Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-02-21
L.nxscxpuno. IND, Feb. Il.

LARKNCKBuR0, Ind, Feb. u.
The condition is growing worse. More
houses are floating away. Only one days.
the only mode of access is by boats from
Blasdsll's. The people ut last have bean
compelled to make an appeal 70 the genef Al
public for help. They say 4;ooo nave Ave Deen
be fed daily, while hundreds OF houses have
been swept away.
PORTSMOUTH, o., Feb. IL.
The river is nearly on stand. There is
great distress. Many houses hoated away.
Sunday burned from Stays corner to Sec,
ond street. Loss $1,000; insurance, S2o,ooo.
CHARLESTON, w. VA, Feb. IL.
The government boat Bee and towboat
John d. Lewis returned here from distrib-
uting provisions to the food sufferers along
the kanawha River yesterday and last
night. The Associated Press correspond
emit who was along took close observation
of the damages, also calls of absolute Me-
cessity, and learned from those he met that.
the high water on the Kanawha River. At
Buffalo half the town is submerged, but.
the people as a general thing are well sup
piled with food. Leon, place OF 200 peo-
Pile. is under water and all suffering for
food and clothing. At Point Pleasant, a.
town Of 5000 people, there is not foot OF
ground which is not at least six feet under
water. Storehouses, goods, dwellings, IN
fact all kinds OF houses, are hid from the
second story by water. Fully one hum
dred houses have been upset and washed
away. People are living on the decks or
barges, in the Court-house, in fact wherever
they can get shelter. Many have gone 70
the hills for safety. This city has sent at
least IS 900 worth of cooked provisions TO-
the sufferers along the river and to-mor-
row the government boat Bee will leave
here with a second load of provisions for
river towns. The steamer Wenona left
here to-day with load of provisions for
various towns along tho Kanawha River
The whole lower part of the kanawha Riv.
err valley is overfowed; in many places the
river is fully three to five miles wide
THE LATEST.
CINCINNATI, Feb. II, 2A.M.
The flood at this hour has reached q
height OF 20 feet inches. Rain by fits and
starts Tuesday night; heavy rain BY spells
all day Wednesday; heavy clouds over
hanging, and over seventy feet OF water IN
the river, where fifty marks the danger
line, shows something of the condition OF
things here.
The river rose eighteen inches in twenty.
four hours-that means more destruction
than heretofore, more people homeless,
more demands for charity, a longer period
of darkness, and without water. with little
coal to be had, but few mails. little travel
ing, no freight moving to or from a great
trade centre, no business, higher prices in
provisions, not much of anything but Wet
ness and great deal too much OF that;
with O great waste of yellow, rushing wa
tiers environing the city. and the conscious.
ness that besides our own thousands OF
homeless people and our own discomforts
and suffering, it VIII be within few hours
repeated many fold on scores OF smaller
towns below
Cincinnati is big and rich and generous
She will care for ner own people, and do it
well; but even her big hands will be filed
with homo work. The calls for aid and
4 kaiv- nfl
country are not too many. There is enough
and for all the charity and good will of the
whole people to do along this greas valley
in places where, as yet, little or nothing Is
thousands for help will reach only the ear
of Infinite Mercy before it does that of the
American people. They NAV prepare now
or what is sure to come. The water now
is on Pearl street, the heaviest retail street
in the city, running Ike mill-race along
this mari of trade tour squares back from
the suspension bridge.
The signal service flag denoting the COM
ing of cold weather floated yesterday for
the third time since the flood began. Hith-
erto it's presence was welcomed; now it
brings the worst apprehensions. Cold
weather can now have no substantial effect
on the water disaster; that has about done
its worst; but with cold weather the i'm.
prisoned people in all the towns and cities
along tho Ohio will suffer terribly for lack
o! fuel. Few realize the fficulty OF get
ings for steamers and the damage done to
buildings by the waves caused by passing
STEAMERS has been SO great as to cause the
of flooded houses to fire on
steamers bringin, them relief.
From all points in the inundated terri
tory reports are of the most gloomy char
acter. Fully fifty thousand people are
practically homeless and dependent upon
charity for Subsistence. To the horrors of
the food has been added that of pinching
rold, which renders their condition donbly
distressing. The appeals for aid are being
responded to from all quarters,
ut the many obstacles in the way of its
distribution, principal among which is the
checking of transportation facilities by the
Hoods makes the situation in many cases
very trying ono indeed.
RELIEF NOTES.
Governor Hoadley OF Ohio has issued
calm. upon the people of
Ohio TO contribute to relieve the dire dis
ress brou sht upon thousands of their fell
low citizens by the floods. A central COM
nittee has teen organized at Columbus
With =. W. huntington As chairman.
A committee OF citizens has been appoint
ed In Boston to make collections for suffer-
ers by tho Western floods.
The New York Coffee Exchange and I'm
o1orters' and Grocers' Board OF Trade have
ormed committees for the relief of Ohio
alley sufferers and subscribed 5000.
Robert Garrett has ordered free trans.
oortation o. provisions or other ri is on the
Baltimore q Ohio Road for the sufferers by
he floods; also the Tree use of the BaItf.
more & Ohio telegraph.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company con-
rlbuted "a ,05O for sufferers. s. ,O0J to be dis
ributed from the Pittsburgh office, and
il 900 each along the lines of the Pam Handle
md f1ttsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
a petition forwarded to the Ohio I,eris.
allure from seventy citizens of Cincinnat;
or an appropriation OF three hundred thou
anu dollars. for relief OF food sufferers.
vas presented in the Senate and a bill was
Introduced in both Senate and House.
A public meeting was held at Dayton, at
y " resolution wns adopted pstitioning
~ Leglsiature to appropriate $685. 900 for
ne relief OF the food sufferers in Ohio. A
peciai meeting of tho City Council was
allied, at which the action Of the citizenss
Meeting will be adopted.
At a meeting in Cleveland, Mayor Far
ey presiding, relief committee was an.
onteo ana arrangements made to procure
upplies or provisions and clothing 20 send