Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-02-09
THE GREAT FLOODS.
ruE WORST BELIEVED TO Bn Owe,
Tho condition OF tina western Rlvers-some
tasusIties Report sd--rhe Danger Pass
ed q m the susuerauna

Tho condition OF tina western Rlvers-some
tasusIties Report sd--rhe Danger Pass
ed on the susqehaups.
Friday was day of anxious suspense
and constant speculation ut Cincinnati rs
to the continuance of the rise Of tho water,
The average rise during the day has been
slightly moro than an inch an hour. The
river at nino o. M, marked 62 feet ~
inches (; at noon, 62 feet ~ inches at one
p. m. 90 feet Z inches, and at nine p. M,
GO feet. In most of the villages along the
Ohio river the people have left their houses
and gone to the high lands. Great distress
is reported at various points.
Wheeling, w. Va, is In danger OF o
famine, nearly all the bakeries and many
of the grocery stores being under water.
People are camped on the hilltops, besides
those accommodated in churches, schools
| and private stores. Blast furnaces are
chilled In many cases by water reaching
| the fires. The water is falling ut the rate
| of about an inch per hour, The Baltimore
II Ohio engine shops have been carried
away Main street bridge over Jonathan &
run, at North Wheeling, gave way Fri
| day afternoon and boy was carried down
| with IL, but was saved.
| Casualties reported.
While crossing swollen creek, near
| Otsego, Ohio, lady whose namo could
not be learned, missed her footing aud
was drowned.
Two unknown men were upset from 9
skiff at the upper end of the island, al
Wheeling, w. Va, and chung to the will
lows for two hours, with the crowd watch
ing, but powerless to save them.
ln Newport, Ky, early Friday morning
William Buchert, q bugler OF the United
States troops at the Newport barracks
fell from skin while trying to reach tn,
second story of the barracks building anC
was drowned He was % years old anC
belonged to Baltimore.
Mrs. Waddle, q widow living in Newport
has become a ravipg maniac on account o
J the flood.
The Danger over at Iittsburg
The rivers Allegheny and Monongaheli
are again within their banks at Pittsburg
and steadily receding. The streets in boil
, cities are about entirely clear Of water
and the people in the submerged district
! are busy in clearing the houses and street
of the Shiny mud and debris left behind
Several small cave ins have occurred ii
, different parts of the cities, but no acci
Il dent has yet been reported. Trave
by the street cars has been re
sumcd between all sections of Al
5 legheny City, Pittsburg and South Side
The railroads are also getting into shape
aud before many hours, it is thought, wi
I be running trains as usual. The Pitt:
4 burg, Fort Wayne Il Chicago road com
menced sending out through trains OF
I Friday morning. The relief committee
have been hard at work distributing foo
I and fuel TO the needy. Liberal donation
= of money, food, fuel and clothing continu
> to pour in from citizens, and no outsid
aid will be necessary. Many families al
still quartered in the public halls, aud
will be several days before the houses wi
be in o tit condition for them TO retur
n home.
: At harrisburg and Port DepC,it.
. The water in the Susquehanna
K Harrisburg reached l6 feet inches abo,
low water mark at 9 o'clock Frida
evening, and then began TO recede at th
rate of an inch per hour. 1t caused q
7 material damage, except suspension {
, the Chesapeake nail works and plate mi
on account of a back up into the sewers.
At 2:3O p. m. Friday, owing 10 Ii
gorge at McCalps Ferry, the water WI
backed up On the track of the Columbi
& Port Deposit railroad, preventing IL
{ | running Of trains past that point Frida
D evening. The probability is that Il
. water will recede sufficiently to allow trai
to 90 through to Columbia on Saturdn
o Latest advices from Williar2sport Al
v Sunbury at eleven o'olc.k Friday mig
10 are that the river = falling very rapid Iy
n these points. The river was at stan
still at eleven o'clock.