The Red Cloud chief., 1884-02-22
THE LIMIT REACHED.

Alter G0'ng Above S~eventy.One Feet q
Cincinnati, the Flood mmences T.
Slowly S~ubside-Scenes Of Desolation IL
Its Track The Terrible Condition o.
Thousands Of Homeless Sufferers -
Glimpse of What is Being Done for Theil
Relief.
CINCINNATI, O., Feb. IA.
The flood reached its climax to-day
feet and = of an inch at noon. 1t re
manned stationary at that until two O'Clock
when a decline was noticed. At $3.50 it haG
gone down half an inch, and since then has
continued to decline-slowly, very slowly
but surely n steadily.
The news that the fall had begun was
hailed with joy by every class of citizens
The city is in a terrible condition. Bust
ness is suspended in nearly all the whole.
sale houses and manufacturing establish.
ments. As yet there has not been any
great catastrophe in Cincinnati, but every.
body is nervouSly apprehensive of N at
any minute; unless the waters fall very
gradually, il would seem almost impossible
to escape without immense losses from
warehouses and stores, filled with costly
goods, crumbling and falling from their
walls being weakenedby the waters so long
about them.
The situation at Newport, the second
largest of our Kentucky suburbs, is much
worse relatively than in Cincinnati. The
waters have risen, till out of the IL squares
in the town eighty nave been overlooked,
over twO-thirds of the town =, and of tine 49,
BOO inhabitants over 1900 have been or are
being afforded relief. mostly food.
When half a city is in such a condition
the scenes of distress may be imagined.
The distress and grief can only be pictured
and hardly described. Looking over the
vast territory now submerged naught but
ruin and desolation can be seen. The ter
rife vino and rain storm last night laid
waste many houses. The streets are now
in many places blocked with houses, sta
bles, porches, ETC., making it very difficult
Tor the relief boats 10 navigate. A reporter
went through the flooded districts with a
relief committee, and found people,
actually starving. AS coffee, bread
and meet were distributed to the
POOR sufferers they grabb d at the eatables
IN q daZed, half-famished manner that was
heartrending to witness. Twenty houses
we're counted turned bottom upward. Tel:
thousand peple were given dinner at the
soup-house to-day. Seven thousand loaves
of bread, 1000 pounds of meat, 1,5I, gallons
IF soup and 1,GOJ gallons of coffeeVyere dis
tributed by the relief committees to-day.
In C%ovingtOn the situation is not much
worse than yesterday. The town stands
much higher than Newport. About LOCO
people are being fed there.
At Dayton, KY, by actual count, there
are 3l5 houses submerged. Taking on an
average seven people to a house. it makes
over 1000 homeless people.
On the Ohio side, Mill Creek Valley, at
the west end of Cincinnati, presents a
scene Of the utmost desolacion. Houses
are inundated, some of them to the second
story, and others submerged; stables and
sheds are overturned; tops of freight cars
and all kinds of rubbish and refuse is float
ing about.
at Lawrenceberg, Ind, over 500 houses
have been swept away n upwards of
1900 people are homeless. Fears of still
greater damage are not unfounded, as the
banss built to protect the city from an
overflow OF the Miami river rave been
broken down. and 3 resistless torrent of
twelve to twenty feet of water is pouring
through the neart of the city.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. IA, 6 p. NJ.
The river continues to rise. The canal
gauge registers .forty-siX feet, eighteen
inches higher than at any time last year.
The strong wind of last night caused the
waves to do much damage in the sub
merged district. A great many houses
have fallen or floatcd OIL. The water is
still rising, though the ground is hard
frozen, and this morning reached the cellar
of the Board of Trade building, putting
out the fire in the furnace. There is no
likelihood of any further rain and the
river is expected to be at n stand by morn
ing.
Inch bv inch the wafer has come up at
JefferSonville till nearly every street has
disappeared. Ii the water continues to
rise a. the present rate, by noon Friday
there will not be a dry spot in the town.
Sights are the most appalling and distress
ing. Houses have caved in and hundreds
of people are huddled together in some
buildings. Many remain in second stories,
shivering. suffering from dampnesS and
cold, and IN many cases hunger. The PEN
.itentiary is still on. of water, but a little
more water and the convicts will become
flood sufferers with nowhere to go.
Utica, Ind, is almost out of sight. The
Inhabitants fled to the hills for safety.
GAINESVILLE is entirely depOpulsted.
EVANSVILLE, ND, Feb. ii.
At Shawneetown the water is approach
ing the second story of the Riverside Hotel
and steadily swelling. Officers o. tine last
boat from there describe it as q scene of
desolation equal to that of last year. No
as yet nave been moved from tnelr
foundations, but as the water swells the
danger inceases, and there is great dread
of wind, which would inevitably do grear
damage. One hundred AMI twenty pens of
corn in the water were counted on the In
side in a distance of ten miles below
Henderson. 1t can not be reached. This
represents 5000 bushels, the loss or which
will be at least 30 per cent.
ADDISON, IND, Feb Il.
The noO6 in the OuiO river at this DOipt
will probably reach its height Tomorrow
morning, two feet higher than the food of
last year. The damags to property in this
city will be greater tnan last year on &C.
of the additional height of the water.
IRONTON, o., Feb. Il.
Telegraphic communication was re-estab-
ished to-day. Three-fOurths Of the town is
lnder water, including the entire business
the water is seven feet higher
han in 1881. Though it has fallen consid-
it is still above any known high
water mark. Soup-houseS are open, but ,
IRE inadequate. Thousands are homeless I
md penniless. Every door is open, but {
here is not enough room. Frame houses ,
ire swept from their foundations and brick
crumbled into the water. At
hanging Rock but four houses are above
water. Coryville has but two houses above
he food. Starvation stares thousands in d
he face. The iron mills nave stopped, and
many employees were destitute before the
lOod came. I
GALLIPOLIS, o., Feb. IA. y
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