Connecticut western news., 1883-02-21
THE RUSHING WATERS.
Incidents of the Terrible Flood In the Ohio
 Niver.~

THE RUSHING WATERS.
 Incidents of the Terrible Flood In the Ohio
 River.~
 The first authentic report concerning the loss of life at the Cincinnati Southern Railroad Depot was made to the police at the Oliver street station by Herman Hilsberg, a boy He says that he and his brother Joseph, and thirteen other boys were on the platform when the water broke through Mclean avenue, and that the entire party were thrown into the water that he swam to Gest street, escaped and went home, and that his brother and all the other boys were drowned. He does not know the names of the other boys. No other reports of missing boys have been made to the po- lice.
 The loss by the flood at New Albany, Indiana, is not less than $250,000. No lives have been lost. The farmers along the Ohio River suffer greatly, many losing their entire crops. Six hundred families are houseless and many are destitute. All the manufactures are stopped.
 There are nearly 90,00O workmen in Cincinnati Covington and Newport out of employment. All the factories in the city have shut down, in order to avoid the danger of water famine along with the flood. The loss to property in the same district from the direct effect of the floods will be enormous, to say nothing of the loss of time and the effects of the suspension of business. Nobody knows what the aggregate will be, but nobody puts it at less than $5,O00,OOO or $6, ,OOO,O
 On Wednesday night 1,5O0 people who had been washed out of their homes in Cincinnati by the flood, slept in churches and school houses. Fifteen hundred more were taken care of in pri- vate families.
 | A dispatch from Cincinnati says: The patience of the water-imprisoned people ! is as admirable as it is touching. A sort of grim resolution and cheerful pluck are prevalent everywhere. Nearly all the faces that look down from the windows on the people navigating the streets be- low wear smiles, while compliments and jokes are exchanged across the streets l between neighbors. For miles, where ever the flood has inundated tenanted houses, the streets are full of boats.
 There are fully forty miles of inhabited streets which can only be traversed by skiffs. Most of these boats are plying the waters on business, carrying food and fuel, and sometimes clothing-often conveying the doctor These boats never stop day or night. At night they carry lanterns through streets lighted with lanterns swung high on house. fronts, The scene would be as beautiful as it is grand were it not inseparably associ- ated with suffering, loss and destitution.
 Shippingport has been abandoned en- tirely to the destructive waters. Occa- sionally some house pops up from its foundation and is carried away. Last i night some half dozen houses were seen born upon the current past Portland.
 Thursday morning three men passed down the river upon the roof of shed, and when near the Eighteenth street bridge, across the canal, their cries at tracted the attention of young man named Robert Birch, who rescued them
 by means of skiA Their names were
 not learned.
 In one of the bonded warehouses in
 Beargrass Creek, 2,O00 barrels of whisky
 were put under water, and 150, 900 pounds
 of flour were lost.
 Great difficulty has been experienced
 in saving furniture. A method of sav-
 ing personal property in Dayton is tc
 cut holes through the upper floor witE
 an ax, break through the clustering be
 low and draw the piano up to the ceiling
 with ropes let down through these holes
 Many instruments in that village have
 been saved by suspending them above
 the water in this way.
 In one house in Louisville poor lad,
 was sick-too sick to be moved. Sh
 had several children. The lower part o
 the house was flooded, but she believed herself safe on the second story. Whel the storm came she was terror-stricken en
 The waves beat against the frame tene ment. She told one of the children t. look out of the window. Said the child ''The floor is wet; somebody has poured heap of water on it.. The child wadet : to the window. Thump, thump, cam the waves. The dwelling rocked, tn : poor woman prayed, while all outsid was the raging river. Just then tn 5 flood gates of Heaven seemed suddenl, ! closed and the wind ceased This wa f at about four o'clock in the morning. Tn 3 house, though rudely shaken, stood frn l and the poor woman and children wer l saved.
 A woman was found in Louisiana wh
 had been drowned. In her arms was tn , corpse of her infant child. It was graspe, } so tightly that it was with difficulty re moved. A little romance was develope, ! in Cincinnati amid all this want anc suffering. About two weeks ago Bel : Krapperer was married. When the wate l came over the "fill" Ben was absen l working at the mill. His young wifi
 was rescued by the firemen and furnishe, quarters at the school building. It wa , !, thought that the husband had bee Y drowned and the wife was in sore dis tress. Ben made his appearance at tn
 schoolhouse. It was the first time tha he had seen his bride of only fe, !. weeks since their home was swept ava by the foods Each had thought tn t other lost. MT. Stoll did not know thei u relation and was at first inclined to kic - the husband out of the building, bu . when they told their story he withdrew y All along the Ohio shore, in Pendle !, ton, are great houses, and the water Q up to their very caves, while barges C
 coal and rafts of timber face inland fro1 t them. In ordinary stages of water s these buildings stand high on the bank e hundreds of feet from the shore, an T completely out of view to any observe
 standing on the dock of steamer in tn l river. For stretch of four miles dow - the Ohio River, from Crawfish Creek t g the water works, this scene is repeated g A few steamers at the docks are snugge s in as closely as possible to the Chi r shore, and half way between the wate t works and Sportsman's Hall 8 little ster = wheel steamer now steams up agains s the current, now floats down with it, lik 3 tireless sentinel on his beat.