Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-06
RUSH OF MIGHTY WATERS
ENORMOUS LOSS OF PROPERTY
BY THE FLOODS.

Further Particulars from Cleveland
Effects of the Freshet in Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana-Sev-
eral Lives LOst-All Sorts of Property
Damaged and Destroyed.
CLEVELAND, o., Feb. 5.-The flood was
at its height at noon yesterday. The river
was ten feet higher than at the original
stage, and the flats were covered with
lumber yards, elevators, iron works, ma
chine shops, flour mills, packing houses.
factories of various sorts, and railroad
freight houses more or less submerged.
1t is estimated that 23,OOO,OOO feet of lum-
Der, and from 100000 to 15,OOO 900 Shin
giles washed from the lumber yards in
the valley. The railroad is I'M
der water for miles, and its
bridge near Weighlock is. swept away.
Two mills of the Cleveland Paper Com
pany, containing forty tons of paper, are
in the water, which is nearly to the top of
the first story. Less damage has been
done to shipping than was feared. The
tug Florence is sunk, and schOOners and
steamboats, have been rudely tossed
about, but most of them rode through
with little injury.
The freshet is the most destructive ever
known here, and the water is higher than
since 1859, some think even higher. The
damage is about one million dollars. The
rain has ceased. and the weather is turning
rapidly cold. The heavy rains have done
great damage throughout this part of the
State and Western Pennsylvania. All the
streams are very high. Bridges have been
carried away, farms inundated, property
and live stock destroyed. Three bridges
on the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway
have been washed away. Two freight
trains went through the bridges near
Mansfield, and one brakeman was killed
and another lost a leg. A dispatch to the
Leader from Mount Vernon REPORTS the
KokOmo river booming. The bridge on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was car
ried away while freight train was cross
ing. All the train hands escaped 'eXcept
one, who was drowned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-A dispatch from
Cleveland, Ohio, says the heaviest losses by
the flood to lumber firms are as follows:
Monroe Bros, $50, ,000,; Forbes, Barshaw &
Co., $50, 600; Cleveland Saw Mill and Lum-
Der Co., $4,000; Sturtevant az Co., $40, 900;
Hawley IL Newton, $13,000 Rust, King q
Clint, $4,000. Lake Shore Railroad trains
are running partly over the Bee line.
The bridge over the Huron river is gone.
and half of the Fremont bridge is
down. The Nickel-Plate Huron
iver bridge . is expected to
be repaired to-day. On the Cleveland and
Pittsburg Road no serious damage has
been sustained, but a blockade has oc-
CURED OccasiOned by the New York.
Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad being
obliged to use portions of the road. There
is no damage to the Cleveland and Column
bus Road and trains are running on time
The passenger train on the Buffalo,
New York and Philadelphia Railway,
which left Olean at O'Clock this morning
fOr. nrrff IL all s,,AA
Ischua. Engineer Hall and Fireman
Briggs were killed, and Conductor Love
was seriously and several passengers
were slightly injured. The accident was
caused by high water undermining the
track.
Telegraph communication, which has
been utterly demOraliZed, and at times
wholly suspended during the last two
days in western Pennsylvania, eastern
and northern Ohio and Indiana, is being
restored, and the details of losses by the
flood are pouring in by the column. The
country around Cincinnati escaped dam
age. In the flooded district the waters
have come to a standstill, and in some
places they have begun to subSide, and
people are taking account Of stock.
At Wheeling, W. Va, the Ohio river is
now thirty-One feet nine inches high.
and is rising at the rate of seven inches
per hour. It's surface is mass of ice and
slush, with large quantity of drift wood,
barrels. fences and small bridges,
two wagons, passed, and shortly
after fiat with new buggy, one end
being sunk. The fair grounds of the State
Exposition Association, and other low
parts of Wheeling Island, are under water,
as well as few of the low portions of the
main part of the city.
Some of the residents of Island street,
xxrbf 1xr /, ,irrl,
water, are moving out.
At Pittsburg the loss by the flood i'm the
Allegheny river is estimated at 100000.
and number Of lives are reported lost on
wrecked barges. One bridge was washed
away, and floating down endangered the
bridges connecting Pittsburg with Allie
gheny City. The MOnongahela river has
not flooded.
The following comes from Columbus.
Ohio: Reports from all parts of Central
Ohio shOwithe highest water by from six to
twenty inches ever known. The SciOto
river here was fourteen inches higher than
ever before and the damage is enormous,
mostly to the inundated portion of the
west side. Over one hundred families had
to quit their houses. The river by noon
to-day had fallen two feet and the worst is
over.
At indianapolis the White river reached
its highest at noon to-day, the highest
point ever known. 1t has just commenced
to recede. The damage, though very
serious, cannot be estimated yet. Eight
inches of water were on the floor of the
engine house of the water works, and it
was feared the supply of water for the
city would be cut off, but that danger is
apparently over.
The Wabash river is high at all points
and two spans of the Wabash, st. Louis
and Pacific Railroad bridges are down at
Logansport. Regular trains ON the rail-
roads are abandoned, The floods through
out the State are general, nearly all the
railroads having suffered damage from
washOuts and loss of bridges, On account
of the disorder of the telegraph lines it is
difficult to get accurate information
AtCanton, Ohio, 100 houses were flooded.
Several local railroads in Ohio have suS-
pended operations, and a number of rail-
road accidents are reported, involving Oc-
casiOnal loss of life and the destruction of
an immense amount of property. The
losses directly caused by the flood or in
cidental thereto by reason of the stOppage |
of iron furnaces, foundries, mills and fac |
tories, are enormous, and it will be long
time before the total can be reached. The
estimates now coming are probably eX-
traYa0ant but the actual facts are serious |