The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-02-15
WIRED WORDS.
THE WATERS WAY.

Helping Hand.
A Broken Rail Throws Passenger
Train from the Track, and Sew
eraI Killed.
An Explosion of Sewer Gas Lays Large
Building in Ruins.
Reasons given Against the Reduction of
Tariff on Books.
Rerdell, of Star Route fame, Pleads
Guilty.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 15-The weather is
very warm and cloudy, with occa
sional sunshine The river is fiuctuating
and apparently declining, but very slightly.
1t stands about sixtysix feet and three
inches. Floods in the Licking and other
streams are expected.
Defiance, O., special: Fire last night
damaged Flickinger & Blair and F. A. B.
Lowe to the amount of twenty thousand
dollars.
THE FLOODS WORK.
CINCINNATI, Feb 15-The river has
been at sixty-siX feet two and a half inches
since this morning. This shows no
rise since morning and gives hope that
there may be no further rise. The work
of relief goes on with energy Not only is
the general committee representing the
aI,s ,H<,- -x~f1 ~
council disbUrsing aid with liberal hand
but Masonic relief organization is DOING
fine work having called in volunteers
to act as oarsmen for their boats
which have been received from Cleveland
Sandusky and Toledo. They have estab
lished relief stations in various parts of the
city. Besides this, women of all Protestant
churches are collecting bedding and cloth
ing. and doing sewing for the
general relief commission. All Catholic
churches have been thrown open for sleep
ing places and such homeless persons as
may be sent by the general commission
A more complete systematic system of re-
lief could hardly be devised, and the great
value of it's works, and the thoroughness
and promptness with which aid is extend |
ed, there is still the most gratifying alb |
science of crime. It was expected that |
burglaric highway robberies would abound |
on account of the general unprotected
state of property in the flooded districts
and darkness, but the expection has not
been realized. Fewer arrests have been
made in the past five days than any similar
time this month and no reports of crime
have been received by the police. Nearly
every BODY wears a fatigued look. 1t has
been a season of hard work and great
anxiety to large population Of the city
%I,o fpat 81 iuNhpC |
and then declined J of an inch At Mays
vile it fell six inches during the night and
is still falling Firsh and Pearcis wear
house floors collapsed swarmng. and con
tanned 10000 bushels of grain. Licking |
river is rising and will rise all day, The
river is falling at Frankfort 1000 people
are dependent and their
loss will be 5000 600. It rained all day
and till 7 this morning. At
Marietta the river has risen three feet, and
4 repetition of last week flood is expected. |
At Seansville many contributions are com
no in from Indianapolis of 500 and up
ward. Principals of school houses are
loing boniface duty the schools being
odpipe houses now The Masonic com
nittee raised So, 900 and will distribute it
long the river The chamber of com
nerce has given 81 900 to Newport and
he same to Dayton. KY,
LoulovILLE, Feb. 25.-The flood has {
Fotry three feet nine inches in
he head channel and is rising one-half Y
nch per hour, and is expected to come to
stand still before night. No more loss '
f life is reported. Probably 100 more
ouses are overfowed and all manufac I
ories near the river are closed. One l
1ousand workmen are out of L
rork. The whole populace are on t
ne streets. River navigation is stagnant 7
contributions are beiug made all over the '
ty. The water works in the extreme t
astern part of the city held out till this v
forming when the machinery stopped. 1t o
not believed that there is much danger o
scarcity. Gas lasts, but few more N
ches of water will stop the supply. The q
ater runs over the larger part of east I
roadway.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 15.--The life saving T
-ew goes to Cinnati this afternoon. The q
Iasons are moving to aid the flood srf F,
rers The river here is rising, and is al q
ady out of its bank. Tt is raining h
ghtly. e,
PITTsBURG, Feb. 15.-Both rivers con- "
nue. to RISE The Monongahela is now a
y and the Allegheny 103. In Allegheny 3
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