Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-16

description were raddling about the inundl ted streets. Boats hastily constructed fc the occasion of blanks and skiffs predomin,
 ted, but mingled with them were to be see
 many rafts of various dimensions from tw or three boards to those more elaboratel
 constructed that would hold ten or doze
 persons. Some genius nailed boards acros
 six empty beer kegs and navigated the dan
 gerous current of Main street thereon il
 safety.
 WAsHINeToN, Feb: 15,-Reports iron
 Louisville, Ky, to General Superintendent
 Kimball of the life saving service state tha
 the floating life saving station has beer
 moved to a large stone house well up towr
 and the corps are busy saving life and prop
 erty from the ravages of the flood. Reports
 from Cleveland, O., state that the
 Cuyahoga river has flooded seriousls
 his ifeboat on wagon and drove of to the
 rescue of perishing humanity. A crew was mustered at once for service. Many people
 have been taken from the houssteps and up
 per windows by the crew. Thirty seven
 lives were saved the first day. The crew
 worked night and day and the keeper is pros.
 trated by exposure and over exertion.
 Superintendent Dobbins, of the life saving
 service has gone to Louisville on telegraph lc call from the keeper of the life saving l station at that point to superintend the work of saving life and property from the flood.
 
 | lighthouse inspector at Cincinnati telegraph | ed to the chairman of the board this after noon and asked for authority to use the lighthouse steamer to aid the citizens relief commission in saving life and property from the flood.
 LAwRENoEBURG, Ind, Feb. 15.-The situa. tlon of the citizens of this place imprisoned in the court house is constantly growing | more dangerous. Added to the irregularity of the food supply and the crowded quarters is the possibility that the court house itself may collapse from the undermining of it's foundation by the flood of waters. Should that occur the loss of life will certainly be great. Every hour that the rescue of these people is delayed increases the horror of the situation. The fall of buildings in various places clearly indicates that such fate may await the Lawrenceburg court house and there is even more danger of it's occurring while the waters are subsiding than while they are rising.
 The suffering is beyond belief number of houses have been carried away and oth- CTS have hoated from their foundations. Three thousand women and children are in the second stories with no fires and only such food as reaches them by boats There are $50 persons crowded in the court house with no fire, insufficient clothing and no place to eat or sleep. Three children died of scarlet fever at the court house to day.
 PITTsBURG, Feb. 15.-At six o'clock the water in the river was rising at the rate of nine inches an hour and all indications point to flood. Zeng's mill was closed down, 1t being evident that the floods would invade the mill. The moulds that were being pre- pared for casting were interfered with and work stopped. Tonight the river is still rising though less rapidly and there is fair current in the Ohio.
 CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 15-Rain has been fall fo- tha cf fxzo o,,l last evening there was every indication of another disastrous food Preparations were made in the low lying portions of the city for @ general stampede, when suddenly the ice which gorged the Cuyahoga river for a qaurter of mile went into Lake Erie. Upon the river there is a lumber gorge from the floods. The brick yards, oil refneries prem ises, etc., are floods above this gorge which tugs are cutting to pieces as fast as possible. An immense quantity of dynamite is held in readiness to blow up this gorge should greater damage be threatened. The railroads generally are in good shape and the best possible preparations for hood-fghting are made.
 LOUISVILLE, Ky, Feb. 15 The river has been rising all the morning. The situation here is not materially changed except at that hour the flood has crept higher and higher and buildings which have hitherto stood firm are beginning to weaken. Many houses have
 
 drowned is still uncertain, but there are grave 1 Bear Grass creek has flooded | and the backwater extends nearly to l ,the southeastern part of the city. | People in the second stories of some houses | on Fourth street were busy moving to the | third story this morning as the water is com ing Into the windows. Some of them lost almost everything they had. People in | houses along the river front are busy mov- [ ing from floor to floor. The weather is | favorable for another rain as it is warm and | cloudy. The flood has stopped the machinery at the waterworks, mile above the city. | It was feared to day that the gas works | would be submerged, but they are still three | feet clear and the only damage feared now is ! the soaking of the water into the mains. | Immense damage to all the industries is re- | ported. It is reported that the loss in the | Falls city will reach two millions. The city | will lose an immense sum from damage to | stocks, fells and sewers. The western out fall sewer creek cannot be repaired for less than C $20O,OOO One factory | in New Albany loses $125, 900. | Ten thousand people are driven from their houses, some their furniture, some both. | All are more or less damaged. These people | about two thousand families and 8 | loss of $25O for each family, a small esti- mate, will swell individual losses to half million. Then the damage to lumber u6u Will IoaCA @GO,OOO adO buo H. jury done to factories, mills, foundries and railroads will bring the grand total up in the millions There is just one block in Jeff fersonville out of water, and the city of ten people is in the midst of sea of water. Two hundred rowboats are employ | ed to take provisions to the sufferers. The | stores are all flooded and grocery stores emp tied. The news that higher flood is coming | has caused great panic and excitement. The l hotels are crowded with women and children | who supposed they had left their household in sufficiently elevated places to escape the waters presented pitiable scenes. They were all crying and bemoaning the loss of their A woman who died last Monday has not been buried as the cemetery can be reached no other way but by boat. There are hundreds of people hungry and almost. in a. staying condition as it is impossible to get supplies to them fast enough The Commercial specials from Paducah, Hen- derson, Owensboro, Ky. and Evansville. Ind, on the lower Ohio, report the flood going over the record of last winter. The great rise has not yet reached those points, but already there has been great loss of prop erty and the railroad transfer between Evans vile and Henderson is suspended