A DOOMED CITY.
The town of Covington, To va, is literally a doomed city. Situated on tho bsn 1 of the Missouri river, the banks arc gradually being eaten away, and the ground on which the court Uouso stood a year ago, is now coverc 1 by many feet of fast il win.; water. The cuting away is dono by fits an 1 starts. A week ago Sunday, says the Sioux City Journal, the current set in-shore and took off a strip of land thirty feet wide in a few hours. .No invasions were made for another week, when another slice was out off. Then about half a dozen buildings were moved back some thirty feet, and the next day the land,on which they had stood was all gone. Tho citizens have tried to moor trees and logs to the bank in tho hope of forming a barrier for the flood, but the current is so swift and the waterso deep that these attempts have failed. To give an idea of what the town of Covington has suffered in tho past fivo years, the case of the ferry-house and principal hotel may be instauced. Two years ago there wero six hundred feet of land between the buildings and the river bank; now you can toss a stone out of the hotel window into tho river, and the buildings are now being put on rollers for removal.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5634, 6 December 1879, Page 7
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236A DOOMED CITY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5634, 6 December 1879, Page 7
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