The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-14
The Floods.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Feb. l3.-The follow
ing report was received this morning from
New Albany: The river rose eighteen
inches last night, and is still rising. All
the houses and factories along the river
have been abandoned. Water got into the
glass-works furnaces last night, and the
fires are all out. Mr.. DePaw will lose
100000. Three thousand persons are
thrown out of employment. No estimate
OF the loss has yet been made. From 800 to
500 families have had to move. The rail
road track between here and JEFF
fersonville has been abandoned, ferry.
boats only making occasional trips
to the Kentucky side. A report from Ev-
ansville says the stage.of the river is forty
three and nine tenths feet. 1t is not rising
so fast to-day. There is not much damage
in the city, but great deal in the lowlands
between Evansville and Henderson. A
dispatch from Madison says that not much
damage has been done there so far. The
railroad depot is flooded, the track under
water for some distance, and the river still
rising. The following dispatch has Just
been received from station near Law
renceburg
HARDENTowN, IND, Feb. 13.-No loss of
life, as far as we can learn. The damage
will be very heavy. Cannot estimate till
the water goes down. 1t is now about
three feet higher than last February, and,
up to this morning, has raised
is entirely covered. Some of the houses
have water in the second floor. The entire
village of Hardentown has been covered.
Some of the people had to abandon their
houses entirely.
AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, Feb. l3.-The river, at II
o'clock was sixty-iour feet eleven inches and
rising slowly. 1t will reach slxty-ive feet
before it begins to fall. The weather is
cloudy and warm. The water-works en-
gines are idle and there is.water in the reser-
yoir enough for six days. A brick dwelling
house on Orhler street, it is reported, fell
this morning. No lives lost. Much sick
ness is found among imprisoned people in
tenement houses. Relief boats are busy
visiting all such places. There are ample
means at hand to prevent suffering.
A SHOCKING DISASTER
is reported by telephone from the western
part Of the city. Both freight and pas
senger depots Of the Cincinnati Southern
railway undermined and fell into the sur
rounding water, carrying with them 100 or
more people. The depots were one-story
frame structures, resting on Mclean ave-
nue. fill, which was almost covered by
water. Both sides Of the fill the water is
thirty to fifty feet deep. The earth had
become so soaked as to melt, and the ca
tastrophe was further FASTENED by the
breaking OF the sewer, which sent current
along the bank. Crowds of people have
been in that vicinity looking at the floods.
1t is supposed these are the victims.
1t is impossible to tell the extent Of the
disaster at the Southern railway depot.
Only the freight depot went down. A great
crowd of people were there looking at the
Hood, when Ryan's restaurant, q small
building near by went down. The crowd
rushed over on the platform of the depot
to see what was the matter, when suddenly
the depot collapsed and sank in tho water.
The track was at the same time depressed,
and the cars standing by ran into the de-
preston, covering the people who had gone
down with the fallen build NJ one
body had been recovered at / o'clock, nor
could the bystanders give any intelligent
account as to how many had escaped. The
work of recovering the drowned will be
exceedingly dificult,as the place is isolated,
with danger of other parts OF the streets
melting as this portion did. 1t is impossi-
Bile. however, that the break in the great
sewer in Mclean avenue caused the depot
to sink.
Later information makes it certain three
boys, two freight-handlers, and four men,
bers OF Coup's circus, are drowned, but no
bodies are yet recovered. The names of the
members OF Coup's circus reported missing
are: Henry Carderie, England; Miss Fanny
Reindolt, New York; william 4. Franklin,
William e. Matthews, st. Louis. The
baggage. master says he heard rushing
noise when Ryan's saloon went down, and
hurried round and saw the depot give way.
He is sure my people we're thrown in the
water. IL now appears certain the
disaster was caused by the breaking of
the great sewer. Twenty-Five feet of one
end OF the freight depot and half of the
passenger depot are gone, the latter being
separated at the partition between the
waitinr.room and tHe ticket office. The
books, tickets, safe ETC., were gone in an
instant.
The recommendation Of the common
council asking the legislature for aid, was