The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-02-09
HAVOC OF THE FLOODS
THOUSANDS DRIVEN FROM HOME
wheeling In u Pltiabis Condition, Youngs
town Delayed, and Other Places
suffering Greatly Cincinnati
and Plttsburgh Hopeful.

ana PlttAburEh Hopeful
WHEELING, w. Va, Feb. e,-Ten thou
sand people arc homeless and unproyIdod
for here, Fully fifteen thousand peopl,
were driven from their homes by tho flood,
but third OF these are comfortably quar-.
torod at hotels or boardlng.housos, or with
their friends Public schools and churches
have been thrown open, and
people arc housed and fed
there Tho water reached lts highest
point at ten o'clock Thursday night, when
Il was lfty.two feet. Since then II has 70
ceded few inches. Tho City Board ol
Public Works has built battoaux which Mt,
used IN freq forrlea across the Inundated
dlaulCts, Tho steamers Belle Prince and
Princess have boon buslly engaged In brlng'
ing people from tho Island. There has bcen
more damage 10 property than ever before.
Tho fair grounds arc total wreck, and
three houses came down from above Vastly
larger ateas Me submerged now than In
1889, Horses barns, bridges, straw and
hay stacks have been floating past
Nil day, Tho Wheeling Cheese Com
pany'a storage house here loses about
800, 900 by water In iB cellar. Merchants
Oh Main, Water and Market streets will al.
NO lose heavy In perlshablo goods now under
water Several houses have ll0ated OIL on
the Island aud on tho south hdo, II Is I'm
posalble TO estimate the loascs, but uioy will
aggregate over sl,O00,0O0 Tho Western
Union Telegraph Company's office can only
hs .aaahaI hN h.ala flha nulllu.AHa a
ohlo's wires are all down, and telephone
communication with all suburbs In cut OH.
Tho water aud gas works gave out Thurs
day, and ut night tho city was Ia dark
nca, and Ut tho mercy Of fire. Tho
streets OF half tho city aro navlgable
only In boats, and all sorts OF impovlsed
craft aro plying rs forrleA Many people
are stlll exposed on tho island not spot OF
which remains above water The work OF
removing th0m goes brayely Oh by sklfIs
and steamboats, A relief meeting was hold
and W, TOO raised In half an hour, and com.
mitioos appointed W lsok after tho dosll.
hito. No loss OF life has occurred hero but
the fatality resulting from tho removal OF
sick persona from exposed houses The
river is now falling slowly.
srii.L IusINa AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, Feb e.--Tho river Is still
| rising AZ one y, N, II was sixty-two fool
| soyon Inches, No additional loaoa arc TO
ported, and no loss OF llfe on this aldo Of
tho river.
Tho c0d-wayo flag that was flying from
| the Signal onco Thursday has disappeared.
| Hopes OF q freeze are dl9ipatcd, and no ~
lief Ia expected now on that account Tho
rvor at Portsmouth, La sixty tect aud rising
fast II " falling fast ut tho headwators,
but further rIao must come before u all
runs out Marietta and Parkersburg have
boon entirely cut OIL from all communlca-
| tons for two dayA Portsmouth IL the only
up river point heard from 10 far,
MIRA Waddlo, q widow, living In Newport,
became q ravlng maniac on account Of thu
| flood. She was q poor woman with several
| chlldron living In the flooded district The
nolghbors took charge OF her children and OF
her, but, being unable 10 sec her children
She imagined thom drowned, and Ia hopo
lnssly Insane.
At q meeting OF tho Executive Commit
too OF the ltollof Committee appointed by
tho Chamber OF Commerce, II was unanl
mously determlned that all money received
from othor places should DO used for thu
relief OF euiloflng In localities outside oi
n',,,' 1 S' a.napa vv ra,,oS IN clndnva,
anIy .,oh ,nta t es nav ha a"n,,,,hn,,I h.ro
Tho river NJ Ironton ut eleven o'clock n.
m. was hfty-slx foot nlno Inches, and rising
two inches M hour. At Gallipolls II was
two inchos higher than the hlgheyt previous
record, and rising two lnchoa an hour.
Tho Cincinnati, Washington q Baltimore
Road ha n wnshout and flooded track noal
Athens, stopping through tralna
B,HlnoA by railroad amounted 10 next u
nothing Thursday-rocoipts Of whoat 75t
bushels; shipmont, 1000 bushels; ship
monts OF hoEp, 9ib; no rocopta Thii
shows botter than long descriptive articles
tho oxtont OF tho prosont food nt this point
Specials from Lawrencsburg, Ind, say tho
place Ia completely submorgol Tho leyoo,
which hold tho watss OF tho Miami Rlvor
until II roAchod tho top gayo way Thurs.
day morning, and tho water rushed over IN,
town, spreading devastation In la courso
Tho Miami River Ia now running through
tho town Tho current In very swift and
several houses have boon washed from tholl
foundations Thoso VINO remain In mo towi
am qunlerod IN tho courthouse anu pupll'
puilulnga only ono liio nus DOOM lost 90 lni
thatof negro VINO tell from tho whar'ooat
Communication IN entirely out on except py
tho small steamer wave, wh,ch runs 70 Au
| TOrn. Tho fhrtOfto1 hnvN hl lost largely IN