The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-17
THE FOUNDATIONS.
Tho OHIO Rcecding Threatened De-.
struction Of River Bargcs-The Con-
dillon nj Cincinnati and other


CINCINNATI, February 16.--The water
continues TO recede about one and half
inches an hour. At 900 A. NJ. Il was
sixty-four feet four inches. This Is still an
inch above the highest previous flood-that
OF 1892. A brisk wind rising this morn
ing gives cause for serious alarm to the
owners Of barges Of all descriptions. From
the first they have said heavy wind would
wreck and sink every barge In the river.
Nowhere has the falling Of water given
greater Joy than at Lawrenceburg, Ind.
IL Is estimated that two hundred houses
have been overturned or washed away, and
1000 people were driven from their homes
with nothing but The clothes they had on.
The loss must reach $685. 900. Generous
relief has been sent them from Indianapo-
! lis, Shelbyville. Cincinnati, and other
places, which has been received with I'M
bounded gratitude. No loss Of life has yet
been reported, but there have been many
narrow escapes. A large furniture ware
house fell in, but about thirty or forty peo-
pie in the upper stories escaped. Fears
are entertained that the courthouse loun-
dations may crumblc. -Four hundred peo-
pie are sheltered in that building.
AID FOR TIE SUFFERERS.
LOUISVILLE, KY. February lG.-The con-
tributions in aid OF the sufferers from floods
here have reached up to date $4,000. As
sIstance is coming from outside places, but
Louisville, while thankful, feels able to
take care OF her citizens.
Jacksonville and other small places
need help.
WARNING THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.
WASHINGTON, February 16.-The floods
in lower Mississippi, near Cairo and Mem
phis, will cause great loss OF property
during the coming week. Citizens at
river towns in the lower Mississippi Val
ley are warned to provide for the approach
ing danger.
AT NASHVILLE AND FRANKFORT.
CrxcIXNATI, February 16.-At Maysville,
Ky., on the Ohio river, sixty miles above
Cincinnati, the warehouses OF A. Finch Il
Co. and pearce Brothers are wrecked.
They contained 10000 bushels OF grain.
Fifteen hundred people have been driven
from their homes in Frankfort, KY, on the
Kentucky river, and the loss in property
there Is estimated at S200.000.
TIE RIVER AT CAIRO, I'LL.
CAIRO, ILL, February G.-The river
measures - feet inches, and is rising
rapidly. 1t lacks 6 feet inches OF being
as high as last year. No serious damage Is
apprehended from the overflow unless Il
heavy rise comes from the Mississippi.
The Wabash and st. LOUIS and the Narrow
gauge railroads have suspended business
on account OF the tracks being overlooked.
There is an Ice-gOrgc ut Maple island, in
the Mississippi river, and heavy rams have
caused a rise of ten feet at ST. Louis to-day.
AT MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, February 1G. The
river at noon to-day marked within two
feet seven inches OF the danger line and
four feet nine inches OF the extreme point
reached last spring. II is rising ut the
rate OF ten inches per day, and will surely
90 over the banks below here in many
places where leyees broke last year and
were not repaired. Planters are making
preparations for the worst. So far there
has been no interruption OF railroad travel
on any lines leading out OF the city.
THE SITUATION SERIOUS AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, February 16.-The back
water mt Washington street had last night
| flooded the basement Of the Gait House,
and the rear rooms OF the basement were
/ submerged. The water was several feet
I deep IN tue New SnOlJ Line pdSsthptI ut-
/ pot. The situation was probably more
/ dangerous last night than at any other time,
/ the backwater coming through the sewer in
many places. The river was rising one
foot per hour. The clouds were gather
ing, and it was expected that there would
be rainfall before morning. The flood has
stopped the machinery i'm the water-works.
In the pumping station, mile above the
cutoff, yesterday morning at s O'Clock the
water rose so high that the fires under the
boilers were put out and the engine
stopped. There is no danger OF water
/ famine, as there is twenty days supply
| in the Crescent-Eill reservoir. Fifteen
houses on the point ilodted away and over
the falls yesterday. More will probably
| follow. There is already much sickness
among the sufferers. IIeafth-Offcer Mont
gomery says it is nothing now compared
/ to what it will be in n few days. A sani-
tary commission will be appointed at once,
and medical stations fixed in various por-
tons OF the city. where medicine and the
attendance of physicians will be afforded
/ free.