San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-08
FIRES AND CAsUxLTIEA

| ing, when 10 stood sixty-siA iooo INV i"'N,
inches Contributions Of $4,000 were re-
ceiyed from various cities, and the ITO
saving crew of Cleveland arrived With lts
apparatus The Mayors of Jefiersonville ana
New Albany sent dispatches to all tho
chief cities, asking for aid for the suiferers
Fire damp or sewer gas caused an explosion
In house ut Cincinnati, shattering INC
structure, killing three persons, and wound
ing many others The rivers are rising ~
Pittsburgh and Louisville, and the wabash
Muskingum and Licking are adding their
quota TO the inundation Jeifersonville and
New Albany, Ind, are entirely surrounded,
and Marietta and GAINESVILLE are also
| flooded"
The mill of the Worsted Company NJ
Providence, r. L, was damaged $40, ooo by
| fire
Trains on the Great Western railway
collided near Dundas, Ontario, killing an en-
gineer and two passengers, and wounding
seven Others.
Cincinnati dispatches of Feb. II report
a comforting condition of affairs consequent
upon the marked subsistence OF the waters
New Albany was in sore distress, and
special committee had appealed for relief
Along the Ohio southwark many small towns
were partly submerged The sudden thaw
raised the rivers generally In the Northwest
and gorges caused the wrecking Of bridges,
two being destroyed at Joliet, and sections
of the town inundated. Similar accidents
occurred ut other Illinois towns, and rail-
road tracks were washed out
Near Gallon Ohio, six cars of an express
train were ditched, killing three persons
and wounding many others.
An ice-gorge in the Maumee river, at
Toledo, broke few nights ago, and precip-
itated q great rush Of water down the
stream. Five bridges were swept away, and
the total loss Of property by the flood Is
estimated at 100000. At Cincinnati,
ON Feb. 10, the river had receded
several inches, and business was being re-
sumed The houseress ones at New Albany
were suffering greatly by the cold snap,
and the condition Of the city was deplor-
able At Louisville the falling of the
river occasioned general gladness, and
no disasters had occurred The loss by
the flood at Lawrenceburg, Ind, was esti-
mated ut more than $780, eco, and at equally
as high a figure at Jacksonville. The dam
age by che waters along the Ohio, between
Cairo and Pittsburgh, will not fall far short
of slO,OOO,OO0
AT Brackett Texas, four small children
of Michael Mcdonald were burned in bed by
the explosion Of lamp
Fire destroyed the United States Iron
and Tin-plate Works near McKeesport, Pa.
Loss, 500, 600; insurance, $4,000.
"A sleigh was struck by a locomotive at
Wallingford, Ct, killing two boys and girl
An Indianapolis journalist, after travers-
ing the flooded section of Indiana, estimates
the damage to property in the State at So
SOC, 900, as follows: At Jeffersonville $685.
600; New Albany, $7S, 1000; Madison, 500, 600;
Aurora, $4,000 Lawrenceburg, sS5O,OOO;
intervening country along the Ohio, $500, 0OO
This does not include any calculation as to
the loss from the suspension OF business
and trade, as the manufacturers cannot get
to work for month after the water sub
sides Over six thousand residences are
either swept away or desolate, and thirty
five thousand people are dependent upon
charity for food and clothing The damage
at Louisville, KY, he estimates at
100000, and at Cincinnati at twice
that amount. Cairo dispatches of
Feb 20 report the Lower Mississippi rising,
and in the district Immediately below Cairo
much damage has been done, and suffer-
ing prevails in the Kentucky lowlands.
The Mackinaw river, in Central Illinois,
has caused great devastation, $50, 600 worth
of bridges alone being wrecked. The Iro-
quois river, from the Indiana State line to
the Kankakee river, in Illinois, was re-
ported as having an overflow of un-
heard-of proportions. 1t had become a
great broad lake, submerging farms and
inundating towns and villages The city of
Watseka, ILL.,, was flooded. The Kankakee
river is also booming at tremendous rate.
The water at Memphis was eight inches
below the danger line, but the
interior was being flooded by old
breaks in the levee at Trotters Landing.
The Cincinnati Flood Relief Committee, hav-
ing resolved to use funds sent from abroad
only for the relief of neighboring cities,
issued a circular stating that they had all
the money they could judiciously use for
such purpose Liberal contributions were
being made in the large cities both East and
West, for the benefit of the flood sufferers.
The work of rescuing the bodies Of
the drowned miners of the Diamond shaft
at Braidwood was being vigorously prose-
cuted on Feb 20 The sufferers by the
calamity number thirty-four widows and
ninety orphans A special committee has
issued an appeal for aid, and bill was in
troduced in the Illinois Legislature ap-
propriating $40, 600 to relieve the distressed
Adiutant General Elliott was sent by Gov.
Hamilton to inquire into the necessities Of