St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-21
The Great Flood.
SOME NARROWING DETAILS

SUturduy-1en people nave been
crushed by the falling walls of sub
merged house in Cincinnati. Relief
steamers report Alfalfa almost entirely
swept away in MillerspOrt twenty or
thirty houses are gone. At PrOctOrs-
vile the water is in the second stories.
CeredOla lost $500, 900 worth of lumber.
Manchester is wholly submerged. All
along the river the story comes of the
most generous aid being offered by the
farmers and others far into the interior.
They are sending food in wagons.
Without this aid much suffering would
have resulted. Aberdeen opposite
Maysville was badly wrecked by the
late storm, and the town is entirely
destitute. At Cincinnati the river re-
coded eighteen inches Friday.
ShawneetOwn, Ill.,, is submerged to
an average depth of eight feet and the
river is rising steadily. While John
Beatty was attempting to convey his
wife, three children, and two young
ladies named Weatherford across the
breakwater near Newhurg on the Ten
nessee river, the skitf was dashed
against Il tree by the current and upset.
Mrs. Beatty, all the childIen and one
of the young ladies was drowned. At
Portsmouth, Ohio, five carloads of pro-
visions have been received. Not a
street as yet out of the water. Nearly
ten thousand persons are being fed,
but one fourth of these must be housed
and fed for the next two or three
months. The thermometer dropped
from rs to about Is. Hundreds are
housed in the lofts of stables and other
places where it is impossible to warm
themselves.
Between Wheeling and MOundsville
the devastation is terrible much worse
than from Wheeling to PitUsburg. The
greatest financial loss is that of the
Ohio railroad. For a hundred miles
the track and roadbed have almost en-
tirely disappeared and the bridges have
been swept away.
Powhattan, Darlington, Sisterville
and GAINESVILLE, West Va, are entirely
under water. New Martinsville is in a
fearful plight; several lives were lost
there. The citizens have cannon on
the roof of "A house with which they
protect the town by preventing steam
boats approaching. At CochFansvllle
only few houses remain. A woman
there whose house was swept away died
from fright.
SUNDAY-It was still raining at
ShawneetOwn, Indiana, Sunday night
and the river was rising. The latest
news from the Wabash is that the
river is still rising, and the Tennessee
river is pouring Il great flood into the
Ohio. The depth of water throughout
ShawneetOwn ranges from Is to AZ
feet. Skiffs pass over good sized
houses, well weighted down, the roofs
of which can scarcely he reached with
| the longest oars. The situation in
Uniontown is hourly growing more
serious. The entire town is several
feet under water and the river is still
rising steadily. The suffering among
the refugees in the hills is increasing
Their provisions are giving out and
fuel has been scarce from the start,
while many additional cases of sickness
are reported.
Nearly all the plantations below
Pine Bluff, Ark, are more or less sub
merged. The situation of the planters
is critical. All the streams are swol-
len, and communication with Pine
Bluff was cut off Saturday. At Fulton
Saturday night the Red river was still
rising, and the flood covered the banks
on both sides for many miles. Hun
dreds of homes are flooded. The Occu-
pants are helpless aud cannot be res
cued. Live stock are drowning in
large numbers. Many houses are being
washed into the river.
The situation at Paducah, XIV, is
worse. Saturday night one-third of
that place was under water and it is
estimated that rise of two feet more
would cover the entire town. The gas
works were flooded last evening, and
the people are now dependent upon
lamps and candles for light New
Liberty, twelve miles above. Is entirely
abandoned, and nothing but the roofs
Of the houses can be seen.
The river is receding at the rate of
one and one-half inches an hour at
Cincinnati. Three roustabouts at the
risk of their lives attempted yesterday
to recover the bodies from the building
at the corner of Pearl and Ludlow
streets, which fell Friday morning.
They found the bodies of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Burke aud their two children.
two and four Years old, in bed, where
they had evidently been drowned. The
father and mother each had a child in
their arms. They also found the bodies
of Mary E. Cotton, James Ogden and
j. w. Kyle.
The United States relief boat Stock