National Republican., 1883-01-05
FLOODS AND FIRES.
The Inundatons in Europo--A Great Public
Catastrophe.
Terrible Scenes All Along the Rhine--
The Seine OvehIowed.
Young Ladies Episcopal Seminary Burnod--Nar-
row Escapes From Death.
Fourteen Horses Perish by Fire In New
YorlS--OtIler Disasters.

LONDON, Jan. A Berlin dispatch to the
Times says: The inundations are taking tho
form of great public catastrophe. The dis
tress is increasing hourly. The military and
civil authorities are making the greatest ex-
ertions to mitigate the misery of the disaster.
There is no signs yet that the crisis of the
calamity is reached. The high temperature
and rains continue. At Ludweigsham, oppo-
site Mannheim, where the great Rhine dam
gave way last night, the lives Of hundreds of
people are imperilled. The steamer rescued
many hundred, including tho sick. The
deepest distress prevails.
PEsrH, Jan. 4.--The Danube has inundated
Pressbury thirty-four mileshom Vienna.
GENEVA, Jan. 4.-The Paris and Lyons
railway, on the French frontier, is washed
away. District railway service between
Switzerland, France, and Italy is interrupted.
PARIS, Jan. 4.--Saone and Doubs have in
undated several villages. Thirty-two houses
have fallen at Longepierre, in the department
of the Sanoe-et-Loire.
LONDON, Jan. 5.--A dispatch from the
Wiesbaden Daily NeUs says "The Rhine is
beginning to fall. Thirteen persons were
drowned at Friesenheim. In all sixty or
seventy lives have been lost by the floods
The water is penetrating the foundations of
the Notifications at Mayenoe The barome-
ter is rising"
LONDON, Jan. ga dispatch from Vienna
to the Daily Telegraph says; "The danger of
inundation has not increased. The water
must rise four feet more before it floods the
suburbs.
MAYENcE, Jan. 4.-Frequent robberies in
houses abandoned on account of the floods
have induced the authorities to station fifteen
troops at each deserted village, with orders to
shoot unauthorized persons attempting to
escape when challenged by the guard The
empress has sent 1000 marks to the aid Of the
ufferers by the foods.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
KNOXVILLE, ILL, Jan. 4-St. Mary's Epis-
copal school for young ladies at this place,
was burned to the ground early this morning.
Most of the hundred scholars were asleep
when tho flames were discovered, and had
barely time to escape when the alarm was
| given, leaving their wardrobe and property.
Many escaped by ladders. Miss Gillette, Of
Buffalo, H., had leg broken, and Miss Hos
| ford, of Dubuque, was seriously injured by
| falling from a ladder. Il. A. Keightling a
| fireman, also fell and was injured. No others
were injured and no loss of life occurred,
though at one time it seemed inevitable. The
building was an imposing three-story brick
and handsomely furnished. The students
were mostly from Illinois. The loss ON the
building is about $25 900, and is fully insured.
The loss of the young ladies in property will
1O0U up ABOUT as muCn, Inc Dullulng Will DC
rebuilt soon, and in the meantime temporary
accommodations for the school will be de-
vsed.
New YoRN Jan. 4.-The boarding stable of
Charles Beaihi' in West Thirty second street,
was burned this morning. The upper portion
of an adjoining building was also destroyed,
the occupants of the latter escaping with only
their night clothes. In the stable fourteen
horses perished. The total loss is estimated
at $4,000.
BROOKLYN, Jan. A FIRE in the Brooklyn
dime savings bank this morning caused a
loss of about $4,000. The ianitor and his
family escaped by rope ladder.
| SAVANNAH, Jan. 4.-The schooner Mary J..
Collins, at this port from Boston, reports that
on January 1, latitude $50 3F, longitude no,
passed the schooner William A. lowering, of
Philadelphia, from New York for Fernandina,
on fire and apparently abandoned a short time
previous, and daylight saw vessel close by
| her.