The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-02-16
TELEGRAPHIC
THE FLOOD,s FURY.
Tales Of Terrible Suffering
end Woe.
No Estimate yet CT che loss al
Lille or Property.


Newport, KY. 14-Mayor Hsrlan hiss
j. ued an appeal to the country for aid
Hs.ssys three thousand families are des-
titute, Contributions will be sent to w.
ID. Late, treasurer of the citizens re-
lief fund. The town has just recovered
from an epidemic of smallpox.
Msdison, Ind, Il The river is still
rising. No fatalities but the damage
and destitution are great.
Evansville, Ind, 1.-THE river is
46H feet, and rising. 1t will take two
feet more to do serious dsmfge. The
adjacent fe DIS ore flooded for miles.
GAINESVILLE, 14.-The Muskingum is
rising fast; raining ell day.
At Pomeroy, the river is falling IL
inches per bouI; steady rain this morn
ing:
Padueah, KY, l4.-Rising an inch
an hour; heavy rain last night.
Fremont, Ohio, l4-Heavy rain at 5
this afternoon. The dam gave way about
the same time as the tressle work for 8
new bridge on the Lake Shore Railway
wals wept away,
Elkhart, lnd., 14.-Heavy rainfall TO-
day; snow and slush, five inches deep.
Cleveland, 14.-Masons here have
sent twelve row boats to Cincinnati, and
offer to send life saving crew with all
necessary apparatus.
The rainfall was not IS heavy as antie-
lrsted. The ice gorge broke Of its own
weight. Dynamite failed to break the
lumber gorge at Central Way, the river
rising aboveit at midnight. Precautions
taken.
Indianapolis, IA committee sent to
Lawrenceburg last night reported that
all the provisions we're delivered to day.
The suffering is increasing and more as
sisVahce is needed Immediately.
Another car load Of provisions, coal oil,
csndles and delicscies for the sick will
go tonight. The operator at Guilford
says it is still rising at SD. M, and the
indications are that it will continue dur
ing the night.
Little Rock, 14.-,The Arksnsas River
here rose nearly three feet to. day. 1t is
fifteen feet above low water mark.
Quachita and other rivers are also rising.
Fears are felt in the bottoms Of another
disastrous overflow.
Wheeling, w. Va, l4.-Tbe river is
twenty-six feet and rising.
Louisville, 1.-the river has risen
slowly all day and is now rising an inch
an hour. Owing to the preparations less
damage is being done than at the begin
Ing. The water is higher than was ever
known before, being forty-two feet at the
head Of the canal and sixty-eight feet at
the foot of the falls, and worse is coming.
All along seven miles Of the Louisville
River front, to-day, water has been
creeping in the second stories OF build
ings and widening its extent toward the
western boundaries of the city. Perhaps
100 additional buildings were taken since
the last report. A large embankment on
the Snort Line Railroad broke at the
foot of Clay Street for sixty feet, part of
the earth being swept away. The road is
under water from First to Wensel,
distance of nine squares, to the depth of
four feet. A lot of freight cars are kept
on the track to prevent break, were
tossed aside like bubbles. The break
caused twenty-seven houses to be inun-
dated. No loss of life. At 10 q. m.
man and woman, with q trunk, were
seen in skiff in portion of the cutoff
district known as the Chute. Thew had |
10 oars to propel the skiff. A
party set off to rescue them, but
before they could be reached the skiff
struck log and broke in two paris, and
he man and womsn were lost before the |
'escuers could reach them. Possibly |
here was child with them. as the |
runk was found to contain child's |
A package Of visiting cards
Ound in the trunk bore the name of
6osina NJ. GriesbaHn, supposed to be the
name OF the woman lost. There was
lothing TO Indicate the name of the |
nan.
In the cut Off district $50 families liv-
ng in the most substantial two story |
houses have not removed. They are fur
1ished supplies by boats. Thieves are
in every direction on every
available opportunity; the police are
ostrolling the district in boats.
Two brothers, George and John Gray,
lie in the garnet of their home on the cut |
ot1 i'll with small pox, without attention.
DR.. Ed. Csrrigsn roWed out to their re-
lief this evening, and gave them medical |
attention; they will be removed to the |
pest house, Police Lieutenant Brown
ing and family, supposed to be lost, were
discovered to-day, on the timbers sup
porting the roof of stable near their |
former home, which had been washed
away. A large stream east of Broadway |
threatenE to break any moment from the |
pressure. Backwaer, backed into Bear |
Grass Greek which runs through the city,
has broke over the banks this evening;
thirty houses are under water to the first |
story. Should the backwater reach |
thirty inches higher, the food will pour
down Broadway and intersect the
residence portion of the city, cutting
off communication in all directions,
save by boat. - The earth is washed out |
beneath the Roman arch acroes Bear |
Grass and Broadway and the iron por-
ton Of the bridge is twisted out of posi-
ton. This is more than half mile
back from the river backwster. Bear
grass rose ten inches in one hour owing
TO breaks at other places. The gas works
are in iminent danger. The stone foun-
dation wall is keeping iback 1.-The water,
but the continual rise with the promise
Of fresh increase from the upper Ohio
and Kentucky will put out the fires and
wrap the city in darkness before to-
morrow.
At ShippiDRport every house is under
water. No one is left in them. The
residents moved out and are being cared
for elsewhere.
At Portland, the extreme western
limits of the city, number of add.
tional houses are under water to-day. In
many cases it extends to the second
story.
Midpipht- The riverIis rising an inch