The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1884-02-19
THE FLOOD
ID 8 4! +!
Wheeling Register. 1sth inst.

may tell you, by approximation, his los
in damaged goods. but not for month
can he estimate his total food losses.-
The damage to his stock will not be l
per cent of his loss in businessI Dow
the river are numbers of towns lik
Cochransville, 3aresville, New Martins
vile and Darlington, where merchant
buy all their goods from heeling.-
Not until our house learns how mauv O
those men will fail can we estimate GU
loss Those who struggle through viii
be slow in payments, bus many will b
broken up root and branch. Then
spring trade along the liver will be bad
ly demoral'zed, and in cases gone alto
gether, which will pile up the loss. Oh
l tell you, this is a terrible thing, ant
the worst is yet to come ("
Cochransvillt. as a town, is gone
The merchants OF Baresville and Clar
ington, while their losses are heavy. viii
be able to meet all their obligations ant
are already prepared to- Tesums bust
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ness ED. SPIRIT.
PITTsBURe, Pa, Feb. 8-The Losses
to the industrial community are enor
nous, proving greater than first suppos
ed. Movements in behalf OF those
homeless, or in distress are going on
with alacri,y, assisting many cases oil
Impoverished sufferers from the food
No doubt bat all necessary means will
be secured to accomplish the desired
end. Subscriptions for the general Re-
lief Fund are lihersl, already footing up
thousands, many private individuals Civ
ing SIS coo, and requests 10 "call again
liz necessary II will be weeks before
the Inundated dwellings, not rrined, can
be repaired and made inhsbita5le The
railroads are still in a badly crippled
condition, and telegraph lines down all
directions.
At Bridgeport the loss to the NJ. E.
Church will be about 5000; Jas. LYLE.
$500 John Hill, $1,000; VIM. Griffin,
$500, and George Stewart, $500. The
G., L & W. trestle to West Wheeling is
gone, also their ice house. a carload
of provisions we're sent in from St
Clairsville and much more is promised
About $500 is promised the sufferers by
st. Clairsvil!e.
At Warrenton about twenty houses
W. re carried away besides those upset
and displaced. The Dawson Hotel, a
good-sized brick house, was crum bling
down yesterday. At Rainey's coal
works only one house remains on the
west of The railroad, and other places
above here suffered accordingly.
Parkersburg suffered severely; the
estimated loss is about 81, coo, 600, but
at present it is difficult to give an ap-
proximste estimate. The Baltimore Il
Ohio freight depot is all broken to
pieces, the iron bridge over the Kama
wha is going out. The Ohio River Rail
road Company has their engines and
several sondolas in the river. The Park
ershurg Mill Company have lost S3O,.
900 In grain. In Belpre forty-three
houses have been swept away, also street
pumps, the -four and planning mills
Wiliiamssown and Harmsr, twelve miles
above here, are entirely submerged.
There is great distress at Marietta;
of the town is under wa
ter, the grain elevator ia bursted, the
and comfy bridges over the
Muskingum are both swept away, and
private residences unnumhered. Each
of the towns mentioned have organized
relief committees. Marietta and Har-
mar are suffering from famine.
CHARLEsTowN, W. Va, February IL.
AN appeal for help came from. Poin,
Pleasant and other towns on the Kama
wha river this morning, whereupon the
city council donated five hundred dollars
iu cash, the citizens fifteen hundred dol
lars in money and provisions. Tie gov
ernnent boat Bee left at 2 o'clock this
afternoon loaded with provisions. The
steamer John D. Lewis will follow 10
night, loaded with provisions.
EAST LIVERPOOL o., February o.
The river is receding very slowly at this
point, and damage done is really greater
than anticipated Geo. S. Harker & Co :,
have lost iully $4,000. This place has
lost very heavily in wares and glszes.-
Hosts of men are at work at each of the
factories clearing up the wrecks. AL
Jethro people are reduced almost to
starvation. Jethro is within the city
limits. yet the mayor nor any of the city
officials have net made single effort to
relieve the wants of the sufferers there
LAwRENcEBuRG, IND, Feb. 1.-THE
condition OF things here is gradually
growing worse.
Even those who are best prepared did
not expect the water to remain over the
town more than week. and the supplies
of many of them are we'll nigh exhaus-
ted There is bread enough mere to last
all day tomorrow, and there are also
several barrels Of crackers, but that is
about all they have. There was no co.,
fee to be had to-day, bat the township
Rustees telegraphed to indianapolis for
some, and it is expected here to morrow
Coal oil is all gone, and many houses
are in total darkness. Only two or three
houses have been removed from their
foundations within the past twenty-four
hours, but tonight several arerexpected
to succumb The more the. losses are
examined the greater appears to be the
amount. The Big Miami is still pour
ing its waters into town, and the current
carries everything loose before it From
present indication there will not be much
OF the town left after the food. One
man told the journalist to-day 30 put the
loss at $50, 600, another 10 make it $780,
600. but the writer of these dispatches
was sent here toreport things as be finds
them, regardless of nhat some OF the
Interested citizens say. The whole viii
lage of Hardentowp, few miles north
east OF this CITY, is under water and the
people scattered among their friends and
anywhere they could find protection in
the town.
STEuBENvILLE. o, Feb. 10.-A mem
Der of skiff party that LETT East Liver
pool yesterday and arrived in this city
this morning gives what came under his
observation regarding the damage by
the food: From Industry to Steuben
vile yesterday morning The river on the
Ohio side was filed with wrecked hous-