The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-01

are very busily employed repairing damages
and the prospects arc that ali trains will
running regularly in a day or two.
rise IN the river here is said by the best
steamboat men to be unprecedented. No
such amount of water was ever known to
come down so suddenly or in such short
space of time before. The rainfall was also
very unusual in quantity amount TO
within 700 of an inch of as much as the
average fall for the entire winter for the
past eleven years. Telegraph lines west of
here are still Frustrated.
SIX CHILDREN DROWNED.
LITTLE Rock, Feb. 21.-The Gazette's
Helena special says: News reached here to-
day OF an accident on the plantation OF the
late Colonel Ellis eleven miles below this
city. by which six children were drowned.
Ii seems that Charles Washington, colored,
when he found the plantation would be
overfiowed last Friday, put his wife and six
children into a dugout TO take them to
place Of safety He had Just started when
the dugout capsized and all the children
were drowned. Washington and wife were
saved by clinging to the capsized boat. The
hereaved father was Woodworking man:
Information has also just been received OF
the drowning of Moses Green, colored, on
Willard & Collins plantation, on the Mis-
sissippi side, by the capsizing OF dugouL
WIDESPREAD DEVASTATION.
The Gazette's Helena special says: THE
disaster caused by the break in the leyee nj
WilliamsOns place greatly prevented conf
munication with the outside world 10 con-
siderable extent The Iron Mountain Rail
road track is submerged and the telegraph
lines broken. The levee has been tempo
rarly rebuilt. The only line OF communl-
cation with West Helena is by means OF
skiffs and other small crafts. The prospect
is very gloomy, as the oil mill. foundry and
other industrial establishments are closed
Many workmen aud laborers are thrown
out OF employment. There can be little
doubt great restitution will result among
the working classes of this city, as it will be
at least two weeks ere the water falls sui
ficiently to permit the resumption of bust
ness. The water is still rising, and Will con-
time 10 do so as long as the
present stage prevails in the river. The
Mississippi is about on stand-still at this
point, and will probably be rising
within the next forty-eight hours. Captain
Carville, of the steamer Nick Jones, just
in from Sunk Lands, reports the river fall
ing in the ReighbOrhood of Testers Land
ing, Mo, but an immense volume Of water
pouring into St. Francis River from the
Mississippi by way of TyrOnza and Little
Rivers and Backfish and other bayous. The
outlook is not cheering for an early subsl-
dence of the flood at that place. The Off
GERS of every boat arriving at this port from
above or below bring news OF widespread
devastation everywhere. In the bottoms
contiguous to the Mississippi River 1000
horses, mules and cattle have been drowned,
miles of fencing swept away, houses de-
stroyed and corn-cribs tiOated off with their
contents in many instances leaving the PEG
pie without the actual necesSaries. What
The end of this will be none can tell, but it is
evident relief will be needed or many per
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tirely at a standStill in this city. Merchants
are Respondent but are bearing it with cour-
age.
HEAVY SNOW FALL.
GREEN BAY, Feb 21-Snow has been fall
ing here continually since o'clock last
evening Reports from neighboring logging
camps say there has been a heavy snow fall.
The prospect of a satisfactory logging bar-
vest is greatly increased.
At LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE. Feb. 21.-Buslness is played
out on the wharf to-day owing - the river
being too high The canal marks showed
thirty-fve feet and two inches, and rising at
the rate Of an inch an hour. with thirty
three feet in the chute on the Falls and
thirty feet and four inches over the rocks.
LoUIsv1LLE.. Feb 21-At Fourth street the
water Is on the first floor of Gilmore, Hite Il
CO., one door below alley This was Just
1cor the rise of 1867 came. Early
in the day apprehensions began
to be felt that some OF the buildings would
give way and fall. +. ]. Melcher is the
owner of the tnree-story double brick on the
east side OF the street. In one side he kept
grocery and in the other ball room. Water
invading the first story in the morning, he
moved his goods up stairs. Shortly
after this he noticed crack
in the middle wall and at
once removed his family. On returning
the crack had widened to two or three
inches, and in great alarm he hunted up
Life-savers Devan Tully and Gillooly anG
his goo@s. They took life-boat
and bags, and rowing out in front of the
house, proceeded to get out goods through
the serond-story windows. There were four
families living over the bar room part and
two over the grocery-Melcher's and
another One large load was taken out
including Melcher's piano and fine furni-
tuTe, and taken to the shore and landed, and
the heroes returned for a second load. Gil
loOly was in the third story, Tully in the
second, and Devan down in the boat. Only
a few things had been landed when a crash
heard. the middle wall fell, and the
whole house, from the roof to the ground
floor with all its contents, went down in the
cellar The workess had bare warning and
Gillooly jumped from the third story and
FULLY from the second through the awning
frame into the water below. Melchers aud
the other five families were without homes
or goods and the life-savers had failed to
earn their $500.
From the foot of First street clear up to
the cutoff ridge every building along the
river front is under water, and many houses
and coal offices have been washed
away, and are drifting aimlessly around
against coal BRACES and boats. The embank-
ment of the Short Line Railroad has been
washed away up to the ends of the cross
ties, and the destruction of the track is
threatened every moment
CALLS FOR RELIEF.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 21.-A Helena Ark spec
ial says: The day opened with a strong
wind blowing from tine north, and many
congratulated themselves the cold snap
would have tendency to check the velume
of water from the upper river, but their
hopes were dashed 10 the ground on
the receipt of dispatches announcing
floods pouring down the Ohio and Missouri
Rivers. The river here declined one-half
inch, but further material decline is not
looked for The situation is one that calls
relief from some quarter. Every day
reports reach here of numerous cases
of almost actual want among
the people, both white and black in the
c,,t oif ho-