Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-20
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. |TRR FLOODS MOVING. IA Fresh Field For The Angry Waters. OTHER CITIES NOW UNDER WATER. Houses Floating Off From
 Their Foundations. THE STORY OF THE INFORMERS. A Genuine Scare Among The|
 Conspirators.
THE FLOODS.


 THE FLOODS.
 f New Fields for the Raging VVaters-Th sA Flood Subsidfng at Cincinnatf-Bu
 Becoming Alarming at Other Points
 Great Losses to Farmers, Merchant
 and Work1ngmen.
 A CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 19.-The Ohio rive
 is falling steadily at the rate of one inch al
 hour. Most of the principal business street down to within one square of the river ar
 now clear of water. The movement tC
 spend $1,OOO,00O to repair the streets ant
 restore the sanitary condition of the city i
 generally approved. Much suffering stil
 prevails among the flood sufferers who can
 not safely inhabit their water soaked dwell #ings. The relief committee is still hard a
 work. Employment on the streets in thu
 Hooded districts will be given many of th' 9large number of men out of work by tht Sfooding of the factories. Business is being
 Presumed in the flooded district and the rail Y roads are making great efforts to restore tht
 status of traffic by tomorrow. The gas fcompany expects to supply gas to the city to Knight. The waterworks are all right.
 q TOLEDO, O., Feb. 19.-The situation of thG Mood to-day is unchanged since yesterday ex %cept that the water is still receding and z zstrong current is sweeping by the city. The Floss in bridges is estimated at $200, GOO Bother losses will be less than $5O, ,OOO The Make Shore road is running regular trains Rand the same is true of the Dayton and Mich Sigan, Pennsylvania. Wheeling and Lake Erie Hand Wabash. A large force of men are al : work clearing the middle ground of ice. q EVANSVILLE. Ind, Feb. 19.-The river is |Eforty eight feet one inch high and is rising slowly. The relief boat is making daily trips &to the batteries above and below the city. ! The weather is clear and the thermometer Atwenty six degrees above zero.
 < MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb, 19.-Steamers from Sbelow report the water seven inches below Kthe danger line. The river is within its banks Considerable confidence is felt in
 the levees, though preparations are making Hand household goods to high land. A tven- Sty inch rise will stop travel on the Memphis land Little road. Tho river at noon was two { feet ten inches below the high water mark of Blast year. It has risen @ foot in the last forty eight hours.
 N CANTON, O., Feb. 19.-The Valley railway,
 which has lost $50, GOO by the floods, was
 ready to run regularly this morning, when
 the sides of an immense cut caved in and Nifty yards of the track were covered with 2 from five to ten feet of immense blocks of t stone. The land slide will blockade the track %for day or two.
 LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 19.-The river has : fallen twenty six inches within twenty four Shours ending at o'clock this evening and is now four feet below the highest mark last week. The weather has been crisp, cool and zsunny to-day and no damage has occurred to buildings One house tumbled tn New Alba
 ny tonight, but nobody was injured. Relief 8has been sent generously to New Albany and
 Jeffersonville and the suffering in those cities has been as much prevented as possible, but relief will be needed for some atime yet, since it will be weeks before many houses will be habitable and it will require at eleast a week for the flood to abate at the present rate of decline. The Mississippi is
 rapidly rising at Cairo, which will have a sand prevent 8 rapid rall. committee of the Memphis council headed by the sMayor came to Louisville yesterday os- etensibly to see what assistance was needed by Hthe flood sufferers. It turns out to-day that the object of their visit was to com promise their city debt. They succeeded in seffecting compromise with the creditors to the extent of $1OO,OOO at five cents on the dollar and have gone east in search of the sufferers.
 The Commercials specials from the lower #Ohio river report the Ohio and Tennessee rivers both rising. At Paducah the river is within five inches of last winters rise and old sriver men expect it to go over foot higher;
 New Liberty, Ill.,, is entirely submerged and
 Budville, Ky, is in the same condition. The houses are floating off. Smitherland, Ky, eis also out of sight There is a heavy loss of grain all along the river. There is a reg I suIar stampede from Cairo, Ill. Citizens are leaving by every boat. The Mississippi is rising at a terrific rate and the country in all hnndod
 for miles The ferryboat Three States and severy other available craft are padding zaround over the submerged bottom lands, srescuing people, stock and household goods. sThere is great fear of the city being over Sfowed and large force of men is at work Strengthening the levee. At Columbus, Ky, ] the river has broken through the levee at sthe lower end of the place and Einundated the town. Water has taken
 possession of almost the entire river afront in Metropolis, Ill.,, and suspended work
 l in the mills and factories. Shawneetown,
 H., according to latest reports is entirely submerged and great damage is being done.
 Many of the inhabitants have retreated to the shills, carrying with them such household eff Effects as they were able to transport If the 2 river continues to rise for forty eight hours
 more the entire country above and below will
 be flooded.
 CHICAGO, Feb. 19.-A RerGld special from aSt. Louis reports that the Mlsslsslpp1 river l has fallen six inches in the last twenty four hours A flood is reported coming down
 from Louisiana, Mo-, and it is thought
 another rise will set in tomorrow morning s The alarm below here continues. The river lat Cairo is still rising at the rate of an inch Ian hour. Business men count on de- sstructive overflow. Advices from Memphis
 and towns lower down all point to wide- spread disaster as an inevitable result of the high water in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
 A Vandalia, H., dispatch says the flood isl slowly receding. On the east bank of the Ohio river there is one vast sheet of water stretching out as far as the eye can reach.
 Thousands of acres are submerged and theI less to farmers cannot be computed.
 PH1LADEIPHIA, Feb. 19.-A second meet ing of citizens for the purpose of raisingI funds for the relief of sufferers by the floods lin the Ohio valley was held at the Mayors |offics this afternoon The chairman of theI relief committee stated that enquiries had| been made of the extent of the sufferingI along the Ohio river, and in every case theI reply was that it was impossible to estimateI the suffering. The committee therefore rec .ommended action. Over $4 900 was sub lscribed by those present. A matinee will bel given at the Chestnut Street Opera House on| Tuesday, the 27th inst, the entire proceeds Iof which will be given to the flood sufferers.