The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-03-22
UNPRECEDENTED FLOOD.
Inundation Everywhere.
Immense Suffering md Destruc-
don of Property.

tails Of tho-immense floods that are prevailing
along the Western aud Southern rivers. Every
river south of the Ohio is contributing to the in
undaton Of the country. Accounts Of the freshet
in the James and Appomattox Rivers, show that
the people on these streams are also suffering
greatly from the damages Of the high water.
Many parts of both Petersburg and Richmond,
are flooded and vast amounts of lumber and other
property have been washed down from the country
districts. The Ohio River from the Wabash to
Cairo is higher than in 1889. The Tennessee.
Cumberland and Mississippi are all adding to the
general destruction. From different portions of
the country we give the following accounts, as
taken from exchanges;
AT LOUISVILLE.
From the Courier Of the 1871
The present stage Of water is fully 10 inches
higher than the late hood-tde Of February, and
about equal to the flood of 1865. IL is also below
the high water Of ls623 and is exactly eight feet
four inches below the hgh-water mark Of the great
food of lS47.
All the low lands are submerged, all the resi-
dents of the city along Water Street and the cross
streets have been driven from their homes now
nearly month, and much suffering, exposure and
destituion is eDtaied upon hundreds OF families.
AT NEW ALBANY.
From the New Albany Commercial, 12th.l
The country from here to the mouth Of the
Ohio, has been flooded for about four weeks, and
the people need not expect relief for two or three
weeks 10 come, With the river 50 high, so many
houses nearly half covered corrscrbs, barns, sta
bles and fences deep in the water, heavy wind
at this time would do vast amount Of damage,
setting nearly everything the low grounds adrit.
The steamers can land at but few places along the
shore. The mail, passengers and light freight are
frequently sent ashore in the yawl. Sometimes,
with great hazard, skifs go from the shore to the
mail boats.
From the New Albany hedger l2thl
At Portland One-half the town is under water.
From this city to Cairo the river spreads out
like vast sea. Millions of dollars will be re-
quired to make good the damage done. Nearly
all the towns are SO inundated that steamboats are
not able to land and thousands of bushels of
grain, stacked the banks of the river for ship
ment, have been swept away, or submerged and
ruined.
The river, at this writing, 2 o'clock p. NJ, is
rising at the rate of one inch per hour, and, as
heavy rains have been falling along the upper
river as far up as Pitsburg, since Saturday, we
fear the food will be increased over its present
boundaries, '7
In Falling Run bottom all the houses are inun-
dated and in some of them the water reaches 10
the ceiling on the first floor. Hundreds of persons
are to-day engaged 10 moving, and If the river
continues to rise, many more will be Ousted from
their dwellings, by Tomorrow. On the bottom
lands below the city great damage has be- done
the fencing and out-houses of the farmers. Hun
dreds have been driven from their houses bv the
food, and compelled to seek refuge on the high
grounds.
The New Albany Ledger Of the 18th says y
The present food promises to exceed all the
foods we have had siuee 1882 both in the hight Of
the water and the amount of destruction wrought
| by the resistless tide. From Louisville to Cairo
| is one vast sheet Of water, in many places full
thirty miles wide. Houses have been overturned
an swept away the dwellers in the low lands
have been driven by the encroaching torrent Ia
the hills for refuge; cattle, horses, sheep and hogs
| have been drowned because they could not escape
| the hrod hundreds of thousands of bushels oI
| grain and potatoes have been washed away or sc
| badly damaged as to be of no value; stacks o
hay and oats and wheat have been swept off and
still the tide increases in volume and destructive
| ness.
The floods of 1882 and ls47 came in the winter
| time so that the damage done by them ntt
| rs great as will ensue from the food now rushing
| wildly and fiercely toward the Gulf of Mexico from
| all directions.
I EVANSVILLE AND BELOW.
| The Evansville Journal, Of the 18th, says: ID -.
At this time all the low lands on both
1 sides of the river an illimitlble waste of watel
| sweeps from near Newburg to West Franklin, Sc
4 deep, that were it not for the timber, the largest
class Of boats could run straight across all points
4 At ShawneetOwn and Casevville, the river is nov
1 higher than ever before known. Shawneetnwn il
| perfectly inundated, and steamboat IF medium
size, such the Armada for instance, could rul
down through the main street of the village. From
| tie Wabash to Cairo the river is higher than il
1882, and the suffering along the borders is vcr!
considerable, till along the Lower Mississippi th
destruction of property is unprecedented and th
/ suffering very great.
i Helena, Arkansas, is deeply submerged, the in
| hahitahts having been nearly all driven from thei
houses. It has also been reported that severa
lives were lost. Further South the destruction
and suffering is, it possible more dreadful, and W
fear the worst has not yet been reached.
AT NASHVILLE.
From the Press and Times, llth.
| There is still no abatement of the great fooc
probably the most destructive that ever visite
Tennessee. The rise in the river at the leyee 10
the twenty-five hours ending five o'clock hs
evening was eighteen inches, with an increase a
that time of about an inch aud quarter per hou
In the channel, opposite the wharf, the water
estimated to be fifty feet deep, with thirty feet
the shallowest part Of Harpeth Shoals. The foo
has reached the corner of Front and Broad, wher
the Julia delivered part of her freight yesterda
and lacks only about two feet of the great lresh'
of 1865, and only fifty inches of the largest eve
known, lS47.
| THE NASHVILLE AND cHATT ASooGA RAILRoA AD.
en- the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Il
cars run only as far as Anderson. Fpn there
Chattanooga the track is under water, exceptir
in spots. Between Bridgeport and Stevenson Il
track Is flooded to the depth of five feet. tel
b gram IL Colonel Innes at Ave O'Clock last evenir
/ reported the water two feet higher than on Satu
day night, and rising three inches an hour.
MEMPHIS AND, CHARLESTON RAILROAD.
Parties at Stevenson, who witnessed the seen
report that, as far as tAe eve can reach, the Hoo
. covers the track Of the Memphis and Charlestt
D Rar ,ad. Some of the bri lges on that end of II
road are reported gone, and trains at staud-sti
LOSSES AND sUFFERINGs.
, The destruction of property, pnbhc and privat
and the sufferings of individuals and families,
say nothing of the probable extensive loss of Iii
entailed by this food must be terrible. We ha'
no heart either 10 estimate it speculate about
The details OF its horrors will reach us when v
! can better understand and appreciate them
Oh ATTANooGA INUNDATED.
' A special dispatch to the Cincinnati GaEsu
dhtnd nt Nnshville. March Ii snrs