The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-02-16

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the factories stopping.
The Kentucky River is flooded with
rains VIII ch have lasted forty hours,
and at many places great damage to
property is reported.
AT Frankfort, the capital, the city is
almost inundated, railways are flooded,
and all business stopped. Three hun
dred acres are under water and 500 IA
miles are homeless. The water has in
vaded the penitentary and the life
prisoners have been moved out for the
first time. The wooden bridge cOnnec-
ting North and South Frankfort, and
the iron railroad bridge have been so
injured by houses and heavy drift strik-
ing them that they are expected to fall.
At New Haven the Rolling Fork has
inundated the town and swept away
the railroad. DR.. N. G. Leak, promi-
nent citizen, was swept away in skill,
and after swimming some distance
lodged in tree. After several attempts
he was rescued, but died in twenty
minutes from exposure.
Trains all over the state are delayed
and many have been withdrawn.
On Tuesday the situation at Cincin-
natl became, hourly, more pOrtentiOus.
In the public schools, the principal
asked the scholars to bring with them
in the morning such cast-Off clothing
as could be spared, together, with pro-
visions of any kind and such sums of
money as their parents could spare, for
the relief of the thousands of homeless
people. The Hamilton & Dayton De-
pot, the freight warehouses in the vi
cinity, and school houses in the lower
districts, are each night turned into
vast lodging places. 1t is estimated on
reliable authority that not less than
40, 600 men are deprived of employment
by the flood, and their families neces-
sarily suffer in consequence. The patrol
service rendered last night by the
military was effective to degree only.
Several of them having INDUCED in too
much liquor made the danger to citizens
great, as not few of them came very
nearly being prodded by bayonets in the
hands of the soldiers. AL day long the
freight, provision and clothing boats
have been threading the canal like
streets, bringing relief to the isolated
destitute. These boats, manned by
strong and willing volunteers, are dis
flags on which are printed in large let
ters the words "rel eff service"
A shocking disaster was reported at
headquarters by telephone this after
noon. 1t was announced that the
freight and passenger depots of the
Southern Railway had been undermined
and had fallen into the raging water,
carrying with them 100 or more people.
Large crowds were known to be in that
vicinity watching the floods, but the
disaster of the afternoon does not now
appear to have been SO terrible as at
first reported. In the present excited
state OF the public mind every item of
news grows az it travels. The Southern
Railway depot is located on Mclean
avenue and Gest street, in the remote
western part of the city. and consists
of temporarily built sheds supported by
iron posts. The posts, being under
mined by the caving in Of the large
sewer in Mclean avenue, and the sat
urated condition of the soil, all of
which is made Land, went down, letting
the roof fall fat, and burying in the
ruins nearly all who were under it. 1t
is now believed, however, that only
eight persons have been killed, five of
them being members OF Coup'S Circus
employees. Their names have not yet
been ascertained. The river has now
been on q stand for three hours at the
height of sixty-fve feet one inch. At
s clock it was half an inch higher, but
by 6o'clock had fallen to the figures
given. where it has since remained.
That one little decline, the first in two
weeks, small though it in, presages .
breaking Of the dawn.
At g o'clock tonight rain ceased, but
the sky.looks anything but promising.
The reported accident attended with
loss of life, proved. in this day of de-
struction, to be comparatively trifling.
A nine foot sewer beneath the Southern
Railway depot broke, letting down
large portion of tho Cincinnati South
ern freight and passenger depOts. So
far as can be learned it is now believed
that every one escaped. as ample warn
ing was given by the shaking buildings.
For the first time in two days intelli-
gence has been received from Lawrence
burg. The messenger reports much
suffering and loss Of life, and he was
sent here for physicians, several of
whom have started on steamer to the
almost doomed city. The bin introduced
in the Legislature to-day appropriating
500, zoe for relief will pass in the morn
ing.
a dispatch from Louisville, on Tues
day, says by the breaking Of the dyke
hDONC VIC City ldoS ulSuO i,VVV AdluiiiCo
were rendered homeless, and fifteen
houses were carried away. The basin
was thirty feet under the dyke line, and
that depth of water covers the inhabited
territory to-day.
The river at o'clock this evening
was twelve inches below the food line
of 1892, and rising an inch an hour. A
slow rain is falling, which seems to be
general, and this, with the expected
foods from above, creates alarm. 1t is
thought that Main street, the business
thorOughfarc of the city, will be en-
croached upon at least in the cellars.
From 5000 to 5000 people are driven
from their homes. This morning the
section of the city from Preston street
east to the cutoff and north to the
Short Line fill is in the river. People
living there had plenty of warning.
Yesterday the river all day Tapped the
top of Fulton street and cut off the en-
bankments, and in places the water
was trickling over. At o'clock a con-
siderable break occurred at Adams
street, and 100 men worked vigorously
to stop the waves. but in the face of all
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