The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-02-22

1ronted by Starva attOn-PitiabIe Scenes.
CINCINNATI, February IL.
The Ohio at eleven o'clock tonight had
Fcache depth a The water-works in this
city Of sixty-four feet and three and half
inches. This is half an inch higher than the
memorable mark of February Is, 1882, the high
est point the river has ever before reached
since the city was founded During the last
hour the r.se has been three-quaruers of an
inch. Those who are acqua 'nted with the city
will re lie the enormous extent of the flood
when it /, stated that a coaf-barge was easily
hOatcd to-day alo7g Second street, across Main,
Walnut Vine and Race streets. This is in Vie
very at of the wholesale business of the
city. Nea Iy all the warehouses, the pcoduce
business, the large manufactor es, tn tohacoo
hous s the gas-w lrks and ra IroaI depots are
On lower ground than Second street nt the
points mentioned. The uses cannot be esti-
ma ell. They are much the most II GUS the
city has ever suffered from any cause VIII It
ever.
Busine=s is completely prostrated I'm every
department Thousands of families are liv-
ing in tie second stories of their houses and
the police static n and other public buildings
are crowded with people who have b en-
1rv fl ON their homes, and are in cond-
ton of no t utter d5stitutOn. Those
who have rem aimed in their houscs arc for
tn most plrt thout eth food or fuel
They Gre being supplied to a " ry limited cX-
tout DF the % AleNOl mt OIganl N3LlOnS OF the
~, which have sent men through the inun-
date portion of the city in skins loaded W tn
prov siOns.
A herd # 800 cattle were drowned in Mill
Creek day.
But one railroad on the north side of the
Ohio can be used and w lter is over tho tracks
of that one in some places. No steamboats,
either leave or arrive.
The It Gets Of the city are lighted cn'y b
the noon. Lamp and c ndies used in the
hotels, newsrapor an teleg aph Offices, an !
in private houses, so far they could BE- pro
cuIeI There IS not oil en- ugh to surply the
dema I'd for more than one day, but a ba g.
load can probably be got down from Parkers-
burg tomorrow.
The extent to which general business has
suffered is shown by the business at the rev
enue Offc The sales of stamps to-day
amounted to bctwe IN 81 and IS. Usually the
sales amount TO SAC, 600 and S45.COl a day.
CUMMINSvILLE
Cumminsvilc Q, popular suburb lying north
Of the city, is one vast lake. The water his
reached KnowGons Corner at the fntcrscc n
Of Spring Grove avenue and Ham on pike
and all the resi- le1ccs and business places be-
tween that point and Mill Creek ar. sui
merged. Husbands may be seen carry ng
wives and CHI ldrCn on their backs to places of
safety. The district bounded on the south
and east by tn IIietta Railroad, gnd on the
north and west by HOffner street and the G n
cinnati, Haml on & Dayton Railrond, is all
under water, and all of the families who have
not moved out are row in the second stories.
West Fork is backed up to Hamilton, all the
gardens in the valley being submerged Their
is a foot of water on the avenue bridge.
There are 500 families in CumminsviIle in dis
tress
NEWPORT.
The city of Newport, on the east bank of the
Licking River opposite Cincinnati, contains
A I,aT e
people I've there. 1t is estimated that there
are 1000 dwelling houses which the water has
invaded to a sufficient extent to drive the in
mates from the first floor Numbers of houses
are submerged to the caves. Several cottages
have f1Oated away.
At the Newport bridge-steps the water to-
day WIS fourteen feet and at the street-car
track leading on to the br dge the water was
seven feet in depth. The only way of reach
ing Cincinnati is by the Short-Line Railroad
bridge trcstlewOrk. Business, of course, is
entirely suspended. Merchants and others
who have escaped the food have TUNED out
en- masse to as sist tn 0se in distress.
The scenes at the various land g-pIaces to-
day were indcscr bable. The ok in many
instances who had been removed to the sec
ond stories had to be taken out to-day and
lowered into boats. st. Paul's Episcopal
Church is crowded with homeless pco-
pie. This afternoon a sick child was
taken there. The story was started that
it was suffering from the smallpox and a
stampede ensued. A physician examined the
child and reported that it recently had the
smallpox. but he thou mt the case too far
advanced to be contagious. The people, in the
absence of other shelter, then slowly returned
to the church.
BELLEVUE.
in Bellevue, town of 2,G00 inhabitants, a
mile above Newport, the situation is not quite
so bad. All the houses on Front street are
completely submerged, the water being up in
some Of.them higher than the windows. The
residen 5 of the lower side of Rhensford street
have all moved except two or three.
DAYTON.
Dayton, KY, is situated two miles above
Bellevue. All day yesterday the expresses
and grOcery-wagOns, as well as coal-carts and
wheeIbarrows, were brought into requisttion
to convey furniture from the Inundated s.
tricts 1t is estimated that in This town of
2,s0O inhabitants over one hundred families
hive been forced to flee from their homes to
plaC es of safety. On account of The Dayton
bakeries being all located in the subme ged
district the bakers were unable to furnish the
C tizens with bread. and before nine o'clock
Saturday night all the groceries I'm town had
sold out the stock OF breadstuffs, and the
people in some instances were compelled to go |
hungry. All day to-day people could be
seen carrying baskets of provisions to the
watery captves in skiffs. Those driven from
their homes are all quartered in the Baptist
Church and the different public halls The
citizens nObly opened their doors to their un- |
fortunate neiRhbOrs, and every available
means was brought into power to save the |
property.
Telephone communication is entirely cut
of, and the only means Of getting to Newport |
is by skiffs. CovingtOn, directly opposite Gin |
contains 30 OOl Inhabitants The |
larger part of them are employed or do busi-
ness in Cincinnati. The only way of getting /
from the Cincinnati end of the Suspension |
Bridge is by skiffs and but very few com !
paratively we're able to get over. The water |
is up to Third street, west of Madison, and /
residents of that street have been driven up /
stairs. The city is supplied with water by the |
Holly system. The pumps have refused to
work, and only those who have cisterns have
any water.
CINCINNATI IN TOTAL DARKNESS.
Four hundred soldiers of the First Regiment
Ohio National Guards in fatigue uniform,
with pieces loaded, are on the streets doing
patrol duty tonight. The extinguishing Of
private electrical lights st midnight left tho
city in total darkness.
PITIABLE SCENES.
A most pitiable case was discovered by
Ih hief-of-Police Smith in house at the lower
end of Chestnut street, where a woman named
Mary Halllost her mind and was wad ng around
)n the floor in several fept Of water. She |
itubbQrnly refused any ass stance, and her |
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before and seek safe quarters 1t required the |
United trength of four men to take her out |
and hold her fast in the boat.
An aged woman named Hamilton who lived |
N Elm street, while being lowered into a boat /
ell ami dislocate1 her hip-bone. She was
AIKEN to the Episcopal Church.
woman in the last stages of consump ptfOn
vas rescued from second-story window on
} 3elievle street
A family named Applegate. living on Belle
rue and Central avenue, the father and mother |
'rOstrated with sickness, were taken out of
v ndoW this morning.
NEW YORK jury has given a verdict
g4inst a well-known banker, for nearly 5000,
ue from him to a washwoman who had been
everal years in his employ.-N. Y. Sun