Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-16
! News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. BOATS IN THB STREETS. Means of Traffic in the
 DeIuged Cities. SCENES AMONG THEFLOODS People Huddling Together in
 School Houses. THE STAR R0UTERS SURPRISED. Rerdel Makes a Clean
 Breast of 1t.
THE STAR RoUTERs SURPRISED.
THE FLOODS.

ble Scenes in the Submerged Districts Homeless People Huddled Together il @ School BuiIdIngs-Death and Starva ton Stalking Among Them-The LOsse Mounting Up Among the Mi11iens.
 CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 15.-Yesterdsy at p. m. the Ohio had risen to 65 feet inches In the next two hours the river rose to 6!
 feet 1-2 inches. 1t continued to rise dur ing the night and at a. m. to-day the mark showed 66 feet inches This morning
 nearly the whole of Pearl street was under
 water. The rain ceased falling yesterday al p. m. With the rise of the water the loss and misery to the factories, merchants and dwellers in the lower portions of the city
 l were greatly increased. Thousands of the
 people thronged the river front until late
 hour and the relief committee and police
 were busy all night looking after imperiled
 families and property. At a. n. the river
 began to fall slowly, when the gauge marked
 66 feet 3-4 inches. At 10 the water had
 receded an inch and quarter. It was then
 66 feet 1-2 inches and was falling an inch
 an hour. At this afternoon it was 66 feet
 and receding slowly. The flooded district
 west of Plum street is about the same as yesterday, but the suffering is not so exten-
 sive. A large number of the inhabitants were removed by the boats of the police and
 relief committee yesterday morning and pro-
 visions were given to those remaining in their homes and everything made as con- 1 fortable as possible. In the Mill Creek bot,
 toms men were busily engaged in removing drowned cattle from the various distilling pens Eighth street is flooded about eigh- 1 teen inches under the southern bridge and the street cars run thro ugh with great diff culty. The gap at the Southern depot is, of | course still full of water. At Clark and Freeman streets the water is 1-2 feet high and the street cars cannot run at all. Lincoln 1 Park is one sheet of water with the trees protruding through the water At Willstach street the wreck of the house blown up last 1 night is surrounded by water two feet deep. At Cumminsville the suffering is still great 1 and the police are doing good work in supply f ing the locked in tenants with food and coal. Removal from the houses is not expedient as l there is no place to put the people in Cum ! huntsville and it is next to impossible to bring l them to town as vehicle travelling between l here and Cumminsville is dropped. Last night supper was set for the hungry flood sufferers at the Pearl street market house. The market counters were arranged like tables along the center from one end to the other The table was dimly lighted with candles stuck in the necks of bottles. Ranged along the sides of the counters were over one hundred and thirty pie pans, tin cups and spoons. Each pan was supplied with meat and bread and each cup with soup or coffee. The hungry crowd in waiting on the outside of the market place, black and white to- gether, were permitted to file in and range themselves standing around the table without ceremony They fell to with such vigor | that everything edible soon disappeared. Hunger satisfied they passed out. The pans | file took their places. Thus three tables | full, 426 persons in all, were furnished with suppers No women were to be seen. They preferred to take the meal in 8 less public | manner and carried away for themselves and children fully as much as was taken by the men in public.
 The Second district school house, Sycamore and Fourth street. sheltered 217 people last night In the large room great number Of | women and children were quartered. They ! were spread all over the room upon cots well I supplied with bed clothing Many of the | mothers and children exhausted soon fell asleep The families had all been washed
 out early by the flood and had to leave with l out securing the least bit of furniture. In l back room of the first floor of the building I under guard of soldiers sat sergeant regis
 tering applicants On the right of the ser door guards with guns in hand. Three cots with soldiers blankets were in the room. "What is your name ?" asked the sergeant of one in the crowd of men, women and children waiting to be reg 1 istered and sent to their quarters. The an- 1 sgsr was given by young German woman l with a young two weeks baby in her arms l She was poorly clad and looked wretched. 1 stMy name is Mary Camauh. My husband | died in the East a few months ago. I have
 been in the city only short time and am total stranger. I was boarding with family on Mill street when the flood came l and was driven out" ''Your name ?'' ''It is John Evans, sir." sHe is sick with con-
 sumption and barely able to stand" said
 woman at his side. "I am his wife, and
 West Fifth street." s'Mrs. Mahoney. sir,
 widow for seven years. These children are mine. There are1ive. I live at IT Webb street, and was driven out of the second story by the flood. This lady is Mrs. Dunnehue, widow like myself. She has
 two children, but they got frightened and
 ran of no one knows where In this manner the homeless continued to come for hours. One sad case was that of Henry Gremme, of 589 West Front street. He was forty years old and paraly since he was six years old. He was found alone in
 
 two feet deep and nearly up to the bed where the man was lying. The man was in the 2. eatest danger of being drowned.
 Over one hundred were lodged at the Sev enth district school house. There were about thirty boys, twenty girls, thirty women and l twenty men. Cots and blankets were SUD- 1 piled to each. Men, women and boys were 1 lodged in separate rooms and all were quiet 1 and orderly. About 10 p. m. coffee and
 crackers were passed around. The supply was hardly equal to the demand, but when asked | if they were satisfied all answered in chorus, l eve are.'' At the school house at Third and 1 Plum streets 175 persons were sheltered and l fed. Three rooms were devoted to women
 and children, one to the boys, principally l street gamins, and another women Sergeant Kruse, Co., B, First regiment, was in charge 1 In the school building adjoining the Church 1 of the Atonement colored sufferers are shel tered and fed Three families and fifteen men were lodged there last night. Breakfast was served to . large number this morning ln I the basement of the chureh The Clnclnhst1 women are keeping up with the sterner sex l rieht along in caring for the destitute. Thou | sands have left their owR comfortable homes
 and oanRbe seen in all localities feeding the hunorv and clothing the half clothed victims and in some instances taking of their own
 wraps to cover some shlserlng slssex; 1 During the night the streets near the Hood | ed districts from Broadway to Cumminsvlile 1 were ouarded by the First regiment. Only l two soldiers were assigned to each block, which they marched around, dispersed crowds. prevented destruction of property
 and run in" suspicious looking characters 1 who could not give proper account of themselves. The guard was changed once ] dnrino the night at 12. There were between t1zo hundred and three hundred men on ac- i've duty. the most of them young men.
 Police guarded the flooded district in boats. I Many merchants had guards in their business ho,,ses line streets along the river front ordinarily lighted by bright gas jets were l last night. as for several nights past, filled ! with surging muddy water. In second street the current was so strong as to require industrious rowing to keep the boats from being carried from their course On either side of the flooded streets the houses l looked up in darkness, many of them, even during the early part of the night, with
 single light; others with here and there
 candle or coal oil lamp throwing its aiekly i,y 1 s,,Trannding gloom These and the boats ! were the only signs of life in the streets