The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-27
LOSSES BY THE FLOOD In ONO.

The Cincinnati GG-Stsc publishes extended
accounts of the recent foods in Ohio The
losses have been immense, amounting in
Dayton alone 10 $250, GOO.
From the journal account of the food at
Dayton We extract thus much:
The people of the Miami Valley awakened
Wednesday morning t. reahztns sense os
tne presence of tbs most extraordinary flood
eve known in the great Miami and its triba-
taries-tae more extraordinary taking the
season gntD cuHsld Grafton.
iue rain began 10 tall little before one
c clock Monday afternoon, and continued IN
CeSsantiy unta noon Thursday. There was
then cessation oil few hours, but 81 . O.
clock IN the evening II began TO drizzie again,
Wiki Il prospect Of continuing. The river dad
hol begin 20 assume alarming proportions
until iaesasy afternoon, when Mad river
sNeliea ous 81 IL banks Aad the other trlbu.
taFaes OF The Miami poured ont immense
volumes OF wafer. from that time until .
clock eduesday morning the rise WAS tnar
veiiously rapid. and The danger OF overflow
in the city was APPARENT. The ieyee, fortu-
nately, was strons, and close examination
gave appearance u safety, excepting IN the
northeastern part OIL ne CITY, whore the canal
runs next 10 the river. Men we're em,Ioyed
10 protect that point. but the rapid ris- sasse-
Ell there was ne escape. except Ia aisasSer o
our neIgnbOrs IN Mcpherson town.
ii u,ne 0 clock the waters found their way
over the levee protecting that place. and got
vent IN that way. thus protecting Dayton |
temporarily. In less thai IA hour MePher~ /
WAS several feet under water. and the |
people barely bad time 10 escape To the high /
grounds North and Wes; in some cases
women climbed trees with their infants One
tbr oh, H..
premises was rescued by boat Another,
WIKI at infant. was rescued from tree, after
long waiting, and with great difficulty We
learn OF no casnalities- Wednesday night
the village was twelve feet under water
Some OF the frame houses were swept from
their foundations, and OUT buildings went
down the stream.
About clock the water came down with
such force that MeNAlly's stable was swept
over and earned along by the furious current,
tasiing with IT AZ out house and the fence be-
longing to Hasten. Al this time all who
were IN the vicinity FASTENED into the two>
story brick house OF Mr. Gramlich. close by
sixteen persons in ali, tour women, five men
and seven children, where they were shut mp
for two days and two nights They had not q
moment time 10 provide food, and the little
that YVES in the house was soon consumed.
During Wednesday night they ascertaseedi
how ,ast the water was rising, by means ofsa
cord with weight attached 10 hold 1t to the
ground. They thus measured their terror,
until the water carfe M 20 the second story
window, when, 10 their Joy, the flood VAS
stayed and the water began TO subside.
As we have said, their SIMPLY of food was
soon exhausted, although doied ONT In Inc
smalles; rations, and on Thursday morning
young Haslem and Corrigan took the old
4ss~exrff thax had seerreg hv rsafaa firm a /
window q, the rear of the house, and ven
tured out short distance and secured few
apples. and some grapes which grew on the
top Of an arbor in the vicinity; and they got
little sack of ao1r which happened to be in
the upper story OF HAsiems house They
also secured little wood from high shed
near by, which gave them fire to cook cakes,
mixed ~ in the most primitive way, without
salt or rising On these they were enabled 10
pinch out Subsistence Thursday and Thurs
day night During Thursday morning they
heard the cries of wonlaa some distance
away, aud they went to & little house and
took out q family who was nearly iamished-
The party Of sixteen were only released
Friday morning. or the subsistence OF the
food.
Most OF the inhabitants of Mcpherson de-
serted the place when the water FIRST began
coming IN. Oh those who were caught there
bs the Hood II is mercy that hone were
drowned. The less Is large, but we cannot
approximate the amount
truu the summit Of the ridge in East Dav.
tor there was q wide prospect OF water in the
valleys. and bread. bros en- pools about Back
town The corn in the fields, as far as the
visiut con.d be reached. seemed TO lie stand
ing mp III defiance of the focd, which give
hore Of good harvests vet.