The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-02-28
4 LITTLE CHRIS LETrER ABOUT
TuE FLOOD.

We have been shown the Relieving
letter from little g,ri, giving Der sim
pie story Of the flood Ct Wheeling.
which We think win interest our read
eIs. Her pasenfs live on the island Al
Wheeling, and the letter is written 70
her cousin. q little boy. In this city:
WHEELING. W. Va. Feb le. 1884
DEAR CoUsEE 1 thought would /
write and tell you about the flood. On
Tuesday evening. Feb i2. paps came
home and SAID the river was rising rap |
idly and he thought there would be
high water. The next morning mamma
TAD the paper and everywhere the river
was rising very fast, and it was raining
in torrents. We were on high gronnd,
though, and thought it would not get up
TO as. When Sue and came home from
school tine river was rising at The rate of
twelve inches en- honr. ana it
was sll over the lower part of
the island. Ma said we had
better take up the carpets and pack
things up high four house is only one
story so we commenced and worked all
afternoon. We got all of the carpets up
but one IN the kitchen. Then we put
the organ on the kitchen teble, and put
bed on another one. The people, as they
went by, said we we're foolish for taxing
carpets up for We were on high ground.
We packed every thing up high and ma
thought the wattr might be around US
but she did not think it would come in
the house. but she went to neighbors
of ours who has two-story house empty
and engaged q room in that and We csr.
ried one bed and few bed clothes over
there.
have an aunt down on
the lower part of the
island and about O'Clock she came up
with her children and said her house
was q ,Odtd half way up the first story.
When We gat ont Of our house we had
TO wade over she e-tops in wsier II came
up so fast.
The next u osning WHEN we awoke il
was about SIX feet deep in the two story
, house where we had taken refuge, and 4
man going past said the house wher,
we lived was nearly covered Abou
II o'clock Thursday we got in ekif
Q out of second story window ana wen
? over to town. The skiff went over the
L tops of houses and fences. The curren
e of water on the island was eight miles al
T hour. Ga the highest part OF the islam
s the water was eight ft ct deep. Our OF
gan was spoiled and all the furniture ant
/, books ruined. On the island IL
?. pianoes and a good many more organ
If were lost. We stayed over in town IN
IS til Sunday, the 18th, and then we cam
5, home. Such looking place neYe
l. saw; houses in the streets; barns every
m where but in their right places; an
. piles of hay larger than houses, ana mu
10 foot deep.
70 We cen not go back to our house I
d live until the Isl OF April, as 1t won't b
dry until then. I never want to speD
another such night as that of Wedne:
day, Feb. Is. When the flood was CON
ing up, as the water would rise we cOul
Ne hear women and children screaming
men shouting. COWS bawling, and ever
kind of noise.
= In the house next to us the mans CO.
" had got in by the door,, and when "
went away on Thursday morning he
mouth was level with the water and 4
n one could get near her. Mr.. Frame, Ii
On man who lived in the house, waded u
to his waist in water and opened ii
door, and the COW followed him u
tie stairs. He opened a straw-tick and te
ed her, and she staid upstairs until the W
ter went down. That cow is a great CT
rioslty in Wheeling now.
IN Your Cousin, M. NJ.