly slight injured mr mr gudgens slightly li of olOra grapevine texas exah seriously injured and hi wile wife to w whom hom he lie was niame marrie J at memphis night before last was killed pi as may 31 the arkansas arkans as river is still rising asing and is now running over the top odthe of the clayton clay ton levee sand and the whole of the adjacent territory is flooded the levees at new basony and lake I ake dick are broken causing consi considerable table suffering sult cring e especially among farmers who owing to the tile unfortunate condition of affairs are unable able to get a any s supplies u pi li eu incessant rains have been llalli falling n g during d a ring the last two davs kanian CITY may 21 the missouri pacific accommodation became stalled this evening while attempting to pass through the tile flooded district the the train is now standing in ili the midst of the flood A tain of flat cars long benough to reach from dry ground to the stalled train lias has been made up it will be backed up tip to the and hitched onto it and will draw the train from the water both th the tile kaw and Bliss missouri ourt are slowly receding tonight to night may 21 the liver diveris riveris is still falling and it ii ik expected the annoyance of delay to trains and inconvenience will be merely nominal there is no truth it in the re report r t that the union pacific Iaci fic bridge at council coti 1 blairr and omaha is damaged trains are running over it at all hours without the slightest elight cst delay there in is no obstruction ot adv sort to lethe line being clear elear botany from t the le river to the pacific coast the river diveris riveris is r rising Is slightly but the levees arc are generally holding firm the wo work rk of closing the ovsay crevasse is to proceeding encouragingly a severe riso rise occurs no great damage in is looked for HT ST alro louis ls may 21 it Is almost in impossible 08 to give adequate estimates of the tile loss by aloo floods a in the mississippi hot bottoms toms A single instance however will illustrate the seriousness odthe of the situation of all the land under water at least acres are in wheat chat estimate considering the fact that no crop can be raised thin this year means not less than ten million bu bushels diels of wheat lost in addition to the tile homes wrecked the cattle has been drowned and lakes and ponds have been formed that for years will render what was formerly valuable land worthless over a hundred flour mills were affected more or less in flooded districts farm laborers are out ot of work for the season as well a as t mill ill men and so the tile tale of woe iacre increases a 0 one lie unfortunate occurrence occur ence today to day was the sinking of some two feet of trestle work of the chants bridge half a mile east of the balg pr proper per this will soon be repaired andt and ahrn h on bus inena over that route will bo be rc re |