Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-09
THF FALL OF THE RIVERS
MILITIA PATROLLTNG THE
STREETS OF CINCINNATI.


Receding Waters-RaiIroad Travel
! Almost at a StandstiH-ReIIef Meas
ures Still Progressing
CINCINNATI, Feb. s, 8 A. M.-The river
now marks 90 feet, a rise of IL inches
since midnight. 1t now lacks l foot
Z inches Of the flood Of 1847, . feet 8 inches
of the flood of 1882 and feet 4 inches of
that of last year. The weather is cloudy
and the temperature is growing warmer.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 8, 9 A. M.-The river
now marks 81 feet AZ inches, a rise of Az
inches since o'clock this morning, The
weather IS cloudy and cool. The "cold
wave" flag that was flying from the Sig
nal office yesterday morning has disap-
peared. The hopes of freezing weather
are dissipated, and no relief is expected
now from that source.
The river at Portsmouth marks go feet.
and is rising fast. 1t is falling rapidly at
the head water, but further rise must
come before it all runs out.
Marietta and Parkersburg have been
entirely cut off from communication for
two days. Portsmouth is the only UP
river point that has been heard from so
| far.
MILITIA CALLED OUT.
CINCINNATI, Feb. s, 6 P. M.-The Relief
/ committee, i'll conjunction with Mayor
i stephens, have decided to call out the mi
ltla t0-nlSh mt to serve as an assistant pa
| troll on account of the darkness. The
/ President of the gas company says that
! the supply of gas will not be sufficient to
last through the night. Three hundred
men have been placed on duty. The river
/ was 62 feet ~ inches high at O'Clock
this evening, and 90 feet 81 inches at
/ O'Clock.
A dispatch from GAINESVILLE saws that
4 the Muskingun, river was higher this
/ morning than was ever known, and is
still rising an inch every half hour. The
water reaches the Baltimore and Ohio
Rallroad bridge, and the absence of drift
! only saves il.
ONE DROWNED AND ONE GOES MAD.
| CINCINNATI, Feb. 8, 10P. M.-There has
| been no loss of life on this side of the
| river. In Newport, Ky, early this morn
/ ing, William Buchert, the bugler of the
! United States troops at Newport Bar
racks, fell from skif while trying to
/ reach the second story of the barracks
! building and was drowned. He was %
/ years old, and belonged in Baltimore.
! Mrs. Waddler widow, living in New
| port, has become a raVing maniac on ac-
count of the flood
/ AT meeting of the Executive Commit
tee OF the Relief Committee appointed by
the Chamber of Commerce this morning
! it was unanimously determined that all
money received from other places should
/ be used for the relief of the sufferers in
| localities outside of this city, it being the
/ purpose of the committee to expend for
the relief of unfortunates in Cincinnati
/ only such funds as may be contributed
here.
| THE RELIEF WORK AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, Feb. s, II 80 P. M.-The
/ river at 9 O'Clock last night was 63 feet
! high. Relief work continues to be pushed
with prOmptness. Large subscriptions
are made daily on Change. A large
! vacant stOreroOm at Fourth and Race
| streets IS used as the headquarters, but
1 supplies are distributed Systematically
| throughout the various branches
IN the submerged districts. To-day 1000
| pounds of hams and 1000 pounds of
! cOrned beef cooked and five or six thou
| sand loaves of bread were distributed.
| besides free meats given at the market
house to all who applied. Two thousand
/ persons are sleeping tonight in school
! houses. The relief boats, ten in number
under control of the associated charities
/ ply through the flooded districts and dis
/ tribute food and bedding where necessary
! 10 the occupants of houses. Col. Wilson,
\ Chairman of the Knights of Honor.
has sent the following dispatch to
! L. E. Richards, at GAINESVILLE, Grand Die
/
1 tee is engaged in the work OF aiding suf-
tering humanity, without regard to or3eu ecu
will gratefully receive such assistance as
may be rendered by sister lodges"
The militia are on duty tonight, assist
ing the police. The gas is still burning,
but IS not expected to continue until
morning
$1,000 DRIVEN FROM HOME.
WHEELING, Feb. S.-Ten thousand peo-
pie are homeless and unproyided for here.
Fully fifteen thousand were driven from
their homes by the flood. The public
schools and churches have been thrown
open, and people are fed and housed
there. The water reached the highest
point at 10 O'Clock yesterday morning,
when it was 81 feet. Since then it has re-
ceded few inches.
THE RECEDING AT WHEELING.
WHEELING, W. VA, Feb. 8, ,0P.M.-
Business is still almost suspended, and
| crowds are gathered on the streets watch
ing the slowly receding flood. The water
has fallen about a foot and the weather is
cooler.
A VIEW OF THE DEVASTATION.
WHEELING, w. VA, Feb. 8, 10 p. NJ
AS the water recedes the full extent of
the devastation becomes more apparent.
/ Houses are on their sides and washed to
carried away. Barns and stables are col
| lected in great masses wherever any
barrier interpOses to hold them. One or
two citizens bridges are endangered, and
two over CaldwelPs run have been car
ried away. The water reaches
from hill to hill ON the south,
and in many places near the CITY the river
forms lake from one to two miles wide.
The Baltimore and Ohio and the CIeve-
land and Pittsburg Railroads are under
water for miles, and there is no railroad
traffic within distance of ten miles from
the city. People are camped on the hill
tops, besides those accommodated in
churches, schools and private stores.
Blast furnaces are chilled in many cases
by the water reaching the fires. The water
is falling at the rate of about an inch an
/ hour. The Baltimore and Ohio engine
shops have been carried away. Main
/ street bridge over Johnathan's river, at
/ South Wheeling, gave way this afternoon,
/ and boy was carried down with it, but
was saved.
DROWNED BEFORE A CROWD.
Two unknown men were upset from a
/ skiff at the upper end of the island. and
clung to willows for two hours, with
/ crowd watching but powerless to save
/ them. Wheeling is in danger Of a famine,
nearly all the bakeries and many of the
! grocery stores being under water. There
| is no supply of milk, and meat, except
/ salt meat, is almost impossible to secure,
| The stock of provisions is rapidly be-
| coming exhausted. The situation is
| hourly growing grave, and many appeals
! have been received from inundated Eor-
! tiOns of the surrounding country for pro-
| visions.
FALLING RAPIDLY AT WHEELING.
| WHEELING, w. VA, Feb. 8, II 1:45P.M.-
! The water has fallen to fortv-eight feet
| and is still going down rapidly. The
! steamer Belle Prince was chartered to-
| day by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
| and taken to MouldsY1lle and five miles
! up Grove creek, the nearest point to the
/ river which trains could reach, where the
/ passengers who have been flood bound
| for two days were taken on board and
! brought to the city. Five immense slides
! covered mile of the Baltimore and Ohio
! track near RoundsYiIle, and it viii be a
week after the falling off that trains can
reach the city.
Three large tanneries have been washed
/ away, causing a loss of 500, 900. and other
| tanneries will lose nearly as much by in
undatiOn. Thieves have been detected
chopping holes in the roofs of submerged
| houses and stealing their contents. The
/ Mayor this evening swOre in 100 extra
| police, who will patrol the flooded por-
! tions Of the city all night. At the pres-
ent rate of falling the water will be be-
low the danger line by daylight.
FOUR DROWNED.
C0SH0CT0N, OHIO, Feb. s. 10 p. NJ
| The flood reached its highest point at
midnight last night, being twelve Inches
higher than was ever known hero Tho