Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-12
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THB FLIGHT OF HOPE For Those in the Flooded
 Districts. THE WATERS RISING HIGHER. Houses Floating About in
 the Torrents Virginia'sP Public Patronage A Lively Debate im the
 Senate.
Vfrginia'sPub1ic Patronage
A lively Debate im the
 Senate.
THE WESTERN FLOODS,

Gloom and Despafr-An Alarming Out. look at CInctnnati-The Waters Still Creeping Up-Last Years highest Mark Passed.
 CINCINNATI, Feb. 1.-The outlook to- night is one of deepest gloom. To-day when it was hoped the waters would be receding they were instead rising with great rapidity, mounting up an inch an hour, and all hope that we would be spared repetition of last years disaster has fled. At 1 D. m the great flood of 1883 had been surpassed and with the waters still rising in all the streams above and increasing in violence at this point there is reason for much alarm What will be the limit now no one can tell The best judges have no hesitancy in predict ing sixty-eight feet, 8 dept h of one foot and eight inches over the highest mark of 18s3 This means frightful destruction of proper ty, perhaps alarming loss of life, and much hunger. Houses that withstand. the water at it's present depth will be overturned at sixty eight feet or at less depth and in many instances there will be a consequent loss of. life and thousands will be cut off from condition of self-dependence. No matter how cheerful one may bs, or how hard one 5@~@S night, there is absolutely not one ray | of hope struggling through the dark murky clouds that so consistently hang above the 1 city. It is now week since the sun has ! been seen and hope and cheer has been gone ! as long. Everything is gloomy and the fu- | ture isfilled with yet darker pictures The re- lief committees are loudly calling for more liberal contributions, as they have an i'm mense amount of work to perform that had not been anticipated. The pub lic must respond to this call. The burden upon their hands is hourly increasing and there will be no relief l until the waters recede, which cannot possibly be before the ensuing week. The situation in the east end IS growing worse. Over eight hundred houses are under water on tho river front and many cases of destitution exist. CumminsviIls is almost entirely submerged, l the depth of water reaching all the way from l four to twenty feet. The postofice has been ] removed and the police station abandoned. l The rehsf committee is ameliorating the pre- vailing distress. Water is making it's way through the sewers in the east end | and fears are entertained that they will burst
 and add to the general destruction. In the west end the territory covered by the flood is | simply immense. Oolerain avenue at Camp Washington was reached last night and Freeman avenue at Lincoln Park has been | covered. Harrison avenue and the Cincin- | natl, Washington and Baltimore railroad | depot is submerged. Duckworth's distillery
 is flooded to the second story. Quincy street
 between Spring Grove avenue and Thomas | street bridge is two feet under water and l communication with Fairmount was cut of | to-day. In the east end there | are fully three hundred families | turned out between Underclif and Colum- I L: AL rlS Sr ,I,,-- eral. Between Columbia and Tuscalum the
 track of the Little Miami river is four feet l under water and all trains have to go by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton. At Tus- 1 cnlum and the Delta there are fifty eight | houses submerged and one hundred families | averaging three in number dependent on \ hospitality or charity. All along Eastern avenue the houses are in a deplorable condi | tion and the Fulton school house has five feet 1 of water on the floor.
 | The houses in the bottoms south of East
 ern avenue present a pitiable spectacle
 turning over in all directions and some
 floating of. The following has been received l from Lawrenceburg, Ind:
 ITO the president of the Chamber of Commerce,
 Cinc1nnati Communicatiens are cut from all sources
 our people and will be pleased provision
 soon as possible Distress increasing every hour; & | chairman of relief committee"
 Fl. 0. Winer, chairman of the relief con-
 mittes, replied to the above by stating that Cincinnati could not help any one outside the city as she had more sufferers within her limits than she could properly care for. In Covington the water gradually encroaches and families have moved two or three times already The poor are good to the poor and | willingly crowd up and condense their house. hold affairs to extend the shelter of roof, | but the mills and factories are under water
 and even the tobacco factories high and dry
 have shut down. It fellows necessarily that
 while the shelter is freely given, the food is
 scarce and the purse light Hence the ap- ] peals for help are rapidly increasing
 The situation in Newport tonight is even more appalling than last night. The rains 1 and rise of the rivers caused those hopeful
 heretofore that the worst WAS over to give up | in despair this morning, which dawned with | seventy seven business blocks, two thousand
 houses under water and fifteen thousand
 people helpless. Mayor Horton has issued a proclamation stating that one-half the city is under water and calling 1 for outside relief at once. The real suffer | ing is but just begun, as besides the hood- | sufferers nearly all the manufactures have
 shut down and the persons thus thrown out | of employment must be fed until the water | subsidies. The situation becomes worse
 hourly.
 In Dayton, Ky, the condition becomes
 more desperate. Many who have already | once
 other and safe quarters. All hope that the
 village would pass through the Hood un-
 harmed has been abandoned and gloom
 rests upon every face. The relief for
 warded from other points is small and en-
 tirely inadequate, and the list Of sufferers s
 even for food and fuel Is greatly augmented
 to night Supplies at the groceries are
 rapidly disappearing. The entire town of
 Point Pleasant is under water. There vas
 not foot of dry land in the corporation
 limits tonight. The people are camping on
 the hills in the rain.
 At Portsmouth the water is four feet higher than the highest last year and stlil rising. The steamer Bonanza is afioat in the
 streets. The hotel is doing business by DO at
 through second-story windows. At o'clock
 to-nioht the river stood sixty. seven feet SIX
 inches and rising at the rate of one inch an
 hour It is reported that five persons were
 drowned tonight.
 THE NATIONAL CA