A Fearful Catastrophe

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 4, 1876

A Fearful Catastrophe.

Chicago, April 18.—The levee, near Hannibal, Mo., broke yesterday, and over one hundred thousand acres of the finest land in the State are overflowed, and millions of dollars' worth of property destroyed. Thousands and thousands of dollars' worth of logs and cordwood, miles of fences, are now floating down the river, while several hundred head of horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs, that were grazing on the bottoms, cannot be found, and the supposition is that they are all drowned. The water has seriously interfered with the running of the railroads, and at many points the tracks are entirely washed out. The stream near Quincy is twenty miles wide, and the Illinois river is over ten miles wide. When the levee broke, people fled for their lives, and it is not yet certain that all escaped to places of safety.—Ex.