Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-08-03

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Below bench mark.
H. NJ. LUDWIG. Sergeant.
FROM PITTsBURG.
PITTsBURG, August I.-Monongahela
river is sixteen feet and rising rapidly.
Rained heavily at intervals during TO
day, and steadily since six O'Clock
this evening. Fears are entertained
that much damage may eneue to the
villages and towns along the YOugh-
cougheney and Monongshela rivers.
1t ID reported that families in these
places are moving out to escape the
food.
WEST VIRGINIA FLOODED.
WHEELING, August Every heavy
rains fell here yesterday and last night.
The creek OverflOWed it's banks, carrying
away large quantities of hay and shock
wheat. The water covered the Nation
al pike few miles east Of this city.
Near Warrington, on the B. and D..
railroad the track was covered
to depth Of two feet. The road was
uninjuTed, however. The telegraph
wires and poles were washed away. The
MOnOngahela river is higher at Fair
mount than for ten years. A large river
is expected. All The side streams near
here are running out t'strong.
IMMENSE DAMAGE IN OHIO.
CINCINNATI, August "A Gazette
specisl from Charleston, West Virginia,
reports all the streams rising rapidly.
A boom in the Elk river was swept away
this morning, causing loss in logs of
twenty-five thousand dollars. Reports
oil sNfn A< -
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago
railroad, continue the gloomy accounts
heretofore given in these dispatches of
the losses and damages by the floods.
By tomorrow or Wednesday, at the
farthest, most of the small streams will
commence falling on the railroads. The
Fort Wayne railroad and Pan Handle
line are reported still in working order.
Trains reaching Cincinnati from Column
bus UiG Xenis aud Dayton without de-
lay. The Little Miami road will prob
ably be in order by tomorrow night.
The Cleveland, Columbus and Cincin-
natl road has some breaks between Col
umbus and Crestline. The Baltimore
and Ohio, between here and ParkeIs-
burg, is broken in several places, aDd
passengers are sent Vid COlum bus, Bel
laire and Grafton. The Ohio and Missis-
sippi, and Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton roads are reported unbrokeu. A
slight break was reported in the India
n&pOlis. Cincinnati and Lafayette road
Eear North Bend, which has been re-
paired. No trouble reported yet upon
the roads in Kentucky.
THE sCIOTO RIVER OvERFLows.
COLUMBUS, o., August About
midnight last night the SciOtO river left
lis bed and broke wildly over a tract
of land, south Of this city, burying ex.
tensiva coInfields ten feet in water.
The waters then rushed over a large
brick-yard and rose over the tirst-story
Of ten houses, occupied by the wOTkLnen
at the yard, necessitating the removal
of the women and children in wagons;
the men Waded out TO high ground with
difficulty, but with little patient effort
the whole party, numbering seventy
five persons, were saved without any
serious accident. Considerable damage
was done to property in the neighbOr-
hood. The river fell three feet to-day.
Reports from along the line Of the Heck
ing Valley railroad show that the loss to
the growing crops and wheat in the
shock by the water will be- very great.
done to the road-bed until the water
subsidies. No bridges have as yet been
swept away.
DEVASTATING FLOOD AROUND TERRE
HAUTE.
TERRE HAUTE, IND, August 2.-The
flood in this region is very devastating.
The Wabash river is some twenty inch
es higher than during the great rise oil
1858, end o few inches higher than tie
still greater inundatiOn Of 1928, which is
of record, and is in the memory of the
older Inhabitants. The river is fully
three miles wide opposite this city, and
is still slowly rising. A few small houses
have fOated down. Some live stock and
millions of bushels of wheat, IN stacks
and in shocks, have fioated past. Large
quantities OF hay have also gone down.
There is little driftwOOd 8fOat, or the
bridge could not possibly remain
The two railroad bridges, the
Vandalis, Indianapolis and st. Louis
are both unsafe. The water is within a
few inches of the windows Of the water
works, and quite even with the floor OF
the gasWorks. Both are over the river
bank, but the sand-bag embankments
have so far kept the water out. No loss
Of life reported as yet. The Clinton
wagOn-bridge, fourteen miles above Us,
is floating down upon US, and so is a
ssW-mill. Over six million bushels of
corn is reported drowned out be-
tween Teue Haute and Jacksonville
below. Sugar Creek township is wholly
devastated. Not thousand rails, very
little corn, and no wheat left in the
township. Every house in BlOOmt0wn
Is inundated. Marks's mill-dam, five
miles west, is broken away, and seven
houses at Reelsville, on the Vandalia
road, together with three miles of en-
bankment sre washed away. Not q
train on any Of the roads left the city
to-day except passenger train to Vim
cenDes and return. With no cOmmu-
nicatiOn below, we shall have none in
any direction, and no mails for four days
at least, there being ne less than thirty
bridges, besides trestIes and embank-
ments, completely gone on the Evans
vile and Columbus road Every tTestle
between OAktOwn and HaZletoWn is
either badly Injured or swept away. An
engine was overturned by bank
giving away. No one was hurt. On
the Vandalia, the iron bridge at Csrters-
burg, Cross creek bridge, Big Sugar
CREEK LIeslle' Eagle creek DTluge, anu
the large bridge at Reelsville, are all
gone. Seven bridges are gone on the
E., t., H. and c., between this city and
Newport. Several very serious breaks
have OccOrred on the Logsnsport road.
The Indianapolis and st. Louis road is
in bad condition. The bridge at Peru is
nearly all gone; Otter creek tTestle is
badly damaged, the Paris bridge is gone
and the Wabash trestle is injured. The
river is still rising.
NO TRAINS.
EVANSVILLE, August 2-Great dam
age has been done the Z. and G. railroad
near Patoka. No trains through to-day.
FROM COLUMBUS, OHIO.
COLUMBUS, August 2-The heavy
rains Of last night filled the cell