Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-08
STORM FE'PI'ERED.
Pennsylvania and Ohio Towns Wrecked
by Floods.
TERRIBLY DISASTROUS FRESHETS
The Storm Said to be the Nest Disas.
trous in Fifty Years,
HEAVY LOSSES AT CINCINNATI.
Canal Fleet Swept Away by q Rise In
the Licking.
HEAVY LOSSES AT CINCINNATI.
THE WESTERN CATTLE LOSSES
Chicago Threatened Sufferer-severs
Stern PrOphesied for Ts-msrrsW.
INC FTC6HCtSs
AT PITTSBURG.

The Freshets.
AT PITTsBURG.
PIrTsBURG, Pa, Feb. From present.
indications this section will be visited be
fore morning with the greatest food for
fifty years. All day yesterday and last
night the rain fell in torrents at all points
along the Monongahela valley, the record
showing a total rainfall of one and half
inches. This melted, land carried off the snow
on the mountain and soon the creeks and
streams at the headwaters were converted
into small rivers and pouring their vol
umes of water into the Monongahela
Early this morning came reports from
points above of booming river, but not
until noon was there any rise. here. The
river commenced swelling at that hour,
and has since been rising rapidly. Dis
patches from Morgantown, W. Va, Green's
boro, Brownsville, Pa, and other towns
along the banks report the water still
rising at the rate of six to eighteen
inches an hour. Many places are already
partially submerged. Great destruction
of property is anticipated. At this point
there we're twenty-five feet at 10 o'clock to-
night and from all accounts
there is more water'to come. It is thought
there will be from thirty two to thirty-fvs
feet before the flood reaches its height.
Beyond the damage done by inundation
and the partial washing away of the old
Smithfeld street bridge, which is in bad
condition, no apprehension is felt here as
| to the outcome. What ice there
is still in the Monongahsla and
Younghi hiogey rivers it is thought
will be so rotted by the thaw of last week
as to be in condition to do no damage.
Portions of Allegheny city and south side
are now under water and by tomorrow
morning it is expected that the mills and
| factories along the river will be compelled
| to suspend operations. Families in the
lower parts of the city are moving their
| goods to a place of safety and desertipg
their houses. The Allegheny river is also
rising, but no serious damage is reported
from that quarter.
AT CINCINNATI.
! CINCINNATI, Feb. THE rain continued
| till nearly daylight, when the temperature
lowered below the freezing point. To-day
there are indications of snow. Interrupt
ton to the telegraph indicate heavy rain
in many places. The Western Union Office
at Marietta, o., is reported under water.
| No direct communication with there for
some time. There are indications of
great food in the Ohio river. There is
much wire trouble throughout Kentucky
and Indiana, caused by sleet on
the wires breaking the poles.
| CINCINNATI, Feb. THE Ohio river is
rising here nine inches an hour, and at the
same rate at Portsmouth and Catletts
! burg. Heavy ice, it is reported, has reached
Portsmouth. The river is thirty-six feet
at Wheeling and beginning to rise again
with heavy rains. The side streams will
cause rapid rise along the river. The
Big Sandy river is higher than it has been
for ten years.
CINCINNATI, Feb. lowing to high
water in the Ohio, the sudden rise in the
Licking river sent an unusually strong
current along the Covington shore of the
Ohio, and caused great damage to coal
feats moored there. Fifty coal barges,
half of them loaded, were swept away to-
night, with little hope of recovery. The
losers were Hayes & Bro, Linn & Feather,
Sheridan, Grail & Whitaker, j. W. Clark
and W. B. Cole. If none are saved the
loss will be $4,000. The river was forty
nine feet above low water at midnight and |
will rising.
THE scIoTo ON THE RAMPAGE.
WAvERLY, o., Feb. THE Scioto river
is overhowing the bottom lands and rising |
twenty-one and one-half inches an hour. |
The town of Jasper, seven miles below, is
flooded tonight by the breaking away of |
! the leVee. Damages enormous.
AT MARIETTA, o.
MARIETTA, O., Feb. THE whole lower |
part of the city is overfowed as far as
Putnam street. The river is rising at the /
rate of three inches an hour. Hundreds of /
people are driven out of their houses. |
meeting was held tonight to organize re-
lief measures.
At PORTSMOUTH, o.
PORTSMOUTH, O., Feb. THE Ohio river |
is forty-seven feet four inches above low
water mark, and rising four inches an |
hour and full of ice. Water is already in
houses in the upper part of the city.
THE sUsQUEHANNAH ICE GORGE.
PoRT DEPOSIT, Md, Feb. THE ice |
gorge in the Susquehannah extends for two
miles. The ice below the gorge is firm for
three miles. All day people in exposed
places have been removing valuables |
Lumber dealers have put out booms |
around their yards and warehouse men
have hoisted stocks of grain, fertilizers,
etc., into the upper stories. The river has
been rising all day at many points and |
vast quantities of mush ice has been pass
| ing down. At several points gorges have |
| formed, causing rapid rise, but most of |
the gorges have worn away. The railroad |
| companies remove their rolling stock |
every night. During the day trains run as
usual. t
AT TOLEDO.
TOLEDO, Feb. There is still great dis
tress from the food at the towns above |
here on the Asumee. The water has fallen |
ohout fhraa faak to-day of nafopco A. /