Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1884-02-07

throughout the country are at flood height
The reports from up river points are, tina
| rain is still falling and the river is rising
| rapidly. .At Portsmouth it ia 4S feet, a
Ironton As feet inches, at Huntington
42 feet, at Wheeling 40 feet aud rising
inches per hour.
CAIRo, H., Feb GA heavy rain since
p. m. yesterday. The Ohio river is rising
fast, and is now 81 feet 6 inches on the
gauge, having risen over three feet during
the last "a hours. The Mississippi is also
rising slowly.
THE sUsoUEHANNA HIGH.
W1LL1AMsPoRT, Pa, Feb. 6.-The water
in the Susquehanna river, above here. is
very high, and heavy rains still continue
There, are Indications of food nearly
equal to the flood of 1865. The ice gorge
is nearly eighteen miles long in the river
above Farrandsville. The river here has
fallen some since yesterday, and no fears
OF a loss of logs.
ACTION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
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commerce transacted but little business
to day. Measures were taken to provide
relief fund for the destitute. A commit
tee of fifteen was appointed, and the secre-
tary kept busy for some time receiving
subscriptions, mostly 500 each. The
chamber itself appropriated $4,000 to the
fund The health officer announced that
he would place fifteen men of the sanitary
force at the disposal of the relief commit
Tee. Rain is still falling, the wind ia from
the south, and the temperature not falling.
LICKING.
BUTLER, Ky., Feb. 6.-The Licking river
is rising three inches an hour, and is
within twenty-three inches of high water
last year.
AT JEFFERsoNyILLEE.
JEFFEHsoNvILLE, Ind, Feb. 6.-There is
great CONSERVATION and people are moving
to higher ground. The railroad embsnk-
ment will probably break tonight and
flood the town.
AT CATLETTsDURG.
CATLETTsBURG, KY, Feb. 6.-The river
has risen three feet since noon yesterd ay
and Is rising an inch an hour. The Sandy
is rising slowly and is eighteen feet at
Louisa.
ICE OUT OF THE AU GLAIsE.
TOLEDO, o., Feb. defiance repor sll
ice out of the au glaise at 6 p. M, and no
great dam age done. The ice broke at
Napoleon at 8 p. M, and gorged an hour
later two miles below, and is flooding the
lower part of the town. The water is ris-
ing 9 inches an hour. The ice is intact.
HIGHER THAN EVER.
MILLERsBURG, O., Feb. 6.-Railroad
communications north of here is cut off by
washouts, and trains are side tracked at
Fredericksburg. The Bowen coal mines
are flooded. The water is up to last Feb
ruary's mark and rising.
SERIOUS LOSSES.
CLEVELAND, o., Feb. 6.-No trains be-
tween here and Akron on the Valley rail
road. There is much damage to the
bridges. The ice gorge pushed the bridge
ct Peninsula out OF place. There is a
washout on the Cleveland, Akron d Colum
bus railroad near Clinton. The Cleveland,
Lorraine, & Wheeling are under water at
Warwick and Sterling. The Pittsburg
Cleveland & Toledo are submerged at
Newton Falls and the CentraPs new bridge
at Cuyhaga Falls is swept away.
THE ICE LEAVING.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. 6.-Tne weather
was very mild for the past few days, and
the Ice is moving out of the harbor.
THE PEOPLE MOVING.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 6.-At O'Clock
the river was rising three inches an hour,
with thirty-fve feet IN the canal and thir-
ty-three feet on the falls. 1t is rising
steadily. The people living on the point
are expecting the water to, be over the cut
off by morning, and are moving out to es-
cape the inuudation that caught them
sleeping on the night of Feb. II, 1888. and
which caused so much damage. The flood
scenes of 1883 will doubtless be repeated.
Ouly one drowning as yet of man named
Frank Rudemaker, By the overturnlng of
a skiff.
THE ARKANSAS RISING.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Feb. 6.-The Arkan-
sas has been rising here two inches an
hour all day, and rain sill last night ard