Saturday, December 12, 2009

The Flood Subsiding

BOSTON, April 22. – Advices from the interior report that the freshet has reached its height and the waters are now receding. Railroad travel is resuming gradually.

HARTFORD, April 22. – The river is now rapidly falling after having reached a height lacking only 14 inches of the great flood of 1854. – Trains are now running regularly throught to Springfield.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly-Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 26, 1862, p. 3

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