Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-14

NEW ORLEANS, February II, Midnight
No material change in the condition Of the
water in the overfowed districts is reported.
Ten thousand persons were supplied with
food Yesterday by the relief committee. A
heavy rain and strong wind prevails this
morning.
New ORLEANS, February 13.-At meet.
ing Of the New Orleans AUXILIARY SANITARY
Association last night, fears were Expressed.
In view OF the rise In the Mississippi and its
tributaries, ,sof great danger to New Orleans
from the overflow in consequence of the
condition OF the levees in front of the city,
General bussey advised that ten or fifteen
strengthen the levees.
A mass meeting of property owners and
business men Is called for Monday night to
devise ways and means to avert the threat
ened danger.
NEW ORLEANS, La, February 13.-The
fanRipahos river overfowed it's banks on
Friday, washing out the jackson Railroad
aud doing considerable damage. Railroad
otncials state that repairs will be COM
pleted to-day and business over the
road re-established. The New Orleans aud
Mobile Railroad from Lee Station to Look
out is still in a bad condition, but q large
force Is at work upon it.
tricts is slowly but steadily receding.
WAsHINGToN, February 12.-At $50
O'Clock this morning three spans OF the
long bridge across the Potomac were car
ried away, and the ice is still running high.
The Shenandoah and Potomac rivers at
Harper's Ferry rose last night, and the Ice
broke up. The rivers continued to rise all
day, and the lower part of this city has been
Hooded to the depth Of four or five feet, do
ing much damage. Snow storms are re-
ported at st. Joseph, Mo-, and st. Louis,
and thunder storm, with heavy rain, at
Paterson, N. j., and New Haven, Conn.
WASHINGTON, February 13.-The freshet
In the Potomac has subsided. Several hum
dred yards of the northern end of the long
bridge having been carried away, Southern
travel Is interrupted. Arrangements have
been made to transfer passengers for Rich
mOnd In the morning from Washington to
Fort Runyan, on the Virginia side, by stages
over the bridge at Georgetown. Passengers
for Lynchburg and the South will go via
ehepneTds, opposite Alexandria, and thence
across the ferry to Alexandra.
Telegraphic commune atiou between
washington and the South is badly inter
rupted. The Western Union Company have
lost nearly all their cables at the long
bridge, and have only two out of twenty
wires intact.
WARRINGTON, February 12.-Reports of
Inc water in the Lehigh river at Allen
town, Pa, rose ten feet since last night.
Half OF the bridge, one hundred feet long,
connecting Kliue's Island with the main
land, was washed away. Two families are
on the Island with no means of escape. At
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the heaviest snow
storm ever known there prevails, and all
the trains are stopped. A heavy rain storm
is reported at Waterbury, Conn, and the
river is rising rapidly
An ice gorge has formed in the Delaware
four miles below Milford, Pa, and large
family, named Buckley, on sn island in the
middle Of the river, are crying for help, sur
rounded by Ice and water, and no assistance
can be given them.
MAUoH CHUNK, PA, February 12-Con-
tinued rains have greatly swollen the
Lehigh river. Two trestles have been
swept from under the Lehigh river bridge
at Penn Haven. 1t is feared that $50 000,-
600 feet of lumber In the boom at White
Haven may break away, in which case the
Lehigh Valley Railroad aud the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Companies bridges at Penn
Haven will be destroyed.
PHILADELPHIA, February 12.-The rise Of
the Schuylklll river at Manyunk yesterday
caused more damage than was at first sup
posed. Nearly all the mills at that place
and a number of dwellings were inundated,
and the loss on the stock and machinery
Will I6dCu SIUU,OOUs
CINCINNATI, February 12.-Telegrams
received here represent Warren, Ohio, as
inundated, and boats are in demand to re-
move the people of the Second ward from
their watery isolation, caused by the overflow
of the Mahoning river. Tuscarawas valley is
overhowed and New Philadelphia inun-
dated. There is but little If any damage
~sntucky. Snow Is falling in Southern
IN n - me Ohio river is rising rapidly.
OaIO, TO- -. February 12.-Middle Ground
TOLEDO, u, water standing at the
Is lhuhuate9, the N the Island House
depth of three feet A. 'in0 off commu-
Hotel and Union depot, cutL.. -~cept by
nication with Summit street e en-
means of boats, and preventing the
trance Of passenger trains. The westerly
span Of the Pennsylvania Railway bridge |
has been carried away. This bridge was
rebuilt last summer and was substantial |
iron structure. Snow set In this morning. |
In Water street the water is five feet deep. /
FREDBRICKsBURG, VA, February 13.-The |
freshet in the Rappahannock river reached |
the height of fifteen feet above low water
mark. Some lumber belonging to the con-
tractors for river improvement was car
ried off, and the steamboat warehouse was |
under water to the second story. There
have been neither mails nor through trains
since Friday night