Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-15
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THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1884.

The GREAI FLUID UE 1904.
HUNTINGTON UNDER WATER-MEETING
OF CITIZENS OF sTAUNTON.
The water fall of the last ten days has
produce fl )ods throughout the ONO Val
ley, greater than those of 1882. AT Gu
cinnati the water has subn srged four
water is up to the steam boiler in the Gin
cinnati Enquirer office which is that dis
lance from the river. AT Newport, KY,
just across the river the town is nearly all
under water. One lady is feeding fifty
poor children whose homes are washed
away. At Wheeling, W. Va, several
thousand people have been made homeless.
The town of Point Pleasant, w. Va, at
the mouth of the Kanawha river, is CON-
pletely submerged. All along the Ohio
river are seen sub emerged villages and the
people camping on hills back of them, with
little shelter from the still falling rain,
and less food. AT jefferson, Indiana, nine
thousand people have been driven by the
water to the second story of their houses.
At Portsmouth, Ohio, while the town was
nearly all under water fire broke out in
that portion of the buildings above water.
The engines were towed on harges to the
scene and set to work, but six buildings
we're burned. There are many thousands
Of persons deprived of home and food by
the floods. ga
SCENE AT HUNTINGTON.
The following is letter received yeSter
day morning by kobt. W. Burke, Esq
President of the City Council, from his
brother ex Mayor Burke, Of Huntingdon:
HUNTINGTON, W. VA. Feb. 10, 1884, |
ze 2P. M.
DEAR BRoTHER.-I suppose you are
hearing of our terrible food-Only 3 stores
in tue whole corporation of Huntington
out OF water. l counted s. boats on 3rd
Avt nue. this morning; water 6 feet in my
house On 2nd Avenue and more than
foot high in my house on 3rd Avenue. All
my out houses are either washed away or
displaced. Four-ffths of all the houses
in our city have been flooded and many
have been entirely deserted. Great suffer
ing will ensue here; we have been able to
provide SD far. Can't your people do some
thing for US The whole Ohio Valley
seems to be one des ,late waste of waters.
l have been surrounded by water since
Sunday. but it has fallen 70 inches now,
and is yet falling. :
Sd Avenue. 81 miles long. is under water
except about $50 yards. The scene is
truly distressing. Almost everybody has
lost something. the water was 6and 9 II
feet higher than last February and mob ,dy
had any idea of higher water as thu Tele-
graph lines we're down, aud we could not
hear the news from up the river. Many
people who put their goods in the I'd story
of their houses had them ruined by the
water. No one who has not seen can i'm
agine the C 'mplete desolation which per-
vades the Ohio Valley. Have not time to
write more.
T. j. BURKE.
MEETING OF CITIZENS OF sTAUNTON-
SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS CON-
TRlBUTED.
Mayor Cochran, yesterday morning, on
two kilograms from Huntington being
submitted to him, that had been received
by EakIe q Jones and R. W. Burke, issued
call for meeting of citizens at noon at
the Court House. When the meeting as
sembed the Mayor explained the urgency
Of the case and appointed the following
committee to collect funds to be invested
in food and other necessaries, for the suf-
ferers at Huntington:
r. W. Burke, Judge w. A. Hudson, J.
Howard Wayt, W. A. Cushing and B.
Frank Eakle.
The Mayor said he had received infor-
nation that the q. & O. Road would carry
all contributions of provisions free.
In few moments in the Court House,
and before the meeting adjourned. the
following contributions were paid in:
Michael z. Koiner SIS. National Valley
Bank $25, Burke & Bradley $25, Eakle &
Jones $40, Jed Hotchkiss So R W. Hardy
S.. H. NJ. Ball $25, Nswtown H ,ss Co.
SIS, 1. Witt $40, VIM. Buckley SIS, Mar
shall Hanger S., A. G. Gordon S., S. M.
Yost Il Son $40. Rev. J. M. Frost SIS, J.
Il, Waters So. Adams Express Co. S.,
Ed. Burke $40, W. B Runnels So. T. A.
Bledsoe So. Sheffey Il Bumgardner SIS, J.
A. Cochran $40, Tinsley & Morton $40.
e. A. Richardson SIS, VIM Patrick So so.
E. M. Gushing S.. A. Fl. II. Stuart $40.
The committee of collection went to
work actively yesterday evening and the
prospect is that Stanton will send a
very handsome contribution before the
committee gets through.