Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1884-02-08

submerged parts of the city, and placed at the
disposal of the relief committee, fer the accom-
| mediation of people driven from their houses. Ii
| Covington, TO day, relief committee has beer
| organized, and the legislature will be asked not
to collect this years taxes in flooded districts
No loss of life, and no great destruction of prop
erty.
| NO IMPRoyEMENT.I
CINCINNATI, Feb. 7 -(9 a. m.)-The river il
81 feet feet 81 inches and still rising. Nc
change in the weather, except, perhaps, a little
cooler, with slight rain at intervals. Telegraph
communication with up river points is almost
entirely cut off. No communication with Ports
mouth, Ironton, Huntington, Marietta or Par
kersburg and Galliopolis this morning. CALI
| opol1s reports rise of three feet last night
and still rising at the rate of throe inches an
hour. The levee on the Miami river at Law
renceburg broke at 2 O'Clock this
morning, but as the town was
| already submerged with water from this
Ohio, not much more damage could be done.
| CINCINNATI, Feb. THE weather is be-
coming cooler, but no decided change yet.
A light drizziing rain has been falling
portions Of the day and tonight. The
wind is from the northeast. The river
| continues to rise SLOWLY standing 81 fest 10
|
| in the last hour Contrary to expectations
| the gas is burning Tonight, and there is
| hope that the supply may not ba cut of
at all. This, however depends on the fu
ture rise being very slight. There is
much speculation today over what is to
| come, and opinions vary. The most hop5
| ful say that there cannot be more than a
foot more water, while others say that the
extraordinary water at Pittsburg and
Wheeling, coupled with the fact thai ths
tributaries in Ohio and Kentucky both
above and below are nearly all rising, must
make a continued rise here for several
days, in which case it will exceed the flood
of last year. The submerged territory is
now practically es great as last year. In
the city proper, the water is within 200
feet of the limit on the streets last yea;.
the only difference is few feet of depth,
The day has passed with no disaster to re-
port. The most careful attention is given
everywhere for saving propety. The fleets
Of coal barges are fully manned, and
closely watched day and night, and not
single barge is yet lost. Tbs absence of
high wind has been favorable to this prop
erty as well as to the submerged frame
houses. The price of coal has been ad-
vanced four cents per bushel, on account
OF the increased expense in getting it
from the berges. It has been
tioated in ecows to the waters edge
and then loaded by hand. The water sup
ply is not yet in danger. The only restric-
ton has been upon the use of hydraulic
elevators. The relief work keeps we'll up
with the necessities of the suffering. Food
has been promptly furnished to-day, and
boats patrol in the flooded district to see
that no cases of necessity are neglected.
Two fire engines, floating on scows, are
kept ready to be drawn to any place where
fire may break out in the fooaed district.
The mails have not been seriously dis
turbed, though on the two
narrow gauge roads running
east through southern Ohio, trains have
been abandoned. The river n Ills are
also abandoned. Delays have occurred
west. washoat on the Cincinnati, Wash
ington q Baltimore road, east of Hamil-
ton, makes serious delay. TIE Pan Han
die has been submerged between here and
Xenia at various points. Beginning to-
morrow, the Chicago and St. Louis ex-
press trains, and the Cincinnati, Indian
apolis, st. Louis & Chicago road will run
over the track of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton road between indianapolis
and Cincinnati.
Midnight ht-The,, river is 60 feet, 1921
inches, rise of quarter of an inch in
the last hour. Iastead of cold wave as
predicted, the weather is milder than dur
ing the day, and there is a prospect of
more rain.
GREAT LOSS.
WHEELING, W. Va, Feb. The river
is 81 feet inches and rising slowly. The
have been busily engaged in bringing the
people from the island. There has been
more damage to property than was ever
experienced here before. The fair ground
is total wreck, and three houses came
down from above. The weather is cloudy.
The water here is still rising and vastly
larger areas are submerged than there
we're in 1882. Houses, barns, bridges,
straw and hay stacks have beer floating
past all day. The Wheeling Cheese com
pqny's store house here looses about $50
900 by water in the cellars, The merchants
On Main, Water and Market streets, also
loosa their heavier perishable goods, now
ucder water. Several houses have fosted
off on the island and the south side
Il is impossible to estimate the losses, but
it viii aggregate over million of dollars.
The water reached the pits of the Bellaire,
Ohio, Goblet works, Lavell Glass company,
Bridgeport, Ohio, and the Elsen Glass
works, Martins Ferry, Ohio, and the slack
ing of the lime started flames, but in all
cases the damage was slight. The Western
Union Telegraph oompany's Office is
reached by boats, and the Baltimore &
Ohio wires are all down Telephone COM
munication with all the suburbs is cut off
The water and gas works gave cut to-day,
and tonight the city is in darkness, and
at the mercy of q fire, if one should start
Many people are still exposed on the
island, not spot of which remains above
water. The work of removing them goes
bravely on by skifs and steamboats,. A
relief meeting was held this ofternoon, ,and
$2700 was raised in half an hour, and
committee appointed 10 look after the
destitute.
THE LOSS.
PIrTsBURG, Pa, Feb. 7, midnight The
rivers are still receding. The Monopga-
hela is twenty -uine feet and one inch, and
the Allegheny thirty-two feet and two
inches. No rain since daylight. A care
fol estimate of the loss from the food in