Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-07

into the second stories, reaching their
/ dwellings in skiffs. The low Dor.
tions Of the First and Eighth wards.
at the north and south ends OF
the city, have been under water all day
and the river is now ener0aching on the
/ business streets in the heart of the city.
/ Main street bridge, the Baltimore and
Ohio and Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Ken
lucky Railroad bridges over Wheeling
creek are under water, and two bridges
/ over CaldwelPs Run are also covered.
/ The railroads are under water in some
! places and travel is altogether suspended.
/ No mail is received or delivered and the
| locks have been taken off the mail boxes
! to prevent them being clOgged with mail
matter. Freight is refused by all lines.
! Street car travel was stopped on all lines
| by noon. No serious damage has re-
/ suited so far in the city.
AT LOUISVILLE, KY.
| At Louisville, KY, at 6 O'Clock the river
was rising at the rate of three inches an
hour, with thirty-fve feet in the canal,
! and thirty-three feet on the falls. It was
raining steadily. People living on the
4 Point are expecting water cut off by
morning, and are moving out to escape
/ an inundatiOn like that which caught
| them sleeping on the night of Feb. y.
| 1888, and which caused so much damage.
/ The flood scenes of 1888 will doubtless be
repeated. There has been only one drown
ing case as yet, that Of Frank Rude
maker, by the Overturning of his skitf.
CINCINNATI's PREPARATIONS.
| CINCINNATI, Feb. 6. :45 p. M.-SiXty
| feet and eight and half inches was re-
! ported at 9 O'Clock tonight and the river
was rising two inches per hour. The
rain had almost stopped. The water has
SfOnna6 hnf
natl and COvington and Newport and
skiffs will be carrying passengers to sus-
pension bridge before morning. The lower
part of the city is already submerged,
and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
| houses are invaded on the first floors by
| the water. 1t has been remarked that
! business men show much less anxiety
now than last year, although the promise
to-day is that the flood will be greater
than then.
Relief work has been started promptly
and with determination that Cincinnati
| shall take care of her own poor. The
committee of fifteen, appointed by the
| Chamber of Commerce, met today and
put the machinery in immediate motion
for caring for all cases of distress. Two
experienced men, j. L. Keck and c. W.
Rowland, were sent out at once to
organize a food supply, and they will
allow no worthy person to go hungry.
| The gas works closed when the water
reached sixty feet. The gas in the mains
and metres is sufficient for tonight. After
that is exhausted recourse will have to be
made to lamps, candles and electric lights.
A WATER FAMINE.
A great source of trouble will be the
water famine. There will doubtless be an
order issued tomorrow stopping all man.
ufactories that use steam from running in
order to save the water supply as much
| as possible. The general opinion is that
the river will exceed the highest stage of
last year-66 feet 4 inches. The railroad
situation is unchanged. The floors of the
! Grand Central depot, the Ohio and
Mississippi depot, and the transfer depot
are all weighted with iron to keep them
from being lifted by the water. No
freight is received. The Little Miami
depot is inaccessible for trains. New
port and the towns on the Kentucky shore
above are already deep in the water.
Families have been busy removing
goods in wagons as long as possible, and
after wards in skiffs. No casualties are
reported. Lawrenceburg, Ind, is cut off
from communication by railroad, tele-
graph and telephone. There were fears of
much damage if the new leVee should
break.
THREATENED BY ICE GORGES.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Ga heavy freshet
prevails i'll the valley of the Susquehanna
river in Pennsylvania, and several ice
gorges have formed. One above Williams
port is Is miles long, and threatens much
damage. Another has formed at Harris
| burg, where two bridges cross the river,
and it IS feared that the back water will
put out the fires in several immense iron
working establishments.