New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-29
DISASTER.
The Eload at Piffsburg.

PlrrsBURG. July 25.-Details of the flood
show that the disaster is greater than sup
posed. Fully 200 lives were lost. The dam
aged district is twenty-five miles in diar
meter. The prevailing theory is water
spout of some kind did the mischief.
Our papers are filled with details of the
disaster. Over 100 bodies were recovered.
The list of the dead in Allegheny is 125;
Lower Allegheny, 8; Saw Mill Run, IA; Big
Branch Saw Mill Run, 6; Little Branch Saw
Mill Run. q; Charters Creek, 20; other
suburbs, 1S. Total, 2l9.
Another Heavy Storm.
CINCINNATI, July 28.-The storm night
before last was very severe in Kentucky,
and although heavy rain fell here it was
not as heavy as at other points.
The Marietta and Cincinnati and Louis
Vile Short Line are the only trains delayed
tonight. The bridges near Lynchburg, on
the Hillsboro Branch Of Marietta, had been
washed away. The main line, up to noon,
was unobstructed. The roads west and
north are not affected.
At Sparta, on the Louisville Short Line,
the Southern bound freight train went
through the bridge and was damaged by
water. No one was hurt. A mile and q
half south of Sparta the engine, baggage
and one passenger car went through a
bridge, the Pullman car escaping. Three
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Five miles further south five baggage cars
were ditched. Between Cincinnati and
Walton two bridges are down. The dam
age is principally to rolling stock.
The officers of the road say trains will
run regularly in two days. Great damage
is reported to the corn crop by the wind
breaking the corn down in Ohio, Indiana
and Kentucky. The Ohio river here raised
nearly five feet in a few hours and is still
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came down with water three or four feet
higher than the surface of the Ohio, and
shot across the stream, driving the drift
wood against the boats.
At the public landing on this side of the
river the greatest damage was from tearing
coal boats from their mOorings and sinking
them.
The loss is now estimated at $100, 900,
with possibility of its being much less, &C.
cording to the number of boats recovered.
About 1000 saw logs we're driven out of the
Licking ct Swifts iron works. Fourteen
empty barges were torn loose and carried
out into the Ohio, together with the new
iron steamer Alexander Swift. The latter
boat was safely landed at West Covington.
Black g. Philips lost six barges, most of
them containing coal. T. j. Williamson's
coal elevator, twelve barges and and a
float, with twelve cars, were washed away
A number of valuable rowing boats were
also carried away.
Probabilities of the Freshet.
River men to-day feel hopeful that the
river will not ffse much more. If it falls
soon, which is probable, much Of the
sunken coal will be recovered, as will also
many empty barges. 1t is now hoped the
loss will not exceed $25,000. Should the
river rise to fifteen feet, the loss will be
over 100000. The river now is tritle
above eleven feet and stationary, but rising
above, and the Kanawha, at Charleston, is
rising an inch per hour.
Seven bodies are reported to have been
found in Woods run this afternoon two ,01
the bodies are unaccOunted for in the list O1
missing, and indicate there must have been
loss OF life not yet reported. Men and
teams are busy to-day all along the valley
of the run, clearing away the accumulated
rubbish and making an effort to restore the
streets to something like their former con
dition.
William Dufey, his wife and child, and
a lady visitor named Mrs. Bigby had 6
very narrow escape. They heard the roal
of the coming flood and fled to the hills
They had hardly crossed the threshold
when the house was lifted up by the roar
ing torrent and borne down the stream
with the crashing wrecks of other build
ings.
The following is q recapitulatiOn of thu
bodies found, up to this time: Upper ALE
ghany district, 80; Woods run, 9; Temper
anceville, g. Charters creek, IL. Tota
found, 6l. The number reported missing
is still very large. From the best infOrma
tiOn that can be obtained, the total loss o
life will reach $50.