The Opelousas courier., 1883-02-17
The Floods.

mark, and reported still rising. No
business was transacted i'm that city on
Change yesterday, and only retail es-
adjustments arc engaged in trade. At
least $4,000 working people in Cincin-
natl, Covington aud Newport are pre-
vented from going to work by the food.
ln the cities named over 1000 families
are shnt off from the world b. the water.
Five square miles in Cincinnati are COW
cred with water from depth of inch
to 20 feet. Many people are quartered
in the churches, halls and public bnild-
ings. All the churches and charitable
societies are busy preparing to render
assistance. The gas supply has entirely
failed. The police are patrolling the
streets in skiffs, and physicians pay their
visits in the same way. The river be-
tween Cincinnati and C0vington is like
great lake. The Cincinnati Southern
Railway is the only railway that is in
tact. No other road could get nearer
yesterday than Cummingsyille. Law
renceburg, Ind, is all under water, and
no boats can land there. Assistance
will be rendered that point from Gin
cinnati. Times Democrat, 18th.
The Ohio river has now reached the
highest food point ever known, being
65 feet, or 8 inches higher than the big
food year of 1882, the highest on record
}. hitherto, and % feet over the same date
last year. The same story of foods
comes from all of it's tributaries. The
Monongahela is % feet, the Kentucky
Al feet, the highest water ever known !;
the Cumberland Al feet inches, 8 feet
over the same date last year, and all the
smaller streams are booming.
Upon the heels of the disasters by
overflow at Cincinnati and other points
above ON the Ohio river, comes the news
of an innndation at Louisville, Ky. The
river, which was threatening at that
point all day Monday, succeeded in
breaking away dam, and with fall
of some l8 feet poured into and over
flowed the district of the city known as
the Bear Creek bottoms. The break oc-
cured at midnight, when the people
were surprised Il their beds, not sus-
pecting any danger. The water swept
rapidly from square to square, tearing
many of the houses from their founda-
tions. Skiffs were brought into requisi
tion and the people taken out of the
windows of their houses and conveyed
to more elevated spots, where, cold and
wet, they clustered about bonfires.
There is supposed to have been some
loss of life, but The number as yet can
not be estimated. Over $50 houses are
either under water or floating about.
Portland and shippingport are also
| flooded. The river continued to rise all
day yesterday and had reached a height
of 661 feet at the foot of the canal and
al feet at the head, with indications OF
an increased rise during the night. Iti
nov an inch above the food of l847 and
eight inches below the great flood OF
1882. Business is almost entirely sus-
pended and food is being distributed
Literally to the sufferers N. o. Times
Democrat, l4tll.
The accounts from Cincinnati are
still very diseouraging. 1t has been
raining all along as high up as Pitts
burg, and until it stops there is no hope
of the rivers receding. Every thing ID
being done 10 distribute food to those
in need. It is now stated that some
i fourteen boys were drowned by the
sinking of the freight depot of the Gin
cinnati Southern Railway on Tuesday
Great damage has been done to proper
/ ty at various points ON the river above
and below Cincinnati. At New Albany
the loss is estimated at $3.50, ,OOO.> The
town of Jeffersonville, opposite Louis
willie, ID said to be flooded from two tt
twenty feet in depth and some 5OOt
q people have been rendered homeless
many having lost everything in thu
world. The scenes of suffering are sait
to be appalling. The loss at this poin
will, it is said, be over 81 ,000, 900
Other points have also suffered greatly
N. %. Times Democrat, Feb. Is.
y Mr.. Edward f. Bazet has assumed th,
editorial management of the Houm'
, Courier, Mr.. ]. +. Sanders having with
q drawn fherefrom. The Courier has jus
entered its sixth year, and is a neatl.
printed and well edited newspaper.
A dispatch to a Chicago paper state
:. that Ex-Governor Warmoth has pur
chased in Maine machinery for beet
] root sugar factory on his Lonisian
! plantation.
] Capitolian- Advocate: There are Is
cadets in attendance at the Louisian
State University and Agricultural AM
Mechanical College, lI8 Of whom ar
boardere. S.
N. W.. Pope, Eaq., of West Batol