The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-23
The western Floods.

The waters ofthe Western rivers have reced
ed and the people are at work. cleaning up
and rebuilding and repairing.
At Cincinnati the water rose FIVE feet higher
than the food of last year, and at all points
the water was higher The flood of 1884 has
passed into history as the greatest known, and
hereafter it will b. the one cited for compar-
ison. The water was II feet deep in the Ohio
river.
Last Friday morning at 400 two brick
buildings fell in Cincinnati. They were used
as boarding houses and twelve of the thirty
five occupants we're drowned.
Seven houses were washed away last Friday
at Madison, Indiana. and rs many more at
Milton, Kentucky. Over 5000 persons We're
homeless at the former place. AT Lawrence
burg, Indiana, five houses were swept away
last Friday, and four squares were totally
wrecked, and five million feet of lumber was
washed away. At Wheeling $3.50 persons
were destitute, and the loss Of property in and
around the city amounted to about 81 200, 600.
A despatch from Gallipolis, Ohio, last Fri
day says: The relief steamers Nora Belle
and Jim Montgomery returned from trip
down the river last night. They report that
the village of Alfalfa, Ohio, twenty or thirty
houses are gone. At Ceredo, West Virginia,
$500, 900 worth of lumber was lost
PINE BLUFF, ARK, Feb. 1.-THE steamer
r. L. Cobb reports that nearly all the planta-
tons below are more or less submerged Only
four landings could be made from the mouth
of the river. The situation of the planters is
critical. All the streams are swollen, and
communication with Pine Bluff was cut of
all yesterday. At Fulton last night the Red
river was still rising and the flood covered
the banks on both sides for many miles. The
homes of hundreds of persons are flooded.
The occupants are helpless and cannot be
rescued. Live stock are drowning in large
numbers. Many houses are being washed
into the river, and unless reliefis soon afforded
the loss of life will be heavy.
While John Beatty was trying to carry his
wife, three children and two young women
named Weatherford across the back water
near Newburg, on the Tennessee river last
Friday the skiff was dashed against tree and
upset. Mrs. Beatty, the three children and
one of the young women were drowned
PARKERsBURG, W. VA, Feb. 1.-THE sub
merged country is slowly shaking off the
waters, and the devastation surpasses descrip-
ton. Marietta, Ohio, is wreck, houses
being down, Quilted and demolished on all the
streets. Belpre is a wreck, and its principal
street has entirely disappeared, only few
piles of bricks marking where it was located.
The telegraph wires are down in all direc'
TONS Parkersburg's loss amounts to 81 ,000,-
600. Over 100 houses were lost.
SHAwNEErowN ND, Feb. I7.-Sufferine
among the refugees in the hills is increasing.
Their provisions are giving out, and fuel has
been scarce from the start, and many add
tional cases of sickness are reported. But bad
as the situation now is, it will inevitably be-
| come worse.
The situation in Uniontown is hourly grow
ing more serious. The entire town is severa
feet under water, and the river is still rising
steadily Between Shawneetown and Union
town the country on both sides of the river az
far as the eye can reach is one vast sheet O.
water, trees alone marking the dividing line
| between the river and the shores and the
shores and the general course of the river
Several houses have been washed away.
The situation at Paducah is worse than ha!
| been generally supposed. Last night one
third of that place was uuder water, and i
is estimated that rise of two feet more would
| cover the entire town. The last train on the
Ohio and Chesapeake Road arrived last night
| the water, which covers the track to deptl
of three feet, putting out the fire on the en-
CINE before the depot was reached. At
| o'clock the gas works were flooded, and thu
people are now dependent upon lamps anC
/ candles for light
| New Liberty, II miles above here, is en-
tirely abandoned, and nothing but the roof
of the houses can be seen.
| Four-fifths of Smithland, situated at tht
mouth of the Cumberland, is under water
| Rosedair, Birdsview, Raleigh, Elizabethtown
Fair Play and Freight are all submerged
| That portion of Caseyville fronting on tn,
river is under water to depth of 10 or II feet