The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

The gloomy situation at Cincinnati
was rendered more hopeful on the morning of
Feb. Is by bulletin announcing that the
waters of the Ohio River, after having attained
the height of Il feet inches, had begun a
retrogade movement. The announcement
caused great rejt icing among the people. At
Lawrenceburg the storm and the ensuing
cold weather were severely felt, and hun
dreds were housed in the upper sections of
two halls, a schoolhouse and the Court
House. The inundation had increased at
Aurora, and the place was cut into three
sections by the rushing river. Jefersonville
was in n sad plight, and the ruinous work
along the Kanawha is reported as fearful.
The families of 125 lme-burners at
Utica, Ind, were huddled together in a
church. At New Albany hundreds OF
houses had been wrecked or carried of their
foundations. There were 315 houses sub
merged at Dayton, KY, and at Newport, KY,
eighty squares of ground were overilowed.
Storm-waves destroyed hundreds of buildings
at Portsmouth and Ironton, Ohio; Point Pleas.
ant, w. Va. Newport, Uniontown, Aberdeen,
and Naysville, KY, and in the eastern section
of Cincinnati Joppa, ILL.,, has been deserted
by its people ;Shawneetown was completely I'M.
der water, but the residents were not suffering
greatly. Metropolis, ILL.,. had also been de-
vastated by the foods, and Utica and Carks.
vile, Ind, were almost entirely submerged.
Measures for relief were being taken ut near.
ly every prominent point III the country.
Secretary Lincoln announced his inten
ton of having Gen. Beckwith disburse
$4,000 from Cincinnati, while $780,
O01 would he applied TO the succor Of cti
zens 10 be reached by expeditions from Pitts
burgh, Evansville. and Louisville. Wheeling
reported the depots crowded with provisions
and clothing awaiting distribution. The re-
lief committee at that point arrested two
men for obtaining siXty-seven suits OF
clothes and seven pairs of shoes. Nearly
$4,000 people were being fed by the re-
lief committee at Cincinnati AT Cairo the
water stood As feet inch above low-water
mark, and at Helena the Mississippi was AZ
feet above low water. The Arkansas River
at Little Rock was higher than il had been
for thirty years.
The waters of the Ohio River had
fallen two feet at Cincinnati on the morning
of Feb. 10, and was receding all the way down
as far as Evansville. A seething torrent was
rushing through Jeflersonville, carrying
everything before 1t. Great distress pre-
vailed at Uniontown, which was partly de.
seIted and mountainous waves were destroy
ing the structures which remained erect at
Lawrenceburg. The devastation at New
Albany continued. Distressing reports
are narrated by persons on the relief boats
plying up and down the Ohio. The
horrors of the flood were aggravated at Gin.
cinnati by terrible disaster by which twelve
lives were lost. Two large buildings, under.
mined by the water. fell with crash, bury.
ing the occupants in the ruins. The accident
spread terror amoRg the occupants of similar
old buildings in the inundated district, and
many who could do so were seeking safer
quarters. BY the upsetting of boat III the
Tennessee River, near Newburg, Tenn, two
women and three children lost their lives.