Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-08
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. The Angry Waters. Property Swallowed Up in
 the Floods. Houses and Bridges Swept Away. Hundreds of Thousands of
 Dollars Lost. THE MURDER TRIALS AT DUBLIN. Witnesses Trained to Tell
 Their Stories.
THE FLOODS.

Water in ProfusIon-FnmfIIes Driven
 from their HOmes-Houses Buried in
 the Water-Brtdges Swept Away in the
 Rushfng Streams-Grent Destruction of
 Property.
 DEFIANCE, O., Feb. 7.-The devastation by
 floods continues. Many more families have
 been compelled to abandon their homes and
 & hundred families are now homeless, many
 houses being buried in water up to the sec-
 ond story. The cellars of the business
 houses on Clinton street are flooded and the
 water is over Front and Water streets. It is
 impossible to estimate the damage till the
 water goes down. The ice has not moved any to-day. The bridges with the exception
 of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridge have thus far escaped. The town of Florida, nine miles below here, is in a most pitiable condition. there being not 8 house in town but what is inundated. Twenty families are huddled together in the church on the hill. The bridge was moved of it's abutments and is resting on the ice. A gorge has formed two miles above Napoleon extending this way ten miles. No relief is expected here until the ice is broken. A heavy iron bridge at the junction, nine miles above here, together with bridge at Oakwood, have been carried off.
 WHEELING, W. VA, Feb. Word has been received here that Marietta is almost wholly under water. The telegraph offices are submerged and much damage is feared. The Ohio is rising rapidly all along. At Brownsville, Pa., it rose six feet since yester- day.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 7-The r1ver is again rising from last nights rain. The telegraph lines are prostrated by the sleet, forty miles of wire being down in different directions.
 PITTsBURG, Pa, Feb. 7.-The floods are becoming vexatious if not serious again in both the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers. The Alleghany, which had subsided, is rapid Iy rising and residents in the houses on the river front are removing pianos and furni- ture to the upper stories, tearing up carpets and generally preparing for serious inunda- tion. Herr's Island, an Alleghany insulated suburb, has been evacuated. The river is flowing very rapidly, but the water is clear of ice and no wrecking nor loss of life is re- ported. The Monongahela is rising rapidly gahela front of the city who are kept advised of the condition of the water above predict thirty three feet by morning. This would inundate part of the city and come within two feet of the greatest flood known, that of 1oOHs 1IdvS1 ONSG LUG OIA44UA4AC40 OE40E0 Ado T been stopped and the old structure over which the new bridge is building has been anchored within chains and cables. Part of it. however, rests on scafolding in the stream and it<is fearSd that when heavy body of water comes down the current will carry the supports away and allow the old bridge to go and do serious injury to the iron work of the new bridge. All the steamboats in the harbor have steam up and fully manned ready to run for safety when the crisis comes. Many cellars in the lower part of the city are already flooded through the sewers.
 CINCINNATI, Feb. Fifty coal barges, one half of them loaded, were swept away to- night. Loss $50, 900.
 CINCINNATI, Feb. 7.-F1ood disasters in all directions are very great, but on account of the prostration of the telegraph lines details are very meagre. Marietta, O., is so far submerged that the telegraph office had to be The flood is sweeping down the river with rapidity and over fifty-five feet of water is expected when it reaches here. This will wash out the tenement houses in the lower part of the city. There is great damage all along the Ohio river. The Muskingum and Big Sandy are also contributing to extend the high water troubles. There has been so much rain that the ground is so spongy that tele graph poles are easily carried down. In many places all the lines and many miles of poles are lying flat on the ground, having been carried down by the weight of the wires covered with heavy sleet.
 BEL1AIRE, O., Feb. 7.-The central part of this city is flooded and many families are driven from their houses. The waterworks are flooded and the reservoir is empty. Many factories have been suspended and all trains are late. Navigation is stopped. Four more feet of water is expected in the Ohio river, which will cause large damage to man. ufactories.
 WHEELING, w Va, Feb. 7.-The Ohio at this point IS thirty six feet six inches high and stationary. Reports from above are that the MononRahela is rising rapidly and that the river here will rise six feet, which will submerge all the island portion of Wheeling. No material damage has been done yet.
 PORT DEPOSIT, Md, Feb. 7.-Great excite ment prevails here on account of the present condition of the ice in the Susquehanna riv- CT. which is of such a nature that a most dangerous flood is expected before many hours. The places of business which are most exposed to the ice are Samuel c. Row lands wharf, where steam blaming mill IS situated and several million feet of lumber is piled on the river draft Davis < Sons wire house and lumber yard. which also borders on the river, and J. J. Buck s steam saw mill, as well as stores and dwellings on the lower side of Main street. The back ice that has ceen coming down the river IS now packed from shore to shore to 8 depth of five or six feet for distance of three miles. The riv- CT has risen rapidly sincef5 o'clock last even ing and the water is now within five inches of the highest wharf in town. The vast body of solid ice between Nit. Arrst and Havre de Grace remains firm and unbroken, and it is feared that unless the back ice finds vent soon the water will break into the town. At Columbia, Pa, the river, which at this point is about one and quarter miles wide, has risen about four feet and the broken ice was moving thick and fast this morning.