Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-12
The Raging Rivers.

CINCINNATI, February 11th-9 a. Nth,
river is Go feet and rising an inch 81 hour
Weather, drizz.iug rain.
GALLIPoLIs, February 11th-11 Nth.
river rose eight iuches in the last twely,
hours, aud is rising half an iuch an hour
Rain fell all night, and there are Indication:
of more this morning.
LOUISVILLE (Ky,) February 11th-Noon
| 1t has been raining here almost constantly
since Sunday noon. The weather has mod
Grated, and it is still drizzling. The river ros,
! FIVE inches last night, and is now rising three
quarters of an inch per hour, with fl feet il
The canal. 1t is within Il feet of last year
highest point.
PTTsBURG, February 1lth. - River sta
tionary; raining mildly at headwaters, anC
the streams fisiog.
CAIRO (Ill }, February 11th.-There was s
heavy fog over rhe river and city sill the af
tsrnoon. The river is rising half an inch ar
hour.
WHEELING wv. Va, February 1lth.-The
river is falling here. The weather is foggy.
1t is now raining.
MEMPHIS (Tenn.), February 11th.-The
river here this afternoon at o'clock at
tanned hight of 30 feet on the gauge, which
is two feet below the danger line, and con.
tinues rising at the rate of nine inches daily.
MAYsvnLE (Ky.), February 11th.-It has
been raining steadily all day. Business of all
kinds is suspended, and citizens arc at work
helping the needy. At Chester, a small vii.
lsge above here, 200 people have left their
homes, and are csmped on the hills. Several
houses passed down in the river to-day.
The houses at Aberdeen are tumbling into
the river.
New RICHMOND (O.). February h.-This
town has been cut off for six days from the
outside world. except by means of skiffs.
There is water in every building, and 100
houses are submerged.
LOUISVILLE February 11tb.-The village
of Rural, KY, has been entirely swept away,
only two Of the thirty-six houses being left.
FRANKFoRT (Ky.), February 11th.-The
Kentucky river is rising slowly. 1t has risen
81 feet since Friday. Reports from above
show heavy rise and rain falling.
MARIETTA (O.), February 11th The Wa
bash is recsding rapidly. 1t went off the
Courthouse floor at o'clock last night There
is no telegraph or railroad communication.
The bridges across the Muskingum river are
both gone. No lives have been lost here.
GALL1PoLIs (O.), February 11th.-The re-
lief committee sent to Pomeroy have just re-
turned. tive buOuSduu pSople are cAIDpSu Oh
the hills in terrible want for food and shell
ter. One hundred and fifty houses hsve
6oated away.
AURORA (Ind J, February 11th.-The situs-
ton is alarming. The river is rising more
rapidly. Three deaths have occurred since
yesterday.
LAnRENcEBURG (Ind.), February 11th.-
The situation is growing worse and worse.
More houses have been moved from their
foundations. The people are removing from
the second floors and abandoning their goods,
because there is no place TO take them, and
the current is 80 swift that boating is danger
ous. A family were rescued tonight from o
second story, where the water had reached
four inches.
LOUISVILLE (Kv.). February 11th.-At II
o'clock this evening the river is rising Il
inches per hour. The rain hiss ceased, but
the weather is warm, end it is likely to begin
raining sgaiu, soon. The situation here is
unchanged. One of the food sufferers named
Adam Frink, on account of his loss of prop
erty, poisoned himself eaEly this morning and
will probably die.