The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-07
Untold Damage Done by the
Floods.
Hundreds OF Homes Under Water and
Many Railroad Bridges
Washed Away.
Mr.. Randall Takes MIR. Burrows to Task
in the House-Fatal Railroad
Accident in Ohio.
FLOOD DISASTERS.

Bridges, Houses and Stock swept Away
and Many Lives Lost.
CLEVELAND, o., Feb. 2.-The fire at the
Standard Oil Works is nearly exhausted,
The scene OF the confagration resembles
chaos, and gentleman well informed in
such matters says it will take two years to
restore the works as they were two days ago.
Colonel Payne Treasurer of the Company,
thinks that not more than $4,000 barrels OF
oil were burned, and says the loss can not
be stated till the flood subsidies and a care
full examination is made. The fire is still
burning in spots, and tonight illumines the
wrecks of the ten receiving tanks, twenty to
thirty stills, and other smaller works, mostly
enumerated last night. Three hundred
thousand dollars is probably a moderate es-
innate of the Company's loss.
The great food reached its highest point
about noon to-day when the river was ten
feet higher than the ordinary stage in places,
and the flats are covered with lumber yards,
elevators. iron works, machine shops, Hour
mills packing houses factories of various
sorts and railway freight houses, which were
more or less submerged. The water is re-
-ceding tonight but the extent of the dam
age can not be ascertained for several days.
1t is estimated that % 600 coo feet of lum-
Der and 10, ,0O0 600 to IL, 100000 of shingles
were washed away from the lumber yards.
The Valley Railroad is several feet under
water for miles and the bridge near the
weighlocks swept away.
The New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
old freight house is four feet under water.
which reaches within few inches OF the
floor of the new freight house. The Com
pany refuses freight tor the present. About
fifty horses, which were stabbed at the lum-
Der yards, stood all night in the water up to
their breasts, were rescued with difficulty
to-day, having to swim several hundred
feet to reach place of safety. Two mills
of the Cleveland Paper Company, contain
ins about forty tons of manufactured paper,
are in water nearly to the top of the first
story. There is less damage done to ship
tore loose, capsized and sunk. Schoonefs
and steamboats, were rudely
tossed about, but they mostly
rode through with slight or no
injury, The lower central way bridge is
broken and the approaches gone, and the
draw turned as if to let vessels pass. The
district all abouts presents the appearance
of lake dotted with chimneys of furnaces,
roofs of buildings and lumber piles secured
and anchored. The infrmary farm, on the
rivers edge, Ia submerged. The freshet is
the most destructive ever known and the
water higher than since the great flood oi
1859, and some think higher even than then.
The damage can scarcely be less than mil
lion OF dollars, and may be much greater.
The rain ceased to fall at three o'clock this
morning, and the weather turned rapidly
cold and began to freeze. One family,
living on the lowlands, was rescued
by boats. A prisoner, in the station near
Brooklyn, was also taken out in q boat
A Mansfield special to the Leader reports
hat truo fhrDrTuk hrfd drcs
near there, one brakeman killed and
another losing his leg. Three other bridges
between there and Alliance, on the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Road were
washed away, and the passengers have been
transferred over the New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio.
A Delaware special to the Leader reports
the Olentanzy River raging, the freshet
being the worst ever known. The suspen-
sion bridge was swept away and two other
bridges are expected to go. Families living
near the river were rescued in boats. Acres
of meadow land are inundated and houses
and thousands of trees afloat. The chair
factory is partly submerged and the ma
chiaery much damaged.
a Mount Vernon special to the Leader
reports the kOkOmo River booming, one
house being surrounded by water and the
family in the upper story cut off from help
The bridge on the Baltimore and Ohio wa:
carried away, while freight train No. 16 was
crossing The locomotive and forward part
of the train are sunk out of sight. All the
train hands escaped, except a brakeman
named Hartman, who wss drowned.
A Madison special reports an Ice gorge
formed in the Grand River which swept
away part of saw mill, its dam and a crib
containing about 1000 bushels of corn.
) The Clyde bridge was carried two miles and
bridge at Rogers Corners is reported gone.
SfraSh Shnryh au0Cial n the Leader
two bridges on the Cleveland, T Tuscarawa.
Valley and Wheeling Railroad gone and
the track badly washed out. Trains suffered
greatly.
An Olmsted Falls special to the Lesdel
says the bridge at Westview, the one over
Plum Greek, May & Co.'s sawmill and two
bridges near Cedar Point were swept away
Warren special to the Leader says the
Westlake Rolling Mill is two feet and the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Rail way
four feet under water. The factories on the
flats are so inundated that work must be
suspended for several days.
A Cory (Pa special to the Leader says
the business part of the city in the southern
district is flooded, and there is extensive
damage.
A Franklin PA special to the Leader
says the New York. Pennsylvania and Ohio
Railway is ten feet under water and ice
Twenty five families were driven from their
homes. The Vevango Mill is in two feet OF
water and a large quantity of grain, fouI
and feed destroyed and great amount OF
lumber swept away.
A Meadville (Pa) special to the Leader
says the water is two feet higher than
by the q cd of 1875. Last night the
ice gorge in the Mill Run broke and
the whole central part of the town was
flooded, and numberless cakes of ice are
floating swiftly about This freshet sub
ufI fIoIr uhor, fhf "a Of fho oil hoH hoou
submerged, in consequence of which the ice
gorge IN French Greek extended three miles
Over 800 families were rescued in boats
There is much suffering from cold and ex
posure. The Gas Works are under water
and the city is in darkness, and no railway
train can enter or leavs the city. The station