Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22

The Great Floods

valley there has boon gradual subsistence of
tho waters during the past week aud the work
Of relief of those who have lost house, homo
and property has been going steadily ON. 1t
is stated on the authority Of the war depart
mont that no person suffers for food in the
whole valley. The need now is for money to
| replace houses on their foundations and ro-
pair them. At the middle Of this week the
Cincinnati people were beginning to talk Of
"tho late flood, the water having passed the
mark Of GO feet above low water mark on it's
downward course. The highest point reached
was II feet and three fourths of an inch. II
is said that the substantial part of the city
has suffered but little, and the damage to
goods is not more than one-tenth what 1t was
yeor ago. The city has taken the entire
care Of its own sufferers and has scrupulous-
ly used all funds sent in from outside to re-
lieve the distress at points up the river Last
Friday there was a dreadful occurrence in
the city whena boarding house, of Pearl
and Ludlow street. in the flooded district, fell
| with a loud crash and Immediately took fire.
| The flames were soon extinguished but the
| bodies of II persons were taken from the ru-
ms. At the beginning Of this week the may
| or Of Portsmouth, Ohio said The flood is
slowly receding. Nearly 10000 persons are
being fed, but one.fourth of these will have
to be housed and fed for the next two or
| three months Hundreds of persons are
housed in the lofts of stables and other places
where it is impossible to warm them. Many
have lost all their bedding and furniture and
all their clothing except what they have on.
Two hundred houses have been swept away,
and as many more lie in q general wreck
across the streets orare piled up in confusion
or held by ropes tied to telegraph poles. This
state Of things seems TO be only a picture of
the condition Of things in many towns all
the way up the valley to Wheeling, Va. The
greatest financial loss is that of the Ohio
River railroad. For q hundred miles the
track and road bed has almost entirely disap-
peared, and the bridges have all been swept
away. At points below Cincinnati, and on
the rivers tributary to the Ohio and Missss-
ippi serious floods have prevailed and the sit
uation is still critical. Dispatches on the
first day of this week said The White Riv-
er of Arkansas is still rising, and has already
reached greater height than ever known be-
fore. At Jacksonport 100 families we're lodg-
ing in the court. house aud many others were
compelled to leave their homes. At New
port the academy was crowded with fugitive
families. The Red river OF Arkansas was
also rising, and from Fulton it is telegraphed
that the country is sea hundreds Of fam
lilies fleeing from the raging waters, md cat
tie swept down the stream in herds. At
point, railroads are flooded, and trains have
been discontinued. The latest news from
the Wabash is that the river is still rising
and the Tennessee river is pouring great
flood into the Ohio. The depth of water
throughout Shawneetown, Ind. ranges from 10
to 40 feet. SkTs pass over good sized houses
well weighted down, the roofs of which can
scarcely be reached with the longest oars
Between Shawneetown and Uniontown the
country on both sides OF the river as far as
the eye can reach is one vast sheet of water
Nearly oil the plantations below Pine Bluff,
Ark, are more or less submerged. At Full
ton, Saturday night the Red river was still
rising, and the floods covered the banks on
both sides for many miles. Hundreds of
homes are flooded. Live stock are drowning
in large numbers. Many houses are being
washed into the river. Saturday night one
third of Paducsh, KY, was under water.
New Liberty, ~ miles above, was entirely
abandoned, and nothing but the roofs of the
houses could be seen. -Four. ffths of Smith
land, at the mouth of the Cumberland, was
under water. Rosedair, Birdsview, Raleigh,
Elizabethtown, Fairplay and Freefght we're
| all submerged.
Funds and supplies for the relief of the
sufferers have been forthcoming in abund-
ance. Congress appropriated an additions
| $500, 900, making $500, 600 in all, aud from
states and cities and towns all over the coun-
| try generous contributions have been sent in.
Steamboats, loaded with supplies ply on the
rivers and food and clothing are carried to
the scene of the suffering by the car load.
Over One Hundred Lives Lost
IN A TERRIBLE CYCLONE IN THE SOUTHERN
sTATEs-GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.
"A fearful storm struck Ambersons and
Ladiga, Ala, Tuesday afternoon. Many
| houses were blown down and II persons are
reported to have been killed in that vicinity.
The storm extended to Rome, Ga, where il
| did little damage. At Cave Spring several
houses we're blown down and one man was
killed. Ten or twelve houses in that vicinity
were destroyed. A severe wind-storm struck
the eastern portion of Columbus, Ga, about
noon, doing at least $780, 900 damage. A
| church, the county Jail and the Columbus oil
mills were unroofed. The round-h house at
the central depot was entirely demolished and
six engines were badly damaged, two Of them
| being wrecked The damage to the railroad
company is estimated at $l5, 200. Many OF
the machinists narrowly escaped with their
lives.
Dispatches with details later than the
| above, show that the storm was wide spread
and terribly destructive to life and property.
In the Cahawba valley, Ala, eight persons
were killed The gale also visited some of
the districts recently damaged by floods, in
creasing the devastation and suffering there
| Fifty people were killed north OF Atlanta.
Ga, The Central railroads round house and
engines at Columbus, Ca, were destroy
ed. Several persons were killed and
wounded. The storm was terrible in the sec
tion around Macon. Many houses at Indian
! Springs were unroofed and many persons
wounded. W. A. Millers house at Bounts-
| vile, 20 miles from Macon, was blown to at
oms and his wife and three children were
killed. The baby was blown away and has
not yet been found. The town of Davids-
boro was swept and many were injured there
The storm in the section about Augusta, Ga.
was the severest known since the cyclone of
1873. Great damage was done to property
in the town of Bradley, S. G. At Ninety
| Six, 5. o., house was blown down and a
child killed. The town OF Millen on the
Georgia Central railroad was nearly destroy
ed. The Baptist church at Bradley, S. G.. ,
on the Augusta and Knoxville railroad, was
demolished and the place generally wrecked
Two persons were badly injured. At Phoenix,
| on the same road, the destruction of proper
ty was great W. H. Statworth's residence
took fire when toppled over by the storm, and
his eldest daughter was burned to DEATH At
Dickerts plantation in Newberry county on
the Broad river 100 acres of original forest
were swept away and all ut-houses were de-
molished. In Darlington county the storm
was particularly severe. Six persons are
known to have been killed in the county and
10 wounded. Clarksville, Tenn, was visited
by two destructive cyclones about two hours
apart, which swept through the central por
ton of the city, leveling many houses and
doing serious damage to hundreds Of build
ings. The most terrible destruction caused
by the storm in North Carolina was at set
Element called Philadelphia two miles from
Rockingham, which contained about 20
houses. Evory one of them was RACED to
the ground. Tuesday morning q party of
men began search of the ruins for bodies,
and within short time IL had been recover.
ed. The cyclone struck a village on the out
skirts of Rockingham, N. c., destroying Is
houses, killing 23 people and wounding as
many more. The storm destroyed lS houses
at Birdspoint, Mo. Several school-children
at Canton, Ga, were killed by q falling house.
The storm blew down about 40 houses at Me-
tropolis, ILL.,, including one church. Several
persons were injured The destruction to
property at Evansville, Ind, by this gale was
very serious. Hundreds of houses, barns.
oorn-cribs, etc, with their contents, were
swept from their foundations and wrecked,
A terrific wind and rain struck Coshoc-
ton, o., Tuesday evening, doing great damage
to trees and buildings.