The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-06
By AssOcIattu FTess.I
Further Details of Losses. &c.


WASHINGTON, ID. c., February 5.-Tele-
graphic communication, which has been
utterly demoralized, and at times wholly
suspended, during the last two days in
Western Pennsylvania, Eastern and North
ern Ohio, and Indiana, is being restored,
and the details Of losses by Hood are pour
ing i'm by the column. The country around
Cincinnati escaped damage. In the flooded
districts the waters have come TO stand
still, and in some places have begun to
subside, and the people are taking stock.
A dispatch from Cleveland. Ohio, says :
The heaviest losses by the flood to lumber
firms are as follows: Monroe Brothers,
$50, 900: Forbers. Barstow IL Co.. 100000 /;
Cleveland Saw-Mill and Lumber Company,
500. 900; Sturteyant 4 Co., $4,000; Haw-
ley d Newton, $4,000; Rust, King u Clint,
$4,000.
Another Cleveland dispatch gives the
following account OF the railway status !:
The Lake Shore trains are running partly
over. The Decline bridge over the Huron
river is gone, and half OF the Fremont
bridge is down. The Nickel-Plate Huron
river bridge Is expected to be repaired to-
day. On the Cleveland and Pittsburgh road
no serious damage has been sustained, but
blockade has occurred, occasioned by the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio road
being obliged TO use portions OF the road.
There is no damage to the Cleveland and
Columbus road. The trains are on time.
ACCIDENT TO A RAILROAD TRAIN.
A passenger train on the Buffalo, New
York and Philadelphia railroad, which
left clean ut O'clock this morning for
Buffalo, plunged into a creek near lschua.
Engineer Hall and Fireman Briggs were
killed, and Conductor Love was seriously
| injured. Several passengers were slightly
injured. The accident was caused by high
water undermining the track.
At Wheeling, W. Va, the Ohio river is
now thlrty-one feet nine inches high, and
| is rising at the rate OF seven inches per
hour. Its surface is mass OF ice and
slush, with a large quantity Of driitwood
| barrels, fences, and small bridges. About
noon barge, with two wagons, passed,
aad shortly after flat, with new buggy,
one end beng sunk.
The fairgrounds OF the State Exposition
Association and others in the low parts OF
| Wheeling Island are under water as well
as few of the low portions OF the main
part of the city. Some OF the residents OF
the island streets, which are usually sub
merged by high water, are moving out.
At Pittsburgh the loss by the: flood in the
Allegheny river is estimated at 100000,
and number Of lives are reported lost on
the wrecked barges. One bridge was
washed away, and floating down en-
dangered the bridges connecting Pitts
burgh with Allegheny City. The Mononga-
hela river has not Hooded.
ENORMOUS DAMAGES IN OHIO.
The following comes from Columbus,
Ohio: Reports from all parts OF Central
Ohio show the highest water by from six
TO twenty inches ever known. The Scioto
river here was fourteen inches higher than
ever before. and the damage is enormous,
mostly to the inundated portion OF the
west side. Over 100 families had to quit
their houses. The river by noon to-day
had fallen two feet, and the worst is over.
At indianapolis. White river reached its
highest at noon to-day. This Is the high
est point II has ever been known to
reach. II has Just commenced to re-
cede, Q:30 Z. NJ The damage, though
very serious, cannot be estimated as
yet. Eight inches Of water was on the
flocr OF the engine-house of the water
works. and 1t was feared that the supply OF
water for the city would be cut OF. But
that danger Is apparently over. Wabash
river Is high at all points, and two spans OF
the Wabash, st. LOUIS and Pacific railroad
bridge are down at Logansport. Regular
trains are abandoned. The floods through
out the State are general. Nearly oil the