Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-10

| floods from Pittsburg came down.
Point Pleasant, w. Va, February 8.
Eight inches more water will put
the whole town under water Many
houses are moved from their founda-
tons. Tae river is still rising.
Gallipolis, Ohio, February 0,-At
$3.50 p. m. the river was five feet eight
inches higher than it was last year,
and rising an inch an bour. During
\ the day large number of houses and
other property have float"d by.
Batavia, Ohio, February ALL the
buildings in oint Pleasant are under
water and it is feared the building in
which Gen. Grant was born will float
down the Ohio. News from New
Richmond, Ohio, shows gloomy feel
ings, rise of two feet more being GER
tain disaster. The houses are in great
danger or floating away; the old dis
| tillery did 90. A man who passed
down from Augusta, KY, in skifi,
says at many places the houses are kept
in place by weighing with rocks and
in few instances the people were
| clinging to the chimneys.
Charleston, w. Va, February o.
The Kanawha is rising four inches an
hour. 1t was twenty-four feet at nine
y. M, and ten feet more are expected
| by noon tomorrow.
Bel Pre-, o, February 8. - Two
thousand people are homeless in Mari
eta and Harmar; hundreds of houses
are of their foundations, and the upper
| Muskingum bridges all gone. The
bridge ut the mouth of Duck creek is
wrecked Rice's oil tank is upset and
the warehouse gone. Melton's Tan
merry and the one at Followsburg are
gone. All wooden buildings on Front
street between Putnam street and the
postoffice are wrecked and moved
from their foundations. Harmar Hill
is covered with people in tents or in
the open air. The relief committee Mt
Marietta and people from the surround
ing country are doing much to render
assistance. A dispatch has been sent
to Gov. Hoadly, making an appeal to
the people of the state for aid.
Cincinnati, o., February AT Sp.
m the river is siXty-four feet one inch.
This is significant, ~ showing that the
rapid rise ut points above reported yes
terday and the day before begins to be
felt here. The total rise for the past
twenty-four hours exceeds that of the
preceding day. The opinion of good
observers of Ohio river floods is that
not only will the rise continue here
until Monday, but during tonight and
tomorrow the rise will be increased.
| Already the river has gone beyond the
| flood of lS47, making this the third In
rank. 1T has only five inches to rise
until the mark of the famous flood of
1882 is reached. There is now no
doubt that point will be reached, and
then the race becomes interesting
| lot
gular rs it may seem,
there is not lacking sort of wish for
the sake of the spectacle that 1881 may
come out ahead, but this is not shared
by those directly affected by the flood.
II has been stated that the losses
this year, with the same stage, Will
be not more than 10 per cent.
of last year This applies mainly TO
personal and household property. In
the item of pianos last year, the aggre-
gate loss was heavy, and now scarcely
a single instrument will be caught in
the water, but i'm other and larger in
terests the loss must be heavy. Inter
ruptions to business. manufacturing,
trading and transportation must con-
time through period of three or
four weeks. The damage TO ium-
Der and coal yards will suf.
fer about as they did last year.
In Mill Creek valley, where immense
vegetable gardens are, the loss is IN
calculable. 1t would be idle to at
tempt to compute in figures the
losses up to this time. There has been
no great disaster; no railroad property
is injured except the machine shops,
the tracks. embankments and bridges
in this vicinity being all intact. Near
~ all the street cars are running on
this side of the river, but none can
cross to Kentucky. The conditions
for comfort and safety are eX-
eellent in the main portion ol
the city. The impression that
large tract of the city is covered by
water Is erroneous, and the portion
submerged, except in the suburbs, Is
not much used for residences.
The main residence and business por'
ton of the city stands on high grounds,
far out of reach of the highest Hood
: Arrangements for preserving order
and preventing crime are vastly better
! than when there is no flood. Not on
! ly are the police more watchful, bu
they are reinforced by five hundred
a streets at night. r lief WORK
y grows daily, us the stock of provisions
. Of poor families imprisoned in thell
. houses diminishes. The best men II
!, the city are directing the work ant
y giving it personal attention. In New
q port, KY, want has grown so grea
y that the mayor has called on nelghbor
+ Ing Kentucky towns for help.
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