Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-21

for the relief of Bridgeport at New
Athens.
The after flood estimates of the dam
ages at Steubenville, place the entire loss
in jefferson county at S25O.e00, of which
100000 is in Steubenyille.
The report of the loss of life at Mari
eta is happily incorrect. Not one life
is known to have been lost there.
Hendrysburg, in this county, though a
small place, came forward with $500
worth for the food sufferers.
The losses in the Second ward of Bel
laire have been very carefully computed.
and are as follows: On stocks. $4,000;
on personal property, S9,T40; on real es-
tate, S27, $50 total Of $1,000.
Darlington, says the Independent of
that place. loses 100000 by the food.
The loss on stock to business men being
near 100000.
By special act OF the Legislature. the
Commissioners of Monroe county were
authorized to borrow $4,000, foT flood
sufferers in that county.
On Paden's Island, in the Ohio below
Sardis, there is a drift pile covering an
acre of ground. and in some places it is
fifteen feet high. Among other things
it contains standard gauge turn table.
Marietta and Harmar, with a pOpula-
ton of 1000, were seven days without a
mail either out or in.
4 woman and two children were
drowned near Liuton's Mills on the Tus-
carawas river. The cabi: .in which they
resided was washed away.
The people of New Philadelphia con-
tributed $500 to the relief fund.
We thought it very suggestive as we
read the words Time to Emigrats"
the reading on a poster above water on
the door of the tobacco warehouse in
| Bellaire e-Barnesville Republican.
ZanesvIlle WAS severely damaged by
| the Muskingum hOod-over 1000 people
are being supplied with food.
Over seventy pianos were hopelessly
ruined on the Island alone.
Cambridge did we'll raising large
sum in cash and provisions for stricken
| Marietta.
The loss to Guernsey county by the
destruction of county creek bridges will
amount to about $4,000.
The creeks in Guernsey county were
higher than ever before known. Wills
creek, at Cambridge, was out of its banks
for two weeks.
a Relief Committee was organized in
Woodsfield, and money and stores in
large quantities donated for the suffer
ing of Monroe county.
The new Presby yterian Sabbath School
library at Bridgeport was entirely de-
stroyed, entailing d loss of about $500.
The Wheeling Greek Coal Co. sent four
car loads of coal TO the people at West
Wheeling, which was thankfully receiv
ed, as the banks at that place are all
closed.
The Council of Bellaire has authorized
the Mayor to purchase a Car load of lime
to be used wherever the water has left
any filth. A good move.
In Opossum creek, two miles below
Clariugton. Monroe county, are forty
dwelling houses and stables soma of the
houses having their furniture and other
articles in them just as when they were
deserted by their owners at some poirt
UP the river.
The Bellaire correspondent of the In
te!ligencer says: This town is very
bad point to be helped by the country
people; for the condition of the roads
running into town is such that it takes
double teams to get anything like heavy
load to US. A farmer near town has
had plenty of STRAY W that he would will
lingly have given for bedding, but he
could not get it to town with his horses. y
CochraDsville, in Monroe county, two
weeks ago, was composed of forty houses
two stores and one church. To-day there
is the church and one house. Amos
store was swept away, and Miss Amos,
who was visiting her aunt, short dis
tance down the river, saw it passing.
said: My God, there goes our houser'
Her aunt, Mrs. Carson, was SO terribly
frightened, that she fell IA corpse at Miss
Amos feet.
Sunday Register: Talking with gen.
tleman from Powhatan "a day or two
after the food, said: when the hotel at
Powhatan was projected, the builders
were at considerable trouble to ascertain
the exact height of the water in 1882
and laid the floor of the building II
inches higher than the water reached
that year, thinking To thus place it be-
yond all possible danger from freshets.
This year there was A inches of water
on the floor"
The following record of the floods at
Cincinnati will be of interest: