Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-22
HIGH WIND AND SNOW.

Iuo WInus accompanied Dy QrlVlng snow, blew
gale from the north northeast and the sea
on Lake Superior ran high. All the ice in the
harbor was broken up and the shipping lying
here for the winter Is now riding freely at
anchor or alongside the docks. The temporary
suspension bridge over the canal was badly
damaged and left almost impossible. A wood
scow was torn from her moorings and thrown
on the beach, where she was tied up in safety.
A pair of large floating boxes, owned by VIII
liams Upham, and used as dry dock, were
driven out of the canal and totally wrecked
upon the beach. The wind and waves have
formed huge breakwater of Ice barges along
the exposed shore. Considerable snow has
fallen during the day and sleighing Is now
good and the prospects for the lumbermen are
frightened.
CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS.
CHICAGO, Feb. 21.-The great storm has
reached Chicago, and after raining steadily
yesterday and last night, the weather has
grown much colder and snow has been falling
since early this morning. Telegraphic COM
muication in most all directions is seriously
interfered with, or entirely cutoff. A private
dispatch from Rock Island, Ills, says the
storm ragged 30 violently there last night that
part of the great government bridge, solid
IL
Advices from Vandelia, Ills, says the river is
out of It's banks, and the Sea House land,
comprising and area of some thee or four
miles square, is one vast sheet of water. An
immense amount of live stock and lumber has
been swept away. The water<is higher than
at any time since 1875, and it is still rising.
1t is greatly feared that some of the bridges
on the National road will be swept away. At
Cartinville, Ills, 1t has rained for forty-eigh
hours. All trains have been abandoned,
bridges and houses have been swept away, and
great damage has been done to the farmers
situated on the low lands.
HELENA, ARK.
HELENA, Ark, Feb. 2l.-The situation
remains unchanged. The river has been on
stand the past twenty-four hours. The water
continues rising in the city and is now over
North Main street at 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 employment.
Few more days of such distress will leave
many in an actual state of want. The only
means oi communication between Main street
and West Helena is by skiffs, for which there
is great demand. Business is at standstill.
No transactions in mercantile circles except
for the actual necessaries.
News reached Helena this afternoon of the
drowning of six children on the plantation of
the late Col Ellis. Charles Wash.
ington, colored, when he found the
plantation would be overlooked last
Friday put his wife and six children in dug
out to take them to place of safety. Hehad
just started when the dug out capslzed and all
the children drowned Washington and wife
were saved by clinging to the capsized boat.
Information has also just been received of the
drowning of Moses Green, colored, on
billiard and & Cof1n's plantation by the cap
sizing of dugout.
HELENA, Ark, Feb. 21.--The entire lower
portion of the city is submerged, and the only
means OF communication with West Helena Is
by means of skiffs and other small craft. The
prospects are very gloomy, as the oil mills,
foundries and other industrial establishments
are closed, and many wOrkmen and laborers
are thrown out of employment. There can be
little doubt but that great restitution will re-
suit among the working classes of this city.
NMw ALBANY, IND.
New ALBANY, Ind, Feb 21.-This city is
now partially under water and the damage
done up to 6 o'clock last night can hardly be
computed. If the river rises five feet more the
furnaces in DePower's glass works will be de-
stroyed, the fires put out, and damage to the
amount of $4,000 be done. Already the
damage in this factory has been great. At 10
O'Clock the water was rising rapidly, covering
the pavements along the levee from upper
Fifth street to lower Third, making this part
of the city impossible. The water has almost
reached the railroad track at Jacksonville de-
pot on State street. The buildings and resi-
dents along Wafer street from lower Third are
flooded and some 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 latter firm
will suffer seriously by loss of timber.
Hedge & Waters foundry and machine works
were obliged to suspend, their ground being
completely inundated. It will take seven or
eight feet of rise to close the forge works.
great unless the rise is higher than in 1857.
amount of harm. The air line railway
alone was damaged about $4,000 this
evening by the washing away
of nearly 100 feet of trestle work between low
er Seventh street and the pike. Old steam
boatmen and observers of the river and wealth
the river will be az high as in 1882, the winter
being much like that year.
JEFFERsoNvILLE, IND.
JGrEEhsONVAALE, AuusS Ecu. -lue uOOQ
in the Ohio river has not done any material
damage in Jacksonville or vicinity up to
late hour tonight. The lumbermen and
bargemen are busy removing lumber to pre-
ventits washing away. and are fighting the
water to prevent It's entering the sewers which
drain their sawmills. The loss will
be considerable. The Jacksonville Car
works will probably have to close, on account
of water. 1t is back water that generally
does the most damage in Jefferson. The Ohio
banks on that side are higher below the city.
At the "Y'' on the line of the Jeffersonville
road the flood gate has been put up to keep
out the water from Silver creek and the Ohio.
At present local rains have swollen all the
creeks, and the food gates have not prevented
all the roads leading out of the city from
being flooded, some places to the 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 are
under water near the springs. Considerable
damage will follow in case the river goes up
few feet more.
FLOOD IN THE OHIO.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 21.-The Ohio river is
now higher than 1t has been since the great
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