Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-02-17
rhe Eastern Floods.
nIvrn srArInSrRY.


WHEELING, w. Va, Feb. l6.-The
river is 80 feet and stationary. The
Stockdale passed last night at s P. N.
with provisions. The weather Ia cool
and cloudy.
isELIEF SUPPLIES AT PARKERsBURG THE
TOWN A wREcK--oTnER TOWNS IS a
LIKE CONDITION.
PAnKKRsBuEo, w. Va, Feb. I6.-
The United States Relief Steamer, Katie
Stockdale, arrived at Parkersburg this
morning, loaded to the guards with 300
tons OF relief supplies and 800 tons Of
coal. The supplies aboard cost $50, 900
Of the $4,000 appropriated and the
government bas teleeraphed the flooded
towns on the boats route the privilege
TO draw on the remaining $4,000 in
sums Of $500 to 50, 900, according to ne.
necessities. The submerged city Is
slowly shaking of the waters and the de.
vnstation paraIyzes description Roofs.
houses on piles Of brick and timber, tell
the tale in all directions. Provisions
are said TO be plentifully supplied, but
the people suffer from the cola weather.
Marietta, Ohio, is hurricane OF
wreck, the houses torn, gutted and
demoralized on all the streets. There
are no inhabitants except In second
stories and not many Of them. Parkers
burg will be able to assist her own sni-
ferefs. but the destitntion OF the smaller
settlements Is intense. Belprc Is q
wreck and It's principal street has en-
tirely disapIeard. with only a few piles
OF brick 10 mark its location. A tow.
boat, with her tow, swung abreast Of
the town Of Ravenswood and held the
houses from being swept away on Satur-
day, otherwise the town and all the in
habitants would have been cDgulfed,
The wires are down in all directions
from here. News goes 10 Baltimore aud
is there transferred. The disarrangeInent
interfercs with all transmission of news,
and il il doubtful If telegraphie matter
can be sent after leaving here.
The Siockdale leaves ten tons OF
freight here to be distributed by the Re-
lief Committee at this point for sufferers
below. Business is entirely suspended.
The loss at Parkersburg is 81 900, 900.
THE FLOOD IN poMERoy BEsD-GREAT
DEsTITuTIoN.
PoMERoy, Ohio, Feb. l6.-The relief
boat, Katie Stockdaie arrived here this
afternoon. Her intention was to go di-
rect to lronton, after leaving Parkers-
vile, but the people of Bellville, VIVA,
called the boat in, and quantity OF pro
visions was given out. But six houses
remain in the town. and they are nearly
all badly wrecked. As the boat pro-
ceeded down stream, the broad, farming
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being relieved OF water, At Racine, the
head of Pomeroy Bend, twelve miles
long, was entered. This bend is mar
row bottoms ON both sides Of the
river. II contains twenty coal mines,
eighteen salt works, twelve towns
and 30, 900 inhabitants, OF whom 5000
are laborers. Six of the mines are
flooded and will not be pumped out for
six or eight months. Eight thousand
people are idle and 5000 homeless, all
demanding immediate assistance. The
river, in the bend, reached Ga feet. 1t
has fallen II feet and is going down at
the rate of two inches an hour. Friday
night the water was first cleared from
| the streets of the towns There are
four relief boats helping the destitute
from Gallipols, which place is out Of
water, comparatively unipjured Busi
ness OF every kind is suspended in the
bend. The Columbus, Hooking Valley
and Toledo Railroad and the Ohio
Central, penetrating the bend, are all
torn to pieces, the trcstles, bridges and
roadbed all gone. II will be from
three to six weeks before communication
by railroad can be resumed. There
are no telegraph wires up. The people
are stored away in churches, barns and
school houses through the country. 1t
is estimated that 500 houses have been
swept out of the twelve miles of the
bend. There are destitute in Camden
300 people, Middleport 1000. West
Columbia 400, Clifton 60, Mason City
400, Pomeroy 1000, Minersville G00
Hartford City 400, Syracuse 700, Racine
800, Antiquity 100, German Furnace
100. The Stockdale will distribute three
tons of provisions here, then proceed to
other suffering towns of the bend,
then go south. This section is
chiefly engaged in shipping coal
south This trade will be stopped for
several months. Ten OF the mines are
large concerns. Help of every kind is
woefully needed The outlook is very
dark, as the distressed in the bend are
poor people, who have lost everything
and are now idle indefinitely. The
Standard Nail Iron Works at Clifton,
w. Va, have been thoroughly soaked
and will not resume for four weeks.
This has idled six hundred men. Loss,
$4,000. To paint the scene, the dee.
truction, the ruins. towns demolished,
buildings overturned, wrecked houses,
bridges, the mud and debris, the daubed
and outraged land aud homesteads,
needs simply this one word, Awful"
Let imagination picture its wors and it
will not paint the hand of food on this
once bright land, Pomeroy Bend.
THE ONO RIVER FALLING.
CINcINNATI, Feb. l6.-9 A. NJ The
river is sixty.eight feet eight inches, a
fall of seven and three quarters inches
since a. NJ. The weather is cloudy
and moderating. Portsmouth reports q
fall of four feet from the highest point
| of the food.
THE FLOOD SLOWLY SUBsIDING.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. l6.-The liver
was falling at noon an inch an hour, but
| is still two feet above the hitherto un-
precedented flood of last year. 1t will
require at least two days more to enable
| the railroads to begin to ascertain the
location OF tracks. A four tory brick
building on Central Avenue, near Sec.
ond, fell last night. The last family re-
moved from it yesterday afternoon. In
all the submerged portions OF the city
where frame houses had been moved
from their positions, the owners are en-
deavoring TO float them back te their
places. The same thing is being done at
Newport, Ky. 1t is threatening rain.
THE WATER FALLING.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Feb. l6-The river
fell one aud half inches and is still
falling. The height reached at $50 last
night was 46 feet ! inches. Weather
cloudy and threatening rain.
THE RIVER RIsING-MALARLAL FEVER.
SnAwNEETowN, ILL.,, Feb, l9.--The
river continues to rise steadily, but not
so rapialy as yesterday. The gauge at
! o'clock marked "a feet Il inches and
rising. Malarial fevers are beginning to
appear The current over the levees is
RUNNING at the rate of ten miles an
hour through some of the streets, and
the foundations of buildings are being
weakened. 1t has clouded up again,
sky raw, and more rain is expected,