The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-21

1t lacks four and one-half inches of
last years rise.
Capt. MacGowan has arrived with
the chartered steamer Carrie Caldwell,
loaded with 1900 rations for distribu-
ton between here and Cairo to the
needy. He leaves in the morning.
THE SITUATION.
PARKERsBURG. w. Va. Feb. To-
The United States steamer Katie
Stockdale, arrived here this morning
loaded with 300 tons of relief supplies
and 100 tons of COAL The supplies
aboard cost $4,000 of the $4,000 ap-
proprlated, and the government has
telegraphed the flooded towns on the
boats route the privilege to draw on
the remaining $4,000 in sums from
$500 to S6OU0 according to necessities.
The country is slowly shaking off the
water and devastation paralysis. The
description of roofs of houses on piles
of brick and timber tell a horrible tale
in all directions. Provisions are said
to be plentifully supplied, but people
suffer from the cold weather. Mari
eta, Ohio, is a hurricane wreck.
Houses are torn and Quilted and de-
mOllShed on all the streets, and there
are no inhabitants except in second
stories, and not many of them. Park
ersburg will be able to assist her own
sufferers, but the restitution in
smaller settlements is intense.
Belpre is alwreck and lis principal
street has entirely disappeared with
only a few piles of brick to
mark its location. A tow boat with
two bargeS swung abreast the town of
Rayenswood, held houses from being
swept away last Saturday. otherwise
the town and all its inhabitants would
have been engulfed. The wires in all
directions are down. The Stockdale
leaves ten tons of freight here to be
distributed by the relief committee at
this point for the suffering below.
Business is entirely suspended. The
loss at Parkersburg is 100000.
THE OHIO AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 1S.-The river is
falling at the rate of an inch and one
half an hour. 1t stood SO feet 10
inches at &c d. Al. It Is cloudy anu
fuggy. The Cincinnati, Huntington
e Dayton trains began arriving at
their depot to-day. The New York, |
Pennsylvania g. Ohio enters the same |
depot. The road-Ded is not injured. |
The Panhandle depot and track is out |
of water. All passenger schedules |
are resumed this morning. Freights |
will be resumed this evening and to- |
morrow. The Cleveland, Columbus, |
Cincinnati & Indianapolis railroad |
has given up the canal connection |
and comes to the stock yards. The
Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore
trains will enter the Cincinnati, Ham |
ilton e. Dayton depot to-day. The |
Ohio & Mississippi can again make |
direct landings at Storrs from its |
Aurora boat. The Louisville s. Nash |
vile can now enter its depot. A de- |
cided improvement in business is
already apparent.
AT CAIRO.
CAIRO, ILL.,, Feb. 18.-The river at 6 |
p. m. was fifty feet ten inches high, |
and rose about quarter of an inch |
the last hour. 1t now lacks one foot |
four inches of last years gauge, and |
the probability is it will not reach it. |
A watch has been put on the levees |
to patrol night and day. Everything |
is quiet. The river at Paducah covers |
two-thlrds of the city and is still ris- |
ing. The steamer Fowler will lay up J
after tonight on account of no land |
ing either at Paducah or Metropolis |
Bulk heads have been erected at |
Mound City, the river being at the |
top of the levee. Weather clear and |
mild.
ALONG THE RIVER.
IRONToN, Ohio, Feb. IS. - The
United States relief boat has just ar
rived, where she will leave supplies
and then proceed back to the sufferers
in Pomeroy Bend and vicinity. Cat
iettsburg and Ironton are partly sub
merged. Ironton is fully supplied
with provisions and the relief-com-
mittee is distributing supplies in the
flooded country. The extra police and
military companies who have been
patrolling the city were discharged to-
day. The business portion of the city |
is clear and trade is resuming.
THE ARKANSAS.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 18.-The river here
tonight marks thlrty-four feet three
inches, which is three inches above
danger line. The rise during the past
twenty-four hours only one inch-due
from the fact that break occurred
five miles west of here on the line of |
the Kansas City, Springfield & Mem
phis railroad, by which 200 feet of
track gave way, letting water through |
and flooded the track.
The Memphis & Little Rock rail-
road trains on Kansas City. Spring
field & Memphis railroad has been
discontinued east of Nettleton. Con-
nection is now being made from that
point over the Iron Mountain track
to Helena, Arkansas, thence by
steamer to this city.
All trains have been discontinued |
over the Memphis & Little Rock line
east of Madison, at which place con-
nection was made by daily steamers
from here. No trains were sent out |
on the latter road to-day, and the
steamer Coahoma departs tomorrow
for Madison to be followed Wednes-
day by the steamer Ida Darraghty. |
The Tennessee river has flooded the |
track of the Louisville & Nashville |
road at its crossing, forcing connec-
ton between Memphis and Louisville |
via Mckenzie and Nashville.
OTHER POINTS.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 18.-The |
government beat, Matte Hays. which |
left Louisville Friday morning ar
rived to-day, and after a brief stay
started back. The officers describe |
the situation at nearly all points as
most desperate. On the trip 5000 |
needy ones were discovered. Three |
thousand rations were distributed. |
The condition at Bridgeport is terri
BILE. The people have all fled.
Rosewood is also under water, and
it is asserted there is much restitution
at West Point, and 5000 rations were
left. RockhaYen is almost entirely
swept away. Twenty-Five hundred
rations were left at Maucport, which
is completely submerged, and much
distress was discovered. More than
half of Amsterdam is under water.
Leavenworth is completely sub
merged, many houses have fioated
away ard 1000 persons are in distress.
Twenty-Five hundred rations were
left there. Four hundred rations
were left at Wolf Creek.