Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-08
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. BURIED UNDER WATER. Whole Towns Crowded Out Of Sight.
 The Waters Creeping Higher. Thousands Of People Driv-
 en From Home. The Struggle In The Seudan. France To Join Forces
 With England.
The Struggle In The Seudan.
France To Join Forces
 With England.
THE WESTERN FLOODS.

The Ohfo's Raging WRters-A Terrible Carnival of Ruin and DesoIRtion-Pec- pie Driven From Home By Thousa nds- Factories Closed and WOrkmeu Forced to Remain IdIe-A Sad Picture Of NsIs
 cry and Despair.
 CINCINNATI, Feb 7.-The Ohio river has reached stage at which the flood becomes an appalling calamity not alone in the de. struction of property, but in the distress of many who are driven from their homes These are chiefly poor people withou& sav- ings and dependent upon their daily labor for livelihood Fully thirty-fve thousand men have been thrown out Unemployment by the stoppage of factories and shops and the loss entailed cannot be computed. The sWolltn river is a grand sight, rolling past the city the embodiment of uncomfortable power. Friday CT Saturday will see the height of the present flood, when the river is expected to reeede rapidly. Railroad traf- fic is almost suspended The gas works are under water and the supply exhausted and the coal supply is also cut off, every yard in the city being under water. The legislature to-day passed bill authorizing the city of Cincinnati to issue bonds for
 
 monSvills is all ahoat and from Mill Greek
 bridge to the station house there is not 8 spot of ground visible. The lower portion of Spring Grove cemetery is broad expanse of
 water. On Spring Grove avenue the water covers the tops of the lamp posts. Lawrence
 burg, Ind, has not 8 foot of dry land
 Houses protrude from the immen ss body of
 water covering space five miles wide and
 ten miles long. When the ieyee
 fire bells rang the alarm and the people panic striken fled to the upper stories and
 roofs of the houses, many unclothed. Pro- videntiaily 4he Ohio had inundated the town early in the evening and had submerged 8 portion of the city. When the break occurred the water was only one foot lower than the two rivers, otherwise the result would have been death and destruction As it was no lives were lost, but the damage to property was very great. Many houses are adoat and others are anchored down completely
 hidden. The water is two to twenty-five feet deep. The town is entirely isolated, having neither railroad, steamboat nor telegraph communication.
 At Aurora, Ind one-third of the town is
 under water with the weather growing colder. It is reported from above that the river is falling slowly. In Newport, Ky, words can not portray the situation. All the churches in the city crowded with a dense mass of homeless humanity, and stables and school houses are utilized for shelter. Mat ters ara hourly becoming worse, and there will be suffering to appal the stoutest heart. Streets that were yesterday dry are seas of
 water to-day. Fifteen hundred homes have
 been engulfed and seven thousand people are homeless. Everywhere is ruin and desolation. People fled into upper stories by 0f hI1ild ings are reported tottsring and likely to be swept away to night. The board of health will take measures to compel vaccination as au epidemic of small pox is feared.