The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-02-21

CINCINNATI the FLOOD Commences 70
slowly Subside-scenes of Desolation In
It's Track - The Terrible conditioh of
Thousands of Homeless Sufferers - A
Glimpse of What IS Being Done FOR Their
Relief. 4fT .
C1No1NNArI, O., Feb. IA.
T. food reached its climax to-day--n
feet. and q of an inch at noon. 1t re-
mained stationary at that until two O'Clock,
when decline was noticed. At $3.50 it had
gone down half an inch, and since then has
continued to decline-slowly, very slowly.
but surely and steadily -
Tie news that the fall had begun was.
hailed with joy by every class Of lcitizens.
The city is in a terrible. condition, BUSH
ness is suspended in nearly all the. whole
sale houses and manufacturing establish
ments. AS yet there has net been amy
great catastrophe in Cincinnati, but every
body is nervously apprehensive OF one at
any minute; unless the waters fall very
gradually, it would seem almost impossible
to escape without immense losses from
warehouses ana stores, f1led with costly
goods, crumblipg. and falling from their
walls being weakened by the waters so long
about them. '-t ~"
The situation at Newport, the second
largest ef-our Kentucky suburbs, is much
worse relatively than in Cincinnati. The
waters have risen, till outof the 1l7 squares
in the town eighty have been overfowed,
over two-thirds of the town and Of the 49,
900 inhabitants over 1000 have been or are
being afforded relief. mostly food.
When half city is in such a condition
the scenes of distress may be imagined.
TAe distress and griefca only be pictured
and hardly .described. Looking over the
vast territory now submerged naughti bat
ruin and desolatiom can be seen. The ter
lrifc wind, and rain storm last night laid
waste many houses. The streets are now
in many places blocked with houses, sta
bles, porcfles, erc., masking it very difficult
for the relief boats TO navigate. A reporter
went through the flooded districts with o
aeli9i Pet6alv ar@n & fOgaa soee pfbGeSd bpeead
and meet were distributed ITO the
poor sufferers they grabb q at the eatables
ia a. daZed half-fanaished' manner that was
heartrending to witness. Twenty houses
were counted turned bottom upward. Ten
thousand peple were given. dinner at the
soup-house to-day. Seven thousand loRves
of bread, 1900 pounds of meat, 800 gallons
of soup and 1908 gallons of coffee were, dis
tributed by the relief committees to-day.
In Covington the situation is not much
worse than yesterday. The town stands
much higher than Newport. About 1000
Z. At Dayton, KY, by actual count, there
are 3l5 houses submerged. Taking on an
average seven people to a house, 1t makes
over 1000 homeless people.
On the Ohio side, Mill Creek Valley, a.
the west end of Cincinnati, presents a
scene of the utmost desolation, Houses
are Inundated, some of them to the second
story, and others submerged; stables ana
sheds are overturned; tops OF freight cars
protrude from submerged railroad tracks,
and all kinds of rubbish and refuse is float
ing about. ..s.. ...t gH
At Lawrenceberg, Ind, over 500 houses
have been swept away and upwards .ot
1000 people are homeless. Fears of still
greater damage are not unfounded, as the
banks built to protect the city from an
overflow OF the Miami river have been
broken down, and resistless torrent Of
twelve to twenty feet of water is pouring
through the heart Of the city.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. IA, p. N.
The river continues to rise. The canal
gauge registers forty-six feet, efghteen
inches higher than at any time last year.
The strong wind of last night caused the
waves. to do much damage in the sub
merged district. A great many houses
have fallen or fiOated off. The water Is
still rising, though the ground is hard
frozen, and this morning reached the cellar
of the Board of Trade building, putting
out the fire in Che furnace. There is M
likelihood OF any further rain and the
river is expected to be at q stand by morn
ing. ifs".a 4a. HH
Inch by inch the water has come up at
Jeffersonvlle till nearly every street has
disappeared. If the water continues to
rise at the present rate, by noon Friday
there will not be a dry spot in the town
Sights are the most appalling and distress
ing. Houses have caved IN and hundreds
of people are huddled together in some
buildings. Many remain IN second stories,
shiyering, suffering from dampgess and
cold, and In many cases hunger. Tho pen
itentiary is still out OF water, but liStle
more water and the convicts Will become
flood sufferers with nowhere to go.
Utica, Ind, is almost out of sight. The
Inhabitants fed TO the hills for safety.
Clarksville is entirely depopulated.
IRONroN, o.. Feb. "A.
Telegraphic communication was re-estab-
lished to-day. Three-fourths of the town is
underwater, Including the entire business
portion. The water is seven feet higher
than in 1888. Though 1t has fallen consid-
erabIy, It is still l--above any known high
water mark. Soup-houses are open, but
are inadequate. Thousands are homeless
and penniless. Every door is open, bat
there is not enough room. Frame houses
are swept from their foundations and brick
buildings crumbled into the water. At
Hanging Rock but four houses are above
water. Coryville has but two houses above
the flood. Starvation stares thousands In
the face. The iron mills have stopped, and
many employees we're destitute before the
food came. G
GALb1PoLIs, O.. Feb. "A.
The relief steamers Nora Bell and Mont
gomery returned from a trip down the.
river. They report the village OF Alfalfa
port twenty or thirty houses are gone. At
Proctorsville the water Is in the second stO-
ries. Cered0, West Virginia, lost $4,000
worth of lumber.
fa4 EVANSVILLE, IND, Feb. H..
At Shawneetown the water is approach. /
ing the second story of the Riverside Hotel
and steadily swelling. Officers of the last
boat from there describe it as scene Of
desolation equal to-that Of last year. No
houses as yet have been moved from their
foundations, but as the water swelis the
danger inceases, and there is great dread
of wind, which would Inevitably do grea
damage. One hundred and twenty pens of
corn in the water were counted on the In
diana side in n distance of ten miles below
Henderson. It can not be reached. This
represents 20 600 bushels, the loss on which
will be at least 80 per cent.
MADISON, IND, Fob. "a.
The food in the Ohio river at this point
will probably reach its height tomorrow
morning, two feet higher than the flood of
city will be greater than last year on &C
count Of the additional height Of the water.
LAwRENcEBURG, IND, Feb. IA.
A fearful windstorm last night added
further desolatiOn TO the place by upturn-
ing more houses. The losses on property
can be safely placed at not less than
100000. Nine inches more would have
flooded the floor Of the highest located
welcome as stopping the rise, brings much
suffering to the people in cars and other
places not prepared for fires.
MADISON, IsD., Feb. IL.
The river is still rising and is expected
to reach its highest tomorrow. II Is now
two feet above last year. Seven houses
were washed away to-day, and as many
more from Milton, KY, and others lost
their foundations. Is ~ estimated 1900
people here are homeless and destitute.
fesr MAYsyILLE, KY, Feb IA.
The winds caused much damage here and
at Aberdeen, KY, last night by wrecling
houses. The loss by the flood in this lo-
cality cannot be less than 500 900. IL Is