Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-15
] News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. MANY MILLIONS LOST By the Great Floods in the
 West. PEOPLE LIVING IN THE FORESTS. Great Suffering and Restitution
 Among Them. THE MURDER TRIALS AT DUBLIN. Unfair Methods of the Prosecuting
 Counsel.
THE MURDER TRIALS AT DUBLIN
Unfair Methods of the Prosecuting
 Counsel.
THE FLOODS.

duced to IdIeness-MiIlions Of Dollar 1 Swallowed up in the Waters.
 1 CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 1.-The river reached the extraordinary height of sixty -fivt
 feet at six o'clock p. m. yesterday, the high est water by sixteen inches ever known 1T | this generation or ever recorded by our fore l fathers. At midnight the water began to re l cede very slowly and this morning the river was falling about half an inch an hour. Al o'clock a. m. the marks showed sixty four 1 feet ten and thres-quarters inches. At g the river had fallen to ten feet six and half inches. Last night light rain commenced falling here and this morning it was increased to copious shower The rain has been fall ing heavily throughout the Ohio valley to- day. At 9:3O the water commenced rising again and at 1O:3O a. m. the marks showed sixty four
 feet eleven and one half inches and rise at
 the rate of half an inch per hour. At 3:30 p.
 m. the river was still rising and had reached
 the unprecedented height of sixty-five feet
 seven inches and was rising two inches an
 hour. The merchants on Pearl street are
 excited. This afternoon that street between
 Elm and Broadway is packed with people,
 drays and trucks and movable merchandise.
 The water has crossed Pearl street at Main
 and Broadway. At 8 o'clock it lacked an inch
 of being sixty-six feet and was rising alarm
 ingly.
 The rain last night and the rain to day
 gave tone of despondency to the situation.
 The change of the waters to rapid upward
 movement was chilling sight to the fifty
 thousand people imprisoned in their homes in Nnyurlnrt GnuInntnT1 (InaInnQfI they looked from their windows upon the
 merciless flood. The best estimate to-day
 puts the number of families in Newport and
 Covington whose homes are submerged at ten thousand. This estimate does not differ from the estimate given yesterday. In
 Cincinnati, with eleven miles of submerged territory along the Ohio river front and six miles of flooded lands up Mill creek to Spring Grove cemetery, it is computed that at least eight thousand families are isolated All the public school houses from Fifth street down to the water's edge, which is now at Pearl street, have been given up for shelter to the homeless, no matter where from, but they are nearly all from Cincinnati. The Catholic churches have been thrown open for shelter for the poor and their school houses are offered for the same purposes. The associated charities are thoroughly well organized body to which the city authorities have added their relief committee and with which the cham
 
 mittee of relief. The associated charities are managing the whole matter of receiving donations and dispensing relief. No Prot estant churches have been put at the dispo- sal of the associated charities, but several have been opened by congregations for, the use of such sufferers as they may select. To- night fifteen hundred people in Cincin- nati, who have been washed out of their homes by the flood, will sleep in churches and school houses, and fifteen hundred more will be taken care of in private families. This will leave in Cincinnati nearly forty thousand persons in homes in the waters. Of these twenty thousand need help in the way of.food and fuel and light The lack of boats make it difficult to supply their wants. The boats on hand are used day and night carrying help where it is needed. Most of the people refused to leave their homes. They are in need by no fault of their. own, and don't want to be treated as paupers. household goods. If they leave their homes they must leave all their goods behind them. and this they refuse to do. To day there are nearly fifty thousand workmen in Cincinnati and Covington who are for the most part out of employment. Tomorrow the number the factories in the city will shut down to avoid the danger of a water famine along with the flood. The single engine at the waterworks. if nothing happens, will be able to furnish an ample supply of water for domestic use and for fires. The scene at the rooms of the board of associated charities on Third street, few doors east of Vine street, all day today was touching. Crowds and crowds of good looking needy people thronged it from morning till dark Along the curbing of the side walk were rows of transfer wagons, blankets and quilts in bales and loads of bread were carried into the room as well as otooIripoc and 1arr0eOfe nf avery 6a- scription. Nothing remained long. The outflow was as rapid as the inflow. The goods and food were distributed quickly as possible Not until evening did the sup ply gain on the amount distributed. In the office were some of the best business men of the city. The foremost bankers, railroad managers and merchants were all active in giving substantial relief. Resolution and cheerful pluck is prevalent everywhere. Nearly all the faces that looked down from windows on people navigating the street below wear smiles and courte- sies and jokes arc exchanged across the streets between neighbors for miles and miles wherever the flood is. There are now 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, sometimes clothing and oftentimes conveying doctors; never stop day or night. At night they carry lanterns through the streets lighted With lanterns swinging high on the house fronts the scene would be as beautiful as it is grand were 1t not associated with suffering, loss and destruction. The loss to property from the direct effect of the floods will be i'm mense, to say nothing of the loss of time and the effects of the suspension of business. Nobody knows what 1t will be, but nobody to-day puts 1t at less than five or six million dollars There is no freight traffic by rail here now. Merchants have nothing to do but to care for their property if that be in the inundated district, to care with might and main for the relief of the needy If he happens to be exempt from suffering by flood. But the people on the streets all wear cheerful countenances. No merchants show any appearance of being cast down A great many beginners in business will have hard time to hold up after the flood passes away and many old business men will be so badly 1 hurt as to feel it keenly. It is 1 expected that these classes will be l shown business favors long enough to | allow them to get on their feet again. One | of the incidents of the flood was the driving 1 of rats from their holes. These vermin | could be seen in droves swimming and float | ing in the water Great shoals of them 1 were swept down the stream. The travel l srs by rail as far oat as Aurora. Ind, as l long as such travel was possible, had their | attracted by this phenome- | na To day the Freemasons of | Cincinnati, Covington and Newport | to Toledo, Ssndusky and Cleve- and for skiffs, yswls and every description of small boats to be used in dispensing help. | They will be needed for many days for that purpose The free soup houses have been started. five of them to day and m ore will be | added to morrow. These will be continued | for only short time, however.
 PTTFsBURa, Pa, Feb. 1.-The steady rain for the past twenty four hours has caused anothersrise in the rivers and minor streams here and at all points above. What the flood will amount to cannot be foretold, but 1t is ,carcely possible it will reach anything like | Inc proportions of those which havejust sub- sided. although some think differently. The | rain is still falling and the weather is unsea- sonabIy warm. The MonongaheA marks at D. mi. indicated fifteen feet of water in the channel with about the same in the Alleghany. | There has been no damage and will not be- fore day or two if at all.
 DAYTON. O., Feb 14.-Ther9 are heavy | -ains throughout this locality td dday. At Il | D m. the Miami is within abopt four and | one. half of the mark reported < week ago, l when part of the city was ovarfowed and | .he river is rising five inches an hour. Fears | are entertained of another inunaation. l