The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-17
Sad and Sickening News From
the Flooded Districts.
The Suffering Intense and AL
most Unendurable.
Loss of Property as Yet I'm
calculable.
The Floods.

ana. The weather is cloudy and moder-
atDg
Ports reports fall of feet from the
highest point Of the foods.
Wheeling, W. Va, 16.-The river is
80 feet and stationary. The Stockdsle
passed last night at s o'clock with pro-
visions. The weather is cool and cloudy.
Parkersburg, w. Va, 16.-The
| United States relief steamer Katie Stock
dale arrived q. Parkersburg this moro
| ing, loaded to the guards with 500 tons
! of relief supplies aud 100 tons of coal.
The supply aboard cost $50, 900 Of the
| S75 600 appropriated, and the govern .
ment has telegraphed flooded towns on
| the boats route the privilege of drawing
on the remaining $4,000, in SUMS of
$500 10 Sc, 600, according to their neces-
sities. TIE submerged country is slowly
shaking off the waters and the devssts-
ton paralyzes description. In many
places the roofs of houses OF piles
of brics and timber tell the tale in all d.
rections. Provisions are said to be
plentifully supplied, but the people suf-
fer from cold weather. Marietta, Ohio,
is hurricane wreck. Houses are torn,
Quilted and demolished on all streets.
There are no inhabitants except on Sec
cond floors, and not many of them.
Parkersburg will be able to attend to its
own sufferers, but the restitution in
smaller settlements is intense. Belpre is
q wreck and its principal street has en-
tirely disappeared with only few piles
OF brick to mark its location. A tow
boat with tow was swung abreast the
town of Ravenswood and held the houses
from being swept on Saturday. otherwise
the town and ell its inhabitants would
have been eugulfed. The sires are
dcwn in all directions from here. News
goes 10 Baltimore and is there transferred.
The disarrsngement interferes with all
transmission Of news and it is doubtful
II telegraph matter IN be sent after lesv-
Ing here. The Stockdale leaves ten tons
Of freight re to be distributed by the
relief committee at this point for the sui.
fering below. Business is entirely sus.
rended, The loss in Petersburg is one
million dollars.
Louisville. 16.-The river fell IL
inches and is 'till filling. The height
reached at $50 last night VS. 46 feet z
inches. Cloudy and threatening rain.
Cincinnsii, l6.-Ths river was falling
at noon an inch an hour. but is still two
feet above the hitherto unprecedented
food of last year. 1t will require 1t
least two days more to ensble th5 rail-
roads to begin to ascertain the location Of
tracks. A four story brick building on
Central avenue. near second. fell last
night. The last family removed from if
yesterday afternoon. III all the sub
merged portions Of the city. where frame
houses have been moved from their posi-
tons, the owners are endesvoring to fos,
them back TO Their places The same
thing is done al Newport, Ky. ThTestens
ing rain.
Washington, 16.-The President has
signed the joint resolution aDproprlating |
flooded sufferers.
The Secretary of War has sent tele-
grams to the mayors OF Bellsire, CALI
polls, New Albany. Parkers burg, Mari.
etts, Hsrmar, Middleport, Portsmouth,
Rockport, Charleston, and Bstsvis,
them to expend from $500
10 SIS. 600 for additional supplies.
Chicago, 16.-Subscriptiens in this
,ity for the aid Of the food sufe ers foot
Up $4,000.
Parkersburg, W. Va. 16.-The United
States relief boat, Katie Stockdale, in
charge of Col. Thomas Rae. OF the Fur
zenith infantry, and conveying 81, 900, 600
worth Of provisions to the flood sufferers,
arrived here at z O'Clock this nornirg e.
The Stockdsle lay at Marietta, Ohio,
rom midnight until morning. The in
labitsnts Of that city we're supplied with
but are in bad necess tv for
clothing and bedding. They are still in
he schoolhouses. churches and barns on ,
he high ground. The water has receded :
20 feet, and stood at q N. 80 feet in.
Che banks are coming out Of the water
N both Gdes OF the river, and the full s
II the destruction is exposed. 1t para.
Yves description People at PArksrs-
,u-g are in good inalcis cor dition, and
hoogh the losses are heavy the cit will 1
axe care II its own sufferers. The city
las over 100 sufferers in buildings.
The homeless are in churches and ,,
choolbouses. The town Of Belpre, op, ;
'osite Petersburg. is in desolstion. Its
'rincipsl street, with the store and Had
ey's -four mill, and numerous brick and '
wood buildings. has totally disappeared.
The losses st Petersburg are sl,0O0.-
90, with more returns to come in. The
'tockda will proceed from here direct
c Ironton, 325 miles west of Pittsbarg.
Pomeroy, 16.-The relief boat .
Katie Stockdsle arrived here this
fternoon. Her intention was to 4
e, direct to IrOntOwn after leaving .
'arkersburg, but the people of
3elleville. w. Va, called the boat !.
nd quantity Of provisions was !
,iYen out. But six houses renal
u the town. They ere nearly all
'adly wrecked. AS the bat pro.
eeded on the strea II, the br ,sd :
arming bottoms on each =.
ide were gradually being !
of water. At Racine, the
lead of the Pomeroy bend, twelve
niles long, was entered. This bend
J narrow bottom on both sides of
be river, and contains two coal
mines, eighteen salt works twelve
owns and 10000 inhabitsnts. of
whom 5000 are laborers. Six of the
zines are flooded, and will c
o. be pumped out for ak
r eight months; 5000 people are !.
lie, and 5000 homeless, demanding I
assistance. The river
q the bend has reached "a feet: il
as fallen II feet, and is going down
{ the rate of two inches an hour. d
IN Friday night the water first C
feared from the streets Of the town. s
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