Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-17

me FLOODS 81rEDlNC.
Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 16.-The river is g
feet . inches high, q fall Of ~ inches
since a. m. The weather il cloudy AID
undertaking. Portsmouth reports tall
OF feur feet from the highest point OF
the food.
Inc nver vas falling an inch an hour
at noon. but vas still two fest above the
hitherto unprecedented food of last
year. The food will require et least
two days more TO enable railroads TO
begin 70 ascertain the location Of tracks.
A four-storv brick building on Central
avenue, near Second street, fell last
wight. The last family removed from
II yesterday afternoon. In all the sub
merged portions of the city shere frame
buildings have been moved from their
positions the owners are endeavorine to
foat them bisk to their places The
same thing Is done At Newport.
Parker~bsrx.
PARkERsBuaG. West Va. Feb. To-
The United states relief steamer Katie
Stockdale arrived at Pzrkersbarg this
morning. loaded TO the guards With 800
tons of relief supplies, and q hundred
tons of coal supply on board. This cost
10000 Of the $75.0O0 appropriated, and
the Government has teieRraphed the
flooded towns on the boats route the
privilege of drawing on the remaining
$25, 900, in sums of from 500 to $500,
according to necessities. ParkefsburR
will bs able to assist her ovu sufferers,
bot the restitution in smaller sities1is
great. Beipre IL a wreck, and its prin-
cipal street has entirely disappeared,
with only few piles of brick to mark
its location. A towboat was swung
abreast of the town of kavenwood, and
held the houses from being swept away
otherwise the town and all
the inhabitants would have been en-
quilted. The wires are down IN all di-
rections frotn here. News goes 70 Bal
timore and is there transferred. The
disarrxnRement interfsres with all
transmission, aud it is doubtful if tele-
graphic matter can he sent after leaving
here. The StOckdaie left 10 tons Of
freight here to be distributed at this
point for sufferers below. Business 10
entirely suspended. The loss at Park
ersburg viii reach 81 100000.
The Relief Boat NJ Parkeraburg.
PAgKEBsBURo, W. Va, Feb. 16.-The
United States relief boat, Katie Stock
dale, in charge of Col. Thos. Rae of the
Infantry, aud conveying one million
dollars worth Of provisions to the food
SUD rers, arrived here at 7 o'clock this
morning. The StOckdaie lay at Marietta,
Ohio, from midnight until morning.
The inhabitants of that city we're sup
piled With provisions but are in bad
need Of clothing and bedding. They
are still in school houses, churches and
barns on the high ground. The water
has recsded ~ feet and stood at 6 a. m.
at 81 feet 3 inches. The banks are COM
ing out of the water on both sides Of the
river aud the full destruction 10 OK posed.
Il paralyzes description. The people at
Parkersburg are in good financial CON-
ditiOn, though the lesses are heavy.
The city has over one hundred sufferers
in buildings. The homeless are in
churches and school houses. The town
of Belpre, opposite ParkersburR is q
its principal street with the
Stone Il Hadley -four mill and nuner-
GUS brick and wood buildings have to-
tally disappeared. The loss at Parkers-
burg 10 one million dollars with more
returns to come in. The Stockdale will
proceed direct from here to lrOntOn, 325
miles west of PittsburR.
The Progress u the Relief Beat.
.PoMKRoY (OD, Feb. 16.-The relief
boat Kate StOckdals arrived here this
afternoon. Her intention was to 90
direct to lronton after leaving Parkers-
burg, but the people of Belleville, West
Virginia, called the boat in and guam
tity Of provisions were given out. Six
houses remain in the town, and they
are narly all badly wrecked. As the
boat proceeds down the stream broad
bottoms on each side we're
gradually being relieved of water.
At Racine, the head of Pomeroy
Bond, twelve miles long, was entered.
This bend has narrow bottoms on both
sides of the river, which contain 20 coal
mines, IL salt works, II towns, and 3O,-
DOO inhabit3nts, of whom 5000 are
laborers. Six Of the mines are
flooded, and will not DO pumped
out for six or eight months. Eight
thousand people are idle and 5000 home
less and demanding immediate assist-
snce. The river in the bend reached
"a feet. but has fallan II feet, and is
going down at the rate of two inches
per hour. Friday night the water Was
FIRST cleared from the streets of the
town. There are four relief boats help
ing the bends destitute from CALI.
opolis, which plaos is out of water and
uninjur I'D. Business of
every kind il suspended. The COlum-
bus, Hooking Valley d Toledo road, and
she Ohio Central, penetrating the bend,
are all torn TO pieces trestles, bridges
and roadbed are gone, and it will b.
nication by railroad il resumed.
There are no telegraph wires up.
The steamboats, Jim Montgomery,
Nora Belle and Chesapeake
are distributing supplies. The people
are stored away in churches, barns and
school houses through the country. 1t
IL estimated that 500 houses have been
swept out Of IL miles of the bend.
There are destitute in Camden 800 peO.
pie, in Middleport 1900, in West Co
lumbia 400, in Clifton 70, in Mason City
400, in Pomsroy 500, in Minsrsville GOO.
In Hartford City 400, in Syracuse 700, in
Racine 800, in Antiquity 100, and in
Ger man Furnace 100.
wheeling.
WHEELING, w. Va, Feb. 16.-The
river 10 81 feet high this morning. The
passed last night at y .. IN.
With provisions. Weather cool aud
cloudy.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. l6.-rhe river fell
IL inches, and is still falling. The
hight reached at $50 last night vas Is
feet : inches. II 10 cloudy and threat
ening rain.
Ia APkaOsas.