The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-21
THE FLOOD.
FALLIN HOUSES AND LOSS OF
LIFE.
Relief Expeditions Visiting the Suf-
fering Communities.
FALLING BUILDINGS,

CAdI IllO rear pdTG OIL TWO DIlCk DullCl
ingS south on the side of Pearl street
near Ludlow, had fallen and ten per
sons buried in the ruins or drowned
The occupants of the front part o.
the houses had given the alarm AMI
before the real cause could be aScer
tanned the fire alarm was sounded
FlremeD, in conjunction with police
used superhuman efforts to rescue
the living and dead. The buildings
were occupied as boarding houses anC
had twenty to thirty occupants. TIL,
living were soon brought out, consist
ing of four members of family
named Beck; Mr.. and Mrs. Coulton
Maude Ellis, Lydia Ellis, Mile Kyle
and another unknown are supposed tt
be crushed or drowned.
TEN PERSONS KILLED.
CINCINNATI. Feb. 15.-The build
ln1gs that fell this morning were occu
pied as boarding houses by Robert
Kyle and George Oyster. There were
about thirty-fve people in the build.
ing at the time. The following are
known to be killed, either by falling
timbers or drowning: John w. Kyle
son of the proprietor; Libby Golfer,
Maud Ellis, James Ogden Barney
Winkler, Mrs. Winkler, Thomas Buck
Mrs. Lena Buck and two children
William and Louis Buck; making ten
lives so far known to have been lost
The rescued were conveyed in patrol
wagons to the fire engine house in
the vicinity, where they were made
comfortable. Mrs. Kyle, whose son
was lost in the ruins, was inconsolable.
She imagined her boy was alive and
struggling for freedom; then she
gave him up for lost, and her agony
was heart rending.
Mrs. Welsh, who occupied a room in
the part that fell, says she could not
sleep for the cracking of the walls
She thought at first it was the paper
affected by the water, but afterwards
supposed it to be something worse.
got up at last, she said, and awakened
Mary Golfer and told her we must get
out. as something was going to hap.
pen. 1 went to the door Of the next
room where Maud Ellis was sleeping
and tried to awaken her. Then
called Mary Golfer again to hurry UP.
She was sitting on her bed. 1 was
near the door. L felt the house going
and 1 could have stepped through the
door to the front part, but turned to
the falling building to get Mary.
could not see and felt all around for
her, and then we all went down to-
gether. 90 not know how 1 escaped,
but l crawled out and screamed.
This was told between sobs, as the
poor woman mourned.
Her roommate, Mary Golfer, and a
girl named Ellis, occupants of the
house, say they called the attention of
the owner last summer to the weak
ness of the rear wall, but it was not
repaired. One of them thinks the
wooden Intel over the rear cellar
door was broken ty the effect of the
water, and so let the rear wall down.
The body of Thomas Burke was re-
covered shortly before noon; it was
fearfully crushed. The accident has
similar old buildings in the flooded
out to safer quarters.
ON A STAND.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 15.-The
river is on a stand, 4615 sect, and fall
ing above. The weather is clear and
cold. The worst is over.
CLEAR AND COLD.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 15.-At 9 a. m.
the river was 70 feet inches and fall
ing. The weather is clear and cold.
The river is falling all the way above
very rapidly, hundred miles or so up.
PROVISIONS SHIPPED.
PITTSBURG, Feb. 15.-The govern
ment relief boat, Katie Stockdale, left
this afternoon for Ironton with over
300 tons of provisions. Another boat
will be sent from here by the citizens
next Tuesday.
DROWNED.
PADUCAH, KY, Feb. 15.-While
John Beatty was attempting to convey
his wife and three children and two
young ladies named Weatherford
across the backwater near Newburg,
on the Tennessee, the skiff drifted
against the current and upset. Mrs.
Beatty, all the children and one of the
young aides were drowned.
SITUATION UNCHANGED.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 15.-The river
has been on stand all day and the
general situation IS unchanged. zen.
Saxton, by the steamer Matte Hayes,
went down the river this morning
with government supplies for the
destitute in the flooded districts.
A NOBLE ACT.
BOsTON, Feb. 15.-Gen. Lander post
G. A. R., at Lynn, have decided to
forego anniversary exercises, and send
the money, about $4,000, to the flood
sufferers.
AID FROM BOSTON.
BOSTON, Feb. 15.-Three thousand
and five hundred dollars have been
subscribed to aid the sufferers by the
western floods, and $1,000 have been
forwarded. The wool merchants sent
$1200 worth of blankets.
VIRGINIA RESPONDS.
RICHMOND, Feb. 15.-The chamber
of commerce and Richmond tobacco
association are raising relief funds fol
the flood sufferers in the west. The
Chesapeake Sc Ohio railroad company
have offered free transportation for
all supplies contributed.
THE RIVER AT MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 15.-The river at II
p. m. shows thirty-three feet sever
inches on the gauge, which is five
inches below the danger line. A more
hopeful feeling prevail, but disas
trous overflow to many plantations
here is inevitable. All railroads con
tinue running regular passenger
trains.
AT JEFFERSONvILLE.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 15.-Jefferson
vile presents strange and sad sigh
by moonlight, with the mad waters Of
the Ohio rushing with wonderful
force through the streets, almost equa
in velocity to the current in the mid
die of the river, and the waves lash
ing the houses and great many Of
them topping over. The scene Is be
yond description. Very often cries Of
people calling for boats can be heard
There is feeling of despair among al
of the citizens. About ninety-nint
hundredths of the city is under water
OVER THE ROOFS.
SHAwNEETowN, Ill, Feb. 15.-A1
effort was made to-day to reach JohI
Boyd's pork house, in which doZeI
or more families have taken refuge
but it is just north of the levee, owe
which the current is so swift thatFthe
oarsmen were unable to stem its force
The pork house is strongly built, gu
its position is perilous, and commune
cation with the outside is dangerous
While the boat was whirling arount
in the eddy below the levee a youDl
woman put her head out of a window
but when hailed and asked how sh,
was faring she failed to understand
and quickly closed the blind. Th,
boat passed oyer the roofs of row O
brick buildings. the site of which wa