The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-02-13
SALT LAKE DAILY HERALD. SUNDAY FEBRUARY IL 1853

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Iported, and every precaution is used
o prevent loss TO the coal fleet and
other exposed property. Lights
lmprovlsed every where tonight
coal oil and candles in the stores
dwellings, neWspapers and telegraph
offices. and electric lights in the
theatres and some hotels, the latter
use candles mostly for the rooms.
There is very little change in the
condition of railways, except the
Little Miami, which was CON-
pelled to abandon the track
between here and Loyeland
mill, and trains tomorrow from
cincinnati, Hamilton and DAYTON
depot to Xenia. The Cincinnati,
Washington and Baltimore track is
under water so trains cannot pass.
1t connects few miles out with
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day.
ton, and will not be delayed. The
Ohio and Mississippi sends steamers
to Aurora, Indiana. No tidings
yet from Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
except that the town is at the mercy
Of the water.
Frankfort, KY, u. - The Ken
lucky River was forty-one feet at
noon, and rising Uhree-quarters of
an inch per hour. It is expected to
rise still night-fall. One thousand
people are homeless. Much distress
everywhere. Communication with
the outside world is cut off, save by
telegraph. The turnpike to Yer
sailles, the low ground in Frankfort.
known as crow" and large part
south of Frankfort is entirely sub
merged. Fort Hill, the highest
point about Frankfort, is now an
island caused by backWater. Resi-
dences two miles from the river are
under water. Hermitage and F. G.
distilleries are covered on FIRST floors.
Six hundred head of cattle are
standing in water above the knees.
| The watek is three feet six inches on
the cellar floors of the penitentiary
covering nearly the entire prison
yard. The prisoners are loose in the
chapel and are doubled up in the
cells on the second floor range. The
wooden bridge to South Frankfort
is considered we're unsafe, and is
hourly expected to go down.
| Thousands of people line the river
banks on both sides watching the
heavy drift, and houses go down, the
| highest the river was ever known
| to reach. The damage already
reaches 100000.
Indianapolis, Ind, 12.-The Ohio
River is still rising at all points in
this state. AT New albany the
water is ten inches higher than the
flood of 81. About three-fourth Of
: manufactures are flooded. If thu
rise continues till midnight, every
furnace in the immense glass works
} of w. G. DePaveu will be unde
water. His loss will be fully S1OO,
900, and other establishments sui
, fered to an equal amount, perhar
. much larger. About five hundred
houses are flooded in the lower par
Of the city. Two or three thousanC
employees will be thrown out 0
) work if the flood continues. Be
3 tween Evansville and Henderson
: telegraph poles are covered in som
3 places, and the wire strung on tn
f tops of trees. LaWrenceberg
completely surrounded with water
, Louisville, 12.-All day the rive
, has been the center of attraction
! and dread the steady rise o
} each hour. The highest poin
: of the flood of February
1882, was reached this Afternoon
J and passed, and is now more thai
; thirty-siX feet on the falls and six
5 ty-four feet in the channel at tn
foot Of the fall. which is but tw
3 feet below the great December foo
of 1S47. The river is yet Iisini
: slowly with great tide from tn
Kentucky River to be added. TIL
8 houses along the river front ar
3 vacated. Drift wood, etc., is dam
8 aging them seriously. Fourth stree
=. is closed Main to the river. Ever
: building in the shipping part ha
D from three to eight fee
= of water on the floors, an
the cement mills, principa
s industry there, is submerged. Mn
3 squares ofPortland is at the mere,
r of the water. Business is at an end
r Houses in front will have water o.
/ the second floors before morning
: 1t is estimated that in Portlond an
= at the shipping port, 500 people AZ
e homeless, very many of them befh
poor. Losses here aggregate $50,
r 600. In the city proper the heaY
4 damage done Is by the stoppage @
y work in the factories; 1900 men ar
r thrown out Of employment
e Merkle & Co.'S great pillow work
a Louisville iron works, Dennie
b large extensive pipe works, KeI
= lucky lead and oil wsrks, Centre
e rolling mills, Bell & Coggeshell
}. planning mill, j. & P. Hall and Ha
y & Eddy's saw mills are among tn
i large establishments closd. Othel
i must follow tomorrow unless th
e waters subside. Mayor Jacobs ha
: ordered the Hospital to
= made ready to receive sufferers
d be cared for at the city's expense
9 The Louisville Hotel Company hs
e opened free lunch house fl
e women and children of the foe
= sufferers.
5 Booth on California.
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