The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-02-22

the city front for several miles houses were
being undermined and were tumbling into
the angry torrent Subscriptions were being
Of homeless ones At Jeffersonville, op-
positc Louisville tho distress was
even relatively greater, the whole
city being submerged to the depth Of from
two to twenty feet Many houses were
swept away. and HUNDREDS Of pc ,ple had
taken refuge In tho upper stories Of public
buildings and business blocks. food being
hundreds of privies was floating on the
waters. and the scenes of suffering were
described by an eyewitness as appalling
At Lawrenceburg. Ind, north ri Louisville,
the people were suffering greatly, and car
loads of food were sent from other parts of
the state. the Legislature of Indiana having
also appropriated $4,000 for relief
river between Louisville and Gin
cinnati also suffered more or
less from the extraordinary inundation At
Fern Bank, below Cincinnati. floating
house was stopped, and In one Of the rooms
was found baby sleeping peacefully in its
crib. The child was delivered into the care
OF the Catholic Orphan Society
Two lads of Minneapolis. IL years Of
age, quarrcled over somcpctty matter. when
one killed the other with u pocket knife
Special customs agents Of Chicago
went to ST. Louis and forced a prominent
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duties and penalties on goods brought from
Paris. Several private parties also. settled
accounts on smngglcd icwelry and clothing.
Dispatches from the overfowed dis
tricts along the Ohio river Oh the 18th inst
state that @the flood at Cincinnati reachedits
highest stage at o'clock Yesterday morn
ing. when it stood sixty-six feet and four
inches. Contributions Of $4,000 were re-
ceived from various cities and the life
saving crew of Cleveland arrived with its
apparatus. The Mayors OF Jacksonville and
New Albany sent dispatches to all the
chief cities. asking for aid for the sufferers
Flre-damp or sewer gas caused an explosion
in n house ut Cincinnati. SCATTERING the
structure, killing three persons and wound
ing many others The rivers are rising at
Pittsburgh and Louisville. and the Wabash.
Muskingum and Licking are adding their
quota To the inundation Jeffcrsonville and
New Albany. Ind. are entirely surrounded
and Marietta and GAINESVILLE are also flooded.
Isaac Knapp. who was sent to the
Ohio penitentiary from Fremont for life.
secured a pardon by false representations
rs to his health. He was speedily rearrested
and instituted habeas corpus proceedings
The State Supreme Court decided tina. 1t
could not inquire into the validity of the
pardon. and Knapp was discharged
Cincinnati dispatches of Feb. Il re-
port comforting condition of affairs con-
sequent upon the marked subsistence of the
waters. New Albany was in sore distress.
and special comm ttce had appealed for re-
lief Along the Ohio southwark many
small towns were partly submerged TIE
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 at other Illinois
towns, and railroad tracks washed out
The Hon. Stephen Hampstead, the
last Democratic Governor of Iowa, died at
Dubuque Of heart disease.
An express train on the Columbus
road was ditched near Gallon, by which Rev.
D. l. Fouts and two others were killed and
three men were injured
Four residents Mt Massillon, Ohio.
have brought suits against that city for
damages sustained by the floods. alleging
that the culverts were permitted to fill up
with rubbish