The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-02-24
The Western Floods.

The Ohio river has been falling since Sun.
day. The work of repairing damage is going
ON and business is being resumed. w.
The Mississippiriver has been rising for
several days. Newport and Jacksonport, on
the White river, are submerged, and Column
bus, Ky, isunder water. The people along
the river are prepared for emergencies, and
no such destruction as was wrought by the
food in the Ohio will follow.
The Missouri river is high also, and at st.
Charles, considerable damage has been done.
As a sequel to the Ohio floods, the Balti
more Sun of Monday last says:
The damage done by the Ohio foods to
property is reckoned by millions. Isolated
dwellings and small hamlets, as well as towns
and cities, along the course of the river have
their quotas of disaster to add to the sum to-
tai. Cincinnati, though relieved from the
food, has 10000 people in urgent need
Lawrenceburg, place of about 5000 inhab-
itants, is practically swept away. When the
water recedcs and uncovcrs the area the town
occupies it is considered questionable "wheth-
er single house will remain tenantable. J"
The basis on which this conjecture rests must
be considered ample if it be true, as reported
from the locality, that "people move about
in skiffs searching for their homes, and anxi-
ously feeling below the surface of the water
with rods and poles to ascertain if their houses
have withstood the floods and remain in posi-
tom Some 800 heads of families in law
renceburg are deprived of their only source
of income, and for the time being are abso-
lutely dependent upon charity for the neces-
saries of life. Distress and want appear on
every side. The damage wrought in Louis
Vile involves distress to several thousands.
Jacksonville, place of 10, 400 people, OPP
posite Louisville, is very nearly obhterated
by the food. Four ffths of this town are
under water and at least 5000 OF its lnhabl-
tants are without homes and personal effects
beyond the clothes they wear. Half the bu-
siness men of the place are ruined financially.
There were situated here extensive car-works,
glass-works and shipyards, employing $500
hands, most of whom are now made depend
ent upon charity for sustenance. New
Albany, city of 16, 400 people, likewise OPP
posite Louisville, is also in a bad condition.
Over 300 residences are overturned, factories
are stopped, and business is brought to stand,
STILL The OVERLOOKING water extends beyond
the CITY rearward some four miles, taking in
several suburbs. Lower New Albany, Port
Union and Falling Run are reported as ''ab-
solutely wiped off the map" The loss IN the
larger town is placed at 81 200, 600, and some
IL 900 homeless people are reported "hud-
died into close, uncOnIorIdple anu HeCesotii
" unhealthy quarters, many of them scantily
clad, the large majority penniless,. and all out
of employment, with no prospect for work for
some weeks to come. A great many have
lost nearly all their household effects and
nearly all are dependent upon public charity.
Aurora loses 800 houses. GAINESVILLE is under
water and half the town is washed away.
Hardentown and North Bend are submerged
to the roofs of the houses, with what results
to the people in the loss of property may be
imagined. To be added to the losses from
the flood are the depredations of ''pirates, y
who plumber partially flooded and abandoned
houses and even steal the ropes by means of
which it is sought to prevent dwellings from
floating away. AS is usual when multitudes
of people are thrown together in uncomforta
BILE and unhealthy quarters, with insufficient
and unwhoesome food, disease contributes
its share to the terrors of the situation. While
the water was up it alone destroyed. Now
that it has fallen and exposed the moist
earth, dotted here and there with puddles
warmed in the sun, malaria and other fevers
enSue.
The Ohio river is falling at all points, and
the Mississippi is falling at Cairo. The ice
gorge in the Susquehanna at Williamsport,
Pa, is wearing away and the river is falling.
William H. Vanderbilt has sent check tor
50, 500 to Cincinnati for the relief of the sui,
ferers by the food.