The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-09
No Material Changes in the
Situation.
The Relief Committees Hard
at Work,
And They Have All They Can
Attend To.
The Flood.

OF freezs are dissipsted and no relief i
expected now on that sccou {. Inc rive
at Portsmouth, IL sixty feet and rising
fast. 1t is falling fast st the hendwatere
but further rise must come before it al
runs out. Marietta and Psrkersburg hsvt
been entirely cut off from all com mum
cation for two days. Portsmouth Is tht
Only up river point heard from go far.
Sieubenville, O.. S.-The highest point
II feet, was reached yesterday at p m ,
two feet higher than in 1892, the great
est previous food. L has since recedec
eighteen inches, and continues falling
The loss TO private property here ];
$50, 900, and to the railroad company Il
incslculable. No life WAS lost in this
vicinity.
Pittsbur 8.-The rivers are again
within their banks and steadily receding
The Monongshels marks show 26 feet II
inches at noon, with about one foot
more in the Allegheny. Tha streets OF
the city are almost entirely clear of water
and people in the submerged districts
are busy to. day clearing their houses and
streets of the yellow, Shiny mud and
debris left behind as unpleasant memen-
tos of the greatest food in fifty years.
With the decreasing peris from water
come the lurking dangers from weakened
foundations, which may overthrow build
iRgs, and from streets and pavement
csving in, where they have been under
mined. There is grave cause of appre-
tension from this. and every precau ion
will be taken to prevent disaster Sew
eral small cave'ins have occurred in off
ferent portions Of the city, but no acct
dents are yet reported. Travel by street
cars was resumed this morning b. tween
all sections. The relief committees have
been hard at work distributing food and
fuel to the needy. Liberal don atoms of
money, food, clothing and fuel continue
pouring in from citizens and no outside
aid is necessary. Many families were
still quartered in the public halls an it
will be several days before bauses will re
in fit condition for their return to their
homes.
Psledo, O., 8.-Advices from up RIVER
points to-day report the water ..p 10 the
food mark last year. At this city the
water is three feet above the ordinary
stage, and stationary. A laFga tug is
employed in breaking the ice from the
front OF the city and up and down the
river, to facilitate its hyw backward, End
prevent gorges when the fnal crash oe-
ours.
Louisville. S.-The food situation has
not materially changed since yesterday.
The river contiD ued rising slowly til IL
o'clock this morning, when it came to
stsnostill, with SO feet 6 inches ia the
canal.
Kentucky river al Frankfort il falling |
rapidly, with 2l11 feet in the chsn1el |
There is but little suffering here, and that |
is promptly relieved by the relief COM
mittee. The water is within five feet of |
The highest point last year. The weather |
is cold, and it has not rsined since mid |
night.
Cincinnati, S.-The river is rising |
more rapidly since O'Clock. At noon
IL was 50 feet inches, rise of two in. |
in three hours. No additional losses are
reported and no loss of life this side of
the river. In Newport, Ky, early this |
William Berchart, bugler of
the United States troops in Newport bar
racks, fell from a skiff while trying to
reach the second story OF the barracks
building and drowned. Mrs. Naddle, q |
widow living at Newport, became raw.
ing maniac on account Of the food. She
was poor woman with several children,
living in the flooded Districts. Neighbors |
.ook charge of her children and of her,
but being unable to see her children she |
imagined them drowned and to-day is |
insane.
Cincinnati, O., 6,-The river ia 81 feet |
! inches; warmer: drizzling rain.
Wheeling, w. Va, S.-The river 10
i feet; falling slowly. The steamer
Belle Prince went to Banwood to trans-
~aosop~ern - MonnI.-;11o 4
weather. is cloudy and cool.
Memphis, Tenn, S.-The river to-day
noon was feet z inches below the
anger line, and rising at the rate Of an
lch sn heur. From the present out
,ok, unless the Tennessee and Missis-
ppi rivers commence rising, and add to
le foods now pouring out Of the Ohio
Id Gum berlsnd streams, the Mississippi
alley will not be subject 10 dangerous
verhow. 1t is thought the danger line
ere will be reached by Wednesday. It
as been rising steadily since last night.
7hich increases the apprehension of dis.
ster, snd preparations for the worst are
sing made. The river lacked feet 8
1ches Of attaining the high water mark
( 1882, when the entire country between
AFRO and New Orleans, not protected by
3V6eS, WAe lDuQQ6t6Qs /
Cincinnati, $3.50 o. m-The relief
in conjunction with MAYOR
tephens, decided to call out the militia
,-night to serve as assistant patrol on
ccount of the darkness. The president
the gas company says the supply of
as wills not be sufh lent to last through
lie night. Three hundred men will be
laced on duty. The river was 62 feet
4 inches at 2 p. m.
GAINESVILLE, Ohio. S.-Muskegum river
higher this morning than was ever
nown, and is still rising an inch and
alf an hour. The Baltimore and Ohio
ridge was touched by water. Only the
bsence Of drift saves it. At D. m. the
yer wss G2 feet 81 inches. |;
Wheeling, w. Va, 8.-Business is
ill almost totally suspended, and The
atire population is gathered on the
reefs watching the slowly recedibg
oedg. The water has fallen about q
,ot The weather is cooler. As the
steFs recede the full extent OF the de-
Rssstion becomes more apparent.
.ouses are on their sides and washed to
me distance from their sites or entirely
.rried away; barns and stables are COL
,cted in great masses wherever any
srriers interfere to hold them. One OF
70 city bridges ara endangered, and
20 over Caldwell's Run are carried
veg. The water reaches from hill to