The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

Danger at Other Points.
WHEELING, w. Va. Feb. 11.-Yester-
day the water fell below the danger line,
and the scene of devastation presented to the
eye was complete A great part of the city
is still inundated, and the balance is covered
with mud. In the extreme southern part
OF the city great suffering prevails, and
starving people are crying for food and are
without dry clothing. When the relief
committee took foo1 and clothing to
them they almost had their cloth
ing torn from them by the starv-
ing inhabitants, everybody G. ying for
the first supply. Large knots of men stood
around on the corners with gloomy faces
watching the fall of the food, while others
We're in their houses cleaning out the thick
coat of mud the water had left behind The
steamer John LomaS came up from Parkers-
burg Saturday evening, bringing a large
number Of passengers. One of these stated
that fifteen persons were reported drowned
at Marietta, and many houses were washed
away there, while at Cochransville small
village, only two houses and a church were
left standing. At Williamsburg, also, the
distress is terrible, and at New Martinsville
something over twenty dwellings have been
carried away. All along the river, at towns
where firearms were to be procured, armed
sentinels poured into the relief boit volleys
OF shot, and some of the passengers narrow
ly escaped injury. The undoubted cause of
the promiscuous firing was to keep
the steamer well away fron the houses for
fear that the waves made by the vessel might
injure the buildings or sweep them from
their foundations. Cries were sent out from
shore, at many places: For Gods sake
don't come near. We are standing almost
up to our necks in water, and the waves will
wash over us.
About twelve o'clock Saturday, as the re-
lief steamers Belle Prince and Regular
were en- route up the river from Bellaire,
people were seen on the Ohio side at West
Wheeling, apparently awaiting aid The
Regular was headed for the Shore and the
Belle Prince followed closely in her wake.
Within fifty yards of the bank man in
the crowd deliberately raised a rifle,
and without warning fired a shot into the
cabin of the boat. He was followed by
half dozen others, and balls were
soon flying fast among the rescuing party.
The boats backed off, but the firing was
Among this party, and apparently at its
head, was eX-State Senator David Wagner,
who fired several shots from revolver. He
afterward explained that they only fired to
keep the boats from washing the endan-
gered houses.
The citizens of Wheeling have prepared a
resolution, asking the West Virginia Con-
gressional delegation for provisions for the
inf Of he c41ffa fv0, A.
$1,000 proposed by the joint resolution of
General Golf in Congress is declared made
quate for relief, and request for at least
$1,000,000 is made. Private adviees re-
ceived from Washington declare that the
joint resolution calling for $780,, 900 will be
changed to 100000
In Wheeling alone the loss from the flood
will not fall far short of $4,000. 900. The
loss is sustained chiefly by poor people,
whose all has been swept away. Thus far
Wheeling has cared for its citizens made
destitute in day, but the burden is a heavy
one and can not long be borne, and the peo-
pie are looking anXiously to New York and
Chicago and other large cities for the relief
which was so freely granted to the sufferers
of last year.
CINCINNATI, o., Feb. 1.-THE stage Of
the river at midnight was sixty-fve feet four
and one quarter inches, and a brisk rain is
falling. The Water-WorkS Department
will order all hydraulic elevators stopped to-
day. The big Shields pumping engine is
the only one that can work in this stage of
the flood, and Sixty-six feet ten inches will
stop it. The reservoir has five days sup
ply of water in it The flood Of 1882 was
surpassed yesterday morning, and the river
rose almost constantly all day. There is
now little doubt that the mark of
last year will be passed within the next
twenty-four hours. By extreme care and in
genuity the gas company managed to keep
the gas supply up till last night. but all
night the street lamps were unlighted
and gas is burning in very few
places The tables in the Western Union
operators room are supplied with candles,
and theaters are running with electric and
calcium lights and private gas machines.
The water yesterday on both sides of the
embankment sustaining the tracks of the
Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore Road
in Mill Creek Valley so softened the earth
as to cause two slides, leaving the track I'M.
supported. This compels trains on this road
to enter on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day.
ton track. The Bee Line trains are COM
PEELED to make terminus at the Stock
Yards, three miles out
GALLIPoLIs, o., Feb. 1.-THE river is
rising three-quarters of an inch per hour,
and it is raining heavily. The water is sew
en- feet above the high water of last year.
The steamer Telegraph went to the relief
of Point Pleasant yesterday. The town is
completely submerged and the inhabitants
have gone to high grounds. Cheshire, Adj
Olson and other small towns are suffering
In the same way. At CattletSburg, KY, the
river is now two feet higher than last year,
drizzling rain falling. The Big Sandy
River is reported rising at Richardson. At
Ripley the river is rising three-quarters of
an inch an hour. Many houses that stood
through the flood of last year have been
reached now and entirely swept away. The
water is twenty two inches higher than last
year.
COLUMBUS, o., Feb 11.--An engineer on
the Scioto Valley Railway waded out to
Portsmouth yesterday morning and tele-
graphs from Piketon, twenty-four miles
north, that the water is five feet higher at
that city than last year. The steamer Bo-
nanza is lying afloat on sidewalk, and
people are entering hotel through the sec
ond story windows. When the engineer
left three houses were burning which the
engines could not reach. Manager McCrea,
of the "Pan- Handle" announces that traffic
will open between Pittsburgh and Columbus
this morning.
AURORA, Ind, Feb. 1.-THE water is
still rising, and is now at the door of the
Aurora National Bank. Only one drug
store remains out of water. 1t is raining
now.
FLOOD NOTES.
Rain has fallen continuously for one hum
dred hours in the district of Longview, Tex,
submerging the bottoms, and causing wash
outs and slides on the railways
The water guards on the James River, in
the upper section of Lynchburg. Va, are
giving way. and great destruction of prop
erty is threatened by an inundation. The
river is rising rapidly.
James E. Fennessy, manager of Henck's
Opera House, Cincinnati, received dis
patch from Colonel Mapleson Saturday
night announcing the postponement of the
opera advertised for this week owing to the
foods.
The greatest freshet ever known was
caused in the Cumberland Valley Saturday
by the breaking of the ice in Cenodoquinet
Creek. Four valuable bridges between Car
Isle and Susquehanna, Pa. were swept
away, and milldams and other property
ware badly damaged.
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