Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-21

POST.INTELLIG
! EASTERN NEWS.
ASSOCIATED PREas DISPATCHES.
Stern II she Obie Valley.
/ Ioruv1Ll, Ky, Feb. a.-The worst
gale ever known b weeping this part Of
the Ohio valley from end to end, carry
ing destruction and death With every
blast. About six O'Clock the rain began
pouring and the wind blowing. This
changed to sleet and anov. the wind
blowing With velocity Of 20 miles per
hour. Captain Dsvsn, in charge Of
the life saving station. says the
houses in the submerged portion
OF Louisville known a. the Point
are falling by the score. The upper
stories OF many Of these houses are oc-
eupied. At least go people are in this
flooded portion. 1t is Impossible to
reach any moro of these people With
boats. We have already removed some,
bot can take away no moro Of them.
NO boat can nov reach them, and
thoy are surely doomed. I would
1 aOs sOosuAO Az wis Ou tUolI oe1CaIe.
| Every packet On the Ohio river that
cannot put into shore tonight is bound
| 70 die. Below Evansville there are
miles and miles Of flooded country
whore no steamer could possibly make
shore. Tho timber skirting the banks
OF the river 10 under vat q and to
| strike upon il in q calm means
death, bot in this stage of the water
| there can b but one fate for any vessel
loose upon the Ohio. Tonight q fiat
boat which ventuHned oot to take of
some people On the point was overturn.
ed BY the gale, and part IL not all Of the
socupants were drowned.
The storm At Evansville.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. GA terrible |
wind storm ragged all the afternoon and |
10 still blowing. The gale came up At |
p.w., blowing almost hurricane from
the northwest. Not much damage to
shipping has been done here, but there
are fears that the news from the sub |
merged districts tomorrow will report |
much loes of life from the drowning Of |
those still IN the second stories of sub /
merged houses. IL is growing verv cold /
and Is showing. with NO signs of the |
wind abatinR. Relief boats will patrol |
up and down the river az early ~ they |
can start in the morning TO relieve the |
sufferers.
The Werk 81 the Saerm.
/. MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. N.-Three out of |
four stages due in Lamoine, OAK, yes
tsrday have not been heard from, and
1t ID believed that the drivers and pas
senRers persisted in the blizzard. The
Glendale coach was found half way be-
tween Lam0ine and Yankton, turned |
bottom side up, and tho driver was
found in q house two miles distant.
badly frozen. He had no passengers,
John l.. Anderson started With q lady
passenger from Lamoine at about the
same time a. the coach, and they have
not since been heard from. II 10 be-
lieved that both persisted. Search par
ties are looking for them ia all direc-
tons. There are NO tidings from the
jamestown coach, and the worst il
feared.
DAMAGE by Storm.
COUPERToN, o., Feb. 0.-A terrific
rain and wind storm set in ct this place
tonight, doing great damage to trees
and buildings. Il 10 feared that much
damage has been done throughout the
country.
Terri1e Storm In Georgia.
RoME. Ga, Feb. 2O.-A fearful storm
struck Anderson and LadiRa, Alabama,
this afternoon. Fourteen pers sons are
reported killed. and houses wore blown
down in large numbers. Every house
in Anderson In reported down. At Cave
Syringe several houses we're demolished.
Old man Gillard was killed. Captain
Lapsley's house was blown doWn, and
his sister-in-lAw 10 supposed = be killed.
Ten or twelve neighboring houses we're
destroyed. There 10 great excitement,
and reliable information i difficult TO
get.
McCinnls Brothers & RearinS.
New YoRK. Feb. 2O.-It 10 learned
that McGinnis Bros. d Fearing, whose
was announced yesterday,
have effected q satisfactory settlement
today with the Oregon q Transcontin-
entail Company, their principal creditor,
and there is NO serious obstacle to their
The stocks belonging to
the Oregon d Transc0ntinental Con-
pany due by McGinnis Bros. h Fearing
are, il In stated. 1900 shares Of Oregon
Railroad d Navigation. 1000 shares of
Northern Pacific preferred and GO {
shares of Northern Pacific common,
none of which can come ON the market.
The total indebtedness to the Oregon &
Transcontinental Company il placed at
t97, 900, in addition to $4,000 duo tho
Pullman Company. The firm owes an
other customer about sc, 900, which fills
up the entire liabilities. The assets, it
Is asserted. are $4,000 or $4,000.
Gould is said to have ssnt his check
today for an amount more than enough
to represent the immediate demand.
The Dakota Battle.
DEADwooD, Feb. 20.-Latsr informa-
ton from St0neville 10 that horsethieves
and not cowboys had the fight with
Deputy Willard's posse. They killed
Who was a bystander.
The body of Jack Campbell, one Of the
vas found i've miles from the
DCeue of the encounter, perforated by
fifteen bullets. Tuttle, wounded out
Law, 10 not expested to live. Axelbee,
their leader, escaped, although severely
wounded. Deputy Willard aud nine
others are in pursuit. Jesse Pruden,
the prisoner over whose arrest the trag.
edy occurred, will be safely jailed here.
PaPrDeiAe-FsusA Bed.
SALT LAKE, Feb. O.-A drunken In
dian beat his father this morning on
the head, crushing the skull. The
wound b fatal. The Indian 10 under
arrest, and also . white man for selling
liquor to them.
Frederick Hoist was picked up dead
in the street this morning. Cause.
whisky and exposure during the cold
night.
The situation at Park City il still
precarious, bat there have been no fur
sher casualties from snov slidss. :
That RallrooA Circular.
NV YoRx, Feb. W.-lnquiry has been
made here concerning the confideutial 1
circular issued BY the Railroad Share
holders Association, and signed John
Livingston, President" New York rail-
road men ssy that the circalar which
livingstone has spread broadcast over ,
the land, receives no attention. A Con-
trail Pacific railway official said his com
pAny took no stock in any Of Living
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