Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-17
WESTERN FLOODS.
The Receding Waters Exposing Wrecked
Homes and Ruined Towns
Ready Relief.

Cincinnati, February l6, 8 a. H.
The river is siXty-five feet eight inches,
n fall of seven and lhree-quarter inches
since II. M. Weather cloudy and
moderating. Portsmouth reports
fall of four feet from the highest point
of the flood.
Pariersburg, w. Va, February To-
The United States relief steamer Katie
Stockdale arrived here this morning
loaded to the guards with 300 tons of
relief supplies and n hundred tons OF
coal. The supplies aboard cost $5O, 900
of the $4,000 appropriated, and the
government has telegraphed to hooded
towns on the boats route the privilege
to draw on the remaining $4,000 IN
sums of $500 to ST, 1000 according TO their
necessities. The submerged country
is slowly shaking off the waters, and
the devastation paralyzes description.
The roofs of houses and piles
OF brick and timber tell the tale
all directions. Provisions are said
to be plentifully supplied, but the
people suffer from cold weather.
Marietta, Ohio, is hurricane wreck.
Houses are torn, Quilted and demol-
ished on all the streets; there are no
inhabitants except in the second
stories and not many OF them. Par
kersburg will be able to assist its own
sufferers, but the restitution of smaller
settlements is intense Belpre is a
wreck, aud its principal street has en-
tirely disappeared with only few
piles of brick to mark its location. a
tow boat with its tow swung abreast OF
| the town Revenswood and held the
houses from being swept away last
t..xN nd n
its inhabitants would have been en-
quilted. The wires are down in all di-
rections. The Slockdale leaves ten
tons of freight here to be distributed
by the relief committee at this point
entirely suspended. The loss at Par
kersburg is 81 600 600.
New York, February 1G.-The mayor
received to-day for the Ohio sufferers
81 455. The produce exchange has
collected "a, 242
Boston, February l6. - The total
amount collected here for the western
flood sufferers is 81, 500.
Parkersburg, w Va, February is.
The United States relief boat, Katie
Stockdale, in charge of Colonel
Thomas Rose o: the Fourteenth in
iantry, and conveying provisions to
Hood sufferers, arrived here at seven
O'clock this morning. The Stookdale
lay at Marietta, Ohio, from midnight
III morning. The inhabitants of that
city are supplied with provisions, but
are IN bad necessity for clothing
and bedding. They are still In
schools, churches and barns on the
nigh ground. The water has receded
twenty feet, and stood at 6 a. m. thirty
three feet three inches. The banks are
coming out of the water ON both sides
VI lhe river and the full destruction Is
exposed. 1t paralyzes description,
hhe people at Parkersburg are
ih good financial condition aud though
, .ne losses ARE heavy, the city will take
, eare OF Its own suffering. The city has
mst over a hundred buildings. The
plaekwellcorner has fallen in. The
noineiess are In the churches and
schools schools, The town of Belpre opposite
a rafkersburg, Is mass OF desolation
y Tvs principal street, with Stone q
q hh,aaiey's flour mill and numerous
\ T Tpick pui dines, has totally dlsappeared
il a. ne losses at Parkersburg full,
s ss',n to date are $1,000 600
:, WIN more returns to come In. The