St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 8, 1903

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LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1903, I PRICE HRS ee St as’ — a | | - 3 i 400 0 905 a V— ů —- By Order of Mayor Cook All Business Has Been Suspended Mr | tA 1H : „ „ e we Wiped Off the Map. atid Loss of Life and Property JJ =. 2 2 2 ae palling. 2 j ee —— — „„ SPC (( SA S ° "So —lf the Levee Breaks East St. Louis Will Be Practical rs 7 =o 27 — es =~ % aa Me! BOP ee Maat il ee ae a a . 1 55 8 a Bae Bie ist ae „„ f Aight Thousand Persons Dr ive 1 Fr om Their Their Feet Became Entangled ee A ae „„ 8 in a Network of Wires That Dragged Them in the River. ba- Seventeen persons were drow ned in the floods at Madison, V. 9 5 F | OR Si RS RYE 25 8 é r WITNESSES POWERLESS 25 a F OR ORR, OMe 8 : ALL CITIZENS ice and Granite City. . 5 nd. OR TR, “HAE RE ORR SEE Seven hundr 70 RENDER ANY AID gs MeO aR moi: «oh Aa 22... REY TO SAVE CITY || from the n man n ep 2 : i. SR: RD 853 East St. Louis is without gas and filtered water. oy AT BREF ERs Whe Caer SR ROR «3 3% eR A) PROCLAMATION . Only a frailly constructed levee of sand bags stands between East, The Had Constructed the 725 „„ d / ⁵⁵ ̃̃̃̃̃ K Canaan aR Rt eee (issued by Mayor Cook this St. Louis and almost complete submersion. i i. y BY SRN GOR A. AR Ba GORD RD 8 SSS ND S ' morning.) All business has been suspended in East St. Louis. Mayor Cook Craft Themselves and Were e SO. RR ORE” GRR ORR, GERRI ABS pcs Kun SRO OO RD has issued a request that all male citizens abandon their business Paddli About th Island ( ( AR VVV 22. EAST ST. LOUIS, III., and unite in the effort to save the city. | addling About the ee ee ee ee . June 8, 1903. ||, All efforts to move freight east have been practically sbandoned Ce ae V . 1 . 1 or the present. * Freight Yards. _ : : j AO AY aR All business is or Eastern passenger traffic is seriously evippled and ~ e ga J ñß[ . ER RS ROR dered suspended today, | | are delayed and uncertain. ; ee 2 . eee — = : — — 4. te % f ß 7 5 8 i . and every male citizen ||. Prices of coal and food stuff are increasing as a result of Wee Ysland, East St. Louis, near the eastern Rea Yay Tas RRR RRND Hey ARERR, , SRR Ra 2. interference in railroad traffic and the supply is alarmingly short. end of Eads bridge, at 1 o'clock this at- RR, TDR Ee NEE SETS ppp SM EEE TEES SEES MONS of East St. Louis is 7 „ ZZ . /// ̃̃ĩ̃ĩ̃ĩ ß CO A East St. Louis has begun the final) feet in width and small breaks had oo . hoys were cxiployed by the „((o ( SEN ( ( OR ER S ̃ ̃ ͤuͤ Ü hereby requested to deseperate struggle to save itself from nnn > fee ig Four railroad and lived in St. Louls. „ Suter ty aera x: 8 8 232 e : ) . render service in keep - destruction in the Mississippi flood. f 1 seid it was no use. They @a ~ hey were Harry Schreiber, aged 15, tele- RS, ONT, MN RO RIE I „ 3 1 ek 6 At the command of Mayor Cook busi- eve they could stop the — * phone boy, and Willie King, 13, messen- N REM Ka Ree N . a "RRR 2 abhi. se ad ing the water out of ness is suspended and every able- * — — „ s * ger for the East Side offloe of the line, 88 22 ARON HEE Ae” OR PRINT 9 * Re * 00 ; ‘bodied man is on the levee, many busi- e ie Amyx, telephone boy for the BREAD ANNO SERRE OY OO BORG Sk VR 1 UP OR DIR : the city. ; e 7 * 3 =~ — . 2·ꝰͤ Ea . P ; ness men using the shovel to throw’ But Mr. Joyce, Jerry Kane, John 6e The fourth boy was a son of James Mc- —. : 2 SAL AN : 8 Nor & 8 ROR ey ee: 5 a 2 SILAS COOK. Mayor. the embankments higher. .| Lean, William Hill and others of the * eo f | SR . At noon an order was issued directing | ter I binnd tpn. pee ‘Kenzie of East St. Louis. 788 2 RR ROG SR Ses - enn ‘ | ing the companies of water ince The boys were riding on a raft of their : . ; Le Reo 45 3 ate x. 53 N RN that all wagons and teams in the city —— — 1 Uterally ee ay, Own manufacture, and little attention was : KNO WN DE A D be taken in charge and used under the paid — wage — xe stare eee a ARORA RY BY” AKDT dn key Ra OND Ok a : = 2 8 ee direction of the authorities for hauling water. ie: : moon hour between rows of box 5 7 5 A FPR Er A T.2 S 1 , dirt and bags to the river front. he yaaa, we ‘ever the submerged tracks. 4 : ESERIES LE OO PRE a NAMES NOT OBTAINABLE. Late this afternoon small breaks ‘in |%% It called for desperate mes Near the company's offices the raft was . S . 82 5 . f water was rapidly filling the- @aught by a current which drew it to a 1 1000 0 OO 9 AED 2 > SEVEN EMPIOYES of American the embankment were constantly being twee bean and the Lous 4 \ eee. 2 . . oan Py Sat Coe — , wot - ‘ * „ _ 0 8 yy places de n the 2 : 7 e where eee daa eee : e 932 So gp Mh ye i — N Seso oe a 2 to headquarters at the foot of ville & Nashville ratiroad embankment. 4 water. — 0 Lig n Ne. n. . — s MA WIFE. ‘i should mount "The wires entangled the boys’ feet, and ZZZ ORE EEE EE REESE FP OEE | 4 = z ssouri avenue soon as re penn ? to t they were pulled from the raft, which ‘ TTT 7 ERRAND, BR oy Se” ca ; MOTHER AND SIX CEL As each report comes in a detachment * 17 2 r wou —— swe rom under them. o SRR DO SRT RY nee . 7 ate the business secti pia "in . the teliroad office ew the STR eee 5 og ) , U ow 2 h * ee lost unless the break could whing OySs, u e istance 4 : RY Se Sry | rare . oo Driven and encouraged b Was too great and the current too strong D NR * . 5 N to admit of an attempt at rescue. 2 * . 5 4 BOR ROL RIVER WILL The mile of levee is lined with des the men waded in the wat Two hundred persons on the viaduct saw 3 : a : perate men ready with shovels and hips and began a hand-to- S . „ „ Ff || FALL TOMORROW ||tams watching for the slightest sign | he food 0 , iene os RRR RRR NR RT RN For a time it seemed that e.g ee Where they n S JFF (Predicted by @dward R. Bowie, 2 = Sno, water os rr — right In saying that it was of no Jerry Jones, an employe of the St. Louis 9 wa 1 ee 22 . . SS Local Forecast Official.) out than the level o usi- st as the sacks of sand were tc Sew ‘he wire sweep the!. : TW / at Sane. OY Ba : EE DR a The Missouri south of Kansas || D¢ss district of the city, and if — into the crevasse the rushing waters car- is Ble Pour freight office. which sent al [: : Ss SORA Be oe ey). RRO oe PP AN SO City aud the Mississippi north of evee goes the ntire city will be in- ried them away like corks. Sie Doatload of men, who commenced dragging „ BO ae. aay a oe FE the mouth of the Missouri will undated. Attempts were made to get a new dike the — 2 for the bodies. A number vol- r 2 2 Early in the afternoon a report came started at other points and those failed... unteer in the search, but lack of 1 . 05 de , N. es 2 . ĩ . steadily for several days. eee prevented: Pit Sime tia Ue 2 eee ü . wat K Sania the stage 4 that the water had _ forced — Ee, * 2 e 22 7 c „ 5 clock this morning was 87.8 through the Baltimore & Ohio roa ° | 50 BL OCK 8 D E L UGE D 2 5 SS OY” Aa RE ES x 72 5 A 1 : rae The river at — point will embankment north of the city, and a P r prone Ped g 4 T H. A N. N IB AL 2 5 25 8 By 2 5 c Won or es 8 5 SNA a 2 2 S remain stationary or rise very B * 8 to placed. The first ones held the a Special to the Post-Dispatch. r. BAAR a SR ARIA RR SN N ce a : 3 ee slowly through today and tonight . 1 1 © wou Tease encouraged, redoubled their a HANNIBAL, Mo., June 8—At noon the e RORY SY «5 A 7 : ARAN and will begin to fall Tuesday. , Sure on Bast St. Louis. After three hours of unceasing work river is at a standstill and it is believed 2 JJ... RR Ee 2 I , SERRA The crest stage will be between At noon the viaduct over Cahokia break was closed and the inundation of the water will begin falling by tomorrow eee 99 a A ae S | 37.5 and 38 feet. creek was declared unsafe and street city, which had seemed inevitable, night. About 50 blocks ending along the RRR SRA AAR. g Nen 7 2222 « RE K car traffic over it was stopped. The postponed for the time. . river front are under water and not more 88 ORY dR OR ONE RAY CTE. F 2 S TJ oo ' | waters of the creek have been pound- For another two hours most of the s than one-half of the manufacturing plants eee ee. S 3 a 8 — 2 were kept at work, however, throwing | f re ’ ing the struct bris for a , @re running. With the exception of the Shaded porti 3 nich has alread b 8 5 RIVER 8 RISE * ae upon and behind the sacks and Sement plant all of the large ones are idle, ed portions of the map show the water whic as already submerged “the island,” the Relay Station and all AT ST. L OUTS ing the dike. et including the powder works. The employes |*#ilroad yards, and is only kept out of the business section of the city by a thin line of sacks filled with mud, cc of the cement plant are taken to the plant extending along the Illinois Central tracks south from the Relay Station and by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad Monday, June 1 on one side and from the city on the ate from twenty cars, three miles below the city on a steamboat,| tracks on the north. The water thus held in check is now 18 inches above the level of the city. Tuesday, Juns 2 other, the passengers being required u | was no assurance that the which makes four trips per day, Reports | ———————______ t ————ꝶD- —— —-—-— . ———— . Wednesday, June 3. . 31.1 feet walk over the viaduct. in the water, would hold, An enlisting office has been opened at dirt were soaked through, from above are favorable, slight falls being 2 Yards Hotel wh | | th overing 4... „ „1 fost lief STEAMERS ON e || Sop: A || Ration reas The. indications are for settled weather , Friday, June 5 Pong levee and men for work on the levee mnd the impression is that the worst is Saturday, June 6 34.9 . feet are mustered in as for war 2 ’ . Then théy ee yen Sny levee is still int WAY © H E. R E P G E. E 8 te * TURNED Sunday, June .. ----36.3 feet | are rushed to crucial points. went back to Trendley a n / N | | - U OVER IN TIME|| monday, June s... . 78 feet po there, but Peat 1 A. tL, 0 n KN — ° ö 8 any time. The Wabash railroad has a train ove that steams wp and down its track con- George Cook and his wife were rescued tily constructed Jevee of sandbags and ptantly hauling earth and stone and thou- The Annie Russell and Mark Twain Lashed 5 eee n MILD AN FAIR FOR AWHILE mud is all that stands between the city gands of yards of each have been used. , a and almost complete submersion. The river is 22 feot 6 inches this morning, Together and Load ed With Supplies pr Bien ting nar = pe roundhouse Several small leaks occurred, but at 1 fhe highest ever known since 1844. i : made the rescue, using a skiff. The house Rain Will Stay Away Until Tuesday | orolock the city officials were hopeful of There are no records extant of that flood Battle With Swift Cu rrent. was lifted from ite foundation and thrown at Least, the Forecaster saving the city. and it is possible the water was higher| The Annie Russell and the Mark Twain, the plant of the American Car and Foun- on its side by the first rush of water. 5 Aleng the water front the water pressing than at present, but it is not probablé lashed together, left the foct of Elm street | dry Co., where the distress appears to be Fire broe out in it a few minutes later Says. against the dike is from one to four feet — most acute. and men in the roundhouse ran for a boat higher than the level of the ground inside ALOT Monday forenoon with Post-Dispatch re- FLOOD DELAYS LEGISLATORS. porters and a relief expedition on board, On board, beside Russell Gardner, the to save Mr. and Mrs. Cook, who were] Fair weather is still to be ours. That is, +, aie. * screaming for help, believing they would it ig today, but tomorrow has the per- If the levee gives way all the main part 2 en bers of to go to the rescue of the persons who are | owner of the steam yacht, are Scott Biew- | Mem q House Summoned as surrounded by water in peril at Venice, [ett and F. F. Bixby of the foundry com- be burned or drowned. haps” clause. of the city will be overspread very quickly randjury Witnesses. Madiso oa eer. pany, Edward A. Hoberg, assistant wharf Before the boat from the roundhouse 12 and not a street in the business section will Homer Mann of Kansas City, and L. I. The boats were lashed together because | Commissioner, and De Haas Robison, pres- reached them the house turned over again.] we are not to be bothered w SINE de left out of water. ; Beatt 11 3 of the Mis- ‘nether tke eek ees. enka to | ident of the Cardinal baseball club. and the flood put out the fire which had temperature, and we are to have some] aA bad break occurred early Monday morn souri 0 presen ves, wanted as : cared, Cook aad hy wile: were tee that bl ing. For three hours a thousand men bat- witnesses before the grandjury, wired Cir- breast the strong current which is sweep winds 1 2 taken off unhurt. t. 1 heroically with the rushing waters to cult Attorney Folk Monday morning that 2 FAMILY RESCUED oe from the wes ” tled heroically w e rushing uotations the wea- save the city. 2 * 2 get here on account dee eee ee ee eee 8 reads Against odds which seemed overpower- of the flood. quate. In midstream they were barely able FROM G L UE PLAN x REF UGEES RESCUED : ing they won. The crevasse was. closed hey are wanted They to ve information| to creep inch by inch up the stream. As and the city saved, at least temporarily. @bout the alum, beer and street car con- . Con Reardon, his wife and children, Tom day oa Au: the jury's attention almost |*!most to a standstill, and it looked as) rom the root of the glue works at the foot | O. T. Lash of Venice, who has been ac- nghtiy cooler Tucs- - . when a short section of the bank between upy cclusively this we though they mi get under i | ormer Excise Commissioner Charles P. ms eaten R of Bremen avenue, about 9 o’clock Monday tive in relief work, gave the police au ; westerly the relay depot and Cone station, half a as booked as a grandjury witness morning. They had been ther thorities at the Angelica street station a - mile north, gave way and the water began * bd ll * ‘ Hahn. ex-recorder of A signal of distress was blown. The tug 4 4 e li hours vivid description of the work in progress . racing through. | Reardon, who once o t 100 ene tae’ . an green Bt. Louis, were] Rellance was in the harbor, but it did not . ty a a = there Monday morning. Mr. Lash came in 5 — were : cele: c Qn ee t long distances © rogress in the investigation into state respond. When che Water surrounded the pl — with a large number of refugees, and with near at hand and these helpless. oie ih anneal 33 a lative affairs will be slow while th The boats managed to keep head on to Fred Co! a leadi real estate man of ; * One of them t to — Seow 3 N ton ae ot as many of/the current and slowly crept under the; dar night he and his family climbed to | venlce . 3 to secure launches Mayor Cook. — hetp were sent an n wan as Witnesses before bridge. the roof to keep them dry. The water g the rescue. Four h {efforts of Mayor Gefen cas Bouts fiood-bournd. limbed t but th or steam boats to aid in along the dike. undred : The tug Colorado was coming down | eum oo, Dut che roof was beyond ius r. Cole's house,” said Lash, 8 — mu — highest point of land in Venice, ; ü r While the water struck against the sides ag up to his doorstep. Boats are ‘ts Qk a ce of the building they screamed for help. All entirely : night they took turns calling. They were afraid to go to sleep because the water business section of Fast St. Louis. A has- RF Pak aN LNW tae Wr ae oie 7 ae eee TY 7 7 8 a ö , * * ey en J r oe Tg ener: EL rs: 5 % * es 1 im 1 * * my A oa ORR e tate? e