Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-08

nen 10 nelgnoors mouse, with nothing
on but his night clothes, and suffered ter
ribly from the cold. He was properl,
cared for and is now doing we'll, although
his lower limbs are badly frost bitten
Should the ice from above come dowI
before the water recedes the destruction
in this part Of town will be immense
The water was falling slightly at tn,
hour Of going to press last evening.
LATEST.
Commissioner Booher visited the Flori
da bridge Wednesday morning. He re
ports the water falling. and the prospects
good for saving the bridge, but in de
moralized condition. The bridge at the
south end is novel down stream about
8 feet and at the north end about 10 feet
The latest reports from Toledo are tc
the effect that no serious damage is ex
pected at that point, bat the danger is not
passed. The ice gorges makes the situa
tion little uncertain.
CANTON. Ohio, Feb. 8, 1S63.-A disas-
trous rainstorm has prevailed all day.
The ground is so frozen that the water
cannot sink and consequently there is a
general food. The north eastern part of
this city is inundated and fifty families
have been flooded out OF their homes.
The Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago
Railroad tracks are under water in many
places. Heavy snow storms prevail west
of here, and passenger train No. A is
showed in this side of Chicago. The Pa
cific express for the west lies east from
here, with two bridges washed away be-
tween it and Canton. Several other
bridges are reported lost. The Valley
Railway is five feet under water in some
places and all trains are discontinued.
The Connection Valley bridge, south Of
the city, is also washed out. The Cleve-
land passenger train was discontinued at
Bedford.
AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 8, 1883.-It has
rained steadily here since last night, and
this entire region is flooded. The Little
Cuyahoga River rose three feet in short
time. Almost all the factories are SUBJ
merged. The Akron Hydraulic Com
pany's new dam has been washed away
flooding the tracks of the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, and the Valley
railroads, disabling the latter badly. The
bridge of the Pittsburg. Cleveland and
Toledo Railroad is threatened. The
water swept away John Kennedy's house
and Mrs. Kennedy barely saved her three
children. Mary Stroop was drowned.
| The house of Harrison w. Greer was
flooded and he and his children were res
cued Wi h difficulty. Great damage has
been done to property.
PERRYsBuRG, Feb. 5.-Contrary to ex-
pectation the ice moved out of the river
here without doing any damage at all. 1t
started several times, but gorged till
about 4 O'Clock, when it made a final
move and left US clear of ice. At this
writing, o p. M, it is gorged near Rock
| Bar. At one time to-day the water rose
to within two feet of the high water mark
of 81 and is now falling slowly. No ice
has passed here vet from farther south
than Waterville or Grand Rapids.
CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 4.-Heavy rains
have fallen all over Northern Ohio for
the past forty-eight hours.
Allstreams are swoller to great extent
and large ones overfowing their banks.
The Cuyahoga river, which extends about
thirty miles from Akron to Cleveland,
empties into Lake Erie ut this point. At
late hour last night the river began ris.
ing rapidly, and small streams carried
into the Cuyahoga huge volumes of wa.
ter. The river rose fifteen feet inside of
eight hours, and the food carried de-
struction and death in it's path from
Akron to Cleveland.
BRADFORD. Pa, Feb. 4-Bradford was
visited on Saturday by disastrous food
which submerged about 500 houses. The
lower part of the city was inundated in
some cases to the depth of ten feet. It
was caused by the rains of Friday and
Saturday and the melting of the snow in
the mountains. Nine bridges were swept
away, and several houses all ng the bank
of the creek were badly damaged or to-
tally destroyed. Eighty.tive families on
the flats between here and Tarport, iv-
ing in one-story houses, had to flee for
their lives when the ice gorge broke, leav-
ing all their effects. and many of the
houses were swept away. It is impossi
subsiding, and all fears Of further dam
age are over.
| COLUMBUS, Feb. 4.-The Scioto broke
over the levee on the west side, near the
/. B. & w. bridge, between 10 and II
O'Clock tonight, a rapidly increasing tor.
rent was rushing across the track to the
depth of two or three inches and extend
ing over stretch of about 800 yards.
The solidity of the road bed prevented
any damage up to that hour.
West Broadway, or the National road,
was submerged to depth of foot or
more, and people were compelled to move
to the second stories of their residences
or vacate.
MILTON CENTER, O., Feb. 5.-This vii
lage is inundated. jackson cut off il
gorged with ice at point below the vii
lage and the overflow has flooded this
whole region. Inside many dwelling
houses the water is from to Is inches
deep, and families were compelled to ford
deep water to reach places of safety.
Several business rooms are flooded.
Much stock, principally hogs, have been
drowned or frozen to death. Fears are
entertained that all the bridges across the
Cutoff will be carried out by the flood
and ice. Water is running over the floor
OF Defiance street bridge. The eastern
portion of the village has thus far suf-
fered the most, but the water is rapidly
rising on the west side (the railway en-
bankment divides the village) and will
probably do much damage.
Our citizens are somewhat alarmed;
still they accept the situation quite philo-
sophicaliy, and sympathize with other
unfortunate towns.
FREMONT, Feb. 8, 2 p. m.-There has
not been much change in the food to-
day. During the night the water fell
over a foot, but tonight it is rising
again. Stores on Front street were pretty