Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-02-22
WATERS woEEuL WORK.

A Trip Up tho Ohio From Cincinnati to
Pittsburgh-whole Villages Submerged
and Many Houses Floating Away-The
Highest Water Ever Known In that
Valley.
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13.-This afternoon
about three p. III. thin line of smoke arose
from the river below, floated in the first
sunlight of manya long, wearisome day,
and then nestled in the hills of La Belle
Rivere. All eyes were turned upon the
distant harbinger of the rivers life, and in
few moments more the broad prov of the
Katie Stockdale shot under the Point
bridge and the beat of her broad paddles
sounded "Welcome alp to the listening
round nose against the wharfboat at the
foot of Wood Street, and rounded off pc
riod in history-the first boat to reach Pitts.
burgh upon the great flood of 1884.
The Stockdale was the first boat up from
below this year, rs she was also the last one
down. She left here on the 31st of Decem
ber, the last day of 1888, for the distant
| Porkopolis, going down on flood and com
ing back on a deluge. After reaching Gin.
cinnati she tied up Mt the levee with the in
tention Of awaiting the rivers usual spring
rise. On Wednesday of last week, when
the river was flfty-flve feet at Cincinnati
captain CalhOun determined TO make the
TRIP UP THE FLOOD.
| There was crowd of people willing and
anxious to make the experiment as passen
gers on n trip up the river. They were from
numerous upper points, and had been caught
in the flood and imprisoned in Cincinnati
| by 1t without means of leaving for their
homes-homes that numbers of them never
saw again, for before they reached them
their homes were well on their way to the
Gulf of Mexico.
The Katie Stockdale Is one of the pret-
tiest of Western steamboats,, and is swift
and staunch. A crowd of exiles filled her
long cabins, and, with cheers from the
crowd on the one solitary spot of dry land
on the Cincinnati levee, responsive cheers
from those aboard and the cheerful notes
of a grand piano in the ladies' cabin, the
boat tiled loose" and started on her
VOYAGE OF ADVENTURE.
The boat left the levee at nine p. my
Wednesday night thick bank of grey fog
being ON the flood which at times marked
fifty seven feet and obscurcd all objects OH
the river. OF other craft there were none
stirring. and nothing but the crushing mass
of ice, that went tearing by in midwatcrs,
broke upon the stiffness. With a big head
of steam the vessel plowed up the current,
Srft SH p r u, shivr slei s Tn .to +ha ve Anu ai
Mat s,r''a,, ,,ro, ard di,,;dad ~ hor o ho,',
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c.ISso,,;, ','v ,''os ronoha5 If ,,on o,,o,,t
,yatar nn% fr"~, tha soo"rd storias anu hn,'Sa
tops the people greeted the steamer with
prolonged cries of welcome. a man came
from amid the darkness In q skiff and re-
ot oe,,su 'nH I'M mn ,u p'puNt p,N.t . n',oa,'n
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anu opPiessM1 s'h.iiese, puS Will .no
noop,"oio o"onl .ne paoos',So,o, M ,'a'i'S
partahel, VI u suostantiai M lJpus', uaiiceu anu
saiis W VIC iius'o Vi VIZ P'"''o "''" io'so'
'he iaSh,s Inel.
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TIC "haiipoaV upou. hlIuilsn., ihe
ioWN Was oNiEh i,i,,s MAuLn ,.,.
anu p'esen,cu sceile VI aesoit.'on aesvia t'.
tea. u az moscow MOSCOW some twenty % miles a tnis
sl.s ol oiiciiinatl, hen.y uuli1h' auu u
vast quaitlty ol urlat anu lupplsh coihliiS
9oWh now Oh tie ne" hoou was ehcouii'cieu. ti.
lhe Town was parllally suphiersea, put
huinoeis OF passengers WHO Iesiucu III the
Vlcihlty goe on 10 search theIr way nome
waTa, OF Where the'r hoases o'ice sVoou' III
skIis. . ,, A. e...,., J., A..
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vlcnli'y oi maSsNniie' on e,e hensuchy
shorc' sINiy-nve miles inns sue Oh olhcin'
naIi. ms l'iriVins sown was unaer waiei'
@ nre pathetic @ vet grand an, I in is desoiaton