Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-15

great damage. The garden spot on the
island of 1000 acres, connected with the
population OF 300, with the State Fair
Grounds and many elegant residences, is
submerged TO depth of six 60 ten feet, and /
every family compelled to move. The ex-
element caused the death OF man named
John Hall. The streets and houses in the
upper part Of the city are filed with home
less families Steamers are traversing the
streets of the island, taking Off families and
property The whole city front for dis
tahce of three miles is under water. /
at Benwood party of people were on
the river bank watching the flood when the
bank caved in, and man named Fred
Knuth was drowned.
At MAYNARD, suburb, a party of girls
were on a bridge which gave away and a.
girl named Mary Costo was drowned.
At Marietta q large crowd had collected
on the bank of the Muskingum, a tributary
of the OHIO. The bank gave way and fifty
people We're, preciPftated into tue food.
| Fifteen lives were lost, mostly children.
| 1t is impossible to obtain the names, as
| telegraph communication is now closed.
| A cradle containing a live baby was taken
! from the river this evening by wreckers-
Many farm animals were drowned.
foCNGSFoYN, o., FEB. 9.
/ The Mahoning River is on the rampage,
having reached the highest point since
| 1882. At Warren the west part of the city
\ is overlooked and scores OF families were
| driven from their honas. Manufacturing
| establishments ou the flats are all closed,
| including the Westlake Rolling Mill so
fasthere has been no loss of life, but many
! marvellous escapes OF people In Hats, refus-.
| ing to leave their homes until actually
| driven out. Since noon the river has risen
| from four TO eight inches an hour. IL Is
raining little to-night,- and il it contin.
ues the damage will be great in the manu-
4 featuring establishments. Reports from
the Shenango Valley, Sharon and Newcas-
| tie, Pa, say that the Shenango klyer Is
rising rapidly and railroad travel is sU2.
| pended.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 8.
The river rose rapidly all day, and at
| dark there was twenty-five feet in the ca
nal, and thirty-two feet nine inches IN the
| chute on the falls. Last February the Wa
ter reached height of forty-four feet six
inches. These figures plainly indicate that
we are to have another great and damaging
| flood. The rain has been pouring down
steadily all day., All of the shipping. part
and half of Portland are flooded, and soon
the water will go dashing over the cutoff
| into the Inflated point, where so much
property and several lives were lost
| last year. The name of the point is still
| fresh in the minds of the people, and it's
district is no doubt well defined to every
man, woman and child from the terrible
| ravageS of the floods of last year. The
I'scene in this territory this morning was
one OF the YSllleSL DpSsle ana CONFUSION. EV
ery street leading from these bottom lands
| was covered with wagons moving hitheT
and thither. Little children and old, de,
crepit women were rushing frantically
| about, carrying away what furniture their
| wasted strength could support. Every.
thing was in confusion, and the terror.
stricken people were rendered almost use.
less with fright. 30 ~ =
TOLEDO, o.. Feb. 6.
Reports from twenty-five towns up the
| Maumee valley, within hundred miles OF
| Toledo, indicate a rainfall of varying Sc.
verify during the twelve hours ending at
| noon to day. This afternoon it was rain.
| ing only slightly. The river here is as yet
but little above the ordinary stage. The
ice in the Auglaize at Defiance, o., broke
soon gave way and at the latest report the
river was rising rapid at that point, and
| overlooking the banks in East Defiance,
At South Toledo the river rose two feet the
twenty.four hours ending at 6 p. IN. and Is
still rising with indications OF the
ice giving way. Property along the
| river front = here has been secured
as far as possible against food.
The Sandusky river at Fremont is rising
slowly. The tracks OF the Wheeling &
NAV impede travel. No fears at present
are felt for the safety or the bridges. Cold
weather is promised which will doubtless
check the flow of water in'o the Maumee,
| ppSJioilallSs Il laOb GALlltI9 uNCAllAlo a Qto'
astrous food.
/ Defiance reports all ice out of the Au-
glaiZe at y. IN. No great damage was
done. The ice broke at Napoleon at p. IN.
and gorged an hour later two miles below,
and is flooding the lower part of the town.
The water is rising nine inches an hour.
The ice here is intact.
COLUMBUS, o., Feb. g..
The Scioto at this point has been rising
all day, and at nine O'Clock tonight
is within a foot of as high it
was last February and gradually
rising. The bikes along the flats
about 100 families moved out while others
have gone into the second stories of build
inGss in hopes that the water will fall. The
back water IS reaching intothe low grounds
at Franklinton and the people are in readi.
ness TO move should it become necessary.
Trains on the Columbus & Hooking Valley
Road stopped this afternoon, the tracks be-
low Lancaster being pretty muchsunder
water. The bridge at Logan on this line
went out tonight. All trains on the Scioto
Valley Road sre off and the bridge across
Paint Creek, near Chillicothe, went out. 1t
Will be several days before the running Of
trains can be resumed No trains on the
Little Miami have arrived or departed
since noon. Extensive damage from hi Oh
water here is feared unless the water soon
begins to fall. g.
| MEADvILLE. Pa. Febs6.
The western and southern parts of the
city are inundated. People 90 to and from
their homes there in boats. All factories
are compelled to shut down and schools
are mostly closed. Trains on the Mead
vile Railway are abandoned. a few pa =
r senger trains are running on the New York,
Pennsylvania u OHIO, but no freight. One
train ran to OIL City to-day, but that branch
will probably lie abandoned tomorrow
After last years flood all bridges in the
vicinity were raised several feet, and none
have been harmed. 1t is ill raining TO-
night.
GALLIPOLIs, o., Feb. @.
The river is rising three inches an hour.
Trains on the Columbus, Hooking Valley
and Toledo failed to arrive on account o.
high water.
CYNTHIANA. KY, Feb. 6.
The Licking river is thirty-lve feet and
still rising rapidly.
4 Curious Case.
An odd case recently occurred in ouI