Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-13

tidings yet from Lawrenceburg. Indiana.
except that the town is at the mercy of the
! waters.
The flood of 1882 is now surpassed.
Taking the most liberal standard. it then
reached slxty-four feet three inches. At
II o'clock tonight it stood a half inch
above that, and is still rising. Reports
from above indicate that the river is ris-
ing at Wheeling,sand falling at Marietta
and Pomsroy. 1t will probably continue
10 rise here tomorrow. People at Law
renceburg, at last reports, were virtually
helpless, lacking food and unable to pro-
cure any. Telegraph and telephone lines
are down, and there are no means of COM
munication. Arrangements are made
here to mount fire engines on flats in
case of fire in the flooded district
SOLDIERS ON PATROL.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 12.-Four hundred SOL
diers of thessFirst regiment Ohio National
guards in fatigue uniform with pieces
loaded are on the streets doing patrol duty
at night. The extinguishing of private
electric lights at midnight left the city in
total darkness.
AT FRANKFORT, KY.
FRANKFORT, KY, Feb. 12.-The Kentucky
river was forty-three feet at noon and ris-
ing at the rate of three quarters of an inch
an hour. 1t is expected that there will be
a continuance of the rise till nightfall.
One thousand people are homeless, and
there is much distress everywhere Com
munication with the outside world is cut
off, save by telegraph and turnpike to Ver-
sallles. The low ground at Frankfort
known as "Crow" and large part of South
Frankfort is entirely submerged. Fort
hill, the highest point about Frankfort is
now an island caused by backwater. Res
licences two miles from the river are under
water. The distilleries are covered
on the first floors, 600 cattle standing in
water above their knees. The water is
three feet six inches deep on the cellar
floors of the penitentiary, covering nearly
the entire prison yard. The prisoners are
loose in the chapel and doubled up in the
cells on the second floor range. The wood
en- bridge to South Frankfort is considered
very unsafe and is hourly expected togo
down. A thousand people line the river
banks on both sides watching the heavy
driftwood and houses go down. The pres
ent is the highest stage the river has ever
been known to reach. The damage al
ready reaches 100000.
THE INDIANA SIDE OF THE RIVER.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 12.-The Ohio
river is still rising at all points in this
state. At New Albany the water is ten
inches higher than in the flood of 1881.
About three-fourths of the manufactures
are Low flooded and if the rise continues
till midnight every furnace in the i'm
mense glass works of VIC De Paw will be
under water. His loss will be fully $780,
600, and other establishment will suffer to
an equal amount and perhaps much larger,
about 500 houses are flooded in the lower
part of the city. Two or three thousand
employees will be thrown out of employ
ment if the flood continues. Between
Evansville and Henderson the telegraph
poles are covered IN some places and the
wires are strung on the tops of trees.
Lawrenceburg is completely surrounded
by water,the only communication from the
Columbus, Indiana, st. Louis & Cincinnati
depot is by boats.
AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Feb. 12.-Al day the
river has been the center of attraction and
dread. A steady rise each hour dashed
the hopes of those who thought the food
had expended its force yesterday. The
highest point of the flood of February,
1882, was reached this afternoon and
passed, and now there is more than thirty
six feet on the falls and sixty-four feet in
the channel at the foot of the falls, which
is but two feet below the great December
flood of 1S47. The river is yet rising slowly,
with a great tide from the Kentucky
river to be added. The houses along
the river front are vacated, and drift
is damaging them severely, breaking
doors and windows. Fourth street is closed
from Main to the river. Every building in
the shipping part has from three to eight
feet of water on the floors and the cement
mills, the principal industry there, is all
submerged. Nine squares of Portland are
at the mercy of the water, business being
at an end. Houses on Front street will
have water on the second floors before
morning. 1t is estimated that in the ship
ping part of Portland 800 people are for
the time homeless, very many of them be-
ing quite poor. Among them great
suffering exists. The most for
tunate open their doors to the
distressed, as many as five families being
crowded in one small house. The losses
here will aggregate $4,000. Mottingly
distilleries are under water but the whisky
and cattle were saved. The Bellaire dis
tillery has equal good fortune. In the city
proper heavy damage was done by the
stoppage of work in the factories, perhaps
1000 men being thrown out of employ
ment Merkle & Co.'s great plow works,
the Louisville iron works, Dennis Longs
extensive pipe works, the Kentucky lead
and oil works, Bridge, Fort & Co.'s stove
works, the Excelsior works, Central rolling
mill, Bell & Coggesholle's planning mills,
]. & P. Hall and Hall & Eddy's saw mills
are among the largest establishments
closed, while others must follow tomorrow
unless the water subsidies. Much distress
exists among the poor. Mayor
Jacobs has ordered the lying in hospital
to be made ready to receive
sufferers. where they will be
cared for at the city's expense for
the time being. The Louisville hotel COM
pany to-day opened its free lunch house
for women and children who are flood suf
ferers in Main street, which will be
maintained during the flood. The cut off,
the point in the eastern part of the CITY