The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-02-16
ives have been lost, while New Martinsville,

on the West Virginia shore, Is In frightful
plight, the water reaching back toward the
interior country as far as the eye can see.
A vigilance committee has stationed itself
on the roof of house, and with a fair-sled
cannon, loaded with stones, nails and other
missiles, has protected the town by prevent
ing steamboats, from passing, and II Is i'd
has had marked effect in several cases
Several lives We're lost in this place.
At Cochansyilc, where there were
formerly forty houses, two stores and "a
church, only The church and two houses re-
main, the balance of the structures having
been pressed out into the stream. When
Amcs Bros, store was swept away, Miss
Ames, who was staying with her aunt, Mrs.
Carson, below town, saw the store passing
and exclaimed: "My God, there goes on
house," The words had no more than
passed her lips when her aunt lay corpse
AT her side, having died of fright,
Marietta is in a fearful plight The
water extends into that little city for over a
mile, and in the lower part of the town not
a house is to be seen. Belpre and Parkers-
burg Jared about the same rs ,retta,
The Ohio River Railroad from Wheeling
to ParkerSburg is Il complete wreck. The
majority of the ears ar. on the Ohio shore
of the river or lodged well up in the limbs
OF the trees on the uplands, where they Will
probably remain until long after the Ohio
Valley Road is completed. Such scenes rs
are now Transporting will probably never
again meet the eyes OF amy OF the
present generation. At least twelve
hundred houses have been wrecked
between Belaire and Parkersburg.
The work of relieving suffering progress
es tavOrably, but there is still great need.
- hal
600 in cash and rs much in goods, but this
and donations from abroad disappear as fast
as received. Among the contributions re-
ceiyed are: John W. Garrett, Baltimore,
$500; 5. j. Tilden, New York, $3.50; James
Keene, New York, $3.50; the Wheeling ~
Belmont Bridge Company, $1,000; the
Charleston (W. Va. town council, $500.
SuAwNEETowN, H., Feb. li.-All
streets here are submerged to a depth of
from five to fifteen feet. Several hundred
men have fought the waters day and night
for three days, building bulkhe IDS and other
devices, but the steadily rising Ohio has
conquered. The water is now within SIX
feet of the great flood of last year, and
eighteen inches or less of that of 1882. All
trains have been stopped by back water.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Feb. 1.-THE Ar
kansas River is higher than it has been for
thirty years, being now (ten O'Clock WedncS-
day night three feet above the danger-l line,
and rising over one inch an hour. The
banks are caving and houses are tumbling
in. Many plantations below are inundated.
The eastern part of Newport is under water,
and the White and Black Rivers are rising
at Batesvlle. The lower part OF Fulton is
entirely overlooked. The loss to farmers
fences and stock is incalculable.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Feb. 1.-THE canal
gauge registers A feet I = inches, the river
raising three fourths of an inch per hour.
The weather is turning colder. Tn situa-
ton at Jacksonville grows worse with the
rise. At Utica, Ind, twelve miles above
here all the people are in one church, al.
most without food. Greenup, this State, is
entirely submerged, and there is much suf-
fering
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. l4.-Ths city
had hoped to escape high water, but the
situation is becoming very serious. The
river is now rising over three inches an
hour. The danger line is passed. and resi-
dents are fleeing to higher ground with
their household effects. The entire wharf
is oyerflowed and the water on Front street.
The race-track is inundated, and soon all
street-car connections with North Nashville
will be cnt OIL. Dispatches from Carthage
and Huntsville report heavy rains in the up
river country, and rapid rise.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. l4.-The coun-
try round about is a vast sea of water,
and many farms are covered by thirty feet
of water. Only the tops of houses across
the river in Kentucky are now visible. Al
though the farmers were better prepared
than last year, their losses are great. The
work of removing the corn from the elevated
cribs in the submerged region is still in prog
resS, but the harbOr boats are unable to an
swer half the calls made upon them. Many
families of farmers have been removed here
and others are being brought hourly. AS
yet no casualties are known to have oc.
cured.
SrEUBENvILLE, o., Feb. 14.-This vicin-
ity suffered comparatively little from the
flood. Not any of the higher part of the
city was inundated. The losses have been
about 500, 900, while the losses in the
vicinity make $50 more. One hundred
and seventy families in the lower wards
were relieved by the city, while the State
of Ohio relieved the towns of Brilliant,
Mingo, Allacanna and Minerva-all under
water. At these points the restitution was
great.
CHICAGO. Feb. 1.-THE jewellers of Chi
cag0 have raised fund of $3.50 for the
relief of the flood sufferers at Newport KY
The Board of Trade and the Red Cross
Society are also engaged in raising contri-
buttons for the sufferers in that and other
portions of the Ohio River Valley. Up to
this writing 5000 have been subscribed by
the members of the Board of Trade.