Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-13
FLOODED CITIES.
CINCINNATI LEFT IN DARKNESS.
Sad scenes IN the Strssts-FuneraIs In Boat
The Sick Moved From Third story
WindOXA

sad scenes iu the Strests-Funerals In Boats
The Sick Moved From Third Story
Windows.
Owing to the flood in Cincinnati last
night 100000 people We're cut off from
their usual gas. Theatres and other halls
had to supply themselves with electric
lights, Gil lamps or candles, and the au-
diences blinked their eyes under the un
wonted light, and were hilarious and jolly,
as they could not have been otherwise.
The water works have about five days
supply III the reservoirs. Uuder the most
| favorable circumstances the works cannot
| resume in time to more than keep con
sumers scantiy supplied, and should 4
great fire occur the result is disheartening
to contemplate. Should it occur in the
overtiowed business district the depart
ment would be simply powerless and the
| flames would range unchecked.
The flooded streets are full of people,
| rowing about Oh boards, RATS and skitfS.
Many merchants tried to keep the water
from their cellars by pumps. without sue
cess. A manufacturer Of steam pumps,
| on Central avenue, near Second, built
dyke all around his building, only to see
| 1t swept away and 81, 600 worth OF proper
ty destroyed. The Marietta 81 Cincinnati
railroad freight and Ohio Il Mississippi
passenger depOts are inundated. The freight
depot has foot Of water on the floor, but
the freight has been Dearly all saved.
The railroad track from Plum street de-
| pot is under several feet of water and the
current is very swift. CumminsVille, a
popular suburb lying north of Cincinnati,
in the Mill Creek valley, is one vast lake.
| Over 500 families have been driven out of
their houses, and the greater proportion
of the remainder are living on the second
floor. Newport, on the opposite side Of
the river, has ono thousand houses under
water. The scenes over there were indie
scribable. The sick in many instances, who
were removed to the second story had to
be taken out and lowered on boats.
| A most pit!abe case was discovered by
Chief of Police Smith in a house at the
lower end of Chestnut street, where a
woman named Mary Hall had lost her
mind and was wading around on the floor
in several feet of water. She stubbornly
united strength of four men to take 'Ser
ont and hold her fast in the boat. An
aged woman named Hamilton, who lived
on Elm street, while beng lowered into a
boat fell aud dislocated her hip joint. She
Was taken to the Episcopal church, where
q great number have sought shelter. Az
old woman at the lower end of Walnut
street was found frantically engaged in
bailing out the flood through window.
She was fast losing her mind. A four
year Old child, both deaf and dumb, was
found deserted at Lizzie Wagoner's house,
III Elm street. The child was benumbed
with the cold when taken out OF the water.
A woman in the last stages of cOnsump-
tion was rescued from second story
window on Bellevue street. A family
named Applegate, living on Bellevue
avenue and Central avenue, the father
and mother prostrated with sickness, were
taken out Of window.
The funeral of Joseph UiltOn's little
daughter was one of the touching Incl
dents. Tho coffin was placed in skiff,
followed by three other skiffs containing
relatives. The mayor of Newport has
called upon the mayor Of Cincinnati for
shelter for a large number Of people who
have been flooded oat. Dayton, KY,
above Newport, of 5000 inhabitants, is
half under water. Covington has suffered
less, but the water works are stopped and,
as the city is supplied by the Holly sys.
| TEN, the water supply ceased as soon as
the pumps refused longer to work.