Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-02-20

ored people, who. in the most auspl-
cious times. live from hand to mouth
and are nov solely dependent ON AID
from abroad. Clermont county has
eleven towns and villages on the Ohio
river, all submerged and in dreadful
condition from hunger and hunger
and want, and no other region of the
State is suffering to the extent that
our river points are at this hour
Houses swept away, household goods
all lost, stock drowned, cemeteries
disinterred of the dead and people
madly fleeing, glad to escape with
their lives only, and oftentImes res
cued with hardly sufficient clothing
to cover their nakedness, feebly pre-
sents the hideous picture of untold
suffering on the Ohio for the sixty
miles above Cincinnati. | cannot
picture new Richmond's dire condi
ton and its awful situation and she
must have aid Immediately from a
broad. Tomorrow morning almost
it's entire population will be needing
food and hundreds medical attention.
The little village of Rural, two miles
below Augusta, is antirely swept a
way. only two out of thirty six hous-
es being left.
TOWN COVERED WITH WATER.
Below Cincinnati the news is fully
as bad, especially op the Indiana side
of the river. Lawrenceburg is en-
tirely shut off from outside commun-
ication. Many houses have been
seen to float down the river and the
suspense is great. Imagine COM
munity entirely cut off from commun
ication with the world except by
means of skiff, and that several
miles must be traversed over body
of water from six to eighty feet deep
before single foot of land can be
reached. This is the condition oi
Lawrenceburg. The waters OF the
Miami river rush roaring through the
city. carving before them everything
not heavily anchored or tied with
rope. Dwellings,, barns, saw mills
out-houses and lumber share a com
mon fate and are jumbled together
in an unrecognizable mass. People
lie awake, half expecting that theirs
will be the next house torn away
Here a pretty little cottage, once th'
admiration and envy of the neighbor'
and the pride of It's occupants, iei
tossed on its side, part of its roo
lost, lovely verandas torn away anC
nothing remaining but a mangleC
framework. Crowded in freigh
car, two miles off, shivering about {
little stove in their vain efforts K
keep warm, are sheltered those who
last week called it home. One poo
man, who had stinted and practicet
self-denial since last year to place hi
home in repair again, had just nc
complished his hearts desire wher
the food came. The little homo i
now gone. 1t is true hundreds lef
the town when the water commences
rising. but many of them will returl
to find themselves berest of their al
In an old barn which has ioated in
TO the middle OF town can be hear,
the dying howls of starving dog
whose cries for four or five days, q
they sounded out across the waite
, and broke the stiffness OF the night
added superstitious terror to the al
Fiction of the residents.
The situation at Aurora, Ind,
alarming. Every dry goods stor
and drug store in town is under wa
ter. At Louisville, Ky., the high wa
ter has done great damage, but ther
is little suffering Across the rive
at Jacksonville, Ind., there is grea
Ssulfering, and of a population of IL
900 at that place about one-half ha7
been compelled to leave their home
5 and seek higher grounds. Foul
fifths of the city is inundated. Th
) people are suffering and are beggin
contributions of food About Evans
VI vile, Ind, the country is covere
5 with water and looks ike vast lax
E This is but a faint picture Of th
scenes along the river. From a
: points comes the same tale of des'
S lation and disaster.