The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Damages by the wabash Flood at
Vincennes and Points Above.
Knishtstown Reports Remarkable c>se of
Cure by Faith-News GIeanings and
Gossip from Two States
INDIANA.
Damage Along the Wabash A-om Vim
cennes to a Point Sixty Miles Above.

Damage Along the Wabash Aom Vim
cennes to a Point Sixty Miles Above.
Vincennes Sun.
The Wabash may be an insignificant
stream in the eyes of an Ohio river man, just
now, yet it has done its share of damage to
property along its course, and laid waste q
country unsurpassed Tor its fertility. There
is water everywhere, and scores of fine farms
that never before felt the force of flood are
deserted. Sun reporter, just returned from
a trip up the river, says:
The levees protecting Allison Prairie be-
gins at Jackson's hill and extends to the
village OF Russellville and is about fifteen
miles in length. A short distance above, at
Mrs Pickles farm. nearly quarter of
mile of the levee IS gone and very heavy
volume OF water pours through into the
prairie nearly every farmhouse on
the prairie being under water, and
such OF the stock as was not
destroyed has taken refuge straw stacks.
The levee Is in most dilapidated condition
aJ Belgrade Landing The water pours out
into the prairie through five or six large
openings. The village of Russelville was
never before in such a condition. The town
has the appearance OF being situated on an
island and dozen houses in the lower end
are completely at the mercy of n strong cur
rent which flows through a break in the
levee at the old mill building which stands
or the bank of the riuer. Right in the face
of this break Baptiste Trombley had two new
houses, occupied by families, and when the
levee went away these two houses went with
it, One OF them hoated quarter of a mile
down the prairie and went to pieces, and the
other lodged a couple of hundred yards from
the break
Between Russellville and Horseshoe Bend
there are few or no houses visible from the
river. Scores OF little deserted shantes were
passed.
Burnettsville is really the shakiest looking
place on the river. 1t is composed of a half
dozen houses, on the Indiana side of the
river at the Narrow gauge railway crossing.
and was, up to last Monday, occupied by
about twenty-five men. women and children.
These people were driven from their homes
by the rapidly rising waters, Saturday. They
had skitfs, but the ice was running so heavily
tibet 1t was impossible for them to go further
than tine abutment OF the railway, where
they took refuge in some box cars. with their
stock. Then the ice begun to lop off
the inland end of the railway, and had
gotten so close to them, Monday, that
a carload of stock went ont into
the prairie with the flood 1t landed right
side up, however, and the stock was saved.
The OCCUPANTS of these cars, after being in
this perilous position without food or fire two
days. were ready to despair when the good
steamer Belgrade turned into sight around a
point Then shout arose on the air and
calico huttered in the breeze as they called
the steamer to their assistance. The boat
cautiously approached them, and took all the
women and children on board. Leaving two
or three men to take charge of the stock, the
boat proceeded to Merom with its living
freight. Upon landing at Merom one of the
Burnetsvile men approached Captain
Agnew and asked him for his bill, adding
that they would pay him anything that he
asked. Your bill?' yelled the Captain,
-why that's paid long ago Don't say any
thing to me about bill"
LaMotte prairie, one of the finest regions
in Crawford county, with its fine houses and
productive farms is a perfect sea, several
tremendous breaks in the levee between
Merom and Hutsonvilie having completely
inundated it. The distress in this region is
beyond comprehension. Fences are all gone,
stock is carried away and great deal of grain
ruined. The reader can have no conception
OF the misery visible in the bottoms, and it
would be impossible to depict the scenes on
paper. There is plenty of work for relief
committees on both sides of the river, and
the sooner the work of relieving the suffer
ing is commenced, the better it will be.