From the "Quincy [Illinois] Herald-Whig":

HANNIBAL, Mo. -- Mississippi River floodwaters overflowed the Union Township Drainage District levee south of LaGrange Monday afternoon, engulfing the Roger Tiemann home and Wakonda State Park.

In all about 6,200 acres are now under water.

"It simply just topped the levee," said John Schaeffer, the drainage district's secretary.

Workers were removing the pump house engines when the breach happened. Schaeffer said water had been flowing over the clay levees at tributary streams.

"We thought it would stand at 28.5 feet and the gauge was at 29 feet when it went," he said.

Schaeffer said there were no injuries. He said the Tiemann family, whose home was off Route B about 1.5 miles from the river, had already moved out with their belongings. He said Beilstein Camper Sales were moving what was left of its trailers from the site off U.S. 61.

The Union levee also was breached in 1993.

Kyle Scott, superintendent at Wakonda State Park, said about 90 percent of the park's 1,050 acres are under water. He said his crews had been helping with sandbagging efforts on the levee. He was checking damage to the park's docks this morning.

"It's gonna mean a lot of clean up for us," he said.

A small private drainage district north of Mo. 168 owned by Randy Klocke also succumbed to rising water. The district protects bottomland from the North River, west of BASF between the chemical plant and the bluffs. It encompasses several hundred acres.

Sandbag crews were pulled off the South River levee Monday afternoon after a weak spot was discovered where the river was eroding part of the sand structure. The levee was still holding this morning.

"We dropped 13 inches last night," said David Marquart, who is heading up efforts for the South River Drainage District.

On Monday afternoon, the river reached within about three feet of the four-foot extension added to the levee. Crews have been working 15 hour days since Thursday to shore up the levee. The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers built it up to a 27-foot level after the 1993 flood.

"The lowest end (of the levee) has sagged," Marquart said, adding that the levee is too saturated for crews to work safely near it or on top of it.

"The whole thing is like a quagmire. It's (soft) like a sponge. The base itself is sloughing off. The back of the levee is just giving way. If it breaks at that point it's probably within 1,000 feet of where it broke in '93."

Marquart said the two sites have no correlation other than the quantity and force of the water involved in the two floods. When the levee broke in 1993, about 10,000 acres of mostly farm land was inundated.

"We are not giving up yet," Marquart said.

One of the three engines have been pulled from the drainage district's pump house. "Everything's been pulled out of the bottoms," Marquart said.

That includes dozens of trailers at the Bayview Camper Park on the eastern side of Mo. 168, just north of the pump house. Many of the campers have been temporarily parked at the Hannibal Middle School parking lot.

Bleigh Construction, where Marquart serves as foreman, is on the west side of Mo. 168 and will also flood if the levee breaks. He said owner Tom Bleigh has "really been good to us out here." Bleigh has provided manpower and equipment. Bross Construction and other area landowners have also donated equipment and manpower.

Workers on site have numbered between 175 and 200 daily. Thirty members of the National Guard's 1438 Multirole Bridge Company of Macon arrived Sunday to assist and Marquart said on Monday other volunteers arrived from the surrounding area.

One of those was Julie Rolsen of Hannibal. She and husband John and their son Sean have each taken turns in recent days sandbagging.

"It's just what you do, what everybody needs to do. If everybody in Hannibal works one, one full day there'd be plenty of help," she said.

But Rolsen acknowledged being so close to the rapidly rising Mississippi River was a bit unnerving, especially Monday afternoon when the crews started coming back in.

"When they're bringing back the sandbags and the guys come in wearing life jackets, you know the waters are getting deep," she said.

Hannibal is about 20 miles south of Quincy and yes, it's the Mark Twain town.

I drove from St. Louis to Hannibal in mid-May and there was flooding then, from both the Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers.