The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-02-07

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1852.
Dispatches from the beadwaters OF both
| rivers report that the water Is still rising,
while here 1t is creeping up into thestreets
ut the rate OF eight inches per hour Miles
OF property in this city on the south side
and in Allegheny are submerged, and hun
dreds Of families have been compelled TO
vacate their houses All the mills and fac
tories on the banks OF both rivers have
suspended operations, and connection be-
tween Pittsburgh and Allegheny by street.
cars Is entirely cut off. The schools In
the First and Fourth Wards have been
closed on Duquesne way. The water
covers the ollice.furniture In the Robinson
House, and is within one foot OF the first
floor OF the Duquesne depot. Merchants
| on Water street have moved their goods to
the second floors, q precaution which has
never before been necessary for them 10
take. Railroad traffic on all the river lines
! Is greatly retarded, and the Baltimore and
Ohio, the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, the
Pittsburgh, and Western. the Pittsburgh,
McKeesport, and Youghiogheny, and the
! West Pennsylvania and Allegheny Valley
railroads have either suspended entirely
or will be compelled to before evening.
Il
| ly TO the flooding OF property. The
greatest suffering and damage reported
! in this vicinity is in the Youghioghery
region, where mining hamlets and por-
tons of towns lying on the low land
have been inundated, and hundreds of FAM
lilies forced to desert their homes and ny
before the coming flood. In some places
it has been found necessary to anchor
houses to trees and rocks to keep them
from drifting of. The scene along the
route OF the great ice-gorge. which extend
ed thirty miles up the Yougbiogheny river.
| beggars description. The streets and door
wards were filed full OF ice, 10 many in
stances heaps being fifteen and twenty feet
high. As far as can be learned no lives
have been lost, but the pccuniary damage
will be immense.
| THE SITUATION AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, February 6.-Conservative
men who yesterday were unwilling to adj
mil that last years food would be dupli-
Gated cannot lie found to-day. There is
no longer a doubt that the water will reach
last wears height On the contrary, with
the rain, which is still falling. and mild
weather. the only question now is by how
much last years flood will be exceeded.
The most alarming feature of the present
situation is the rapidity OF the rise. Last
year. when the river reached its present
height, it was rising less than an inch per
hour. At noon to-day the gauge showed
tiftv-nine feet. This shows what a pro-
digious rainfall there has been.
| With last years experience merchants
and manufacturers will lose much less than
last year. No time is now wasted in pump
| ing the water from cellars. Where the
water may encroach, every available man
and team is employed in placing the goods
on higher floors or removing them to high
er ground. Business is completely sus-
pended throughout all the lower part OF
the city. The Grand Central depot is
abandoned. The Ohio and Mississippi rail-
road has its eastern terminus at Aurora.
Ind. They will run steamers between that
point and Stares STATEN and thence by
omnibus to Cincinnati. The Washington
and Baltimore trains will Use the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton depot.
This can be used until the water
reaches siXty-siX feet. Then the trains
will have to stop ut the stock-yards. The
Bee line trains will make that their ter
minus tomorrow. The Panhandle and
Louisville road can use their depot until
the water reaches siXty-twO feet. The
| Cincinnati Southern will not he troubled
! in reaching the McLean-street depot until
| the water gets higher than 1t was last
year, but il cannot reach its side-tracks to
| do its freight business. The Cincin-
natl, indianapolis. st. Louis and Chicago
bids fair to be shut out altogether unless
arrangements can be made to reach the
city ria Rushville and over the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton roads. The Gin
cinnati Northern is the only road that
cannot be reached by the flood.
This morning the warehouse OF Duck
waith's distilery was undermined, and
fell into the water, causing large loss.
Soon after the cattle-pens, capable OF feed
ing 1000 cattle, were swept away. The
cattle had been removed yesterday. The
loss, however, is heavy.
The Chamber of Commerce transacted
but little business to-day. Measures were
taken to provide relief fund for the DIES.
titute. A committee OF fifteen was APP
pointed, and the secretary was kept busy
for some time receiving. subscriptions
mostly of 800 each. The Chamber itself
appropriated $1,000 for the fund. The
health officer announced that he would
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the disposal OF the relief committee.
The wind Is from the south, and the
temperature is not falling. Streams dis
charging into the northern lakes are al
flooded, and travel OF all kinds throughout
the state is impeded.
PREPARATIONS AT WHEELING.
At Wheeling. W. Va, preparations are
being made for flood greater than las
wears. The iron-mlls are stopping, ant
the riyer-front is being abandoned. TIL,
river is rising at the rate OF about elgh
inches an hour. and is now forty-four feet
The Seventh Ward, lying on Wheeling
Island. is almost entirely submerged, ant
the residents have abandoned their houses
i'm many cases and in others moved int
the second stories, reaching their dwell
ings i'm skiffs. The low portions OF thu
First and Eighth wards, at the north ant
south ends OF che city. have been undel
water all day, and the river is now en-
croaching on the business streets In th'
heart OF the city. The Main-Street bridge
of the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pitts
burgh, Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad
bridges over Wheeling creek are in tn
water, and two bridges over CaldwelPs run
are also covered.
The railroads are under water in SOM
places, and travel is altogether suspended
No mail Is received or delivered, and boats
have taken off the mail-boXes to proven
them being clogged with Matchmaker
Freight Is refused by all lines. Street-ca
travel was stopped on all the lines by noon
No serious damage has resulted so far II
the city.
rup TIiATION AT IoUIGyIILE
AT Louisville at O'Clock the river wa
rising at the rate Of three inches an houl
with tbrty-five feet in the canal and thirty