Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-14
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. OCEANS OF WATER In the Streets of Western
 Cities. THOUSANDS DRIVEN FR9N HOME. Forty Thousand Men Deprived of
 Work. THE PHOENIX PARK MURDERERS. Direct Evidence Against the Actual
 AssassinS.
THE PHOENIX PARK MURDERERS.
Direct Evidence Against the Actual
 ASSasSinS.
THE FLOODS.

| Waste of Watsrs-Thousands of Fam ! lilies Made Homeless - Suffering anC ! DestttutiOn Among the Victims-Great ! Destruction Of Property.
 CINCINNATI. Feb. 13.-This day, looked
 forward to by everybody for cessation ot
 the rise of the river, is ending in dreadful
 disappointment The advance, it is true, has l fallen of to one quarter of an inch in ar hour, but rain beginning at p. m. and
 still continuing, although lightly, causes dire forebodings. The weather is turning warm CT and the clouds look darker and more DOT tentous of rain. Where will it end ? every
 body asks. In the public schools to day the
 principals asked the scholars to bring with them in the morning such cast of clothing as could be spared, together with provisions of any kind and such sums of money as their parents could spare for the relief of the thou
 sands of homeless people. The Hamilton and Dayton depot, the freight warehouses in the vicinity and the school houses in the low CT districts are each night turned into vast ! lodging places. It is estimated on reliable \ authority that not less than forty thousand
 men are deprived of employment by the ! flood and their families necessarily suffer in I consequence. The patrol service rendered last night by the militia was effective to 8 degree only. Several of them having in- dulged in too much liquor made the danger to citizens great, as not few of them came | very nearly being prodded by the bayonets \ in the hands of the soldiers. All day long I the freight, provision and clothing boats have been threading the canal-like streets, \ bringing relief to the isolated destitute These boats, manned by strong and willing volun- teers, are distinguished from other craft by ! white flags, on which are printed in large \ letters the words Relief Service"
 CAIRO, H., Feb. 13.-There is no danger \ here nor the least fear of any flood. The river has only reached forty feet and we can \ stand twelve feet more. According to reli- ! able calculations we will not get rise of six ! feet more. The Mississippi is low and fall | ing Above the Ohio is spreading over the ! low lands and rising very slowly. It will be five miles wide at the mouth before reaching ! the top of the gauge. The levees are higher \ and stronger than ever.
 METROPOLIS, Ill.,, Feb. 13.-The river is rising here at the rate of an inch an hour | and running hard. Six feet more rise will \ warehouses on the river front are moving their stocks to higher places. The Kentucky bottoms opposite here are under water.
 The disaster of this afternoon now appears not to have been so terrible as at first feared. In the present excited state of the public mind every item of news grows as it travels. ! The Southern railroad depot is located on Mclean avenue and Gist street in the remote 1 western part of the oity and.consists of @ tenn porarily built shed supported by iron posts. The posts being undermined by the cavlng ln of the large sewer in MoLean avenue and the
 saturated condition of the soil, all of which I is made land, went down, letting the roof fall fiat and burying in the ruins nearly all who were under it. It is now l believed, however, that only eight persons
 have been killed, five of them being mem- l bers of Coup's circus company and the other ! three railroad employees. Their names have not yet been ascertained. The river has now been on stand for three hours at the height of sixty five feet one inch. At five o'clock it was half inch higher, by p. m.
 had fallen to the figures given above, where | it has since remained That one little de- cline, the first in two weeks, small though it ] is, presages breaking of the dawn. At
 o'clock tonight the rain ceased, but the sky
 looks anything but promising.
 LATER.-The reported accident attendant 1 with loss of life proved in this day Of des- 1 truction to be comparatively trlhlng A 1 nine foot sewer beneath the Southern railroad depot broke, letting down large portion of 1 the Cincinnati Southern freight and passen | ger depot. So far as can be learned 1t is
 now believed that every one escaped as l ample WaEQ1DR WaS &tt1aR Dy GAo oAohAnS OA [ the building. For the first time in two days | intelligence has been received from Law l rencebure. The messenger reports much | suffering and loss of life and he was sent 1 here for physicians, several of whom have ! started on a steamer to the almost doomed l city. The bill introduced in the Legislature | to day appropriating $1O0,000 for relief will pass in the morning.
 l JEFFERsoNv11LE, Ind, Feb 13.-The Ohio
 river this morning broke through dyke and | flooded large territory. The gas works are l flooded and the town is in darkness. Hun dreds of persons have sought refuge in public l buildings and much destitution is feared. The
 plate glass works are flooded and damaged to l the extent of $40, 900, and at Banmere's ship | yard there is 8 heavy loss of lumber. The l government depot is waterlocked and em- | ployes cannot reach it. The car works is the only industry that is not damaged The loss
 is estimated at $500, GOO. No lives have been lost.
 l INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 13.-The board of trade to day made an appropriation of 1 $500 to aid the sufferers from floods 1n the counties on the Ohio river. and appointed committee to solicit subscriptions in money, clothing and provisions. Over $1, 800 worth were received and sent to Lawrenceburg dur ing the afternoon by special train. Sub l scriptions are still pouring in and other trains will be sent to morrow.
 LOUISVILLE, Ky, Feb. 13.-By the break ing of the dyke above the city last night one thousand families were rendered homeless and fifteen houses were carried away. The
 basin was thirty feet under the dyke line and that depth of water covers the inhabited ter
 ritory. To-day for while it was supposed
 that several lives might have been lost, but at
 present it is we'll assured that only one per son is dead and that was negro, who IS l supposed to have been murdered in drunk
 en brawl shortly before the break. The | amount of damage is as yet not to be esti- | mated, but it will mount into the hundreds Of | thousands. The saddest result Of the 1nun- dation is the destitution of the people washed
 out of their homes. There are five thousand
 sufferers in the city and all day universal
 effort has been made to relieve the distress as
 much as possible. A meeting on Change to- day subscribed $1 800 in cash and consid-
 erable amount of provisions, while commit
 tees were appointed by the board of trade to
 canvass the city tomorrow. The Louisville
 Hotel company threw open it's dining room
 to the distressed to-day and served lunch all day to them The other hotels contributed food to the sufferers. These prompt meas
 ures prevented any great hardship, but there is no telling how long the flooded basin will be filled and therefore measures for contln-
 ued relief are necessary. The sufferers are lodged with neighbors and in engine houses
 and other public buildings. The Mayor issued an announcement this morning s1ss all who gave relief to the homeless should be
 repaid. The river at six o'clock this evening
 was twelve inches below the flood line of 1s32 and rising an inch an hour. A slow rain is falling which seems to be general, and this
 with the expected floods from above creates
 alarm. It is thought that Main street, the
 business thoroughfare of the city, will be en"
 croached upon, at least in the cellars.
 At New Albany, Ind, the water has Hood | ed all the furnaces in Depauw's great glass
 works, stopping all window glass making for
 four months at the busiest season. All the factories but three are flooded and several
 thousand people are out of employment The river is so high that all the ferries 70 .ne
 Indiana side have stopped and no trains
 come in or go out of Louisville tonight
 The Legislature of Indiana has. been tele-
 eraphed for $6, 900 aid to New Albany suffer | CTS. The Louisville council voted $5,OO0
 for Louisville sufferers tonight.