Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-22
THE GREAT STORM.
The Highest Rise at Cincinnati
Since l847.
Immense Damage to Railroads Bridges and
Houses Swept Away-liye Stock 7
Drowned-Towns Submerged
Waters Still Rising.
SEVEN PERSONS KNOWN TO BE Los
At Sc. Louis

SEVEN PERSONS KNOWN TO BE LOST.
| At 50. Louis
| Sr. LOUIS, February 2l.-The only train
| that arrived from the east was on the Ohio
and Mississippi road. This road also sent
| out train, but so far as could be learned
| no other road did. Three trains are said
| to be stalled by landslide near franklin,
| on the Missouri Pacific. A construction
| train is nearly buried in the deep cut at
Huntley, on the Wabash road, between
| here and ST. Charles. The Jacksonville
branch of the Chicago and Alton is also in
| trouble, and trains are delayed.
The rain finally ceased about IL O'Clock
tonight, since when the mercury fell sew
eral degrees, and light snow is now fall
ing. rs
Al New Albany, Ind.
New ALBANY, IND. 21.-This city is now
partially under water. and the damage
done up to 10 o'clock, can not be
computed. II the river rises five feet more
the furnace in DePauw's glass works will
be destroyed, the fires put out and damage
to the amount of $4,000 will be done.
Already the damage in this factory has
been great
At 10 o'clock the river was rising rapid
ly, covering the payements along the levee
from upper Fifth street TO lower Third,
making this part of the city impossible.
The water has almost reached the railway
track at the Jefferson depot, on State street.
Residents along Water street, from lower
Third, have moved to the upper parts OF
their buildings, and some are getting ready
to move to other parts OF the city.
The water had not reached the rail mill
nor the iron works in the lower part of the
city, but these mills will probably be
Obliged to close The Brentwood works in
lower Albany, will also be closed, The lat
ter firm suffer seriously by loss of timber.
Hedgewaters foundry and machine works,
were obliged to suspend, the grounds being
completely inundated. II will take seven
or eight feet OF a rise to close the forge
works.
The damage to private property will not
be great unless the rise is higher than in
81. The back waters have done large
amount of harm. The air line railway alone
was damaged about $1,000 by the washing
! away of nearly 100 feet OF trestle work. Old
steamboatmen and Observers Of the river
and weather in New Albany say the indi-
cations are that the river will be as high as
| in 80, the winter being much like that
year.
At JeffersOnviIIe. Ind.
JrrERsoNyILLE, ND. February 2l-rhe
| flood in the Ohio river had not done any
material damage in Jacksonville or
| vicinity up to q late hour last night. The
| Howard and Barmore are busy removing
| timber to prevent its washing away, and
are fighting the water to prevent its en-
| tering the sewers which drain their mills.
| The loss will be considerable. The Jetfer
sonville Glass Works will probably be
compelled to close on account of water.
1t is the back waters that generally do the
most damage in Jacksonville, as the Ohio
banks on that side are high.
Below the city, at the "I,! on the line
OF the Jacksonville road. flood gate has
been put up to keep out the water from
| Silver creek and Ohio. At present local
| rains have swollen all the creeks, and flood
gates have not prevented all the roads
leading out of the city from being flooded,
some places to a depth OF ten feet. In the
vicinity of the Ninth street depot, the
water commenced rising rapidly, tonight,
and one or two houses in that vicinity
were under water. Considerable damage
will follow in case the river goes up a few
feet more.
| At Helena.
| MENrHIs, February 2l.-Thc APp"aFs
| Helena special says: The situation remains
| unchanged The river has been ON stand
| for the past a hours. The water continues
rising in the city, and is now over North
| Main street ut the Presbyterian church.
All the mills and workshops in the lower
part of the city have suspended operations,
| and many laborers are thrown out OF EN-
| ploymcnt A few more days of such dis
treSS will leave many in actual want.
| The only means OF communication be-
tween Main street and West Helena, is
Skiffs, for which there is great demand.
Business is at a standstill, with no transa-
Ctions in mercantile circles except for ac-
ual neceSSaries OF life.
| News reached Helena, this afternoon, OF
| the drowning of six children on the plan
tation of the late Col. Ellis. Charles Wash
| ingtOn, colored, when he found that the
plantation would be overtiowed last Fri
day, put his wife and six children into a
| dugout TO take them to place OF SAFETY.
| He had Just started when the dugout cap.
sized and all the children were drowned
Washington and wife were saved by cling.
| ing to the boat.
| Information is also Just received of the
drowning OF Moses Green, colored, on Dill
lard Il Coffin's plantation, on the Missis-
sippi side, by the capsizing'of dug-out.
Springfield. Ill.
SrRrNGyIELD. February 2l.-The rain of
the last 4S hours has been very disastrous
| to this vicinity. Streams are greatly swol-
len and travel impeded. 4 train going
south from here at 4:29 this morning
! found the bridge over Macoupin creek
| gone and had to return this city. IL we mt
west by way of the Wabash track, this
evening, expecting to reach st. Louis from
| Jackson.
The Macoupin creek bottoms are over
| flowed distance of five miles along the
| Chicago and Alton track. At this point
| the streams are all Overfiowed. The wagon
4 h.
and Mississippi road Is gone, and the bridge
over the south fork of the Sangamon is
impossible.
The train men on the PeEin branch of
the Wabash. say they have never seen the
! Illinois river as high. The bridge over the
Macoupin creek, on the st. Louis branch
of the Wabash, is also reported swept away.
Wabash trains continue to arrive and de-
part on time, at Springfield, but it is eH-
pected they will be interrupted. Wabash
wires are demorali2ed west. and little is
heard of the movements of trains on the
Hannibal branch.
At Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, February 2l.-The Ohio riv-
er is now higher fhan il has been since the
Hood of lS4T. At IL 80 o'clock, it WAS So
feet inches. and rising a half inch an
hour. High winds prevailed this morning
and colder weather, with light snow. This
will check the rise though not immedi-
ately as the river is still rising rapidly
above. The wind has a most injurious
effect on the railroad embankments in
Mill Creek valley. The waves tend to
crumble the banks and there are serious
fears that the track OF the Cincinnati and
Baltimore road viii be seriously injured.
1t is already abandoned. Owing to injury
to the Gest street bridge, all freight busi-
ness is suspended.
second Dispatch.
CINCINNATI, February 2l.-The Cincin-
natl, Hamilton and Dayton, the Cincin-
natl Southern and the Cincinnati Northern,
were the only roads whose tracks are free
from water The obstruction of the other