Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-02-21
THE LIMIT REACHED.

Ihousahds or Homeless Sufferers - A
Glimpse of What is Being Done for Their
Belief, ~
~ esCISCINNATI, o., Feb. H.
Thesflood reached its climax to-day-7l
feet and = of an inch at noon. It re-
when decline was noticed. At3:3o it had
gone down half an inch, and since then has
continued to tlecline-slowly, very slowly,
= but surely aud steadily.
: TO news that the fall had begun was
hailed with joy by every class of citizens.
The city is in a terrible condition. Bust
ness is suspended in nearly all the whole
sale houses and manufacturing establish
ments. As yet there has not been any
igreat catastrophe in Cincinnati, but every
body Is nervously apprehensive of one at
any minute; unless the waters fall very
gradual lit would seem almost impossible
to Escape without immense losses from
: warehouses and stores, filed with costly
goods, crumbling and falling from their
walls teing weakened by the waters SO long
about them.r% = - sF - -
Tue asituation~ at Newport, the second
largest OF our Kentucky suburbs, is much
worse relatively than in Cincinnati. The
waters have risen, till out of the III squares
In the town eighty have been overlooked,
over two-thirds of the town I, and of the 49,
COO Inhabitants over 5000 have been or are
being afforded relief. mostly food.
When half city is in such condition
the scenes of distress may be imagined.
The distress and grief can only be pictured
and hardly described. Looking over the
vast territory now submerged naught but
ruin and desolation can be seen. The ter
rifle wind and rain storm last night laid
waste many houses. The streets are now
in many places blocked with houses, sta
bles, porches, e:c., making it very difficult
for the relief boats to navigate. A reporter
went through the flooded districts with
relief committee. and found people,
and Seet we're a distribated e'i to 0fe she
poor sufferers they grabb d at the eatables
in a dazed, half-famished manner that was
heartrending to witness. Twenty houses
we're counted turned bottom upward. Ten
thousand peple were given dinner at the
6oup-houSe to-day. Seven thousand loaves
of bread, 1900 pounds of meat, 800 gallons
of soup and 1,00J gallons of coffee were -dis.
tributed by the relief committees to-day.
In Covington the situation is not much
worse than yesterday. The town stands
much higher than Newport. About LOCO
people are being fed there.
are 3l5 houses submerged. Taking on an
average seven people to a house, it makes
over 1000 homeless people. 80.
On the Ohio side, Mill Creek Valley, at
the west end of Cincinnati, presents
scene of the utmost desolation. Houses
are inundated, some of them to the second
story, and others submerged; stables and
sheds are overturned; tops of freight cars
protrude from submerged railroad tracks,
and all kinds of rubbish and refuse is float
ing about.
At Lawrenceberg, Ind, over 500 houses
have been swept away and upwards of
A ~I1o L<~~~, nI4
greater damage are not unfounded, as the
banks built to protect the city from an
overflow of the Miami river have been
broSen down. and resistless torrent of
through the heart Of the city.
49, LOUISVILLE, Feb IA, P. NJ
The river continues to rise. The canal
gauge registers forty-six feet, eighteen
inches higher than at any time last year.
The strong wind of last night caused the
merged district. A great many houses
have fallen or foated off. The water is
stin rising, though the ground is hard
. frozen, and this morning reached the cellar
of the Board of Trade building, putting
out the fire in the furnace. There is no
likelihood of any further rain and the
river is expected to be at a stand by morn
ing
Inch by inch the water has come up at
Jeffersonville till nearly every street has
disappeared. II the water continues to
rise az the present rate, by noon Friday
there will not be a dry spoS in the town.
Sights are the most appalling and distress
ing. Houses have caved in and hundreds
of people are huddled together in some
buildings. Many remain in second stories,
shivering, suffering from dampness ana
cold, and in many cases hunger. The PEN
itentiary is still out of water, but little
more water and the convicts will become
food sufferers with nowhere to go.
Utica, Ind, is almost out OF sight. The
Spho hit ont, 4la1 To fha lie for a W
Clarksville is entirely depopulated.
1i,r So I'' EVANSVILLE, IND, Feb. Il.
At Shawneetown the water is approach
ing the second story of the Riverside Hotel
aud steadily swelling. Officers of the last
boat from there describe it as scene of
desolation equal to that of last year. No
/, houses as vet have been moved from their
foundations, but as the water swells the
danger inceases, and there is great dread
of wind, which would inevitably do grea5
damage. One hundred and twenty pens of
corn in the water were counted on the In
diana side in a distance of ten miles below
Henderson. 1t can not be reached. This
represents 20, 600 bushels, the loss on which
d, will be at least so per cent.
MADISON, IND, Feb. IA.
TIE food in the OHIO river at this point
will probably reach its height tomorrow
: morning, two feet higher than the flood of
last year. The damage to property in this
city will be greater than last year on &C
IRoNTON. O., Feb. a.
Topographic communication was re-estab
lished to-day. Three-fourths of the town is
under water, including the entire business
portion. The water is seven feet higher
than in 1888. Though it has fallen consid-
.ierably, it is still above any known high
water mark. Soup-houses are open, but
are inadequate. Thousands are homeless
and penniless. Every door is open, but
there is not enough room. Frame houses
. are swept from their foundations and brick
buildings crumbled into the water. At
Hanging Rock but four houses are above
water. Coryville has but two houses above
the food. Starvation stares thousands In
the face. The iron mills have stopped, and
many employees were destitute before the
dood came. e. -
90 GALLIPoLIs. O., Feb. ii.
The relief steamers Nora Bell and Mont
gomery returned from trip down the
river. They report the village of alfalfa
almost entirely swept away. In Millers-
port twenty or thirty houses are gone. At.
Proctors vile the water is in the second sto-
/ ries Ceredo, West Virginia, lost SSo0, 900