The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-14
RE1NHARDT, the Clothier

sent by telegraph, the Western Union com.
pany giving free use of its wires for the
purpose. Within half an hour a bill was
introduced and passed in the senate author
lZing the city TO borrow SlCQ0OO and the
bill was sent TO the house.
Among the contributions here to-day
81 900 were from Il. Il. Springer, $500 from
David Slnton, and Chicago firm sent
$3.50.
LOUISVILLE UNDER WATER.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. l3-The greatest
disaster that ever befell the city of Louis.
vile is now upon us. The flood crisis came
about last night, and to-day nearly square
mile of territory is under water within the
| limits OF the city, From 5000 to 5000 peo-
pie are driven from tLeir homes. To can
the climax, there has been loss OF lite, but
how great 1t is still impossible to say. This
morning the entire section OF the city from
Preston street east to the cut OIL, and north
of the Short-Line ill is in the river. The
| people, who were blissfully sleeping in fool.
| ish confidence that an embankment would
shelter them, were rudely awakened by the
HOOD coming into their houses. Some were
| even surprised in bed, and in the darkness
and cold they fled the watery death half
clothed and carrying nothing with them
| save children and the helpless.
No scene of a broken dyke in Holland
can be more terrible or more thrilling.
The panic was Undesirable as, with an
| awful roar OF water and shrieks of terror,
the stricken people hurried to higher
ground, leaving homes, furniture and all to
| The mercy OF the water. A large part of
| the city has constituted itself into relief
COMM tee, with the mayor at its head, and
all that can be is being done to lend a help
ing hand. The entire northeastern corner
OF the city is picture of utter
| destruction. There are thirty-iive squares
under water, and the situation may
be briefly summed up. All the point is
under water and the country beyond the
| cutoff, comprising one hundred and fifty
houses. known as Bowlville, is flooded.
Half OF Portland and all of the shipping
port are in the water. All day long a
stream of people passed up and down the
Short-llne track to look at the ruin wrought
by the river.
The outlook is appalling. Houses are
overturned, some on their sides, some al
most on their roofs, and others are crushed
to pieces. Most of the houses are small
cottages of frail construction, and perhaps
third of these in the
flooded locality have been swept
from their foundation. In the lower hol-
lows OF the bottom lands the water is with
| in fool or two of the roofs of the houses.
| The entire neghborhood is doing all it can
! for the succor of the sufferers.
There were cases of extreme indivi dual
suffer ng last night which the public may
never know. Mothers hurried through the
rising water with their babes in arms, and
IN some cases sick people had to
| be taken through windows and
carried in skiil's to places of safety.
Several were rescued from trees, to which
| they climbed.
Along the wharf the river is still rising at
the, rate of an inch per hour, with few
| inches over thirty.nine feet in the canal.
| Business is entirely suspend Oh the wharf
from First street around to Portland
avenue. The river last year reached its
highest mark at thirty-seven feet ten inches
in the canal but this year it has reached
| thirty-nine feet, with an additional inch or
two. The houses along the wharf are in a
miserable condition, as the water is in the
second stories at Fourth street, and PEG.
pie are moving higher up to escape the
water.