The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-21

miles the track and roadbed have al
most entirely disappeared, and the
bridges are all swept away. About
| twenty families are homeless al
Moundsvill and are entirely destitute
but the wealthy people of the town
refuse to accept any aid, and are doing
everything possible to alleviate the
suffering. At Renwood, out OF 25O
inhabitants, three-fourths of the peo-
pie are in absolute want. The manu-
featuring establishments. from which
they gained livelihood, are all flooded
out, and will not resume operations
for weeks. Forty families are home
less.
TOWNS ON THE OHIO.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 15.-The steamer
Kate Waters returned tonight from a
trip up the river as far as Marryville.
Maryville is in good condition, be-
cause such a large portion is out of
the water, but Chester, a village at
the eastern part of Maryville, is actu-
ally suffering for fuel, light and food.
Manchester, ten miles above Mays
vile, had not been heard from until
to-day, when a committee consisting
of Capt. Worker, Judge Collins and a
Presbyterian minister, on their way
to Cincinnati in skiff, hailed the tug
Kate, on the waters, and were taken
aboard. They report the town almost
ruined. The military company were
patroling the streets in boats distrib-
uting food, but their supply is about
exhausted.
All along the river the story comes
OF most generous aid by farmers and
others living far into the interior, by
sending food in wagons.
All along the river it is said the late
storm did untold damage to buildings,
the repair Of which, after the flood,
will require much money to render
habitable. Aberdeen, opposite Mays
vile, was badly wrecked by the late
storm. The town is entirely destitute
of coal oil and practically in darkness.
Ripley, who has fully 1900 people de-
pendent, has been receiving help from
the interior. The village, with 250 in
habitants. has ITO destitute.
AGooD PLAN.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 16.-r..e town OF
California, seven miles above Cincin-
natl, has taken action with reference
to the distribution Of relief that must
commend itself to all places suffering
in similar way. This village had
not recovered from last years disaster,
when many lost crops, and the same
thing has happened now. AT meet
ing of the citizens, held to-day, a COM
mittee was appointed to make full
assessment of the damages of each
person from the Miami river to the
four mile creek, not only counting the
losses but considering the ability of
each to bear his loss and then distri-
butte the permanent relief to whatever
the whole amount be in proportion
to the assessed amount of Of damages.
The committee makes a state
ment of the condition, showing
over one hundred houses have
been flooded already for more than a
week, eight houses have been entirely
demolished and score of others bad
ly damaged. Fifty families will be
or repaired. Those whose houses
have been carried away are least able
to replace them, and it is for them
that relief is asked. The
committee assures the publice that
not one dollar shall be paid out until
a thorough examination of losses and
of losers is made and
reported to Henry J. Disgue, chair
man of the relief committee. Citizens
of the town and people of the imme-
diate neighborhood have met the cur
rent wants of the needy so far.
Two men. Thos. Lynch and Michael
Stephens, were drowned at the foot of
Sycamore street to-day, by being
thrown from sliff under the wheel
of the steamer r. r. Springer.
ALONG THE RIVER.
PoMERoY, Ohio, Feb. 16.-The re-
lief boat. Katie Stockdale, arrived here
at p. M, the intention was to go
direct to Ironton after leaving Park
this evening but the people of
Belleville, West Virginia, called the
boat in aud quantity of provisions
were given. But six houses remain in
the town and they are nearly all badly
wrecked. AS the boat proceeded
down the broad farming bottoms on
each side were gradually being reliev-
ed of water. At Racine the head of
Pomeroy Bend. twelve miles long,
was entered, this bend is narrow
bottom On both sides of the river, and
contains twenty coal mines, eighteen
salt works and twelve towns with a
population of 10000, of whom 5000 are
laborers. Six of the mines are flooded
and will not be pumped out for six or
eight months; $500 people are idle and
1000 homeless and demanding imme-
date assistance. The river in the
bend reached siXty-four feet, but has
fallen twelve feet, and is going
down at the rate of two inches
an hour. Friday night the water first
cleared from the streets OF the towns.
There are four relief boats helping
the destitute from Gallipolis, which
place is out of the water and compar-
atiqely uninjured. Business of every
kind remains suspended, The
Columbus, Hooking Valley 81
Toledo railway, and the Ohio Central,
penetrating the bend, are all torn to
pieces. Trestles, bridges and roadbed
are gone in many places, and it will be
from three to four weeks before COM
munication by rail is resumed. There
are 10 telegraph wires up, and this
will have to be sent to Pomeroy. The
steamboats, Jim Montgomery, Cham
pion, Nora Belle and Chesapeake are
distributing supplies. The people
have doubled up in uninjured
houses, and are stored away in
churches, barns and school houses
through the country. 1t is estimated
that 5000 houses have been swept
out of the twelve miles of land.
There are destitute in Camden 300
people; Middleport, 200; West Column
bia, 40O0; Clifton, 20; Mason City,
400; Pomeroy, 5000; Minersville,
600; Hartford, City, 400; SYRIA
cuse, 700; Racine 500; Antiquity, 100;
German Furnace, 100. The Stockdale
will distribute some three tons of
provisions here and then proceed to
other suffering towns in the bend,
and then go south. This section was
chiefly engaged in shipping coal south,
and this trade will be stopped for sew
eral months. The following mines
are ruinously flooded at New Haven:
Hartford City, Syracuse, two, Miners
villeI two. The tipples of all the
others are down. The mines mem
toned are large concerns, shipping to
the lower river. There are quite a
number of small mills not in