The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-02-14
The DELUGE.
The Most Destructive
Flood Ever Known
Oh the Ohio.
FURIOUS AND FOAM
ING WATERS EV-
ERYWHERE.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 1.-THE river
at 8 am, Monday, was 65 feet G
+, inches and rising. Forty thou
S sand people of the city are home
less and dependent upon public
charity for relief.
LAwRENCEBURG, Feb. lit is
! raining hard /; river still rising
+. the city entirely submerged
Senator Voorhees, telegraphed
that he will move a government
appropriation of s150,00o. The
first ffood baby was born in the
Courthouse.
AURORA, IND, Feb. 10 River
still rising. Fearful it will reach
10 feet. A fire broke out in the
flooded districts, doing much
damage to the upper stories of
the business houses.
Wheeling, W. Va Feb 1O-The
river has receded more slowly than
was expected, and part of the city
and country above and below is still
under water, though the inhabited
portion for the most part is forsakcn
by the waters.
The disapearace Of the water only
reveals the extent of the ravages of
the food, and the sight exposed 20
the eye to day is indeed dishearten-
ing Hugo rocks, board piles, trees,
driftwood, and small shanties cover
parts of the many streets, and hun
dreds of large houses and barns are
gathered at points where the surface
of the water was obstructed by the
trees Fifty houses are jammed up
on and against each other at the
south end of the city. Wagons load
ed with provisions are arriving here
and at Benwood, Bellalre, Bridge
port, and Martins Ferry all day from
points as far back as twenty miles.
There are probably 10000 to
help and clothe from Wellsburg to
Moundsvi!le.
Galliopolis, O., Feb 1910 A. NJ
The water is now six feet four
above high water mark of last year
and is still raising. The flow of
the water varies in one hour it
rise an inch, and in the next half
an inch, and so on. The water is
encroaching on Galliopolis.
1t is all round us and in the sub
urbs is In the houses, but has done
no material damage. Tho water is
in The street in front of the court
house, and an acre of the public
square is covered.
5PM.-Your correspondent has just
returned from visit to the submerg-
ed districts near our city. At Pt.
Pleasant, W. Va, the whole town
is under wafer, not a foot of dry
land remaining in the corporation.
The people are driven to the hills.
provisions and feed being sent the
dcstitu'e from our place.
Addison, Cheshire, and many 9th
er small Ohio towns are suffering
in the same way. The river is still
rising. seven feet two inches OF
water in the Defour House. The
losses of property and stock is fear
full. This eveneng the water is
inches above the rise of
1882 and seventy one inches above {
the rise Of 1883, and raining heavily. ;
Aiarysville, Ky, Feb 10.-The riv-
er is twelve inches niger than in
1882, and rising one inch an hour.
A light steady rain set in at {
half past 2 this morning. All roads $
to this point, except two. are under +
water. In the bottoms the houses p.
are all under water, many fio:ting
Every factory and mill has been !
to stop running. The :
gas and water works are flooded :
The grain and lumber men are
working hard to save their property.
One hundeed houses are flooded {
IN Chester aud fami les are moving. i
Hundreds of people from the conn a
-ry came in today to see the grand y
sight. Aberdeen. o.. Is half sub
merged. Seventy five families have =
been driven out of their homes and 1
lave taken refuge in the town hall
md school houses. Several houses
De onging to poor persons have been T
carried away by the seething food. !.
Columbus, O., Feb 1O-An engi-
,eer on the e'Scioto Valley Railway q
xaded out of Portsmouth this morn I
ng and telegraphs from Piketon. t
wenty-lour miles north, that the l.
water is FIVE feet higher in that city
han last year. The steamer Bon,
'nza is lying afoat over the side e
walk, and peoY'e are entering the Y
,otel through the second story win i
lows. i
When the engineer left this morn
ng three houses were burning, y
which the engines could aot reach. I
Marietta, o, Feb. Ga large
lumber of peop'e were standing on h
he b4nss of the Muskingum River c
the drifts on the surface, 4
when the bank OH which they =
sere standing gave way and large
,a,t of the crowd was thrown into |
he river. Those who did Rot fail r
n were overcome with panic, and i
many children were carried away by y
he swift waters before an effort could .
,e made to save them. Tho widest
xcitement prevails. No estimate y
an yet be m ;de of the extent of the I
amity. y
At least fifteen persons were S
rowned. The town is almost com d
'etly overhoweG, and hundreds of .
antilles have abandoned their y
omes moving away in some cases II
nth what they could carry The 1
iver has reached forty FIVE feet, il
nd, reports from above confirm the d
elief entertained that the present :,
ucd will be with out parallel. V
Tsles;lay's. News. II
The news this morning is still
,c-a d;SfroCSinr The flood at n