The daily gazette., 1883-02-16
THE WESTER h FLOODS
LATEST REPORT s FROM c,M.
CiNNATI,
SUFFERING AMONG THE PEOPLE.
"9 oa'est ROOD Ever Known In Ohio.
80, na ana hentutky-The Extent OF
""tefs--heasures of Relief.

OF the calamity that is ubon the naonIo 80
the Ohio Valley are hourly incraoS;,,s, .S -
There are suffering, desoIation and death n
every inch of the awful rise of the river YES
terday upon stage of water ahsoInfeI,,
without precedent, and the details Of distsssJs
which called for sympathy In tbe gooda ess sD'
Europe, except as to loss of life are la re,oi, =,
repeated in this section TODAY. Twice has
the Hood been stayed, and twice has Il risen
| again, though IL is now falIing ana sSu
worst is believed to have come, The 20 IL Ins
of Tuesday night and Wednesday extandad ,,S
| over wide area tributary to the ITnns,
Ohio river, and reports Indicate aImost
repetition of the floods in Northern and Cen
tral Ohio of few days ago. But tits tboneht
the water here will have receded snfIlo;o,tti,s
by the time their increase reaches thjs ,Iacs
TO avoid the extreme damage from uhjch
this city is now suffering, thouoh tba Ell
Will be checked and the river NAV rise aoain
for 30 miles, beginning with tbe unnar e., -
ourb OF Cincinnati and ending with Law
renceburg, Indiana, 25 miles below.
AMONG THE oTHKR TOWNS.
Below Lawrenceburg and to Louisville
the situation is the same Beginning witb
the upper suburb of Cincinnati on the Obio
side, are Columbia, Pendleton. 'Fulton tbe,,
Cincinnati, SedamsyilIe. Riverside Far,, Esrn
Bank, Lawrenceburg, Ind: Aurora. Risina
Sun, Palyot, Vevay and Madison. on the
kentucky side are the towns of DAYTON
Bellevue, Newport and Covington. opnosIte
Cincinnati; Ludlow, Bromley. Petershnres
Hamilton, Warsaw, Gheut. Carrollton Mi
ton, WestDort and Louisville. At PaIvot
and Vevay the river is five or six miles
wide, and at all these points il simnlv e,rs
tends from the Ohio to the Kentucky hills
covering all the rich bottom lands ~
average width is from one to two miles
sea OF yenow water. AT all these points
more or less damage is done. Vevav' war.
saw and Ghent have Jared better tban
tne otners. No detailed particulars are
available, but cool guess would place the
number of people either homeless or inn
prisoned at not less than SO. 600. There arc
$4,000 in Newport alone and 8, 900 or more
in Lawrenceburg. At louisville. New
Albany and Jeffersonville it is in many re-
spects even worse. While no cali for Ont
sloe help mas been made, Cincinnati is being
amply repaid for her liberal responses n fla
calls of charity elsewhere in the past wear,
Money, contributions of various sorts. and
offers of aid are coming in from every
quarter, the details Of which. thourb
pleasant, would be wearsome from Ienoth
Everything is being done that can be done
for their assistance, and most everybody
who is not in person affected by the water
is doing more or less at II.
SHELTERED IN SCHOOL HOUSES.
School houses are largely used for asv-
lums. AT the Seventh district school bouse
ll5 families were given shelter last night and
fed this morning, and this is but a sample
case. The Government beacon light steamer
LILY starts tomorrow morning up the river
to relieve cases of distress along the shore.
away from towns and villages, and will be
loaded with provisions and other necessa-
rles' Many cases of Distress are expected to
be brought to light by her cruise
The east end, up in Fulton and Colum-
oiai mas eight feet of water flowing through
the main streets. Many houses have been
swept away, and many others are expected
to follow. If the weather was not so warm
and pleasant the suffering would there would
be intense. The river is five miles wide
from Columbia to the other side of the
Little Miami river, and all houses on the
bottom have disappeared, not even their
roofs being visible. Western avenue, on
the western side of the city, along the Mil
Creek Valley, has been declared unsafe, and
travel on 1t is stopped. it is feared some of
the houses will collapse, As the ground there
Is all filed in and now made soft by water.
A TANNERY SUBMERGED.
The American Oak and Leather Com
pany's tannery in this section, the largest in
the world, was submerged at l o'clock this
morning.
Along Mill Creek Valley, further up. are
most of the large packing houses, nearly all
well filled, and most of them submerged.
One packer has 3,000,000 pounds of meat
under water and from 100000 TO 49, ,000,-
900 pounds of dry salted meats are in the
same condition. No one has yet dared make
an estimate of the total losses here, but they
VIII be millions. There IRE now only 50,-
O00, 900 gallons of water IN Eden Park reser-
voir, but the consumption has been reduced
by economy to 100000 gallons daily from
$4,000, 900, and hopes are entertained that it
may last. The more SO, as the iall OF the
water gives hopes of starting one engine at
the water works to o-morfow. One or two
railroads hope to resume to- morrow.
Last nights sudden rise left hundreds of
shop-girls, workEen and school children In
the city without money for meal or nights
lodging in many cases The telegraph
offices last night did their heaviest business
since Gariield's death, inbstly personal mes
sages from detained travellers or communist
eating orders for gooda. Provisions are
going up at fearful rate. A dozens eggs
have been sold in places for 75 cents.
GREAT LOSSES IN KENTUCKY.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 15.-The flood
unabated. The canal is forty
three feet nine inches, ard is rising at the
rate OF half an inch pdr hour. 1t is be-
lieved, however, that the waters will come
to a stand by nightfall. No additional loss
Of life has been reported but probably 100
additional dwellings and business houses are
overfiowed. All the manufactures near the
river are closed, and thousands of workmen
are out of employment. Transfer and
express wagons traverse every street,
stopping at the houses of citizens who
fill them with contributions for the sufferers.
The citizens have responded nobly so far.
The Water Works, on the extreme eastern
limit beyond the point and the cutoff, have
and the machinery has stopped,
There are two large basins containing mill
lions of gallons of water, and it is not
thought there is much danger Of scarcity.
The gas works still hold out, but few
more inches will stop the supply. After
the breaking of the OFF dam lights began
'pringing up all over the flooded space,
showing that the people were climbing out
of the roofs of the houses In their efforts to
save themselves.
At Maysville the river fell six inches dur
ng the the night, and is still falling. The
ioors OF A. Finch q Co.. and Pearce Bros,
grain houses, are. a total loss. They con-
tained 10000 bushels bf grain. At Fal-
mouth, KY, the river is falling, but another
rise is expected. Fifteen hundred people
are being lodged and fed, The loss here is
at $500, 600 At Marietta, Ohio,
there was heavy rain all day yesterday, con-
lnuing until O'Clock this morning. Both