Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-09
Higher than Known for Many Years
and Carrying all Before it.
THE MoNONGAnELA RECEDING.
But Large Amount Of Property De.
streyed by its Waters.
BRIDGES AND HOUSES LOST.
Many Manufactures Compelled to Sus.
pend on Account Of the FlsodS.
The FreShet.

precedentedly fast. At Wheeling it is
thirty-six feet and still rising. Boats can
not pass under the bridge. Marietta is
flooded more than ever. The railroad track
between Marietta and Beepie is six feet
under water. Catlettsburg is already
flooded and more damage is expected on
account of the great rise in the Sandy
river. The Portsmouth river is ffty-fve
feet and rising. A considerable
portion of the city is under
water. The Sciota river is also
rising above the railroad track. North
Portsmouth is under water. Here the river
continues to rise, being ifty-two feet at 1
o'clock. Newport, KY, suffers most at
present Very many houses are already
invaded by the water and people are NOV
ing out. The Anchor iron and steel works
at Newport, iron and pipe foundry and
the greater part of SWift's rolling mill were
compelled to suspend. Merchants along
the river front in this city are removing
goods from their cellars and first floors.
No further damage to coal barges or to
railroads yet, but there viii be tomorrow
if the rise continues.
AT WHEELING.
WHEELING, W. Va, Feb. 8.-The river
here has again reached thirty seven and a
half feet, about as high as it was on Tues
day, and not moro than two feet more is
expected. 1t is rising about two inches an
hour. Exaggerated reports reached the
city of the flood coming last night. A pan
ic was created, residents of the low
grounds moving out of the lower stories.
The bridge connecting the city with the
Crescent mills over Wheeling creek
parted in the night. The creek is much
swollen, and several small houses on its
banks were washed away, but no person
was hurt. Railroad bridges weighted
down with heavy trains were kept from
sweeping away. At Bellaire the B. & G.
railway trains cannot reach the city by two
miles, and freight and passengers are trans
ferred by steamboats,. Fhe-wate has in
vaded the cellars and business houses, sew
eral squares from the river, and the streets
are full of merchandise. The Sister
islands, six miles up the river,
are submerged. A family living on one
barely escaped with their lives with skiff,
but lost all their stock but one horse, which
was rescued by a steamboat sent from the
city. Many residents of the island are shut
In by the water, which is frozen over in
still places, preventing egress in skiff.
Many factories are shut down on account
of the overflow. The water works at Bel
laire have stopped and the gas works are
threatened.
AT PITTsBJRG.
PIrTsBURG, Feb, 9.-The food in the
Monongahela river reached tho highest
point, twenty eight feet, at this morning,
and soon after began to recede owing to
the cold weather which shut off the small
streams. The water did not get as high as
anticipated by several feet. The
damage here is almost wholly from
inundation, but the loss from that is
considerable. All the mills all along both
rivers were submerged, and operations
suspended. Many stores in the lower
portions of the two cities are under water,
and hundreds OF families on the south side
and in Allegheny have benn compelled to
leave their homes until the food subsidies.
A dispatch from towns along the Monon-
gahela report great damage from inun-
dation. The water at all points is sub
siding, and no more damage is appre-
hended.
PITTsBURG, Feb. Sat 10 o'clock to-
night the rivers are steadily receding, with
fourteen feet of water in the Monagohela
and about the same in the Allegheny. The
bottom lands are still submerged but the
rate of water is falling, and the rivers will
be within the banks by morning. The
damage by the flood in this vicinity was
100000, while a like amount will cover
the lJss up the MOnongahela valley.
CANADIAN TRAINS ABANDONED.
TORONTO, Feb. Sowing to the snow
blockade the trains on all main lines are
behind time. Branches have been aban-
doned.
ICE GORGE AT PORT DEPOSIT, MD.
PoRr DEPOSIT, Nd, Feb. S.-A heavy ice
gorge threatens to break and food the
town. Other points along the shore are
endangered.
AT PARKERsBURG, W. VA.
PARRERsBURG, W Va, Feb. S.-This has
been the highest flood here since 1860. At
o'clock this morning the river was
forty four feet above low water mark.
The houses on the Ohio side were inun-
dated; also the Kanawaha side. Three
hundred persons are homeless. Every mill
in the city is under water. The pulp mill
holds only by frail boom. The loss will
be fully 100000. No lives lost. The
Kanawaha river is rushing out at tre-
mendous rate. Unless the backwater can
check it, it viii carry away tee iron bridge
The water is within foot of the furnace
fires in the postofice.
EFFECT ON STOCK.
GALVESTON, Tex, Feb. 8.-The loss to
stockmen throughout the state by the re-
cent cold snap will not exceed per
cent.
SAN ANToNIA, Tex, Feb. S.-Advices from
various parts OF the state show an average
loss of sheep through ths recent spell of
cold weather of from Is to 20 per cent.
Cattle of all kinds suffered 80 great ex-
tent.
FROZEN TO DEATH IN WYOMING.
RAwLINs, Wy, Feb. The coach which
left Pacific Springs, on Sweetwater stage
line, last week, was caught in the storm of
Friday. The coach was abandoned. ana