The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-02-17
THE KEIFER-BoYNroN INVESTIGATION.
The Submerged Districts.
IBy telegraph 10 the Dlspatch.I

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I Stockdale arrived here this morning load
ed to the guards with 300 tons Of relic
supplies and 100 tons of coal. The sub
merged country Is slowly shaking Off thu
waters, and the devastation surpasses de
scription. Provisions are said to be plen
tifully supplied. but the people are suffer
ing from the cold weather.
| Marietta. Ohio, Is wreck, the houses
being demolished on all the streets. There
are no inhabitants there except in the sec
ond stories, and but few Of these. Parker
burg will be able to assist her own sufferers,
but the restitution in smaller settlements
will be intense. Belpre, o., Is wreck,
and its principal street has entirely disap'
peared, only few piles OF bricks marking
where 1t was located. A towboat, with d
tow. swung abreast OF the town Of Ravens
wood and held the houses from being
swept away last Saturday, saving the town
and all its inhabitants from being engulied.
Telegraph wires are down in all directions.
The news from here goes to Baltimore, and
is transferred from there. The steamer
Stockdae has left ten tons OF freight here
to be distributed by the relief committee
to the sufferers below. Business is en-
tirely suspended. Parkerburg's loss
amounts to $1,000,000.
CINCINNATI, February 16.-At noon the
river was falling an inch per hour. but at
that time was still two feet above the
hitherto unprecedented flood OF last year.
1t will require at least two days more to
enable the railroads to begin to ascertain
the condition OF their tracks. A four-story
brick building on Central avenue near
Second street fell last night. The last OF
its occupants had moved from it yesterday
afternoon. In all the submerged portions
of the city where frame houses have been
moved from their positions the owners are
endeavoring to float them back to their
places. The same thing is being done ut
Newport, Ky. The weather is milder, and
it is growing cloudy. The indications
point to rain.
LOUISVILLE, KY, February 16.-At noon
the river had fallen nineteen inches, and Is
still falling. At $50 O'Clock last night the
river marked forty-six feet seven inches.
The weather is cloudy and threatening
rain, The steamer Reindeer has left with
supplies for the sufferers up the river.
SHAwNEETOwN, ILL.,, February 16.-At
7 O'Clock last night the river was rising
steadily one and half inches per hour, and
at that hour marked 50 feet IL inches. The
town Is under water to the depth OF from
10 to so feet. In many places the water Is
at the top OF the windows OF second stories,
and i'm some cases only the chimneys and
roofs mark the location OF the buildings.
The bills surrounding the town are dot
ted with tents occupied by families who
have been driven from their homes. In
some cases there is undoubted suffering.
4 A ..;off Inv of oil ppocQ ~
porter revealed several thinly-clad, Sare-
footed children shivering about the tents.
Mayor Milspaugh will supply needed
clothing and other relief at once. He has
made no formal appeal for aid, but 1t Is
PLAN that a great deal will he needed.
Many families went to the bills yester-
day and more are likely TO follow to-day.
Several houses have been started from their
foundations, but the embankments about
the city have kept them from floating
away. As yet no loss OF life has been re,
ported. An eflcrt was made yesterday to
reach John Boyd's Park House, in which q
dozen or more families have taken refuge
but il lies Just north OF the leyee, over
which the current is so swift that the oars
men were unable to stem its force.
LITTLE Rock, ARK, February 16.-Spe'
! Gals to the Gazette say that at Newport,
/ Ark, the overflow from the White river il
! the greatest ever known, and the river Il
still rising. Communication with Jackson
port Is cut off. One hundred families are
reported to be lodging in the courthouse
at the latter place, and many others have
been compelled to leave their homes. New
port Academy is crowded with sufferers
The Iron Mount railroad levee threatened
to give way last night; il 1t does break 4
win cause the river to rise two feet higher
Business is entirely suspended.
FULTON, ARK, February 16.-The Rec
river rose one foot in the twenty-foul
hours ended at II o'clock last night, ant
is still rising. The whole country is ;
vast sea. Hundreds of families are fleeing
from the raging waters. Dead mules ant
cattle are floating down with the current
Herds Of cattle can be seen standing OF
the small islands patiently awaiting thei
doom.