The Indianapolis journal., 1884-02-15

to be torn down. A great cave-in occurred in
| the pavement in front of this block this after
noon, engulphing Peter Reits, who was rescued
with difficulty. but badly hurt The flood crossed
! West Fourth and Spring streets today flooding
! the immense cellars of Ressngs brewery, and
causing heavy damage. The water in De Pauw's
American Plate glass Works is six feet deep on
an average, and in some parts eight to nine feet
Great damage must follow All the tanneries
in the city flooded, and lose heavily Thehub
and spoke works are suffering severe damage
The bentwood works are wrecked The water
is three feet deep in the depot and yards
of the L., N. A. & c. railroad. The road sends
out but one train day. The machine shops Of
the company will be flooded tonight The gas.
works lack but fifteen inches of submersion.
The seepage water is encroaching upon the cell
lars in many parts of the city above the flood,
and there have been considerable losses from
this cause. In Bog Hollow suburbs every house
is off its foundation. In lower Albany nearly all
the houses have been lifted up.
The scene of destruction is one to sicken
the stoutest heart. Many families are
living in box cars of the Louisville, New AL
bany Chicago railroad, which we,
kindly rendered by the company. The cor
house and city hall are filled with refugees
the flood, and still the people are beingI
from their houses. This is the exact 81
in New Albany, without any overdrawy
hoped the river will come to a stan,
morrow afternoon If it goes much his
destruction of property here will be L T..
There is, as has heretofore been said in thest
patches, much real suffering here, but our eIt
zens are struggling nobly to avoid calling for
outside help in caring for the sufferers. The
city authorities and relief committee say about
eight hundred families directly or indirectly
involved as sufferers from the great disaster
Many of these are poor, with not dollar ahead.
The citizens are exerting themselves to care
for them. How long they can do so remains to
be seen. The relief committee has ordered that
all voluntary contributions for the relief of suf
ferers be sent to Hon. John J. Richards mayor
of the city
The water is on Spring street. one of the
principal streets of the city. In places on West
First street many persons who deemed their
residences above the highest possible flood have
been compelled to move, and fifty to sixty
families had to desert their homes 10 1av.
Nearly the entire ice crop gathered
here has been lost, it being stored in the flooded
district
The citizens of Bloomington, Charlottesville,
and Muncie have rendered assistance to the suf-
ferers, and Muncie will ship lot of provisions
here tomorrow Voluntary donations of pro-
visions and money will be thankfully received
by Mayor Richards, though no public call is
made for outside help. There are more people
involved in the present flood than in that of last
year.
About three hundred Of the food sufferers are
employed in cleaning the streets of the city.
Tonight the large new building of the bent
wood works, that had resisted the flood, went
down, and floating against three residences,
swept them away.