The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-20
SUNDAY TELEGRAMS,
A Terrible Tale OF Death, and Woe,
at Many Points.
A GiaRce at the Political Horoscope -
The Chances
For Passage Of the Tariff BIZ Exceed
iEgly Attenuated.
0sher Happenings on the Sabbath.

heavy food. The First, Second, Third ant
Eighth, Thirteenth wards almost inunda
ted. The Delaware, Lackawanna e Western
railroad bridge entering the city may sue
cumb at any moment. Land in the vicini
~ OF the raoe.track has been under ioui
feet OF water, but by the giving WY of the
dam the water has heen lowered and The
buildings are again Inhabited LARGE mum.
bers OF drowned pigs, geese and other All.
mails are scattered over the track. No
trains have run on the Buffalo, New York
4 Philadelphia since yesterday evening.
The Elk street crossing of the Lake Shore
Michigan Southern is under two feet OF
wate-. II Is reported that 300 head of cat
Tie drowned in pens of the thirteenth ward.
AT TOLEDO.
TOLEDO, Feb, lS.--The gorge below the
city broke at 1890 this morning and huge
masses of ice, which held the water back
opposite the city, moved rapidly out, and
by daylight the water had falle five feet ard
the river is now comparatively free from
ice and still falling. In its outward passage
the flood carried away the remainder of
the wagon bridge at Cherry street, an addi-
tiona span of the Pennsylvania railroad
bridge and the Union bridge, which CON
neoiei the middle ground with
rle taIt side, and was used
as transfer between the east and
west side by various railroad companies.
Further damage 10 the Wheeling a. Lake
Erie bridge, two miles down the river, is
also reported. A few small craft lying at
the docks were torn from their faslenings
Ahd carried down rs far as the last named
01dge, but no serious injury to shipping
las yet occurred. AS the course of the
stream Is now unobsiructed ana the water
last approaching its natural stage, no fur.
q a "a Vial .N1f 10.
the city aud railway companies by
the destruction OF the bridges
will be very heavy. The water is passing
out rqpidly, and at G o'clock this evening
had lowered ten feet from the highest
marx, which was twenty.six inches above
THAT of 1881. The Wheeling e Lake Erie
railroad bridge is not materially damaged.
The trestle.work approach on the east side
i, iso carried w..t away way and and, that on
Tho several railroads losing use of the
bridges VIII temporarily employ ferry
boat, The Lake Shore railroad bridge Is
unipj ured. Trains are now crossing. The
middle ground is completely covered with
ice, cutting of the approach to the depot.
Several days must elapse before the ice is
Cleared away. All trains begin running on
time tomorrow from suburban stations
IN INDIANA.
INDIAHApoLIs, Feb. 1S.-Telegrams re-
ccivcd by the relief committee and private
instruction received from the flooded dis.
trict give the most gloomy accounts OF dis
tress aud suffering. At New Albany the
river has fallen two feet. The wepther is |
very cold, The suffering and misery in the |
city and vicinity is deplorable and distress
is everywhere. One thousand families in
the city aud $50 in the immediate vi.
ciLity have been driven from their homes
and domiciled wherever covering can
be had BY the stoppage OF factories, one
public charity Most of them have lost
everything. On the bottoms west of the
city 900 families are homeless aud have lost !
houses, barns, grain forage, farm imple-
ments and everything, and are suddenly |
placed IN absolute poverty, with nothing
left to put in crops, The city is caring for
these as well us their own, as beat
they can. All the factories, |
except one, have stopped II will require !
several months to rebuild the factories aud
resume operations. In the meantime the |
employees will have to be cared for. Re.
ports from the WaDash, at Terre Haute, to-
night, say IT reached its highest point this
afternoon. 1t reached few inches
higher than the great flood of 1879. The
st. Louis railway track west Of Terre Uautc
ia covered, and their trains run over the
vandalia and Illinois Midland, between
Terrc Haute and Paris.
READY TO RELIEVE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. lS,-At meeting of
the American Association of the Red Cross
in this city, the floods in the Ohio valley
were considered and the president reported
to the association that societies at New Or
leans, Vicksburg, Memphis Rochester, etc,
were already at work. Ii was decided that
contributions in money should be received
by the central committe through Secretaries
Folger aud Lincoln and Commissioner Lor.
lug, composing the board of trustees, and
DISTRIBUTED through agents as heretofore.
SPECULATIVE.
The programme OF the dominant party in
the senate for the coming legislative week
is substantially Identical with the untitled
programme outlined last Sunday for the
week which ended yesterday. Final action
upon house bill. to reduce internal revenue
taxation, with its multifarious tariff amend.
ments, Is now confidently predicted for
tomorrow night the chairman of the
finance committee having given notice he
would insist upon pressing the bill to final
Voc before Tuesday as the chairman of
Ne committe on appropriations will then
e2im, as indispensable, the condition Of
securing time upon the annual appropria.
ton bills. Ofthese, the army bill ia first
TO be considered, leaving the navy the for
tilica,ions and District OF Columbia appro.
priation bills TO be called up from the calen.
dar for action by the senate during the 70.
aainder OF the week. Tho
chances for general legislation are
OF course rapidly Diminishing every day as
the session draws to u close but the ship.
ping bill or Dakota bill may possibly oh.
tain consideration In the senate towards
the end of this week, unless the number
OF appropriation bills already on the calen.
dar be meanwhile augmented by the legis.
latiye, executive and judicial appropriation
bill which now awaits report by tho COM
mittee on appropriations, The regular
order III The house of representatives to-
morrow will be the call of committees for
motions to suspend the rules. The first i'm.
portant committee to DO reached on the list
to-morrowSs the ways and means commit.
tee, which will offer Tor passage by this
method n bill indentcal in terms with the
internal revenue provisions OF the bill now
pending In the senate AS amended by the
senate TO the present date, this bill win re.
duoe taxation by an amount variously esti
mated at from $50, 600, 900 to Si0,000,000 pei
annum and will probably obtain by
request the two.thirds majority
Other committees standing lower on t6e
list will Offer motions ns follows: judi
oiary, TO pass senate bill TO establish Q
court OF appeals. This IN the measure
commonly known as the Davis bill, de
signed to relieve the supreme court from
constantly accommodating business. BY tn,
commerce committee, to fixa day for tn,
consideration Of the Ames.Townshen,
lh'l, creatinga commission to investigate
the sublec, Of Interstate commerce.. Byth
agricultural committee, to pass tn
anderson bill to create an asri