New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-18
THE FLOODS AND STORMS.
THE RECEDING WATER AT CINCINNATI
DISTRESS FROM COLD WEATHER FEARED THE DAM
AGE ESTIMATED AT MILLIONS.
rBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE!


DISTRESS FROM COLD WEATHER FEARED THE DAM
AGE ESTIMATED AT MILLIONS.
TBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE!
CINCINNATI, Feb 1.-THE river has continued to
recede and the people are feeling hopeful over the
prospects of being restored to an approximately
normal condition. 1t will be some days yet before
the skiifs will cease to be the means of communca-
ton with the suspension bridge to CoyingtOn. Last
night it turned cooler and to-day the ice began form
ing with indications of colder weather for Sunday
and Monday. This will produce great distress to
thousands of persons imprisoned in the second
stories of their houses. 1t would be impossible to
make fires hot enough to prevent pneumonia and
kindred diseases when the lower floors have from
two to six feet of water on them. The coal in the
houses IS inaccessible and only enough can be dis
trbuted to prevent freezing. OF course everything
Is being done to relieve the distress but 1t VIII be
almost impossible to prevent great suffering. Mer-
chants are preparing to resume work and in many
instances they have done So but business cannot be
transacted for long time yet IN most OF the Hooded
districts. The generous offers OF an extension
of credit by foreign creditors have been of great
assistance to many merchants whose busl ness mas
been at standstill for two weeks
The damage to buildings has not yet bsen much
more than an indication of what may be expected.
ably 200 engines large and small, were flooded IN
the three cities To put each one in repair Will
cost from so to ten times that sum.
II would not he too much to say that $lO,OO0,OOO
IN the three cities will little enough to put things
back as they were before the Hoods. The Unlted
States lighthouse steamer Lily returned laSt nlght
from trip up the river, and reports great distress
among the small villages along the bank. Az JAIL
Fellows Hall ike sardines. They fought over the
moTscls of food that reached them, rearing tnaS
each mOu hful might be the last. Palestine and
aud BlaIrsvile had been entirely abandoned, ana
their citizens had fled to the hills.
Reports from Lawrenceburg, Ind. are sucn as
m rht be expected. The wafer has stood for DAYS
seven feet deep The highest street of the town
The mcrchsnts there will loose immensely: Ihey
Thought that they had piled their goods high ana
dry above any possible water line. Many houses
are wrecked beyond ldeni lhcatl0n ana many nave
been wrencned from their foundations Acres OF
ground are covered with wrcckage OF
all sorts Fully one-haf the town is
sad 10 be n ruined The water was five feet deep III
most o. the stores along Highest; htteen hches Ill
the Court House, the upper story OF which mas Deen
i'll ed with refugees huddled together; several feet
the Catholic church aud Two ieeI III the secohu
story of the Presbyterian church. ~
I'm Cincinnati many warehouses VIII have 10 DE
rcfloored. One man had piled pig iron on his hoor,
bnt II Was not evenly distributed and the watrr
raised the floor on its ond and threw he IRON OH on
side. Damage amounting to many thousan"S
of dollars has been done In TINS way.
At o'clock tnis morning the river was " ieet ~
inches high ~ o'clock IL was 81 feet 9i2 lnches
ut 8 O'Clock, 81 feet inches at o'clock. w teet
inches AID 10 O'clock. 81 feet D y inches, snow
ing fall OF only half an inch III tine last hour. IL
raned nearly all night and the weather II Huch
colder this morning The wind and falling water
disturbed many houses II is still cloudy. and the
wind from the west. The river reached ol leeJ
incnes al 9 O'Clock tonight. The additions TO the
relief fund to-day amounted 10 nearly $1,000; II he
German Relief Society having 500 on hand,
which had been collected for the sufferers ny INC
loo - IN Germany. Oy "a close vote decided 10 srnd
81, 900 To Germany and 70 distribute the remainder
here. The ONO River has been rising all day at
Pomeroy aud Marietta.