McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-02-14
THE WATERY RLEMEnr.
The Ohio River on a BENDER Human Life
Threatened and Great Destruction
Of Property Feared.

| tluueS anu The TlteT - ulty .clSnb IecI, anu
rising five inches an hour. All the small
streams throughout the country are at flood
height. Reports from up.river points are
that rain is still falling and the river is ris-
ing rapidly.
PITTsBURG, February 6.-The schools
in the first and fourth wards are closed on
the Duquesne way. The water covers the
Office furniture in the houses about the Du
quesne depot, and merchants on Water
street have moved their goods to the second
floor. Railroad traffic on all river lines is
greatly retarded.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, February 6.-The
river is rising two inches an hour. Boats
are busy moving families, corn and stock.
A million bushels Of corn is on the banks be-
tween here and Paducah, much of which
will be destroyed. The Wabash has hardly
started. There will be big flood of that
stream. 1t lis still raining.
PITTsBURG, February THE waters
are receding here and at all points along the
Allegheny, but rising slowly at the head
waters of the Monongahela. At II O'Clock
q. m. the Monogahela marks indicated
thirty-two feet, fall Of sixteen inches since
midnight. The Allegheny is declining less
rapidly with thirty three feet ten inches, a
drop of eight inches from the highest point
reached. 1t is believed that the worst is
over and that the water will now rapidly de-
cline.
COLUMBUS, o., February IA bill
has passed the legislature and been signed
by the governor authorizing the use of $50, -
600 for purposes of relief of sufferers by
floods at Cincinnati and other points.
LOUISVILLE, February AT II
O'Clock to- night the river was still rising
half an inch per hour and a drizzling rain
falling. That portion of the city known as
the ''Point'' is now covered with twenty
feet of water The people had all moved
out. No serious happenings apprehended.
WHEELING, February THE river is
rising slowly. More damage to- property
has occurred than ever experienced before.
A vastly larger area is submerged than in
| 1882. The houses, barns, bridge, straw
and hay stacks have been floating past all
day. The Wheeling cheese company 8 ware
house loses ZOO. The merchants lose
heavily in perishable goods now unoer wa
ter. The losses aggregate over 81 ,OO0,O
The river has reached fifty-six feet and
has not yet ceased rising. There was great
distress during the night. The steamer
Bell Prince has this morning been engaged
in taking families off the island, where,
| however, many still remain. Skiffs have
also done good work. Many casualties were
reported, but investigation shows but slight
foundation for most of them.
EVANSVILLE, o., February 8. The
Muskingum is higher this morning than
| ever known and is still rising an inch per
half hour. The Baltimore & Ohio bridge is
touched by the water, and only the absence
of drift ice saves it.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, February S.-The
river rose eight inches last night, and marks
| forty-t feet seven inches on the gauge.
A drizzling rain and heavy fogs prevail.
The prospects are still gloomy. Boats and
barges are saving stock. The families are
all moving. No loss of life has yet been
| reported.
PITTsBURG, February 8.-The rivers
| are again within their banks and steadily re-
ceding, the Monongahela marks showing
| twenty six feet eleven inches at noon, with
about one foot more in the Allegheny. The
streets of both cities are almost entirely
clear of water and the people in the sub
merged districts are busy to-day cleaning
houses and streets of the yellow, Shiny mud
and debris left behind as unpleasant mo-
mentoes of the largest flood in fifty years.
WHEELING, w. Va, February s.
The Baltimore and Ohio shops have been
carried away. The city is now in danger OF
q famine. Nearly all the bakeries and gro
ceries are under water. The milk supply is
cut off and all meals, except sailed, are ex-
hausted.
WHEELING, w. Va, February s.
The river is 81 feet and falling slowly. The
steamer Belle Prince went to Ben Wood to
transfer passengers to Moundsville. The
weather is cloudy and cool. Business is
still almost totally suspended and the entire
populace is gathered on the streets watch
ing the slowly receding flood.
WHEELING, w. Va, February o.
The scene in this city is indescribable, and
no perf can do it justice. The flooded por-
tons have been well provided for in the
shape of food. AS the water subsidies the
amount of destruction to be seen is appall-
ing. Fire engines are employed in wash
ing off the mud from the streets as the water
falls. The relief steamers that went down
the RIVER to Benwood, Moundsville and Bel
laire have not yet returned at this writing
| Q2 o'clock. They had on board plenti-
full supply of provisions, and none in need
will suffer. The worst is at the
points above this city, especially the