Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-02-08
THE FALLING WATERS.
sups,prsUE OF run GREAT FLOODS.
Nuch sunering ana some Casualties Rc-
ported from tho wcst-Trouble
tearcd at PORT DepoaIt

reared at Fort deposit
Adyices from all points indicate that
he danger apprehended from tho floods is
'irtually over. The fall in the rivers at
nittsburg continued all Monday aud at s
!. IN. tho Monongahela marks registered
hirty feet six inches, fall of nearly
,hree feet sinco midnight. The Allegheny
marks show thirty -one feet, and is falling
about three inches an hour. Many streets
N Pittsburg are now clear of water, but
IN its stead barrels, twisted boards and |
ice are piled several feet high on dry land
by the receding waters. Communication
with Allegheny City by street cars is still |
cut of, but by Friday morning it is
thought tho cars will be able To run. The |
Allegheny Valley n West Pennsylvania |
are running trains again as
usual.
At a meeting of citizens, an executive |
committee was appointed which was In |
structed to take immediate steps to relieve |
all sufferers in the two cities. Committees
leading business interests
were also appointed to solicit donations
Before these provisions can be made, how
ever, the suffering will be great among the
families, who arc living in tho second
stories of their houses and have been with
out food or fire for thirty six hours.
Two more fatalities have been reported
William Bowman, aged 30 years, living in
Allegheny City, while attempting TO step
cut OF a window into skiff, fell into the
water and the swift current carried him
away before he could be rescued. Harvey
Geming, aged II years, who has been
missing from his home 10 Allegheny City
since Tuesday, was found drowned Thurs
day afternoon.
Upon a calm review Of the situation to
day it was found that between 5000 aud
G,OO0 buildings in the two cities were
submerged, including the residences of
25, 600 people, 10000 of whom are not able
to occupy their houses The public halls
of both cities are filed with women and
children who have been rendered homeless
and everything possible is being done in
the way Of furnishing them with food aud
raimeut to alleviate their sufferings.
Along tho ohio River.
The Ohio river at Cincinnati continues
to rise slowly, starding at Gl feet 10 inches
at 10 o'clock, a rise of half and inch in an
hour. The relief work keeps well up with
the necessities OF the suffering. Food has
been promptly furnished TO day, and boats
patrol the flooded districts to see that no
cases of necessity are neglected. Two fire
engines, floating on scows, are kept ready
to be drawn to any place whore fire may
break out in the flooded districts.
The river at 6 p. m. at Wheeling, W.
Va, was fifty one feet aud six inches, and
| rising slowly. The steamers Belle Prince
and Princess have been busily engaged all
Thursday in bringing people from the
| island. More damage to property than
was ever experienced there before has
| been done. The fair ground is a total
wreck, and three houses came down to day
from above. The weather is cloudy and
cool. The water and gas works gave out
| Thursday, and the city Is in darkness at
| night and at the mercy OF fire if one
| should start. The streets of half of the
city are naVigable only IN boats, and all
sorts OF improyised crafts are plying as
ferries. Many people are still exposed on
| the island, not spot of which remains
above water. The work of removing
them goes bravcly on by skiffs aud steam
| boats.
Six men Drowned.
Frank and James Henderson were
| drowned while crossing the Tuscarawas
river near Lafayette, Ohio, Thursday
afternoon, their boat being crushed bJ
| floating ice.
| Two young men named Nelson, will
two others, were crossing the Tuscaror
.l | TlNeT, near Ns"COUntrbtO"U, oulO, u
Thursday in boat. When a short dis
tauce from the shore, the swift curren
capsized the boat and all were plunged il
the surging waters. One man wa
drowned at once, and the other three tool
refuge in fallen tree which had lodge
in the channel, but they had scarcely time
to rest themselves before thoy were agar
hurled into the angry waters by 4 lOg
striking the tree. BY this time the pOoI
fellows had become benumb5i and chilled
by tho water aud ics and cold wind anC
were drowned.
Trouble Feared Mt Port Deposit.
At Harrisburg the Susquehanna rive
was still rising at midnight. At Port De
posit broken ice continues 10 come dowI
and lodge in the gorge now formed oppo
site there. The weather continues YER,
warm and foggy and q light rain Is fall
ing.
Tho headquarters of the railroad and tn
Western Union telegraph aud ticket office
have been moved to moro secure quarters
The majority Of the merchants hav
moved their goods to the second foors
Everything is in a perfect uproar ant
everybody in suspense, and will retir
expecting TO be called before morning.
is impossible TO form any idea how it ma!
| Jermlnate'
A gorge, twenty feet high and stretch n
from shore to shore, has formed at Nc
Calls Ferry, twenty miles north of Por
Deposit. The ice is running off of Colum
bia dam very rapidly 1t is admitted b.
all that the safety of Port Deposit depend
udon the stability of the gorge at Mccall
Ferry.
bridge Torn Away ht Thompsont0wn.
The bridge at Thompsontown, on tn
Juniata river, was torn from the piers AM
landed on n gorge. That it might no
cause further damage 1t was burned las
night. Telegraph poles of the Wester
Union telegraph company are said TO hay
been snapped of for distance OF thre
miles.
wendell phillips orthodoxy.
4 Utica gentleman relates that no one
asked Theodore Parker, who was dinin
with him, a question concerning Wende
!; Phillips orthodoxy, and Mr.. Parker Il
piled 4" do not care to say that h
believes or rejects the five points, but
! will say that he practices one of them
the perseverance of the slints--which
much better than y belief in the othe
l four"
EmDezzlements by Trustea Oficlals
William J. Lander, teller of tho HamJ
den Savings bank OF Springfield, Mass
has confessed himself an embezzler {
0 90, 900 of the banks funds. lie is only 2
t years of age had been employed by th
bank three years was I" "implicitl