Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1884-02-07

Families have been busy removing good
in wagons as long as possible, and a tier
wards in skifs. No casualties are re.
ported.
Lawrenceburg, Ind, is cut off from
communication by railroad, telegraph ant
telephone, and very grave fears of n ucf
damage if the new levee should break arr
felt.
BAD LOOKOUT AT WHEELING.
WHEELING, W. Va, Feb. 6.-The river
has risen here all day about eight inche.
an hour, and there is now depth of forty.
four feet. The Seventh ward of the CITY
lying on Wheeling island, is almost en-
tirely submerged, and residents have
abandoned their homes in many cases and
in others moved into the second story and
reach their dwellings in skiffs. The lower
portions OF the First and Eighth wards, at
the north and south ends of the city, hare
been under water all day, and the river is
| now encroaching on the business streets in
| the heart of tee city. The Main street
bridge, the Baltimore q Ohio and Pitts
burg, Wheeling & Kentucky railroad
bridges over Wheeling creek are in the
zater, and two bridges over Celdwell's run
near the south end are also covered. The
railroads are under water in some places.
and travel is suspended. No mail is re-
ceived Or delivered, and the locks have
been taken off the mail boxes to prevent
their bacoming ciogged with mail. Freio ht
is refused by all lines. Street car travel
was stopped on ell lines by noon. No
serious damage has resulted SO far in the
clty.
At Benwood, Frederick Hayan, aged 16
years, was walking on the track, when he
slipped and fell into pit 40 feet deep, and
was drowned. At Maynard, o., Mary Coste,
aged II, was on a foot bridge when some
body shouted it was falling, aud in the
fright she fell from the bridge and wes
drowned. Bridgeport, Martins Ferry and
Beliaire, O., are largely submerged. At
the latter place the gas is shut off. At
Wheeling creek coal mines the works and
houses are surrounded, and houses threat
ened with destruction The iron works of
this vicinity have been compelled to shut
down by water in the engine rooms. The
inhabitants of the low lying lands are
seeking safety in flight to the higher por-
tions of the city.
SUBMERGED.
MADISON, Ind, Feb. 6, 2 p. m.-The
river is rising three inches per hour, and
the whole river front is submerged.
THE MAUMEE VALLEY.
TOLEDO, o., Feb. 6.-Reports from
twenty-five towns up the Maumee valley,
within 100 miles OF Toledo, indicate rain
fall of varying severity during the twelve
Of r.
noon it is raining only slightly. The river
here is as yet but little above it's ordinary
stage. The ice in the Anglaise at Defiance,
o., broke up this afternoon. A gorge
formed, but soon gave way, and at the
latest report the river was rising rapidly
at that point and overfowiDg its banks in
East Defiance. At lower Toledo the river
rose two feet in the twenty-fo four hours
ending at 6 p. M, and is still rising, with
Indications of the ice giving way. Proper
ty along the river front here has boen Sc
cured as far as possible against the flood
The Sandusky river at Fremont is rising
slowly. The tracks of the Wheeling and
Lake Erie roads are under water and travel
is impeded. No fears at present are felt
for the safety of the bridge. Cold weather
is promised, which will doubtless check
the flow of water into the Maumee, post
ponlng if not entirely averting disastrous
overflow.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 6.-The railways CEN
teriDg here report very high water at vari-
oCs points, and considerable damage in
some places by washouts, on the Cleveland
and Pittsburgh at Waynesburgh. The
freshet at Bayard, water is very high along
tlo Ji,a hr1{ -ak
York, Pennsylvania & Ohio is not so seri-
ously troubled SO far. The valley road is
covered with water for fifteen miles south,
chiefly an overflow from the Cuyahalaguo
river, which has spread over part of
the upper flats here. The Cleveland, Lo-
rain & Wheeling reports many depots
under water, aud bridges washed away over
the canal at Dover and Elyria.
AN ICE GORGE DOES DAMAGE.
CLEVELAND, o., Feb. 6.-At Conneaut
the ice gorge broke and carried away the
dam at Rathbone's Touring mill and de-
stroyed part of the paper mill dam. At
New Philadelphia the Tuscara vas river is
rising six inches per hour, and is already
considerably higher than last year. and
there is great alarm along the low lands.
the town is nearly cut off from outside
communities tion.
THE HIGHEST EVER KNOWN.
STEUDENv1L1E. O., Feb 6.-At p. m.
the river was forty-four feet, and rising,
and the flood is the greatest ever known.
The city lies high and the local damage is
not material. All trains were delayed
from six TO ten hours on the Panhandle
by washout near Mingo, four miles west
of here. The Cleveland & Pittsbnrg, and
Pittsburg, Wheeling & Kentucky roads
have ceased running. The city water
works are submerged and the supply is
stopped. The Panhandle road is using a
large force of additional hands to repair
the track.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Feb. 6 1t looks as
though the flood of last year was to be
repeated. The river at noon is three feet
in the canal aud rising at the rate of four
inches per hour. Shipping Port and
Portland are flooded, and already over
500 people are driven out of their homes.
The government building is the only house
not submerged il Shipping Port, and four
more feet of water will bring the flood over
the cut of and the point will be
flooded. with great loss of property,
and perhaps lives. Il has been raining
steadily nearly all day. The Kentucky
river ia sill rising rapidly, and at Frank
fort considerable excitementis prevailing,