Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-29
THE LIMIT REACHED.

Slowly Subside-Scenes of Desolation In
Its Track = The Terrible Condition o.
Thousands of Homeless Sufferers A
Glimpse of What is Being Done for Thei,
Relief.
CINCINNATI, O., Feb. Il.
The flood reached its climax to-day-7l
feet and = of an inch at noon. 1t re-
manned stationary at that until two O'Clock
when q decline was noticed. At3:30 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 citizens.
The city is in q terrible condition. Bust.
ness is suspended in nearly all the whole.
sale houses and manufacturing establish.
ments. As yet there has not been any
great catastrophe in Cincinnati. but every.
body Is nervously apprehensive of one at
any minute; unless the waters fall very
gradually, IL would seem almost impossible
to escape without immense losses from
warehouses and stores, filed with costly
goods, crumbling and falling from their
walls being weakened by the waters so long
about them.
The situation at Newport, the second
largest of our Kentucky suburbs, is much
worse relatively than in Cincinnati. The
waters have risen, till out of the III squares
in the town eighty have been overfiowed,
over two-thirds Of the town and of the 49,
300 inhabitants over 5000 have been or are
being afforded relief, mostly food.
When half a city is in such condition
the scenes Of distress may be imagined.
The distress and grief can only be pictured
and hardly described. Looking over the
vast territory now submerged naught but
ruin and desolation can be seen. The ter
rife wind aud rain storm last night laid
waste many houses. The streets are now
in many places blocked with houses, sta.
bles, porches, ETC., making it very difficult
for the relief boats TO navigate. A reporter
went through the flooded districts with
relief committee. and found people,
actually Starving. As coffee, bread
and meet were distributed to the
roor sufferers they grabb d at the eatables
in q daZed, half-famisled manner that was
heartrending to witness. 4. Twenty houses
were counted turned bottom upward. Ten
soup-house to-day. Seven thousand loaves
of bread, 1000 pounds of meat, 500 gallons
of soup and COZ 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
people are being fed there.
AT Dayton, KY, by actual count, there
are 3i5 houses submerged. Taking on an
average seven people to a house, it makes
over 1900 homeless people.
On the Ohio side, Mill t'reek Valley, at
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 and
sheds are over uTned; tops of freight cars
protrude from submerged railroad tracks
and all kinds of rubbish and refuse is float
ing about.
AT Lawrenceberg, Ind, over 500 houses
have been swept away and upwards OF
1000 people are homeless. Fears of still
greater damage are not unfoundad, as the
banks built to protect the city from an
overflow of the Miami river nave been
broken down. and a resistless torrent of
twelve to twenty f. ct of water is pourin ,
through the neart of the city.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. IA, p. NJ.
The river continues to rise. The cana
gauge registers forty-six feet, eighteeI
inches higher than at any time last year
waves to do much damage in the sub
merged district. A great many houses
have fallen or hoatol off. The water i.
still rising, though the ground is hare
frozen, and this morning reached the cellar
of the Board of Trade building, putting
out the fire in the furnace. There is NJ
likelihood of any fu. ther rain and the
river is expected TO be at stand by morn
Ing.
Inch by inch tho water has come up at
JeHersonville till nearly every street has
disappeared. Ii 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 cayS1 IN and hundreds
OF people are bud He'd together in some
buildings. Many remain in second stories,
shlvering, suffering from dampnesS and
cold, and IN many cases hunger. The pen
itentiary is still out of water, but a little
more water and the convicts will become
hood sufferers with nowhere to go.
Utica, Ind, is almost out of sight. The
Inhabitants fed to the hills for safety.
Clarksville is entirely depopulated.
EVANSVILLE, IND, Feb H.
At Shawneetown the water is approach.
fng the second story of the Riverside Hotel
and steadily swelling. Officers of the last
boat from there describe it as a scene OF
desolation equal to that of last year. No
houses as yet have been moved from theiI
foundations, but as the water swells the
danger iuceases, and there is great dread
of win |, which would inevitably do grea
damage. One hundred and twenty pens OF
GOTH III Une water were counted on tne In
diana side in a distance of ten miles below
Henderson. 1t can not be reached. This
represents 10000 bushels, the loss on which
will be at least 80 per cent.
MADISON, IND, Feb IA.
The food in the Olio river a. this point
will probably reach its height tomorrow
morning, two feet higher than the food of
last year. The damage to property in this
city will be greater tnan last year on &C.
count of the additional height of the water.
IRoNToN, o., Feb. IA.
Telegraphic communication was re-estab-
lished to-day. Three-fourths of the town is
under water, including the entire business
portion. The water is seven feet higher
than in 1888. Though it has fallen consid-
erably, it is still above any known high
water mark. Soup-houses are open, but
are inadequate. Thousands are homeless
and penniless. Every door is open, but
there is not enough room. Frame houses
are swept from their foundations and brick
buildings crumbied 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 were destitute before the
food came.
GALLIPoLIs, o., Feb. IL.
The relief steamers Nora Bell and Mont
gomsry returned from a trip down the
river. They report the village of Alfalfa
almost entirely swept away. In Nillers-
port twenty or thirty houses are gone. At
Proctorsville the water Is in the second sto-
ries. Ceredo, West Virginia, lost 10000
worth of lumber
LAwRENCEBURG, ND, Feb. IL
A fearful windstorm last night added
further desolation to tue 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
house in the city. The cold weather, though
welcome as stopping the rise, brings much
suffering to the people in cars and other
places not prepared for fires.
NASHVILLE, KY, Feb. IA.
The winds caused much damage here and
Mt Aber,leen, KY, last night by wrecking
houses. The loss by the food in this To-
cality cannot be less than 100000 1t is
showing and freezing. The river ros e
five inches last night and came to a stand
this morning. 1t has since fallen three
inches. Fifteen hundred people are home
less.
MADISON, IND, Feb. IA.
The river is still rising and is expected
to reach its HIGHEST t0-m0rrow IL IL non,