Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-06
In a Single Night-Railroad Commune
cation in Every Direction More or
Less Interrupted.
Bridges Carried on, and the Tracks in
Many Instances from Four 10 Ten
Feet Under Water.
The Cities Of Bradford and Titusvills,
Besides a Number OF Villages In
Pennsylvania, Inundated.
Destruction at Pittsburg-High Water
in the White and Wabash Rivers
Wheeling Flooded.

ILEVELAND, FeDrusrY o.-1he nfe al inc
Standard OIL Works is still burning in a
small way, and other stills were destroyed
during the night. The food il subsiding.
The scene of the confagration resembles
chaos, and gentleman we'll informed in
sacn matters Gays it will take two years 10
restore the works as they were two days ago.
Col. Payne, treasurer of the company, thinks
that not more than 81, 900 barrels of oil were
burned, and says the loss cauuot be stated
till the f1od subsidies and careful estimate
is made. The fire ia still burning in spots,
and tonight illumines the wrecks of ten
receiving tanks, twenty 10 thirty stills and
other smaller works. Three hundred thou
sand dollars is probably moderate esti-
mate of the company's loss. The great food
reached it's highest point about noon yester-
day, when the river was ten feet higher than
the ordinary stage in places, and the hats,
covered with lumber yardil, elevators, iron
worke, machine shops, -four mills, packing
houses, factories of various soris and rail-
way freight houses, were more or less SUBJ
merged. The water is rec sding, bat the ex-
tent OF the damage cannot be ascertained
for several days. 1t is estimated that 49,
100000 feet Of lumber, and 100000 10
from the lumber yards. The VAL
ley railway is several feet under
water for miles and its bridge near
Weighlock swept away. The New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio old freighthouse is
four feet under water, which reaches within
few inches OF the floor OF the new. Freight
clrs are submerged TO the floors. The company
refuses freight for the present. About fifty
horses stabbed at the undergrad, stood all
night Saturday in water up to their breasts,
and were rescued with difficulty yesterday,
having to swim several hundred feet 10 reach
a place of safety. Two mills of the Cleye.
land Papr Company, containing about forty
tons of manufactured paper, are in The
water nearly 10 the top of the FIRST story.
Less damage WAS done to shipping than was
feared. The tug Florence tore loose, cap.
sized and sank. Schooners and steamboats,
were rudely tossed about, but mostly rode
through with slight or 20 injury. The lower
central way bridge is broken; the approaches
gone, and the draw turned as if 10 let vessels
pass. The district all about presented the
appearance OF lake dotted with chimneys
of furnaces, roofs of buildings and lumber
piles securely anchored. The inirmary farm
on the rivers edge is submerged. The
freshet is the most destructive ever known,
and the water higher than since the great
food in 1859. The damage can scarcely be
less than 81 100000, and may be much
greater. The rain ceased to fall at o'clock
yesterday morning, and the weather turned
rapidly cold and began to freeze. One fami-
ly living on the low land was rescued by
boat. A prisoner in the station, near Brook
Ign, was also taken out in a boat.
The railways centering here report to-day
the following: Lake Shore trains running
partly over the Bee Line; tbs bridge over
Huron river gone and half Of the Fremont
bridge down; the Nickel-Plate Huron river
bridge is expected to be repaired to day;
Cleveland and Pittsburg, no serious damsge,
but blockaded by the New York, Penn,yl-
va1ia and Ohio road being obliged 10 use
portions OF the road; the Valley railway and
Connection Valley railroad, all trains aban-
doned, various bridges gone and tracks
submerged for long distance; New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, food subsiding, no
further serious trouble feared; Cleveland
and Columbus, no damage, trains on time.
Little further been heard from the interior,
telegraph lines down 10 various directions.
The heaviest losses by the food were to the
lumber firm of Monroe Bros, $4,000;
Forbes, Bsrston & Co., $4,000; Cleveland
Sawmill and Lumber Company, $50 600;
Sturtevant & Co., $4,000; Hawley & New.
ton, $4,000; Rust, King & Co., $4,000;
Fisher, Nelson & Co, $1,000; Thomas Cal.
houn, $4,000; P. Preutiss, $4,000; Fred Hempy,
$4,000; Hubbell, Brown & Co, and N. Milla
| & Co, SIC, 900 each. Numerous other firms
lose several hundred dollars each.