The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-16
CRUMBLING WALLS.
Houses Filled With Human Beings
Go Down Before the Flood.
Men, Women and Children Looked In
the Gold Embrace Of
Watery Grave.
The White Flag Of the Relief Boat Seen
Everywhere and Needed Every.
.. Where-Incidents Of the Flood.
Terrible TldinEs.

.. where-Incidents Of the Flood.
Terrible Tidings.
CINCINNATI, o. Feb. l5.-At 10 q. IN.
the river had receded seven inches from
the highest point reached yesterday.
A TERRIBLE DISASTER.
A terrible disaster occurred at the
southwest corner OF Fear
and Ludlow streets this morning at four
O'Clock, In which nine people are known to
have lost their lives. The rear portion Of
two three-story brick buildings, occupied
by thirty five tenants and run by George
Oyster and Robert Kyle as boarding
houses, fell in with . terrible
crash, burying beneath the brick
and timbsrs number OF the inmates who,
II not killed outright, we're held under the
debris until drowned, the food at that cor.
nsr being several feet deep. Police, sol.
dieis and every one who could
get boat rushed to the scene
Immediately. The loud screams Of women
made the situation more horrible. Two
women we're taken from the second story
window more dead than alive from fright.
The heard the building giving away,
and tried to arouse the 9th er
tenants. BY the dim light Of lanterns the
police worked, assisted by the firemen
who had been brought to the scene by the
alarm having been sounded. There is
known TO have been killed, In Kyle's
boarding house, John W. Kyle, son q
the proprietor, Sibbie Golfer aged ~
a domestic.
Maude Ellis, aged 10, domestic.
James Ogden, aged 20, a teamster.
In Oysters boarding house the Winker
family were killed.
Barney Wnker, the father, aged 80.
Mrs. Winker. bis wife, aged 80.
Thos. Burke, Z son. law,
Mrs. Lena Burke, his wife, aged %.
william and Louis Burke, his two chill.
dren, aged 2 and 4.
OF those that were saved there were about
fifteen women and children.
SEARCHING THE RUINS.
Two bodies have been recovered-those
| Of old man Winker and q woman not yet
| identified. Soldiers, police and volunteers
are pulling the rubbish away. They have
10 work In the water, which Is very cold
The crowd Is kept back by the water. Re.
iatiyes s0bbins and wringing hands add to
the horror OF the scene.
Four more bodies have Just been recov.
red, but not yet identified.
CINCINNATI, Feb. l5.-The great dood
thus far has been almost barren of incident.
Lifssaving parties were organized in every
l nd Co.
danger aud compelled people 70 leave their
homes. In Newport babe was born
while the water was up to the tops OF the
chairs 10 the roem where the mother lay.
In the Mil Creek Valley on Wednesday
nights rescuing party called on an old man
to leave his home, which was amos
ahost. He refused TO 60. They said:
| "Your house will fail on you and xii
you.n
The old man turned In bis bed-he was
an Irishmsn eighty years old-and said:
| BE jabers, let 1t fall, thin.
They used force and removed him.
IN Newport the scenes are exciting,
| though not much has been said. Those
who witnessed the incidents have been too
/
Newport made Tony Gsstright sort OIL
Chief Of Police over the fleet Of row. boat:
on the wsteis. Gastright is an iron worker
an enthusiastic field sportsman, snda
| MAN OF DAUNTLEss BRAVERY.
1t was sport TO him. He is fine oars
man. His duty was to arrest boatmen fol
ovsreharge and jail them. 1t was danger.
Gus to resist him, and q few arrests left
him master Of the situation. On the Gin
elnnati side 1t was fun alive to see the line
| Of boats starting out overloaded with peo.
| pie for the suspension bridge and get swept
By the current down the street they were
crossing and be compelled to worry back
Overlooking was thing to which
passengers objected. "In get
out Of this II you put another
person OF" was an expression often
heard, both ct the entrance Of the suspen-
sion bridge, At Pearl and Vine and at Pearl
Walnut streets, the two starting points OF
the ferry to the bridge. At the bridge the
crowd Of boats was tremendous. They
filed the whole width Of the approach and
| extended back two or three boat lengths.
| The only way for boat to get In or out OF
| this jostls was to wait Its chance and slide
out or 10. Some Of the boats that kept up
the connection between Cincinnati and the
suspension bridge were great scows
In which fifty to seventy.fve people
| were placed all Of them standing, and taken
back and forth. These were run by the
Bridge Company and they had the exclusive
| use Of Walnut street. Their fare for ferry
was 8 cents per passenger. Yesterday their
starting place was on Walnut street quite a
distance above Pearl street. Vine street
was given up to the skiffs, on which the
fare was 10 cents. One scene ever present
at the entrance Of the bridge was the beer
boats, transferring beer kegs to wagons to
be taken over the river. These beer boats
and beer wagons were ever present. Pro.
vision boats were also abundant, but they
we're less heavily laden. The associated
chsrities' boat, with Its white flag, was
always In sight, no matter where one might
| 60.
| The scenes Of the accident had 10 be
reached by the fireman by boats In a swift
current Of water. The moon and the Ian.
tern afforded the only light. Few specta.
tors were present, As the city was asleep
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