Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08


| lands were submerged eight inches deeper
| at o'clock this morning than previously
known. Manufacturers shut down. The
people are rowing about in boats. At
noon the water had fallen two inches, and
was receding About Akron the water
had fallen three feet. Naafurther damage
is expected. Railways are resuming in
the vicinity of Canton. Reports are of
similar condition at Garrettsville, where
the water had fallen three feet. At Mead
vile the freshet is subsiding.
PITTSBURG.
The Worst Relieved to be Over-The
Submerged District.
PrTTsBURG, February THE rivers are
receding here and at all points along the
Allegheny, but rising slowly at the head
waters of the Monongahela. At II o'clock
am. the Monongahela marks indicate
thirty-two feet-a fall of sixteen inches
since midnight. The Allegheny is declin-
ing less rapidly, with thirty-three feet ten
inches-a drop of eight inches from the
highest point reached. 1t is believed the
worst is over, and that the water will now
rapidly decline. Rain fell all night, and
the indications this morning are for con-
tinued light rains through the day, fol-
lowed by colder and clearing weather. No
accurate figures can yet be given as to the
IdlldEG.
| that it will mount up into the millions.
A calm review of the situation this morn
ing found between 5000 and 5000 build
ings in the two cities submerged, and the
residences of %, 900 people, 10000 OF which
will not be able to occupy their houses.
Fifteen thousand men are temporarily
thrown out OF employ ment by the stop
page of the mills and factories. The flooded
districts last night presented vivid pic
ture. All night long the police patrolled
the districts in boats, and all skitfs in which
the occupants were unable to give good
account of themselves, were taken in. 1t
was feared that thieves would take advan-
tage of the deserted stores and dwellings
to pillage them. No gas was burning on
the streets and intense darkness prevailed,
which was relieved by an occasional cleo
tric light. There were plenty of deserted
| residences, which the people had fed, but
there were Just as many who stayed. Few
slept. While they declined to seek safety
by removing, they had not the courage to
sleep while danger was imminent. The
curtains were drawn back, and out of the
windows hung the occupants, who Herv-
ously inquired of the police patrol, as they
passed in the boats, what was the stage of
the water, and if the rivers were still ris-
ing The gratifying news that the water
was stationary at midnight was received
thankfulness.
Measures for the relief of sufferers by
the flood Will be taken to-day. The Ale
gheny Council met this morning, and ap-
pointed committee TO receive subscrip
tions, and to take such other action as is
found necessary to relieve the present
wants OF the needy, and this afternoon
public meetings will be held in this city
for the same purpose. Donations are al
ready pouring in from citizens, and it is
thought no difficulty will be experienced
in raising any amount needed. The pub
lie halls of both cities are filled with
women and children rendered homeless,
and everything possible is being done in
the way OF furnishing them food and raj
ment to reduce their suffering. In the
City Hall a number OF women and chill
dren are reported very i'll. Only one cas-
ualty was reported to-day. John Jacobs,
OF Sharpsburg, was catching drift-wood,
when he fell in the water and drowned.
Travel on nearly all the railroads is
still suspended, and hundreds OF stran-
gers are unwillingly forced to re-
main in the city. Heavy land
slides are reported on all roads. The |
Baltimore and Ohio is running trains, but |
makes no effort to arrive and depart on
schedule time. \ collision occurred on
the Baltimore and Ohio yesterday near
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trains, but fortunately, no one was fatally |
injured. The West Newton accommoda-
ton, going east, and the McKeesport |
accommodation, coming west, came to- |
gether at that point. Both engines were |
badly wrecked, and the baggage-cars rem
dered useless. Capt. Thomas Drake, con-
ductor of the down train, was thrown |
violently against the brake wheel, and his |
back severely hurt. Andrew Robinson, of |
NJ Il
internally; VIM. 7. Hart, police officer, |
and Alexander Trick, of Mckeesport, were |
painfully injured about the legs. The ac- |
cident was caused by a landslide. The |
Panhandle road is also running trains, |
but very late. The Pittsburg and Western, |
Allegheny Valley, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne |
and Chicago, and West Pennsylvania |
roads have not made any attempt to send |
trains out.
A Beaver pa dispatch says the most |
serious disaster has been the destruction of |
two bridges and the serious damage of an
other. Last night the pressure of water |
on the Fall river bridge caused it to give |
way, and the superstructure.. was carried |
by the strong current against the Cleve- |
and and Pittsburg bridge with irresisti- |
ble force, carrying it away bodily, together |
with nearly 400 feet of approaches. The |
two bridges swept down the Ohio until |
and Lake Erie bridge, an iron structure, |
just below Beaver. The approaches ON
both sides were torn away and the bridge |
is in great danger ofgoing down. Man !
ager Ellsler has rendered the use of the |
operahouse next Wednesday afternoon, |
the 18th instant, for the benefit of the |
sufferers. While conveying the Austria |
iian boomerang-throwers from the hotel
to the museum this morning the boat up
Cpt II q rnZcnnd la
Tim, aged eight, who had just recovered
from pneumonia, had a relapse from his in
voluntary BATH and the physicians give
no hope of his recovery.
, O'Clock P.M.-The Monongahela has
fallen one foot, and the Allegheny one
foot eight inches since II o'clock. The
marks show thirty-one feet in the former |
and thirty-two feet in the latter. No rain
since daylight, and weather raw.
IL O'Clock p. M-This afternoon the Ex- |
ecutive Committee were instructed to take |
immediate steps to relieve all sufferers of |
the cities. A committee consisting of rep
resentatives of the leading business inter- |
ests was also appointed to solicit donations |
Before these provisions can be made, how |
eyer, the suffering will be great, as many |
families living in the second story OF their |
houses have been without food or fire for !
thirty-siX hours. Two more fatalities have |
v,
of the Eighth ward, Allegheny, while at !
tempting 10 step out of a window into |
skiff fell into the water, and the swift cur |
rent carried him away before he could be |
rescued. Harry Genung, aged eleven, !
who has been missing from his home, in |
the First ward OF Allegheny, since Wednes- |
day, was found drowned this afternoon.
MjdRjghL-Rivers still receding Mo- |
nongahela twenty-nine feet one inch Ale |
gheny thirty-two feet two inches No rain |
Since daylight. a careful estimate of the |
losses in the county from the flood gives |
the total at SS,0O0,000. This is largely due |
10 the fact discovered to-day that a ma
jority OF tie manufacturers will not be |
able to resume operations before Monday |
week. All the mills lie low, and win be |
inundated long after the streets are clear. |
1 O'Clock i.M.-The rivers are now fall |
ing rapidly since midnight. The stage in |
the Monongahela at 1:30 O'Clock was |
twenty-eighf sS inches, with the Ale |
gheny one foot higher.
LOUISVILLE.
no change In the General Situation
Belief Measures
LOUISVILLE, February THE situation
has NOT naotariallv chan Srad hero S{Y1aa vac