Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-22


rising half inch an hour The water bids
fair to come as high as the foods or last
year.
| RELIEF MEASURES.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb IL.
The Board of Aldermen tonight appro-
priated 5000 for relief of the flood suffer
ers, but the ordinance must be approved
by the City Council before it becomes GER
tainty. A dispatch was received from the
Mayor of Lawrenceburgh tonight calling
for immediate help in the way OF food, and
there is a belief that all along the river
border the demand for relief will be nearly
as great as that of la:s year. In response
to the Masonic appeal for help Mystic Tie
Lodge of this city responded tonight with
500.
Bruce Carr, Grand Master Mason of Indi.
ana, has issued an appeal to members and
lodges in the State, requesting donations
in aid of the sufferers, TO be sent to VIM. IL.
Smythe, Grand Secretary at Indianapolis.
COLUMBUS. o., Feb. IL.
On advices from Pomeroy and other river
towns, making appeals for aid, q meeting
OF citizens was called this evening, at which
$2,200 cnsh was raised in a short time and
row. 1t is expected to make the amount
many thousands. All the bakeries will put
on full time and the first train load of
bread and hams will be sent down the river
by the Hooking Valley Road to Kerr's sta
ton in the morning, from which point pro.
visions will be conveyed to the sufferers.
Mansfield and the surrounding towns are
also sending large quantities of provisions
to this point to be forwarded TO the river
towns over the Hooking Valley Road. Tel.
the Scioto Valley and Hooking Val.
ley, near to the inundated towns,
state that the whole of Ports.
mouth is under water. The citizens fed to
the hills. The same story comes from Gal.
Ipolis, where thousands OF people are
driven from their homes. Pomeroy Is in a
similar condition. The Secretary of State,
Governor and Adjutant-Genera have been
telegraphed to send tents to shelter the
people and the Legislature will take prompt
action for relief.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. II.
The Mayor has called meeting of citi-
Gems for tomorrow to arrange assistance
for the sufferers by Western floods. Calls
for relief are urgent.
NEW YORK, Feb. IL.
Mayor Edison to-day received dispatches
praying for aid for sufferers from the
floods. Mayor Edison referred the appeals
to various commercial bodies and urged
them to take immediate action.
WHEELING, W. VA, Feb. II.
The water recedes so slowly that the low.
lands in some places are still covered but
it is now so low boats navigate without in.
jury to property through wash-off waves
No more firing on relief boats reported
The B. 81 o. depot and bridge adjacent /:
endangered by the flood and trains now stop
at Water street south of the creek. Ac
cumulated mails are pouring in on all tn,
trains so far resumed.
An unknown boy was drowned on tn,
South Side to-day by the caving-in of
bank. About half of the homeless peopl,
have returned to their houses or have found
oil =
homeless, destitute and hopeless, and viii
have to be fed by the relief committee fol
weeks. The damaged mills can not star
for weeks.
GALLIPoLIs, O., Feb. Il.
The relief committee sent to Pomeroy ha!
just returned. Five thousand people are
camped on the hills in terrible want fo
| food and shelter. One hundred and fifty
houses have hoated away. Boats land a
the Courthouse steps. The people are bag
! gard and worn out for want of sleep, foo(
and shelter. Nearly every business man il
bankrupt. The coal mines at Syracuse ar,
| flooded. house went by Middleport thi
| morning with a woman sitting on tn,
| gable end. Men rowed out and appeale,
to her to get off, but she refused, sayin,
| she had four babies below. The glass we
broken, and the children were seen fioatin,
dead.
CAIRO, ILL.,, Feb. 1I-NooN.
The river is forty-six feet and rising hal
| an inch an hour; light rain since nine yes
terday morning. Reports from above thi
morning show the river is still rising stead
| lily. The water is nearly seven feet below
the high water of last year, and il is no
probable it will reach that stage this sea
son.
$3.50 p. ma heavy fog hung over tn
| river and city all the afternoon. The wealth
er is mild. River forty-six feet three inche
and rising about half an inch an hour. Tn
ST. Louis s. Cairo Railroad is shut out b,
the flood. All the other roads are running
| regularly.
| MEMPHIS, Feb. IL.
The river here this afternoon at tw
| O'Clock attained thirty-two fe =. on the gauge
| which is two feet below the danger line
continues rising at the rate of nine inche
| daily. 1t has gone over the hanks bot
above and below here in low places, but S
far no damage has been done. 1t will tax
two feet additional rise before the trouhl
in the bottom begins. The general impress
| sion prevails among Steamboatmen that tn
Mississippi Valley will not be subjected t
serious inundation from the water now i
sight. The st. Francis basin is filling u
from breaks below Cairo, which will chez
the rise at this point, but which must fn
its way again into the Mississippi at Helt
ma, Arkansas, where the st. Francis rive
| cmpties into the Mississippi.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo, Feb. H.
The heavy and almost continuous rain
| for the past few days have caused all tn
small streams throughout this entire sec
ton to become much swollen, though bu
little damage to property has been repor
ed. Tonight the rain is still falling, an
the roads through the country in man
| places have been rendered almost impass,
bic on account of the mud and water. Til
morning the mail train on the Frisco Lin
| from st. Louis was delayed nearly fou
| hours on account of washout.
LAwRENCEBuRG IND, Feb. II.
1t is growing worse and worse. III
| Mayor for the first time to-day asked he'll
from abroad. More houses were LITE
from their foundations. People are remoy
ing from the second floors and abandonin
goods because there is no place to TAX
them and the current is so swift that boat
ing is dangerous.
| LITTLE Rock, ARK, Feb H.
The Arkansas is rising here rapidly ow
ing to the heavy rains in the valley above
| II has risen thirty mine inches since tw
| O'Clock Sunday afternoon. Tonight it !
rising three inches an hour at Ozark. Tn
wire is down beyond; no dana re yet.
Mt. CARMEL, ILL.,, Feb. IL
| There is general suspension of worl
throughout the mining region. Rain AM
melting snow submerged the workings
large force are endeavoring to dan
| mountain streams. In some mines there
from thirty to forty feet of water.
AURORA, IND, Fob IL.
The situation is alarming. The river !
rising more rapidly. Three deaths sine
yesterday.