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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-05
AT SPRINGFIELD, ILL.
The Shade Trees and shrubbery Almost
Destroyed.

Destroyed.
ST LOUIS, Feb. 3.-The Republicans Spring
field, ILL.,, special says: Since early yester-
day morning a sleet and rain storm has pre-
vailed in Central Illinois, which has proved
very disastrous. During yesterday after
noon and last night rain fell in torrents. and
although the thermometer stood at and be-
low the freezing point, severe thunder and
lightning accom- panied the rain. The air
being so cold, ice quickly formed wherever
the water touched, and to-day everything out
OF doors is mass of glis-
tening ice. Tree boughs not any larger
than a persons finger, are coated
with ice measuring an inch and half in
diameter, while telegraph wires present the
appearance of fringed strips of white muslin
suspended from the poles. OF course this
great and unusual accumulation of ice has
been very disastrous TO fruit shade and for
est trees, and all kinds of outdoor bushes
and shrubs. The beautiful and extensive
shade trees which line the streets, and for
which Springfield has become famous, are
crushed, bowed and broken and well nigh
ruined. The city presents the appearance of
having been visited by destructive cyclone,
so badly are hershade trees damaged. The de-
struction is rot confined to trees alone but
to the telegraph and telephone poles and
wires. These are broken down and pros
trated in many places, so that communi-
cation anywhere by wire in either case is to-
tally cut off. Many streets were blockaded this
morning with telegraph poles, wires and
broken trees. The storm is believed to be the
worst of it's kind that ever visited this city,
which now presents picture of grand desc
lation. The forests have greatly suffered
and the clingng ice to fruit buds, which are
more or less advanced, has, it is thought
permanently killed them. While the silver
glittering spectacle is magnificent to behold
the broken trunks OF once stately shade
trees throughout the city too plainly tell of
havoc, and remind one of the appearance of
Chicago after the great fire.
The wires being down, railroads experience
much difficulty in running trains, and many
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-05

Lady st. Leonards has been divorced on
the ground of adultery.
Emperor Williams health has considerably
improved since Friday
The authorities of Neufchatei have pro-
hibited evening meetings of the Salvation
Army.
1t is stated the Gar has ordered the coro-
nation manifesto ready for signature on the
goth of February.
Bismarck's illness, although not dangerous,
is attended with much pain, and will contine
him to his room for several weeks.
Auckland Colvin, formerly English con-
troller-general, has been appointed financial
adviser of the Egyptian government
The Hungarian medical students at Paris
have been suddenly recalled with a view to
being employed in the Austrian army
King Leopold, of Belgium, has been suffer
ing during three weeks from inflammation
of the intestines, butts now quite GONZALES
cent.
The London Economist says the attention
of financial circles is drawn to the high
dividends paid by American land and cattle
companies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-05
How Looked Yesterday.

CLEVELAND, Feb. 4.-The fire at the
Standard Oil Works has nearly exhausted
its material The scene of the confagration
resembles chaos A gentleman we'll in
formed on such matters says it will take two
years to restore the works as they were two
Iyany, tlfrnAa mUru 0u,vUv uarreIs Vi
oil were burned, and says the loss cannot be
stated rill the food subsidies and careful
examination is made. The fire is still
burning in spots, and tonight
illumines the wrecks of ten receiving tanks
twenty to thirty stills. and other smaller
works. mostly enumerated last night. Three
hundred thousand dollars is probably a mod
crate estimate of the company's loss
The great flood reached its highest point
about noon to-day, when the river was ten
feet higher than ordinary stage in places, and
the fats covered with lumber yards, ele-
vators, iron works machine shops. -four
mills packing houses, factories of various
sorts, and railway freight houses, were more
or less submerged, The water is receding to-
night. but the extent of the damage cannot
be ascertained for several days. 1t is esti-
mated that %, 900 feet of lumber, antA O.
10000 to 100000 shingles were washed
away from the lumber yards.
The Valley road is several feet under water
for mile and its bridge near Weghlock was
swept away.
The New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio rail
ways old freight house is four feet under
water, which reaches within few inches of
the floor of t...1 2@w freight house, which is
submerged to the floors. The company re-
fuses freight for the present
About fifty horses, stabbed at the lumber
yards, stood all night in water up to their
breasts and were rescued with difficulty to-
day. having to swim several hundred feet to
reach place of safety.
Two mills of the Cleveland PAPER Com
pany, containing about forty tons of manu-
featured paper are in water nearly to the
top of the first story.
Less damage was done to shipping than
feared. The tug Florence was torn loose,
capsized and sunk. Schooners and steam
boats were rudely tossed about, but most
rode through with slight or no injury. The
lower Central railway bridge is broken, the
approaches gone, and the draw turned as if
TO let vessels pass. The district is all ahoat.
and its present appearance is that of lake
dotted with the chimneys of furnaces roofs
of houses and lumber piles securely
anchored
The infrmary farm, on the rivers edge, is
submerged. The freshet is the most destruct-
i've ever known, and the water higher than
since the great food of 1859, some think
higher even than then. The damage can
scarcely be less than 81 0000 00 and may be
much greater. Rain ceased to fall at 3
O'Clock this morning, and the weather turned
rapidly colder.
One family living on the lowland was res
cued by boat; prisoner in the station near
Brooklyn was also taken out in boat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-05
AT BRADFORD, PA.


Five Hundred Families Driven from Their
Homes by the Waters.
BRADFORD, Feb 4.-Bradford was visited
on Saturday night by a disastrous flood,
which inundated about five hundred homes
along Pearl, Globe, Boyleston, Ann, Flor
ence Pine, Main and other streets. The
lower part of the city was submerged in
some cases to the depth of ten feet The
flood was caused by the rains of Friday and
Saturday, and the melted snow, in the noun
tains. Five bridges were swept away and
several houses along the banks of the creek
badly damaged or totally destroyed. Eighty
five families on the flats between here and
Tarport, living in one-story houses, had to
flee for their lives when the ice gorge broke,
leaving all their effects, while many of the
houses were swept away. 1t is impossible to
estimate the total loss at this time. The
waters are now subsiding, and all fears of
further trouble are over
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most disastrous ever known. This morning
the ice gorge gave away and carried with it
thousands of saw-logs, besides houses,
bridges and every thing adjacent. Families
who supposed the danger past went back
to their houses, and were afterward rescued
from the second stories by men in boats.
At Franklin, Pa, the water is within two
feet of the great flood of 1865. The ice in
French Creek come out this morning carry
ing with it the two center spans of Upper
French Creek bridge on which were two men,
who escaped with slight injuries. A num-
Der of tanks and derricks were also carried
away. All the houses along French Creek
are Inundated
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somewhat improved. The embargo on rail-
way travel, at least so far as the trunk lines
radiating from here are concerned, has been
raised to-day. All belated and snowed-in
trains have arrived Generally the incoming
trains are two to six hours late. The outgoing
trains all left on time. There is little i'm
provement in the telegraphic situation. The
Western Union has no wire to Cleveland or
Cincinnati, only one fitful connection with
st. Louis, and one New York and Washington
wire, on which the Associated Press report is
being received.
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NORrHEAsTERN OHIO.


Railway Tracks Submerged. Bridges Swept
Away and Great Damage Inflicted.
CLEVELAND Feb 3.-The heavy rains have
done vast damage throughout this part of
the State and western Pennsylvania. Ali
streams are extraordinarily high, bridges
carried away, farms inundated, and much
property, including live stock, lost.
A Mansfield special TO the Leader reports
that two freight trains went through
bridges near there. One brakeman was
killed and another lost a leg. Three other
bridges between there and Alliance, on the
Pittsburg Fort Wayne & Chicago road, are
washed away, and passengers have been
transferred over the New York, Pennsvl-
vania e. Ohio.
A Delaware special to the Leader reports
the Olentanzy river raging, the freshet being
the worst ever known. The suspension
bridge was swept away, and two other bridges
are expected 10 go. Families living near the
river rescued in boats Acres of meadow
land are inundated, and houses and thou
damaged
A Mount Vernon special to the Leader re-
ports the Kokomo river booming One
house is surrounded by water and the family
is in the upper story cut off from help A
bridge on the Baltimore & Ohio was carried
away while freight train No. IS was crossing
The locomotive and forward part of the
train are sunk out of sight; all the train
hands escaped except a brakeman named
Hartman, who was drowned.
A Madison special reports that an ice
gorge formed in Grand River, which swept
away part of a sawmill and crib obtaining
about 1000 bushels of corn The Clyde
bridge was carried two miles, and the bridge
at Rogers Corners is reported gone
A Strasburg special to the Leader reports
two bridges on the Cleveland, Tuscarawas
Valley e. Wheeling railroad gone and the
track badly washed out. Trains suffered
greatly.
An Olmsted Falls special to the Leader
says: THE bridge at Westview, the one
over Plum creek, May & Co.'s saw mill, and
two bridges near Cedar Point were swept
away"
A Warren special to the Leader says West
lakes rolling-mill is two feet and the New
York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railway four feet
under water The factories on the flats are
so inundated that work must be suspended
for several days
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-05
Reopening Communication.

Special g the Indianapolis Journal
SPRING TELD, ILL.,, Feb 3,-To-night at 10
O'Clock wire was got into. position by way
OF the Ohi1 & Mississippi road, being the
first communication this city has had since
Friday night at 11:30. The city is laid under
huge coat of ice, telephone and telegraph
lines are tangle in the streets, shade and
ornamental trees are almost broken down.
The loss in the city is beyond calculation.
The first train over the Wabash road since
Friday night went west this evening at
O'Clock. Reports of damage to stock are nu-
merous, and orchards throughout central Illi-
nois are doubtless ruined. No loss of life
is reported The sun shown all day, but
has not moved the heavy weight OF sleet that
covers everything
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-05
-~-ss and Personalities.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-Mr. James P Voer
hees, the talented son of Senator VOORHEES,.
has open a studio in this city for the practice
of sculpture.
7. H. Sharpe and daughter, of Indianap-
oils, are guests at the Riggs House.
1t is believed upon pretty good authority
that the contest over the Logansport post
office, which has waxed warm for weeks past.
will end in the retention of E. n Talbot
the present incumbent.
Thebatun Lucas has been commissioned
postmaster at Cory, and John Wadsworth
at Ragelsville
The President has pardoned William G.
bradley, OF Kentucky, a postmaster under
indictment for embezzlement
Among the Presidents callers on SATURDAY.
were ex-senator Mcdonald, ex-Minister John
w. Foster and Governor Foster of Ohio
Ticket sellers OF Fords Opera-house testi.
fed before the Bailey investigating commit
tee that they had honored orders for tickets
signed by the chief clerk of the House, Bal
ley, and that the orders had been turned
in to the gas company as cash.
The annual report of the Commissioner OF
Patents shows: Total receipts 81, O09, 219; ex
penditures, 1858, S67; balance IN the treas
ury on account of patent fund, 81, POS, 4
AL; total number OF, applications reouir(
ing action, &c, ia; total patents granted, 20,
51S. ~
The pension appropriation bill appropri
ates $S6, 575, 000 and reappropriates Sis 900
900 unexpended balance
The organized and unorganized militia
force of the country numbers $780, 900 men
available for military duty.
The Army and Navy Register says: "The
Senate will permit the pay department of tn,
army to be gradually reduced, but will not
permit it to be abolished"
Some of the members of the House military
committee have this week made several at
tempts to secure special meeting OF tho
committee, to take action on the bill to place
General Grant on the retired list, but these
attempts have been unsuccessful Several
members have declined to attend the meet
ings.
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Steamship News.

- LIVERPOOL, Feb. 3.-Arrived; Jesse, iron
Galveston.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 4-Arrived CASPIAN
from Liverpool.
LONDON, Feb. S.-Arrived: Wisconsin. Can
ada, State of Alabama, from New York.
New YORK, Feb. 3.-Arrived: Castor from
Amsterdam; Rotterdam, from Rotterdal!l,
QUEENSTOWN, Feb. Arrived. Parthis
City of Chester, Republic, Rugia, from New
York. Sardiniani from Portland =
New York, Feb. ARRIVED: Switzer
land, from Antwerp; Canada, from London
Catalonia, from Liverpool; Leerdam, froti
Rotterdam 's sic'4
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-05
AT NASHVILLE.
A Number of Stores and Warehouses De
stroyed, Causing Heavy Loss.

stroyed, Causing Heavy Loss.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. AT 3 o'clock
this morning fire originating in stable on
Front street spread to adjoining buildings
until nearly the entire block bounded by
Front, Broad, Market and Wharf streets was
in ruins. The buildings destroyed were oc-
cupied by Diehl & Lord, ale bottlers; the
capitol warehouse; Dudley Brothers and
Lipscombs q Lowenstein. hides and produce
dealers; Lowenstein d Hirst; Aliens livery
stable; w. Weitzel's machine shop; b. S,
Woods foundry, and Byrne Brothers gro
ceries. A falling wall seriously injured two
fremen. Over forty horses were burned in
a livery stable, The Capital warehouse was
full of cotton and tobacco all of which was
destroyed. Loss, 5000 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-05
Fleeing the Wrath to Come.

DUBLIN, Feb. 4.-Over one hundred per-
sons, suspected of connection with secret or
CARNATIONS, have fed the city. 1t is believed
they have not yet succeeded in quitting the
kingdom. The police have ten more war
rants and search is being made in Birming-
ham, London and Manchester for the per-
sons against whom they have been issued
Three informers will be produced to-mor-
row or Saturday next if the inquiry be adj
journed to that day, who will give further
details concerning the existence of the muir
dsrous organization.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-05
THE FRENCH BUGABoo,
Prince jerome Removed to an Asylum-The
Expulsion Bill.

Expulsion Bill.
PARIS, Feb. 3.-During the removal of
Prince Jerome to Auteuil strong guard was
placed to prevent his escape. No visitors
are allowed to enter the asylum where the
Prince is placed. The Prince became very
detected.
The Senate decided that the committee on
the expulsion bill shall be elected on Mon
day. The Right advocated Monday, and the
Left Thursday. The Left Center pronounces
against the bill. but will accept a COM
promise rendering the measure impersonal
and general and not directed against partlcu-
lar persons.
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ELSEWHERE.
Destructive Fire Among Dry Goods Houses
in Jersey City.

IN Jersey City.
JERSEY CITY, Feb. "A fire, starting in
the show window of the millinery establish
ment of L, Seabrinski, soon destroyed that
place. together with the clothing store of G.
W. Clerihew, dry goods house of Cowan &
Monkey, wholesale grocery store of Hugh
Cassidy, and large tenement house, which
carried the flames to the clothing house of H.
Strahl & Son, whence they spread to the
fancy dry goods house of Alfred Burton.
which was wiped out; likewise the fancy dry
goods establishment of Andrew Spot & Co.,
and the confectionery store of Charles Pep
per. The flames then attacked the fancy
goods store of Charles P. Friend Here the
tiremen, aided by brick buildings, obtained
the mastery The loss on property is $685.
900; insurance about two-thirds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-05
Damage at Lafayette and Vicinity.
,ecial IN the Tndiananolla Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Feb. 4.-The damage by
the flood here has been heavy. Besides the
breaking down of telegraph and telephone
wires, as we'll as trees, the streets have been
greatly damaged. The ice gorges along the
Wabash river backed the water out of its
banks and damaged quantity of mill feed
in Junkins's mill, this city; An iron bridge,
was carried away. Several families along the
Wabash bottoms were compelled to forsake
their homes on account OF the water. Lin
wood and Chauncey, suburbs, are greatly
damaged. The water is only four feet lower
in the Wabash than eight years ago. when it
was at is highest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-05
The Loss Caused By an Exploding Lam

DALLAS Tex Feb. "a lamp exploded in
the store of J. T. Nolen, at Denton, last
night, causing destructive fire Following
is a list of the heaviest losses and insur-
ance:
]. T. Nolen, dry goods and clothing; loss,
including building, $4,000; Insurance. $12,
800 Fair, Peery & Shelton, on building
5000; insurance, $500. Carter & May, grocer
les; loss $4,000; Insurance, $1,000. William
Misplay, timer; loss on tools and stock $3.50
II. H Lawson, damage to brick building
$3.50; fully covered by insurance. Mr.. Carl
P. Site lost about 5000 worth of hides which
were stored in the cellar OF one of the burned
buiIdinos
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-05
Along the Allegheny.


PITTsBuRG, Feb. 4-The mild weather and
heavy rains of the past week caused the AL
legheny river and tributaries to overflow
their banks, washing away bridges, houses,
barns, and doing damage to property be-
tween Pittsburg and Oil City to the extent of
several hundred thousand dollars The
change came so suddenly and unexpectedly
that parties living along the river were una
BILE to prepare for the great rush of water
and ice, and in some instances people
hardly escaped with their lives. The
river commenced rising here this morning
but no danger was apprehended until this
afternoon, when the volume became so large
that all the retail coal-dealers' barges and
about twenty RATS of lumber were swept
away in few minutes, entailing a loss of
about 100000. No other damage has Sesulted
here yet but as the river was twenty-two
feet at IL o'clock tonight and still rising at
the rate of five inches an hour, the amount of
damage that may be done can only be mag
ined. The lower portions of Allegheny City
and the South side are already Threatened
with inundation, and the residents are NOV
ing to safer quarters.
At points above the damage at present is
estimated at $3.50 000 At Parkers Pa. the
River avenue the water is from six inches to
six feet deep. The stores are all flooded. Six
occupied houses and number of unoccu-
pied buildings were swept away. As far as
known, no lives were lost. Families and
merchants are moving to the bluffs.
In Freeport at 10 p. NJ the water was still
rising, with thirty-eight feet in the river
The lower portion of the town was sub
merged, and the residents leaving. At EN-
lentor bridge with four men on it was
washed away. Three are known to have
been saved.
AT Foxburg the water is on River avenue.
rhe trestling and Shannew bridge has been
carried off
At Kittanning there is great excitement,
and the town is partially inundated
Compromising creek, at Butler, is
higher than for twenty-five years. pier of
the Pittsburg bridge was washed away, and
several bridges above are reported wrecked
Clarion river, with fifteen feet OF ice,
started at l o'clock this afternoon, and car
ried with it boats RATS and timber valued at
$4,000.
At Bradford, nearly half the business
streets are under water. The floods are the
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AT AKRON, o.
Great Damage to Property, Accompanied by
Loss of Life.

AKRON, o., Feb. 3-Rain beginning Friday
night fell rapidly on the frozen ground until
this morning. This entire region was
flooded and rains have continued most of the
day. Springfield lake is reported to have
burst the Little Cuyahoga rising three feet
in four minutes in the Sixth Ward or Mid
<lebury, being five times the usual volume.
Most OF the factories in that section of the
city are submerged The Akron Hydraulic
Company's new dam is washed away. At the
old forge the banks of the old mill-race
burst, flooding the New York, Pennsylvania
u Ohio and Valley railroad tracks, disabling
the latter badly The bridge of the Pitts
burg, Cleveland & Toledo railroad is also
threatened. Near where the river crossed
Howard street the embankment backing up
the water half mile, draining 5000 acres,
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Ocean Perils.

LoDoN Feb, 3.-The British steamer Hllda,
plying between the island of Jersey and
Southampton, ran into and sunk an unknown
French ship. A boat containing two officers
and three seamen was launched from the
Hilda to attempt the rescue of the French
crew. but was unsuccessful.
The steamship James Gray foundered. The
officers and crew were lost
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AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON.
Concluded from First Page.

Concluded from First Page
aract which threatend to totally obscure the
sight of one eye, was successfully removed
yesterday, and the surgeons give every reason
to believe that his sight will soon be fully re-
stored. The operation, which was a very
delicate one, was performed by the we'll
known specialists, Drs. Mannion and Loring-
Aside from the confinement to a dark room
for some days, it is believed General Dunn
will suffer no other inconvenience.
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leading to this city have abandoned almost
everything but the regular passenger trains
1t has been sieeting and freezing all day
with the wind from the northwest, so that
more damage is probable, and the bespanged
forests are likely to retain their beautiful
covering for an unusual length of time. At
this writing. P. NJ, a driving sleet is coming
from the northwest, with indications of turn
ing clear and much colder. There are
rumors of loss Of life, but these are not veri-
fed by inquiry.
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Another Warming for the Gar.

ST., PETERSBURG, Feb. A solemn warn
ing, printed on fine vellum, has reached the
Gar and his cabinet, claiming univer-
sal suffrage as a right of the people;
also, the right to own land,
freedom of conscience, of the press, public
meeting, etc. If these demands are not
granted before the coronation of the Car,
the revolutionary committee sending the
warming threaten violence.