(Special to the Chicago Journal.)
Water rising rapidly, and families removing from the houses and leaving for the country for shelter and safety; also sending off their horses and cows. The railroad track is under water on the Pache bottom, just above the city. A heavy N. W. wind would drive the Mississippi over the levee. The Chicago train waited till daylight for the downward train at Mound City junction – it came in three hours behind time. The telegraph line is in jeopardy.
We are all surprised here this morning at finding the intelligence from Ft. Pillow given to the country through the Navy Department at Washington, and published in all the papers yesterday morning, when we have regularly had the same intelligence stricken out of the dispatches up to last night.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 19, 1862, p. 1
Water rising rapidly, and families removing from the houses and leaving for the country for shelter and safety; also sending off their horses and cows. The railroad track is under water on the Pache bottom, just above the city. A heavy N. W. wind would drive the Mississippi over the levee. The Chicago train waited till daylight for the downward train at Mound City junction – it came in three hours behind time. The telegraph line is in jeopardy.
We are all surprised here this morning at finding the intelligence from Ft. Pillow given to the country through the Navy Department at Washington, and published in all the papers yesterday morning, when we have regularly had the same intelligence stricken out of the dispatches up to last night.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 19, 1862, p. 1
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