New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-10
HELP FOR THE SUFFERERS.
CALL FROM WEST vIRGINIA-KINDNEss OF MES
DANES PATTI AND GERsTER.
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CALL FROM WEST YIRGINIA-KINDNESS OF MES
DANES PATTI AND GERsTER.
IRI rEE rRIBUNEl
WHEELING Feb. Owe need help, money and
clothing for women and children. We find
It impossible to get along, as we hoped,
points above and below beggars description.
Relief parties are working day and night. More
than ten thousand of the people of this city are de-
pendent and will be so for weeks
CHARLES BURDETT HART,
Editor IntellgeRoer.
WHEELING, W. Va, Feb 9.-On the representa-
ton of the citizens of West Virginia that the local
insufficient to relieve the suffering re-
sulting from the floods, the Governor has sent
dispatches to Senators and Representatives In Con-
Tess, asking that the joint resolution for the relief
of the uufortunates be increased to 81 100000.
CHICAGO, Feb. ON view of the calamity which
has befallen Cincinnati, Colonel MaplesOn
has decided to postpone the opera season,
which was to begin there next Mon
day, for the present. In consequence, his
entire company will remain here next week. At the
suggestion of Mesdames Patti and Gerster, MIR.
MaplesOn intends to organize special performance
to be given in this city next week, the proceeds OF
which TO be transmitted for the relief OF the suf
ferers of the Hood.
STATE OF THE LOWER OHIO RIVER.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 0-The situation is still I'M
changed here and at the towns across the river.
The weather turned colder and it stopped raining
early this morning. The sun is trying to shine.
The river has been almost on a stand-still since
o'clock, with forty feet four and 0ne-half inches
in the canal. 1t is not expected that there will be
very much further rise in Kentucky of the river.
At Fra kfort it is still falling
CAIRO, ILL.,, Feb. 9-rhe river Is Al feet 10 inches
and is rising p of an inch per hour. The weather
is cloudy and colder. The probability is that the
flood will hardly reach 80 feet here, and the people
prepared for 53 81 feet.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 0.-A more hopeful feel
ing prevailed this morning. The raj has ceased
and the temperature is cooler The river is rising
half an inch an hour and now covers the point OPP
high as in last February. Still, a large amount Of
property is in danger of being ovcrfiowed.
ICE GORGES IN THE SUSQUEHANNA.
PORT DEPOSIT, Md, Feb. 9.-The Susquehanna
River continues to fall gradually, and the broken
ice is running much thinner. Large quantities of
loose logs are coming down, caused by the breaking
of boom at some point north. Advices
from all points north show general
fall in the river. The gorge at
McCalPs Ferry remains solid but the river has
fallen sufficiently to allow the backed ice to pass
down under the gorge, which will itself gradually
wear away and come down by degrees. 1t is gem
orally conceded that with to-day terminates the
SusquehanDa ice gorge OF 1851
HARRISBURG, Feb. 9.-The ice In the Ceno-
doquinot Creek on the opposite side of the Susque-
hanna River, broketo-day and caused tremendous
flood. Four bridges over the creek, between Car
Isle and theTiveT of the value of over 0OO were
crushed and carried away, and considerable damage
was done otherwise. Three dams were washed
out and the mills connected with them were so
badly injured as to prevent their running until
they can be repaired The freshet is the worst
ever known In the Cumberland Valley. Portions
of the wrecked bridges are now janmed against the
piers of the Northern Central Railroad bridge ut the
month of the creek.