Show EAST ST LOUIS SUBMERGED DURING DARKNESS OF NIGHT sleeping inhabitants warned of the onrushing on rushing flood by screeching whistles and clanging bels men rushed through the streets shouting the flood is comings thirty drowned in flight st louie june 10 the utmost confusion reigns in east st louis and it is to confirm any of the report of tho drow ninga which may ag fifty and which will probably be less congressman W A rodenburg 1 has charge of the patrol along broadway which cuts the town in two east and a est and lead io the eads bridge gives it as hie estimate that the i number will be about thirty the only drowning coming under his personal observation were those of two women and a man who loit their lives near his post of duty Nu meroni are reported among leee who were caught asleep by the flood but their number is not known all railway and wagon communication muni cation witia east st louie ia cut off only a limited number of pedestrians is allowed to cross the viaduct in east st lovis refugee from east st louis are allowed to use the viaduct raph and telephone communication muni cation is kaill intact although water has the first floor of the buildings occupied by the telegraph and telephone companies the instruments hare been leveled out of its reach and 1 the managers say they will maintain service to the last at 1 the water which has submerged the lower half of east st louis was rapidly filling the depressions I 1 between broadway and missouri ave nue the next street north it was pour ing through the broadway embankment in a stream large as a barrel and nil along from seventh street to twelfth street in smaller streams AH the dwell ings between broadway and missouri avenue arc being vacated as fast as possible are making an effort to save their furniture tha north and soctt streets which are are filled with refugees and their belonging it is feared a cave in may occur in broadway at any moment th walled embankment of sand appears 0 o have been honeycombed honey combed by the water forcing ite way through and the brick paved crown 14 expected to sink if the water were to come through with a rush it would not be possible to check it at missouri avenue where a last stand being made and the flooding of the entire city will be almost inevitable if aho water only come through gradually it is possible that the main volume can be held back at missouri avenue since morning traffic has been stopped on broadway between seventh and twelfth streets there is reason for believing that many lives were lost when the water rushed uj on the lower part of the city early this morning st loui e jane 10 with the river risen to feet this morning the highest point reached during the present flood east st louie a city of having largo manufacturing interests and the terminal point for railroads from the north east and south is partly under water and will probably be totally submerged by noon i the southern halt of east st loui this morning is eave deep in the flood and ahn cites 2500 levee builders have i fallen back on missouri avenue in the attempt to gave the remainder of the city menaced by swelling waters from three sides broadway the central cast and west thoroughfare has been abandoned to the flood lee harper former city engineer says that the water will betho feet deep in front of the city hall before six this evening seven milea of water pressing from he south and southeast overcame the cites line of defense shortly before 1 this morning end a were driven from their homes numerous reports of drowning have been received but the east st louis police have thus far learned no of victims one men were working on the part of the levee which broke for several leonre before the final break they had the active assistance of hundreds of women and children the break came at the st louie valley crossing of the illinois Illi noil central embankment two south of relay depot while a many men ft omen and children as could stand on the were heaping and bag between the rails to prevent alie menacing waters from mounting over the top the resistless current broke through alio lower part of the wall of earth and spurted in rivulets in alie faces of here who wore carrying band begs lip the bank bags thrown into the openings ope pings ay dozen of men were tossed by taft water like feathers then the workers fled from their 1 task and the alarm wa given by he ringing of and hewing of whistles in every part of city few of the woric on the remained at their posts until the rushing waters made it necessary for to for their lives then they joined their companion in warning the residents of the thickly settled district of their danger awakened families saw the water intile streets when they were ready to leave with their collected lutock of ne cens itie he flood wae at their ich all led to the mortn taft wan he nearest point of safety many mode for the around near the illi noi central truck mm fron alt rita and who had awn working on lh hat hatcil nil to to tell abd neighbor of their eav locomotive an factory whittle joined in the clamor ot alarm the to reach it i t t A 1 level in the flooded part of the city be fore noon engineer harper predicts that when the level the water will be cwb feet higher than at 7 this morning undismayed by the defeat of what has come in their seven daya battle with the floii the greater part of the aleyce builders ell back to broadway where it was ai decided to resist the water A half hours work and survey of the prospect convinced the men in charge that etwas useless to try to keep the water from broadway and the flood fighters fell back upon avenue which runs east from the relay depot biere te scenes of the paa t week were repeated as the street wae rapidly transformed into a dike of band bag and clay an appeal from alador alayor cook to the governor for state troops to aid ia guarding property was answered by the promise that details of militia would be seat to east st louis at once A few hours before the break in the levee ned roberts a negro employed a a levee builder was killed by member of the levee patrol or attempting to tear down a coition bf the dike ilia act was by anger because he way not allowed to draw hie pay at once relief boats east st louis early this morning r by order of the bpark commissioner he skiffs faed for recreation on the lakes were collected to be sent on a wiggins ferry boat to the eab side congressman kodan cwg has haded an appeal for aid for the bast st louis flood sufferers food ho bays is most urgently heeded and neam must be had for delivering it to persona i who are in upper stories of their homes or in box cars at 9 the water was threaten inar the north euid east sides preserved t 01 ohio ern bank anent andrad and had to the viaduct only seven blocks east of the city hall in this public building a afoot and ahall of water has already collected when the break occurred warning were farat sent through the bexter addition by messengers who discharged fire ann blew whistles and horns and shouted in loud tones of the floods arrival lights gleamed in cousee where the had retired in confidence i that the embankment would bold persons scantily attired emerged from their bonnea ardina ardin a few the whole population of the low district attacked six square miles in area ere flying t higher ground As the nobe of the flood was heard abo flight at first a rapid retreat with some semblance of order assumed a panic stata all effort to assure inhabitants that there was sufficient time to escape unless a was washed through the embankment failed to con dinio them and roost of them fled without an effort to save property messengers Messen gera were sent to the main part of the city telling of the danger from the new point of danger and the great led As the hot cst excitement 1 tomi filled and the river gained a largo I 1 cc trance the terror in the business section it wae all the greater grew because of the darkness and the fear that while guard was maintained in one direction the torrent would break at another point and engulf the luckless inhabitants between two floods they began lo 10 desert their homes and and down the street vainly up run seeking a place of succor hundreds of families from the choicest residence portions of the city carrying trunk grips bundles of clothing and valuables toward st began to cross eacle bridge louis mont of the refugees were scantily clad strong men carried aged women on their arm followed by women with babies barefoot children were in 1 the procession which continued steadily I 1 over the bridge hundreds of others ought protection in the second the public library building As the wa ler encroached about it irony dashed through the shallow overflow to aln a more refuge in terror of the ming tide of the water refugees refu geee in hundreds hund rede throna the crowd the are lind beseech public officials for aid in the city lynll alone homeless persons with nich scant belonging su they had been able to seize on chort notice were assembled provision for the time bein were supplied them and they were made e comfortable a po 1 in the auditorium on the third floor business h totally suspended the ar filled with the almost panic stricken people of the invaded dittri ct women and a in arnis men carrying household furniture horses doga and other remain of once comfortable domestic girade the street the common direction ot all movement caward taft fridge ovet which the refugees arc hurrying to st louis i at the bridge wae the only mean of crossing the open to the throng all traffic to eat st loui from the west eide v en and policemen turned back all who attended the trip the eadi bridge pare go to the west aide of cahokia creek viaduct where passengers dismount walk over and take the at east end the viaduct I 1 in precarious ue condition end is not expected to stand long among thice drowned lent night pre te hu break in the illinois illinoi Illi noi fen aral levee ere D ili sherwood and biohn three children they lout their li verby the overturning p a boat in the north part of the city A was drowned at 8 in the waturs which were climbing up the side of the embankment supporting broadway the man was trying to get hi team to higher ground and remained in the rising waters until the swift current and plunged him into the bottom ilia team was drowned everything obtainable ie being used in the rescue of helpless people from the upper stories of dwelling in the submerged district rafts are being built boats improvised and wagons even are put into use the horses of which flounder around with only their heads above water chile in their errands of mercy the naval militia of st louis and alton are duty the alton contingent in a cutter are rendering valiant service rescuing men and transporting them to places of safety gray commanding the sac louis naval reserve has his force spread out along the embankments guarding against levee cutting and depredations by hordes of and buma that are to be seen everywhere arma arc slacked at police headquarters where reputable citizens may obtain carbines and ammunition to guard their property A large number of arrests have been made by the police ho are marching cheif prisoners across the bridge to st louis the east st louis city jail is also being emptied and the prisoners to the four courts in st louis for safety there is no place in east st louis to feed and pay off the hundreds of men who have been at work strengthening the levee about the city it was found necessary to march them over to st loui for their meals and then back again to work arpad wnm running east and west through eael st louis divides that city in tv 0 it is built up in places standing fifteen feet above the surrounding country it was first thought this street woula serve as a protection to the northeastern portion of the city but the flood that covers the southern part has broken through in a small stream between eighth and ninth streets should the embankment formed by broadway give way suddenly as threatened it will facend a wall of water fifteen feet high over the remainder of the city the flooded district in east st louis due to the breaking of the embankments early this morning is one mile wide south from broadly and four miles long from cat to west it corn brisee about one fourth of the city that st as the island was flooded several daye ago by 9 the work of rescuing the people of east st louin was well ander vay with broadway and tenth streets the point of embarkation of the on all eides there ere urgent calls for more skiffs t tha thour hundred of men went to work making rude flat boats and eoon many were knocked together the police pressed into the service an negroes and others who were seen loitering about in the Wae hinston school house persons were huddled together shortly after daylight it became to reach the building except in boat A number of those imprisoned in the school house their willingness willin gnesa to remain provided loi to eat could be sent them Ef loffi were mada to provide supplies for tlora in the hall above grocery gro cerr store la irene street 73 persons refuge they could be seen at the windows eig nally for boang the greater number of fatalities probably occurred around thero was nobody to give warning there and the water rushed over that part of the city quickly called upon the steamboat inspectors Ms morning to all life boata on the steamy era iu the st louie harbor and send them to baet st louis for use in the v ork waa being done a fast tte 1 wild the people ft ere willing to them up on the presentation of the proper authority and many of their crewe to man the boate the giggina ferry tug henry C isaar took forty skiffs and volunteer oa in to east st louia abi ing and plied them at the command of the rescue committee charlee private yacht gathered up twelve boate and oarsman oarsmen from south st loui and took them over for relief work chief killcy of the st louie police department secured fifteen boat and men to row pheni and took teem ivar mayor a of alton telegraphed that he had sent twelve boat and men to handle them from that city food in imperil needed in eal sr lou at conw clr Ti hoina L fekete 0 the relief committee aard thi I 1 we need at once from to ID leave of bread we have people to feel and there is little or for them to eat the river ie now stationary at feet A department on a larga ecale was at the kant st bouts louts city hall where all the re vere fed st louie june 10 ten thousand re fusca from the baet eide district now 4 an from district threatened are toward the bluff to the input inana taking trolley car to belleville 1 an was 14 the public of that city or tbt dy and appling all he bulk lioce for the temporary of the flood refu see springfield june 10 upon the of abu mayor of alton five ra 1 of militia were ordered to daiy diy to alton Pil Liing in the eit the city 4 local are unable to 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