Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-02-10
THE TERRIBLE FLOODS in
THE MIDDLE STATES.
A PANIC AT WHEELING,
VIRGINIA..
BLOODY WORK OF 4 JEAL.
Gus Transfer.
A NEW COMPETING LINE
TO THE COAST.


inches at Marietta, but the city ls IN
darkness, the gas works having been
flooded. The water is within two feet
of the great food of 1860. The loss
in this city is very great. merchants not
having time to save their goods. Mis-
Cranes was fouad dead in her house.
At Pomeroy, OHIO, the flood is greater
than at any time since 1917, and
promises to exceed that before morning.
Three hundred buildings have from one
to fifteen feet of water. In three.fourths
| of the business houses the water Is SIX
feet deep, ami ten fee5 deep III the
Office OF the Remington House. There
is heavy damage to offices and business
houses, estimated at 2l50,OOO No
ira MS since Tuesday. the only means
of communication in the city IL by
skitts. The river /. rising an inch and
a half an hour.
| CANTON, Ohio, Feb. 8 The river is
50 feet and SILT rising The lower
part Of the city is flooded. All factories
are stopped.
PORTSMOUTH,, Feb. 9 The river is
rising three inches an hour. The water
ks and all factories are stopped.
| Hundreds OF families have been driven
from their houses. Toe railroads north
and south are under water.
FREMONT, Ohio, Feb. 9-Three thou
sand dollars have been collected for
the relief of the flood sufferers. IL Will
be several days before the dwellings can
be occupied.
WHEELING, W. Va, Feb 9.-The
river here has again reached thirty
seven and half feet-sbout the highest
il was yesterday-And a rise of not
more than tive feet is expected. 1t Is
rising about two inches an hour. Tx
agsera.ed reports reached thecity Of Il
food coming las. nj ght and a panic was
created. Residents of low grounds are
moving out OF the lower stories. The
bridge connecting the city with the
crescent mile, over Wheeling creeke
parted in the night. Thecreek was,
much swollen, aud several small house
on its banks were washed away, but 40
person hurt. The railroad bridges were
weighted down with heavy trains, and
were thus kept from sweeping away.
A. Beilaire the b. L and {. Rail
road trains cannot reach the city by
two miles, aud freigh. aud passengers
are tran ierrei 10y steamboats. The
watey h4> invaded cellars of business
houses several squares from the river
and the streets are full OF merchandise.
Tue Sister Islands, SIX miles up the
river, are Submerged. \ family living
on che barely escaped with their lives
in skii, Many residents OF the island
are shut IN by the water. which is
frozen over in still places. preventing
egress in skif,. Many factories are
shu. down on account of the overti w.
The water works at Bellaire are stopped
and the gas-works are threatened.
CISCISNATI, Feb 9.-The river con-
tinues to r Sc two inches All hour IL
was tifty.seven feet three inches at
1870. Dispatches show that it has re-
coded eight inches at Marietta. 1t will
continue to rise here at least TIL to-
morrow, aud may reach sixty teet
There is no additional loss OF properly,
but business is mucn retarded.
Trains on the Cincinnati, Washing
! -
apolis, s.. Louis and Chicago and the
Dayton Short Line, are unable to reach
the depot. A. Newport. Ky, 200
families were compelled to remove from
their dwellings. Many more were
driven to the upper stories. The
weather is still clear and cold.
WASHINGTON. Feb. S.-L.st Thurs
day Sllas Buroauk made z desert land
eu.rv of q tract in Nevada. Frank
Rivers asked that the entry be can
Gle /. and that his own homestead
entry be received, alleging that he had
reside Ell On the tract for years previous
to Bnrbank's application, and had lrri-
gated and improved the land The
30 nmi sion of the Lind Office re-
j.c;ed Rivers application, but the
Secretary OF the Interior has just re-
versed the decision. He holds that the
land was not desert land, as prnvidsd
by the Acs OF March 3, 1877, and :hat
Burbauk ks entry mast be Cancelled, be-
eau e. in accordauce with the provisions
of the Desert Land Act, he expressed
his intention to RET claim the land by con
ducsing water thereon within three
years If er the entry. whereas IL ap-
pear, the land had already been Re
claimed from its original charac'e, 50 -
20 make fields and meadows. Rivers i
entry Is therefore allowed.
Blood and jealousy.
S. LOUIS, FEB. Sin tenement
house in this city to-day, Henry Dress,
il German teamster. cut his Wi'e's
throat with a razor and then his own,
in a fi5 Of JEALOUSY. Five little chill
dren slept III the rooms one in bed
with the couple. O.e of the children
got up and took the baby out of the
bloody bed in which its mother lay into
his bed, changed its dress, and then
went to sleep.
Prophecy Postponed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-There are no
indications of the "heavy storm pre-
dlcted by weather prophet Virgins.
and it is understood he has Withdrawn
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