Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-08
Further Particulars Of the High
Waters in the East.
THE A WILL AMOUNT TO
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
Capt. Durham, a Heartless
Sea Captain.
THE ICE FESTIVAL AT MONTREAL
STILL m PROGRESS.
A Man Found Hanging to a
Telegraph Post.
MAJOR WATSON, PAYMAsTER, TO RE-
GEIvE A PARDON.
The High Waters.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL. |

ESPECIAL 10 The SENIlNELsI
The High Waters.
MEANWHILE, Pa, Feb. THE western
and southern parts of town are inundated,
and the people go to and from their homes
in boats. All the factories are compelled
to shut down, and the schools are mostly
closed. The trains on the Meadville Rail.
road are abandoned. A few passenger
trains are running on the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad. No
freights.
PITTsBuRa, Feb. 1.-THE latest news
from the headwaters report that the waters
are receding. It is still raining, but a
very light one. A fatality has just been
reported. Thomas Kelly, a grocer of the
South Side, was trying to secure drift
wood, and fell in the Monongahela and
was drowned. Another man, unknown,
went down the river on a barge. and is
believed to have been lost. Hundreds OF
women and children are CHARTERED in the
City Hall. Many were half starved. A
substantial supper was served them, and
everything possible done to relieve their
su~fferings.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 10 A. M.-The river
is 81 feet 6h inches and still rising. No
change in the weather, except, perhaps, a
little cooler. There is slight rain at in
tervals. Telegraph communication with
up-river points is almost entirely cut off,
There is no communication with Ports
mouth, Ironton, Huntington, Marietta OF
Parkersburg. The Galliopolis river rose
8 feet last night, and is still rising at the
rate Of 8 inches per hour. The levee on
the Miami river, at Lawrenceburg, broke
at 2 O'Clock this morning, but as the town
is already submerged with water from the
Ohio, not much damage could be done.
PITTsBURG, Feb. THE river is reced'
ing here and at all points along Allegheny
but is rising slowly at the headwaters Of
the Monongahela. At IL A. M. Mononga
hela marks indicates 80 feet and a fall Of
16 inches since midnight. The Allegheny
is declining, less rapidly, with 33 feet II
inches, a drop of 8 inches from the high
est point reached. 1t is believed the worsf
is over and the water will now rapidly de-
cline Rain fell all night. The indica
cations this morning are for continued
light rains through the day, followed by
colder and clearing weather. No accurate
figures can yet be given as to the damage,
but the most conservative will admit that
it will amount up in the millions. A re-
view of the situation this morning foun6
between 5000 and 5000 buildings in the
two cities submei ged, and the residences
Of Is, 200 people, 10, 900 Of which are not
able to occupy their houses. Fifteer
thousand men are temporarily thrown on
of employment by the stoppages of the
/ mills and factories. The flooded districts
last night presented a vivid picture. AL
night long the police patroled the districts
in boats, and all the skiffs in which the
occupants were unable to give good &C.
| count of themselves were taken in. It was
| feared the thieves would take advantage Of
deserted stores and dwellings to pillag,
them. No gas Is burning on the streets
| n intense darkness prevailed, which ii
relieved by ar occasional electric light
| There we're plenty of deserted residences
where the people had fled, but there wer,
just as many who stayed. Few slept, while
they declined to seek safety by removing
| They had not the courage to sleep while
the danger was imminent. Curtains wert
drawn back and out of windows hung the
occupants, who nervously inquired Of thu
| police patrol as they passed in boats wha
was the stage Of the water, and if the river
were still rising. The gratifying new
that the water vas stationary at midnight
was received on all sides with an expires.
sion of joy and t%hsnkfulness.
CINCINNATI. Feb. THE most assuring
| sign to be seen to-day is a white flag will
a black center floating from the top O
Pixies Opera House building from the
Signal Service Office, denoting coming cold
weather. 1t is the first time the sigma
has been used, and could never have beer
more welcome. So long as the weather
remained mild the little streams would
continue feeding the flood and prolong the
high water. A freeze will put a check OF
the sources and hasten the fall. It is nov
thought the river will continue rising here
until Saturday or Sunday. and if no more
rain comes then 1t will fall rapidly. Thu
view from the suspension bridge this
morning was not cheering. Along the
| C%ovington front to Licking river it ia en-,
tirely submerged, water being in the sec.
| ond story of dwellings. Newport presents
| the appearance OF a lake, with a few
dwellings peering out like small islands
The whole lower part of the city from
Second street to the river front is covered
with boats to-day employed for patroline
and relief. The Common Council has de.
cided to ask for authority to loan q hun.
bred thousand dollars for q relief fund,
Ten schoolhouses have been closed in the
submerged or near the submerged part OF
the city and placed at the disposal of the
relief committee for the accommodation Of
people driven from their houses. In Gov.
ington to-day q relief committee has been
organized, and the Legislature will be
asked not to collect this years taxes In the
flooded districts. No loss of life and NO
great destruction OF property has yet oc-
Cured. The story of loss Of life at Mari
eta, Ohio, is not credited. but the wires
are all down to that point. The river is
rising still, bu more slowly. In IS hours
since midnight the rise has been only
8 inches. The record at / P. NJ. was 81
feet 9 inches. Preparations are being
made for doing without gaslight. A brisk
trade in coal oil lamps and candles is CO.