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Title: Papers in Illinois history and transactions
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Illinois State Historical Society. 1n Illinois State Historical Society. Transactions. 1n
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Publisher: Springfield
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ch hadsuffered from a similar disaster sixty years previously. The presentfreshet threatens to make a finish of the ancient village, and its site willsoon be the swimming-school of the catfish and the kindergarten of thebullfrog. The Chester papers have preserved no files and the St. GenevieveFair Play furnishes, on the date of April 30, 1881, this brief announce-ment : The cut at Kaskaskia point has now reached the width of 500 feetwith more water coming down. Parties from St. Marys who have visitedthe cut, report, however, that the suction of water is not near as great atpresent as when it first broke through. We hear that the Kaskaskiansare becoming alarmed and are deserting their ancient village. The Fair Play of same date quotes as follows from the St. LouisDispatch of a previous date: The pilots of the Ed Richardson, Messrs. Fulkerson and Reed,report that the long expected cutoff at the Okaw River from KaskaskiaBend, has taken place and a stream 200 yards wide is pouring rapidly
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thlil asathfo th CO A)Tlwlotl oilbe^laiTlsuth(ontoi St, ■ Geguowflosu.fr€ S0( bu. Fame wiith(pr(are Dil rejBe 105 through the Okaw Eiver and into the Mississippi Eiver, and the distanceabove Chester will be fully six miles. It leaves the little town of Kas-kaskia on an island which is being cut away very fast and will soon be athing of the -past If we bear in mind that, notwithsta^ding the great -river had brokeninto the narrow Okaw, the greater portion of the bottom land above andbelow Kaskaskia was not by this overflow flooded to the highest watermarks in history, it will be seen that even a width of 500 feet conld notcontain enough water to carry away the town until the Mississippi Eiverhad time to sconr the bed of the Kaskaskia to the same depth as the oldbed around the old channel and until the narrow Okaw had been widenedenough to carry the whole of the mighty Mississippi. Therefore, as amatter of course, it must have taken considerable time to deepen andwiden this new chann

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