Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-19
DAMAGE BY THE FLOODS.
SUFFERING AND DISTRESS IN
INDIANA.

The Waters Receding in the Ohio
Valley-Over One Thousand Families
Homeless-A Threatened InundatiOn
IN Northern New YOrk-Damaget to Rail-
roads-Relief Societies at Work.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Feb. 1S.-Tele-
grams received by the relief committee
and private information received from
the flooded districts, give gloomy
accounts of suffering and distress.
AT New Albany the river has
fallen two feet, but the weather
is very cold, and the suffering is deplora-
Bile. One thousand families in the city.
and $50 in the immediate vicinity. have
been driven from their homes. and are
| dOmiciled wherever covering can
be had. BY the stoppages of the
factories one thousand families are
made dependent ON public charity Most
OF them have lost everything. On the
bottoms west of the city thIrty-fve fami-
lies lost their homes, barns, grain, forage
and farm implements, and are in absolute
poverty, with nothing left TO put in the
crops. The city is caring for ali as best It
can.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1S.-All the streams in
this region are booming, ,-Phe land is
overflowed and numerous bridges have
been carried away or weakened. Railroad
traffic has been delayed, and some roads
have to use the tracks of other lines i'm
order to run trains at all.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 1.-THE river this
morning began receding slowly. and is
now at forty-four feet three inches The
fact that the water is going away so slow
ly is to the advantage of the property sub
merged.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 1.-THE river is faT-
INC. very slowly. 1t rained nearly all
night.
The water is still receding from a half
to an inch an hour.
The river is still falling an inch
an hour, reaching 61 feet inches at o
p. IN. The temperature is falling.
TOLEDO, Feb. 17.-At 8 O'Clock this
evening the flood was rising three inches
an hour. The ice gorge abreast of the city
Is .stlIl frm. Two central spans of the
Pennsylvania Railroad bridge have been
carried away, together with a portion of
the new draw, and two temporary spans
OF the Union Railroad bridge. The water
is now above the floor of the Lake Shore
railroad bridge, but the structure stands
arm. The middle ground from the Union
depot to the Lake Shore bridge is covered
win water to depth of six or
eight feet, resting upon which and
extending across the river is n
vast field of broken ice. There is
seven feet of water on the floor of the
island House and the Union depot. Most
OF the rolling stock has been removed from
the depot and middle grounds. The gas
works are flooded, with only twenty-four
hours supply of gas to depend on The
mats In the upper portion of the city are
inundated, In probably three hundred
houses, which are occupied by the poorer
classes, the water stands from two to five.
feet deep.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1s.-At meeting
OF The American II
Sross, held in this city last evening the
floods in the Ohio valley were considered.
ana tne PRESIDENT reported that associate
societies at New Orleans. Vicksburg.
Memphis, Rochester and other places
were already at work. 1t was decided
that contributions in money should be re-
eeIVed by the Central Committee through
secretaries tolger and Lincoln, and Conn
missioner LOrlng, composing the Board of
trustees, and distributed Through the
agents OF the association as heretofore.
w ASHINGToN, Feb, 1.-THE mild
weather and heavy rains have melted the
ice and snow that have covered
Northern New York to the depth
of several feet, and the entire
northern section is threatened with
inundatiOn. The First, Second. Third
Eighth and Thirteenth wards of Buffalo
were flooded to-day, and three hundred
head of cattle were drowned in the distil-
lery pens. Much other damage is report
ed. and railroad travel is interrupted. To-
ledo, Ohio, and the neighbOring country
are hooded from the same cause. and sew
eral bridges have been carried away.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Feb. 1.-THE bridge
on the Genessee Valley Railroad, which
had been weakened by the food, sank
under freight train to-day, letting il
into the river. One hand was killed and
several injured.