Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-13


worst is feared there as the town is isolated.
MEASURES FOR. RELIEF.
A meeting OF the Chamber OF Commerce
showed the utter prostration of business.
Only the merest necessities OF trade are ac-
complished. There Is no disposition to enter
into anything of a speculative character.
The president called the body together, and
resolutions were adopted appointing a COM
mitlee TO collect money and provide for the
relief Of the sufferers. NJ. f. Ingalls, was
made chairman. On motion of Richard
Smith, the Chamber gave $4,000 to the COM
miltee, which Superintendent Maxwell 40
copied. Individual subscriptions were i'm
mediately taken up, and fully $4,000 more
was collected. The committee goes to work
at once. The Common Council was called
to meet tomorrow to organize relief meas
ures.
ADDITIONAL LOSSES.
| Among the losses this morning were 800
cattle drowned in Yerke & Lppelmans
distillery. The work OF removing the poor
from tenement houses, or of furnishing them
provisions, must begin at once. Just now all
available skiffs and other craft are busy saw
! ing goods and ferrying passengers at enor.
nous rates. The gas is completely ex-
| hausted, and the citizens are providing
candles and lamps. The theatsrs will be
equipped with electric lights, but they fear
the audiences will be small on aeennni OF
fear 10 be on the dssE E;rests. The rfFsr is
sixty-three feet seven aud A-halt inches at
80 O'Clock p.n., and still rising.
Sundays Dispatches.
CINCINNATI, February 1.-THE business
men here, who are not sensational, say the
damage by the present overflow OF the Ohio
river, in Cincinnati, Newport and Covington,
will amount TO millions. The river at
| o'clock TO night was sixty-one feet eight
inches, and rising nearly two inches hourly.
| Thousands of people crowd all the bridges,
| watching the flood. Three feet more water
| is expected. All the transfer wagons in the
city are employed removing goods from dan
ger. The suspension bridge is lined with
wagons taking leaf tobacco over 10 Coving-
ton. The wafer through which they pass, in
going 10 the suspension bridge, ia over the
axles of the wagons. Passengers between
| Covington and Cincinnati are compelled to
cross the water at the Cincinnati approach
| to the suspension bridge in boats or vehicles.
| At the present rate of the rise passage te
| the bridge by vehicles will be i'm
possible. The steam Jerry and street
| railroad communication between here and
the Kentucky side of the river is cut off en-
tirely. The Cincinnati approach TO New
port bridge was free at s O'Clock, but in
danger. In Newport the military barracks
were all flooded. Nearly two square miles
of the city is under water. The people have
been taking coal and provisions in boats all
day to inhabitants and delivering through
second and third story windows. All the
| houses and factories on the river front OF
CoviDgton are flooded.
| THE WATER is IN THE SECOND STORY
| of some of them. Nearly ten miles OF the
river front of Cincinnati is more or less IN.
der water. The food extends on Vine to
Second street and Pearl street, and the cellars
are filling. Along the landing the food is
up 10 the second and third stories of many
| buildings. The roof of the big wharfboat,
viewed from the suspension bridge, looks
nearly as high as the roofs of 6ve-story
houses on the public landing. All railway
freight business, and nearly all eI-
press business West and North is stopped.
The Ohio and Mississippi railway transfers
passengers by omnibus four miles down the
river, thence by steamer makes connection
| at Aurors, Ind, with the Cincinnati, Indian
apolis, ST.. Louis and Chicago, and Cincin-
| natl, Hamilton and Dayton lines to reach its
own line in Indiana. The Cincinnati, WASH
ipgton and Baltimcr. goes out from The
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton depot.
II the present rate OF rise continues all these
lines will have TO transfer at Cumminsville
| tomorrow morning. The Little Miami
division Of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st.
Louis, and all roads south of the Ohio river,
remain intact, and are likely 10 continue 80.
In the West End people are trying to save
the cattle from the inundated pens. The
difficulty is very great, as boats have TO be
employed, and the cattle must be led ont one
by one. They often get frightened, break
away and go back into the pens. All the
Mill creek valley for miles north from the
Ohio river
IsA BROAD SEA.
10 the city, from Pearl street down 10 the
! river front, the greatest activity and excite
ment prevails. The fire department is out
| pumping out Pearl street cellars, trying TO
enable merchants to save their goods. The
river this morning invaded house adj accent
to the suspension bridge, where unslacked
| lime was stored along with quantities of
rosin. The heat from the lime set the rosin
on FIRE. The fire department has been work.
ing at this fire all day. 1t continues obsti-
nate but is not violent. On Walnut street,
| up to Fourth street, the entire sidewalks are
covered with packages Of sugar and groce-
ries which have been hastily removed from
the cellars, and the work of removal con-
\ tinues tonight as fast as men can accomplish
it. The damage to goods in cellars on Pearl
street ia much feared. The Cincinnati Stock
yards are flooded, and stock trains cannot
| move in any direction. All business will be
suspended until after this danger Is past.
At $50 o'clock tonight it was expected
that every minute the gaslights would be
| extinguished. Only few inches more rise
| will bring that result. The belief now is
that it will not stop under sixty=three feet,
which will make the rise the greatest on
record.
The gasworks at o'clock are submerged
and there is only enough gas to last through
the night. The pressure is so weak the
| GAS WILL NOT BURN
now in many places. The water supply is
also 10 danger, but one engine at the pump
ing works being able to work. Its capacity at
the last trial was 100000 gallons per day,
while the daily consumption is 100000.
| 1t will require rise of four feet more to
disable this one engine. The coal fleets are
believed to be safe. They are guarded by
steamers ready to render assistsuce il the
lines part, but should the wind rise it is not
thought that any can be saved. The weather
ia still warm, and the snow is melting, with
occasionally light rain. Advices from above
indicate that the rise will continue at least
twenty-four hours.
The Commercial Gdsettes specials report
three inches ofrain at Petersburg and river
rising an inch hourly; at Marietta, two
inches Of rain and rising slowly; Ports
mouth, heavy rain for the past twenty
four hours, clearing at noon, river
rising slowly, foot higher than Friday, and
rising two inches an hour; at Pittsburg,
raining and warm, snow melting, river ris.
ing; Maysville, rising two and half inches
an hour, many business houses have cellars
flooded.
The excitement here tonight continues.
The stage of the wster, taken half-hourly,
is bullelined at the newspaper Offices.
Crowds are still going 10 the waters edge,
where Workmen are buoy removing goods.
The last rise is in the nature of a surprise to
many, but if it had not been, it was impos-
stble in the short time since yesterdays rain
TO get goods out of danger. No services
were held in some churches tonight on &C.
count Of the failure of gaslight.
| AT LOUISVILLE.