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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
WHEELING AND VICINITY.
Expectation that the Flood of 1882 Will Be
Equaled, if not Surpassed.

EquaIeu, II not surpassed
WHEELING, W. Va, Feb. 6-The river here
is forty feet and still rising at the rate of ten
inches an hour. Many of the low streets on the
island and south of Wheeling creek are already
submerged. many houses being surrounded and
a few invaded by the waters. A flood as great
as the famous one of 1882 is expected, and resi-
dents of exposed localities are abandoning their
houses and merchandise and removing their
stocks to places of safety. Two or three mills
and factories have been stopped by the water
reaching the fires. The gas is already shut off
from the island, and the gas-works will no doubt
be nterfered with and the entire supply shut off
by tonight. Most of the mills will be stopped by
water by evening The P, W. g. K railway
track is submerged for a short distance along the
wharf Railroad bridges and trestles are
loaded down with heavy trains. Communica-
ton with the suburbs will be seriously inter
fered with this afternoon. Damage to the
trestles of the P, w. & K, and the c., L. & W.
roads. on both sides of the river is appre-
hended.
LATER.-The river has risen here all day about
eight inches an hour, and there is a depth
of forty four feet. The Seventh ward of the
city, lying on Wheeling island, is almost entirely
submerged, and residents have abandoned their
houses in many cases, and in others moved to
the second story, and reach their dwellings in
skifs. Low portions of the First and Eighth
wards, in the north and south ends of
the city, have been under water
all day, and the river is now encroaching on the
business streets in the heart of the city. The
Main street bridge, and the B. & 0. and P, W.
& K railroad bridges over Wheeling creek, are
in the water, and two bridges over Caldwell's
run, near the south end, are also covered. The
railroads are under water in some places and
travel is altogether suspended. No mail has
been received or delivered and the locks have
been taken off the mail-boxes to prevent their
becoming clogged with mail Street-car travel
was stopped on all lines by noon. No serious
damage has resulted so far in the city.
At Benwood Frederick Hayne, aged sixteen,
was walking on the track, when he
slipped and fell into pit
forty feet deep, and was drowned
At Maynard, O., Mary Costo, aged seventeen,
was on foot bridge when somebody shouted 1t
was falling, and in her fright she fell from the
bridge and was drowned. Neither body has
been recovered Bridgeport, Martins Ferry
and Bellair O., are largely submerged. AT the
latter place gas is shut off. At the Wheeling
creek coal mines, the works and houses are sur
rounded and the houses threatened with destruc-
ton The B. & o., c. l.. & W., p, W. & K,
and c. & p. depots on both sides of the river are
surrounded or flooded. The iron works of the
vicinity were compelled to shut down by water
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Fureeson,s Terrible Affection.

SPRINGFIELD, Pa, Feb. Civilian Furgeson,
of this place. when seventeen years of age, was
attacked with severe pains in his right hand,
and though he is now forty-sx he has been an
nually attacked similarly, though each time suf-
fering more than at the preceding time. Con-
WILSON'S and paroxisms now visit him at ex-
actly the same period of the year, and always at
fering the most acute agony, and is visited by
scores of physicians, who have been completely
baffied His body becomes terribly contorted.
respiration almost ceases, he becomes for the
time unconscious, and on awakening shows
every evidence of having passed through terri
BILE ordeal. On being restored he becomes per-
fecty well, and is only troubled at intervals of
year The case can only be accounted for by
the fact that Furgeson's mother during CESSATION
saw the-contortions and evidences of agony in ii
snake which had been thrown into fire, and
that he has become thus birthmarked
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newspaper statement made during the last flood,
that the court house foundation was crumbling,
was untrue.
About ll:30 o'clock man walked off the east
end of the wharf boat and fell into the river His
splashes and cries We're heard, and men rushed to
the spot but no traces Of the man could
seen. It was supposed the current carried him
under the wharf boat and he was drowned
No one saw the man walk off the boat
and it cannot be definitely learned who
he was, but the supposition is that
he was a negro named Tim Ross, who was
working on the boat, and who has not been seen
since
The lumber piled in the new addition is
now ahoat and threatening to do great de
struction to the surrounding houses, should
the water come high enough for it to
make a break. The greatest danger that
threatens the town is the Miami river running
through its middle as it did last year. The
levee has, up to the present diverted
the course of the river, causing the
current to flow east of town,
but should the levee break at
this point the river will rush madly through the
center of the city, spreading ruin and devasta
ton in its course Lawrenceburg experienced
last year such terrible sufferngs, damages
and losses by the flood as were never
before known in the history of the country; but
from the present situation and reports from
above even that will be exceeded. Lawreneeburg
is plucky and enterprisng city. and does not
ask for help. but in such times as this she IS
thrown on the mercy of the public.
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it will not fall short of 81, 200, 900,
and may greatly exceed that amount.
The loss in some instances will reach $40, 600,
while few hundreds will cover others. Fully
5000 families are rendered homeless by the
floods. Arrangements have been made to
shelter them in public halls tonight and to-mor-
row morning In accordance with the proclama-
ton of Mayor Lyon, public meetings will be held
at Frohsinn and Turner Halls for the purpose of
making some provisions for them until the flood
subsidies sufficiently to permit them to return to
their homes.
The Allegheny Council will also meet to-mor-
tow to discuss the situation and devise means for
the relief of the unfortnnates Travel is sus-
pended this evening on every railroad running
out of the city, with the exception of the Penn
sylvania Central, and many people who left their
homes in the suburbs this morning were com
PEELED to remain in the city over night. The
morning newspapers suffering great incon-
venience from the flooding of cellars and the
Post, Commercial Gazette, and Times will be
unable to print editions in the morning on their
own presses. The Times and Commercial Ga
zette will use the Leader press, and the Post has
arranged to run an edition off on a job press.
The Sixteenth-street bridge which it was feared
would be swept away is still intact
Midnight-The river is believed to have
reached the highest point at 10 o'clock and is
three feet and three inches and the Allegheny
latest news from headwaters reports
the waters receding. 1t is still raining, but
very light. One fatality is just reported Thos.
Kelly, grocer, of the South Side was trying to
secure drftwood and fell in the water and was
drowned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
A Bird,s-Eye View of the Scene.

PITTsBURG, Feb 6-Standing on Duquesne
Height. which overlooks the two cities, this af-
ternoon, one could see a spectacle rarely spread
out for view. At the base of the hills, the black
fringe of mills and factories were idle and the
clouds of smoke that ordinarily roll up from the
grimy -throated chimneys were not present to
disturb the vision. AS far up the Monongahela
as Hazelwood and up the Allegheny to Sharps-
burg, the course of the flood could be watched
On both rivers it was the same thing
The railroads along the banks had disappeared
in many places, and here and there
stranded car could be seen sticking its black
top out of the yellow water. Buildings that
usually stand away back from the waters edge
were surrounded and cut off from connection
with the solid earth. Bridges, in some instances
were nothing more than islands, the water hav-
ing penetrated to the low spots that exist in al
most all approaches. Steamboats, had pushed
up until their bows almost touched the houses
along the wharves, and in some places
were floating in the streets Looking
down the Ohio river the islands
could be seen shrinking to smaller proportions
as the water rose up and hid the lower portions
from sight. From shore to shore the water
was covered with ice with here log and there
the remains of barge float whirling in the
midst of it OF barge wreckage there was
none, for the grinding ice and the strength of
the waters tore everything apart.
Along the shores was presented a
queer view from this elevated lookout Much
of the Point had disappeared, and it was only
the two bridges that made it possible to say
where the exact end of that part of the city was
located. Point bridge was cut off on the Pitts
burg side, the water being neck deep at the foot
of the approach. Skiffs and floats were plying
to and fro, and apparently had many patrons.
Union bridge was deserted and surrounded by
water. Sixth-street bridge, with water running
by it at either end, was lifted up higher and
the Hand-street bridge, with the ends
of its arches in the water seemed almost ready
to float off for Cincinnati A line of umbrellas
look ng like huge mushrooms touched by frost,
could be seen moving along the banks wherever
the water left foot of room. They started at
Grant street and kept on down, moving steadily,
until they seemed to center at the point or as
as it was possible to come. Below, the water
was king.
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The Story Told by Another Writer.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAwRENCEBURG, Feb. THE raging waters
of the Miami and Ohio rivers have at last over
whelmed the city, and the terrible scenes of de
vastation of the flood of last February
will be repeated. The water has been
pouring into the town at
terrific rate all night, and the town is now a sea
of surging pillows. The streets are full of men
with boats, on the lookout for any one who might
have been caught by the sudden rise. The wind
is blowing, and a steady rain has set in The
city is in total darkness, and owing to this state
of affairs it is impossible to learn of
any accidents or damages that might
have occurred. The water is now
six feet over the highest part of town and rapid
ly rising. The people are becoming greatly
alarmed, and if a check to the rise does not soon
occur the damage viii be very great. A great
number of the prominent business houses
are very old, and grave apprehensions
are felt as to their stability
During the last food one hundred houses caved
in. and many others We're cracked and
damaged. Should the river go to- seventy
feet, and the wind blow as furiously as
it does tonight the damage that is
likely to occur will he enormous. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07

CIcINNATI. Feb g. The river rose but one
inch between II and - o'clock, and only quar-
ter of an inch from Il to l. Rain began about
o'clock, and is still falling Merchants in the
lower part of the city have already organ
lied police and provided boats and lights
to be used in protecting property against theft
kilograms have been sent to Sandusky Toledo
and Cleveland. asking for boats to be used for
the relief of families in the submerged districts
All railroads have stopped receiving freight,
tral, New York Pennsylvania Il Ohio, and the
Cincinnati Hamilton q Dayton. All trains on
the Cincinnati, indianapolis, St Louis & Chi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
THURsDAY.-Raias, followed
6y much colder wedther.
OVERALLS.

This strong, plain Anglo-Saxon compound is appro-
prately used specifically to designate two strong
plain garments of great utility and serviceabeness-
namely Overall Pants and Overall Sack Coats. They
perform the useful function of protecting ones more
costly and delicate regular attire from soil injury
Indispensable to those engaged in various employ
ments, Overas frequently occasionally useful
to many others. In fact 0verals have become quite
an important feature of the Clothing Trade. very
full and comprehensive stock of these garments is
carried by the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
Tank Car Blown I'm.

CLEVELAND, Feb 6.-About l o'clock this
morning violent explosion startled the people
of this city, at Linndale. five miles out. John
Kramer, freight conductor the Bee line
crawled under tank-car which had contained
gasoline, to inspect it. The lamp ignited the gas
still lingering around the tank, and the was
torn to fragments, and Kramer will probably die
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cago have been abandoned; also on the Cincin-
natl & Eastern and the Cincinnati, Georgetown
& Portsmouth roads.
A. M.-River 81 feet inch.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-07
WHEN.

We are the exclusive agents in this city for retail
ing Cones Boss Overalls and Sack Coats of which
goods, and of the Overalls made at factory,
offer complete lines of all grades at surprisingly
low prices
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in the engine-rooms. The inhabitants of the
iow-laying land are seeking safety in fight to
higher portions of the city.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1884-04-26
To the Common School Teachers
Editor Roundabout:

Editor Roundabout
One of the most important things in
teaching is to just pin yourself down,
put your whole soul in it. Whether
you get much or little, do your duty
Just the same. Remember you are
in loco pdrentis' and it behOOveS you to
be very careful how you conduct
yourself in your teaching. Now with
all Of Us, we must be anxious to learn
more in respect to teaching or imDart-
ing ideas to others and always be ready
to receive advice of other teachers, who
are prepared to give good advice, and
whether they are older or younger, if
they are i'm our advance let us receive
their suggestions with meekness and
thanksgiving. l say we should mt all
times be inquiring into the methods
of teaching as arc put forth and SUCCESS
fully practiced by others. There is Il
way in which we could do this and |
think it would be capital idea. 1t
has proven successful in other counties,
and have no doubt but that it would
admirably work in this county. The
teachers i'm other counties with whom
| have had the privilege to talk, say
that it is Il very fine thing for the I'M
prOvement and promotion of the teach
ers. speak of the "COunty Teachers
Association" 1t is one of the best
organizations, rs have just said, for
the personal improvement of the teach
erS.
tell you we can't dO very we'll
without such an organization. We
must remember we have about quit
holding the institute and the teachers
of the county are getting luke warm,
and some are as cold Us ice-just dead
and others are fading away. say we
should gather together and organize
this county Association at once. The
teachers all know, without argument,
that it wOuld.prOve very successful and
a great benefit To them. All the teach
erS know how stimulated they are, and
how they go back to their schools with
renewed VigOr after an institute. o,
yes, they will remember all this and
recall to mind the fragments of knOWl-
edge gathered while attending the in
stitute. l think the Association exceeds
the institute in many things. For
instance, the Association is not public,
and we concentrate our whole time in
gathering thoughts on the various sub
jects. For instance, some grammatical
point that has long puzzled our minds,
some analysis of propositions which
has perpleXcd us, some point in the
school law which we don't understand,
some geographical or historical scketch,
or some mathematical theOrem we wish
to be explained. And another thing in
which the Association eXcells the in
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stitute is, it meets Oftener. This is a
good thing. The teachers who are
teachers in deed and in truth ought to
be gathering up the fragments" of
knowledge and the best methods of i'm
parting it to others. Will the teach
ers respond to this? l would urge
every teacher in this county to assemble
at the place which is to be appointed
and be an active member of the AssO-
citation. think it is the duty Of teach
ers to cooperate one with the other,
and know OF no better way than to
go into something like the county
Teachers Association.
Col. r. ID. Allen has recommended
this to the teachers Of the State and has
assisted in the organization in some
counties, and will no doubt assist Us if
we go into it. So consider, fellow
teachers, and let us have an Association
and let us ali belong to it and make Il
success of it.
a TEACHER.
FRANKFORT, KY, Monday, April
q, 1884.
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WIN. CROMWELL
w,
Real Estate Agent,

will practice in the courts of franklin and the
adjoicing counties. and Will also give srecia
attention :" the purchase and sal. Of real estate
collection Of rents. claims, and the negotiation
OF loans. Office opposite Court House.
June 2j-1y.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1884-04-26
Woodlake.
Editor ROundabout:

Editor RoundaJouL
see in your issue of April 10Th
mention made by your correspondent
at this place of the warehouse being
put up by Col. Isaac Wingate, corner of
Main and Wingate streets. 1t should
read Dry House corner of Main and
Stamping Ground avenue. Messrs. Win
gate Il FlOrian, producers and dealers in
leaf tobacco, believing that WOOdlake
possesses advantages that few points
in this section of the county had, have
determined to put up a first-class house
for the purpose of rehandling tobacco.
1t has been demonstrated beyond
question, that there Is not district
in the State Where the hurley can be
produced finer or more to the acre,
hence it is that these gentlemen have
determined to establish themselves
permanently in this business and
should be literally patrOnized by the
public. They handled about ten thOus-
and pounds of hurley last season in
connection with their own crop, and
this season will have rehandled about
seventy thousand pounds in the same
manner. They claim that in the class
ificatiOn of tobacco lies the great secret
Of success; the more pounds you have
the better will be the grades. For in
stance, they have this season thirteen
distinct classes or grades Of tobacco so
that each hogshead, when put on the
brakes, the sample, no matter where
drawn, will be a fair one. Their house
is located at the intersection of the
Georgetown and Stamping Ground
Turnpikes, easy of access and will be
provided with all first class appliances
for rehandling tobacco. They expect
by prompt, fair, square dealing to merit
the patronage OF the public. In connec-
ton with the dry house they expect
to keep a first class country store where
the wants of the country people can be
had as low as in any of the surround
ing towns. We bespeak for Messrs.
Wingate 4 FlOrian that encourage
ment that the public spirited always
receive ut the hands Of the people of
this section.
hurley.
, 1884-09-21

Dr.. A. Judson Gray has been very
much interested for the last few days, not
over the troublesome trial balance which
would either come out sixteen or eighteen
cents too large, but on account on a picnic
in which he with several others was to
participate. 1t was to be a free-for-all &C.
casion and came of yesterday at King
mans ranch. or in hat Vicinity. The
party was coraposed of Mr.. and Mrs.
Masi and family, Mr.. and Mrs. W. H..
Richardson and family, Mrs. IL. +.
Church and family and DR.. a. Judson
Gray aud family. The ladies furnished
the refreshments and although a large
basket loaded with bottles, accompanied
the parties, they say that they contained
nothing but lemonade. They were going
out on the vast prairie 50 they borrowed
the outfit the Archery Club. But they
diln't use this means of amusement t,
any great extent for the children all CANT
back without a mark or blemish. They
claimed to have a good time, which no on,
doubts.
, 1884-09-21

DIR. J. W. Thompson IS steadily i'm
proving.
Col. IBabbitt returned from the Eas'
yesterday,
J. Pettibone has returned from Buffolo,
New YORK.
Abe Idleman returned from a trip in
Colorado yesterday.
W. II. Smith, of Rawlins, is in town
and stopping at the Railroad House.
Carl H. Brown, of st. Louis. is in
town and stopping at the Inter Oceon.
John s. Tilcomb, Chief Engineer for
the Wyoming Development company, is
W
Mr.. G. s. Barrey returned from Den
yer Yesterday, where she has had charge
of the Wyoming exhibit at the Exposi-
ton.
bfn. G. D Goodsell of Hills & Goodsell
returned from the Fast last evening. where
she went to buy their fall and winter stock
Of millinery.
Blr. j. C. Friend, editor of the Raw
Inns Journal. arrived in the CITY from lar
yesterday. He will return to Raw
Inns this evening
General Dandy, Chief Of the Quarter
Depastment Of the Platte. will ar
rive from Omaha to-day to locate rebuild
ing Of Fort Russell
Mr.. |. Wilkins. proprietor of a large
art store in Denver, is in the city. lie in
ends. as will be seen by his advertisement
n another column, to place on exhibition
very fine class of art works for the ben
fit Of Cheyenne buyers, and will, no
ioubt, be literally p ,tronized.
, 1884-09-21
WIRE WHISPERS.

The Golden Eagle clothing store at St.
Louis, owned by Browning. King & Co,
Of New York, burned to-day. Loss,
$4,000.
Miss Woodford made two miles in 1888
and 3:3lt, fastest on record, at Sleeps
head Bay.
Blaine received a great ovation in New
York, last night. He made = few COM
plimentary remarks
Forty Thousand people attended a
Democratic meeting in Hamilton, Ohio,
last night. Mr.. Hendricks, Allan G.
Thurman, Governor Hoadly and Durbin
Ward spoke.
, 1884-09-21

CHICAGO, September ga published
statement is made here that Miss Eta
Turnbull, the only daughter Of n. 8. II.
Turnbull, a wealthy pork packer. has
eloped with Alexander Nerven. employed
in Turnbull's packing establishment as a
slaughterer. He is described as hand
some, and a member Of the South Side
Episcopal church. Nerven is declared TO
have acquired some means of his swn and
is a man of fine physical appearance. The
affair became public through Mr.. Turn
bull procuring the service of detectives for
the ostensible purpose Of asoertaining the
whereabouts of his daughter.