The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-02-19
THE FREsHETs.
The Situation Along the Ohio
Slowly Improving.
But Great Suffering and Want Still
Existing.

.BUFFALo.N. Y. Feb. 1.-THE First, Second,
Third, Eighth and Thirteenth wards are almost
completely inundated and the Delaware Lack
awanna and Western Road Bridge, entering
Inc city is submerged, and may succumb at
any moment. The lands in the vicinity of the
race track were under four feet of water, but
Dy The giving way OF dam the water lowered
and the buildings were again reinhabited.
railroad business has been seriously interfered
with, no trains having run on the Buffalo,
New York and Philadelphia since yesterday
afternoon, and the Elk street crossing of the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Is under
Two Go feet of water 1t is also reported that some
ooU head of cattle have been dlowned that
We're feeding at distillery pens in the Thir-
teenth Ward.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, Feb. 17.-An engine of
q freight train this morning ran through the
bridge at Aliens Creek, near Scottsville,
plunging into the creek. Fireman Charles
Hanna was killed, and Henry Fuller, engineer,
had an arm broken. The bents of the bridge
lad been washed out by the ice and water.
TOLEDO, o., Feb. 1.-THE heavy rain of
yesterday and last night coused another rise in
the upper Maumee river the water at Defiance,
Napoleon and Florida rearhing higher point
than during the foot OF last week. The whole
OF the last named town and portions of the
others are submerged. There is great damage
to property done all along the river, and some
suffering among the people is reported this
morning, many homes having been abanc oned.
At IL O'Clock this foreBoon the ice abreast the
city gave way and the waite rose rapidly, in
undating the middle grounds of the union de-
pot and the whole of Water street. The rail-
road offices were quickly vacated. They can
not be re-occupied, nor can passenger trains
enter the union depot until the flood subsidies.
The water has not yet reached the mark of
1881, but gorge is reported to have formed at
the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad bridge,
two miles below this city, and two spans of
OF the bridge are said to be gone. The Western
span OF the wagon bridge at Cherry street is
also carried away. If the outflow should be
checked by the formation of gorges below the
city, more destructive food than that of 1881,
will, is it feared, follow,
WlLKEsBARRE, Feb. 18.-The river has risen
20 feet above low water and residents along
low lands are preparing to leave.
TOLEDO, o., Feb. 17-At o'clock this ev-
ening the flood was rising three inches per
hour. The gorge abreast of the city is still
firm. The two central spans of the Pensylva-
la railroad bridge have been carried away to.
gether with portion of the new draw and
two temporary spans of the Union railroad
bridge. The water is now above the floor of
the Lake Shore railroad bridge but the struc-
ture stands firm. The middle ground from the
Union depot to Lake Shore bridge is covered
with water to the depth of six TO eight feet,
resting upon which and extending across the
the river is vast field of broken ice. There
are seven feet of water on the floor of the
Island house and Union depot. Most of the
rolling stock has been removed from the de-
pot and middle ground. The gas works are
Hooded, with only "a hours supply to depend
on. The flats in the upper portion of the city
are inundated. In probably 800 houses, which
are occupied by poor classes the water stands
from 2 to 5 feet deep 1t is estimated that at
least 100 of these are one story houses from
which families have been obliged to flee.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 18.-All the streams
throughout this region are booming. The land
hOo han Nxrxn1 .x&1 k.sA
carried away or rendered unsafe and railroad
traffic has been greatly impeded. Trains on
nearly all the roads centering here have been
delayed from / to u hours and some roads
have nsed the tracks of other lines in order to
run trains at all.
from the flooded districts give gloomy accounts
of distress and suffering. At New Albany the
river has fallen two feet. The weather is very
cold and suffering and misery in the city and
vicinity are deplorable. One thousand families
in the city and 800 in the immediate vicinity
is'sse peeEfs ufqSen Irom CueIr nolles ana oomi.
ciled wherever shelter could be had By the
stoppage of factories 1000 families are made de-
city 55U families are homeless, having lost
house, barns. grain, forage, farm implements
and everything.
WHLIAMsPoRT, Pa, Feb. 18.-The gorge in
the river here still sticks, although the water
is "a feet high. People along the shore are
moving.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 18.-The river continues to
recede slowlo. Large collections for the relief
fund were made in all the churches to-day. A
steamer from Cincinnati this morning reports
the whole route a vast sea and wilderness of
water No business nor trains.
CINCINNATI, o., Feb. 1S.-The river at 10
o'clock tonight was nearly go feet and falling
hall an inch per hour 1t has been retarded
in its fall by late rains above. No incident
worthy of note has transpired to-day.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Feb. 18.-An inch of
snow fell here to-day, the first this winter. Ar
kansas river rose AZ inches, marking within
feet of last springs highest mark. The Mis-
sissippl at Arkansas City rose foot during
the past 21 hours, showing over SO feet above
low water mark