Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1884-02-08

the city are overfowed, and Iocomotion ii
exclusively by boats.
The Ohio at Wonton was rising three
inches an hour at 8 p. m.
At GAINESVILLE, the Musking river is
higher than ever before. No trains are
running.
At Reading, Pa, Katzenmsyer's and
Wanner's dams burst and flooded cellars
in the lower part of the town.
The covered bridge on the Columbus
and Hooking Valley road with fifteen car.
has been carried away by the flood.
At Pomeroy, o., the water is six feet
deep in the Office of the principal hotel.
Hundreds of residences are flooded.
At Wheeling 10000 people are homeless.
The schools and chui ches are thrown open
and many are fed and housed there.
| At Cairo, toe lookout is, that they do
not fear much of an overflow, as it will
have to rise nine feet yet to do damage.
| Throughout Ohio there has been a great
number of washouts. and it will be some
time before the traius will be running.
At Springfield, Ohio, the river is reced-
ing rafidly. Trains are not running, end
VIII not for ten daye, owing to washouts.
AZ Louisville, the water is very high, but
the rise has been 90 gradual that The people
have h2d time to get their property saved.
At PortsTnouth, O., the river is 55 feet 8
inches, snd rising inehss an hour. The
hopees will be submerged on First street
bs fore morning.
Al Wiike-bane, Pa, the Su=qeuhanna
rose rapidly last night, breaking up the
Ice gorge there, and destroying the tele-
graph and telephone poles.
At Logao, Ohio, there is the greatest
food ever seen i'll the Hooking valley, and
the tine bridge on tho Hooking Valley road
is goae, and the gas is OUT.
Al Fort Seneca, o., the Nickel Plate
railroad bridge is badly damaged that
trains cannot cross. Sleet is also domag-
ing The wheat crop IN that vicinity
Three spans Of tho wagon bridge q
Thompsontown, ecross tho Janiata, were
swept away by the flood, and to prevent its
damaging bridge bslow it was fired
The Wabash and White rivers, IND, are
overlooking their banks, and the farmers
are moving their stock to the bottom
lands. Much stock will be destroyed.
Much fears are expressed from the ice
in the Susquehanna, as it has formed in
gorge nesr Port Deposit, and if the ice
from Columbia down comes with a rush,
much property will be destroyed.
At Louisville, at II o'clock last night,
the river was still rising slowly. The cut
of above the city gave way in the after
noon, and the Point" is now covered With
twenty feet Of water. The whole river
front is submerged.
At Memphis, Tenn, there is great con-
cern,a the waters arepouring in such guam
titles from stream subsidiary to the Missis-
sippi, that there is great danger in ali the
low lands being oVerfowed, ana tne plant
ers have been notified TO move ali property
to places of safety.
At Cattletsburg, Ky, there have been
heavy rains for the past twenty four
hours, and hopes of an early abatement
of the floods are gone, Front street is
invaded by water, and the Algiers house
has closed. Skiffs have to be used to reach
many parts of the city.
At Manayunk, Pa, the ice in the Schul-
kill river commenced running shortly be-
fore midnight, and carried away the new
trestle work bridge Of the Pennsylvania
railroad at Greenlane, and damaged sew
eral mills along the banks, that are blow-
ing whistles for assistance.
The situation at Port Deposit, Md, is
really critical. A patrol has been formed,
and the merchants have moved their goods
into the upper stories of their shops, but
the town is expected TO be flooded or part
ly swept away before the morning, should
the gorge at McOalrs ferry, twenty feet
high, break.