Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-08


raised and large qusntity Of provision,
collected for the relief. There are Al
least three hundred families thrown out
OF homes and they win have to be cared
for.
Yesterday when the Lake Shore bridge
went down, the cars struck the Wheeling
and Lake Erie bridge and moved il about
q foot. The wagon bridge is battered
some by the ice but it is safe.
The body OF child was seen floating
down the river this afternoon. All good,
in the cellars have been removed. The
loss is almost impossible to estimate but
it will probably reach 500. 900.
\ As soon as the water goes down, the
Lake Shore company will put in a switch
and u-e the Wheeling and Lake Erie rail.
road around their broken bridge.
DEFIANCE, Feb. 5. 1925 p, m.-The ice
in the Augiaize broke up last night be.
tween nine and twelve o'clock, and that
stream is now clear for two miles above
and below here. The ice in the Maumee
west OF the city is unbroken. The great
er portion OF the third ward is under
water. Turnbulrs wagon factory and
Greenler and Marshall's factories are en-
tirely inundated. Independence and
Florida, below here, are under water.
At the latter place the water from the
river has broken over into the canal and
is flooding the entire place.
The rivers here were higher last night
than ever known before. Many base.
ments on Clinton street are flooded, do.
ing considerable damage. The river is
still rising.
Several families in the third ward had
hard work to get out of their houses and
away from the water. A colored man
named Weize and his team were drowned
in the canal above the city last Friday
night and were not found until Sunday.
DIFIANCE, Feb. 8, $50 D. m.-The river
is rising rapidly nearly as high as last
night, when it reached 25 feet above low
water mark, the highest ever recorded
here. Men are now at work blasting a
gorge at English Bridge, two miles up
the Auglaize. 1t is feared should that
bridge break under ths gorge, our bridges
here will be in great danger. Measure
ment just taken show the water to be
rising four inches an hour. At this rate
it will surpass last night in four hours.
Everything that can is being moved to a
place of safety. Marshall & Greenler's
stave factory is five feet under water.
Considerable excitement prevails.
DEFIANCE. Feb. 6-10:30 a. m.-The
river has kept up steady rise and is now
twenty feet above low water mark East
Defiance Is one vast lake. There is one
foot of wster in the Turnbull wagon
works. The lower portion of the Balti.
more & Ohio bridge is under water. The
water is within ten inches of the Hop
kins street bridge. Pieces of bridges
from above are coming down. Should
the ice gorge above US break nothing can
save the three bridges across the Au.
glaize.
DEFIANCE, o., Feb. 60 a. m.
This morning found no material change
in the situation at this point. The water
in both the Auglaize and Maumee COM
menced rapidly rising last evening, and
during the night reached a point even
higher than it was on Sunday night.
East Defiance was again inundated, and
it was feared that the Hopkins street
| bridge. the new iron bridge, and the
Maumee wagon bridge, would all be
swept away, but they are still standing
and apparently uninjured. The B, & O.
railroad bridge across the Auglaize has
been seriously injured by the moving ice
and no trains are permitted to cross it.
The bridge has long since been consid-
cred dangerous one, and every year it
has been expected to 60 out with the ice.
The ice in the Auglaize is still gorged
at what is known as the English bridge
about three miles above the city and the
bridge is in great danger, 1t being thought
impossible to save it. Men were at work
yesterday afternoon blasting the ice at
that point, but no good was accomplished.
1t is feared that when the ice does come
down, it will make a clean sweep of all
bridges across the river. The ice in the
Maumee above the Auglaize is still un.
broken, but the water has raised to an
unprecedented height and it is constant
ly expected to go out. A gorge is also
reported in the Maumee above the city,
which is liable to break and come down
at any time.
| The damage to the manufacturing in
terests situated along the banks of the
river is large. Most of the yards we're
filled with logs and lumber, and it is ex-
pected that considerable amount has
been carried away by the high water. No
one is known to have been injured, but
several narrow escapes are reported.
Trees have been upturned at the roots,
and out t-houses and barns carried away.
Stock in stables have suffered severely
and considerable loss by drowning is re-
ported.
The junction, Florida and Sharon
bridges across the Auglaize are reported
carried away.
| DEFIANCE, Feb 60 o m.-The con-
dition of the river at 0 p. m. tonight is
extremely dangerous, The water has
risen during the day to a height of q
| feet above the low water mark. The
gorge at the county bridge ON the Au-
glaize extending five mile south has not
broken. Two spans OF the iron bridge at
| the junction, nine miles above, lies in
the gorge. Should this go out before the
water falls the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road bridge, the Hopkins street bridge
and the new iron one over Second street
are doomed. Over one hundred families
in East Defiance are homeless to night,
only the roof Of many houses is visible.
The gorge two miles west of Napoleon on
the Maumee extends 10 miles westward
solid field of ice. The people Of Florida,
nine miles below are i in pitiable condi-
tion. Twenty families were obliged to
seek refuge in church on the hill. The
bridge at that point is raised from the
abutments and rests on the ice. We look
for no relief here until this is broken.
BETTsvILLE, Feb. 5.-This section OF
country witnessed one of the most de.
structive sleet storms on Friday night
ever known.
The new iron bridge across the Sandus.