Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-12-25
RAIN AND SNOW.
Disastrous Storms In Ohio, Indiana,
Missouri, Pennsylvania, New York,
Michigan and Virginia.
; Great Damage Bone at Cincinnati and
Pittsburg-The Ohio River Rising
Rapidly, and Causing
ApprehensiOns OF Destructive Flood
Railway and TelegraplIie OOmmu-
nicatiOR Interrupted.

CINCINNATI, O., December 24.-Snow fell
every day but one during the past eight
days. Experts say it reached twenty inches
IN depth yesterday morning, when sleet-
ing commenced. A heavy, dark mist arose
from the snow, covering the entire region.
1t rained all day yesterday, commencing to
pour at dark, and has been pouring ever
since to the present writing. Nobody is on
the streets except those obliged to go. The
CELLARS ARE FLOODED
everywhere, and many roofs breaking in.
One line OF street-cars stopped. All rail-
way trains are delayed. The Commercial
GdzciteS special reports snow the whole
length OF the Ohio Valley, and it is much
deeper in West Virginia and PennsvI-
vania than here. The rain is melting If
rapidly everywhere. Specials reporf
warmer weather West. River men ex-
pect destructive floods on and after the
middle OF this week. The telegraph wires
worked with difficulty early last evening,
but were doing better at midnight. The
Ohio river is quite free from ice. Enor-
nous fleets OF laden coal boats here, and
IN the vicinity above and below, will all
be impcriled by the sudden great rise.
THE RIVERS ALL RISING.
L0tcr.-The rain ceased during the night.
The Ohio river is rising rapidly. Licking
river began 10 pour out early this morning.
The steamer Champion, with a fleet Of
eight or nine coal barges, was broken from
the moorings in Licking and swept down
The river. The steamer had no steam up,
and was helpless. Another steamer which
has gone in pursuit has not vet been heard
from. Much additional loss from flooded
cellars and broken roofs is reported to-day.
ISYrMERABLE SMALL LOSSES
were reported from leaking roofs and from
roofs crushed by accumulated snow and
wet with rain. Among the larger losses
OF this kind are the Cincinnati Varnish
Factory, in the western part of the city.
where the roof fell, DESTROYING the second
story and injuring the contents of sbe
hrst floor; loss, $4,000. Hudelback.
Fnedlander q Co., clothiers, had their
stock damaged Sll, 900 by falling roof.
Many livery stables suffered from crushed
roofs; The steamer Champion has been
caught, together with d number of lost
barges. Capt. Si,inRle, who was carried
OF ON one of his barges, has not been
heard from. o'
FREIGHT TRAINS DELAYED.
-. All freight trains on the Louisville and
Nashville road have stopped, and no pas
ssenger train from the south had reached
Newport at / O'Clock pm. today. The
roof OF Harper's rolling-mili at Newport
was crushed by snow, involving consider
able loss. The Cincinnati and Portsmouth
narrow-gauge railroad bridge and the lonO
IRON trestle near California were torn Down
by the Hood in the Little Miami. At noon
the OAK street tunnel on the Cincinnati
Northern railroad caved in, and all trains
stopped. -Four hundred barrels of mo.
'asses at the loot Of Sycamore street con
signed To the Little Miami and Cincinnati,
Hamiiton and Dayton roads, were swept
away by the rise in the Ohio river. The
hHer Is rising foot an hour.