The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-22
TIE MIGHTY WATERS.
Steamers Burdened With Supplies
Carrying Happiness to the
Stricken Sufferers.
Active Measures for Relief on Pomeroy
Bend-No Fear of Water Famine
at Cincinnati-The River
Falling Above.
THE oHIo's STEADY FALL.


CINCINNATI, Feb. 1s.-The river is reced-
ing about an inch and a half an hour, and
stood at sixty-four feet. There was a hard
rain yesterday forenoon. Three roustabouts,
at the risk of their lives, undertook to re-
, cover 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 and their
two children, two and four years of age, in
bed, evidently drowned. The father and
mother each had child in their arms.
They also found the bodies of Mary G.
Golfer, James Ogden and J. W. Kyle. The
reported finding Of Burke's body on Friday
was mistake.
A four-story brick building on Central
Avenue, near Second, fell Saturday night.
The last of the family were removed from
it in the afternoon. In all the submerged
portions of the city where the frame houses
have been moved from positions, the
owners are endeayoring to float them back
to their places. The same thing is done at
Newport, KY.
PoMERoY, OHIO.
PoMERoY, Feb. 18.-The relief boat
Katie Stockdale arrived here Saturday even
ing. Her intention was to go direct to
Ironton, after leaving ParkerSburgh, but
the people of Belleyille, w. Va, called the
boat i'll and quantity of provisions were
given. But six houses remain in the town,
and they are nearly all badly wrecked. AS
the boat proceeded down the stream, the
broad farming bottoms on each side were
gradually being relieved of water. AT
Racine, the head of the Pomeroy Bend,
twelve miles long, was entered. This bend
is narrow bottoms on both sides Of the
river, and contains some twenty coal
mines, eighteen salt works, and twelve
towns with thirty thousand Inhabitants, of
whom eight thousand are laborers. Six of
the mines are flooded, and will not be
pumped out for six to eight months. Eight
thousand people are idle, and nine thousand
homeless and demanding immediate assist
ance. The river in the bend reached sixty
four feet but has fallen fourteen feet and
is going down at the rate of two inches an
hour.
. To paint the scenes of destruction of the
ruined towns, dernolishing buildings, over
turned and wrecked houses and bridges,
mud and debris daubed and outraged land,
and homesteads needs simply one word,
lawful" Let the imagination picture its
worst and it will not paint the hand of the
flood upon this once bright land of Pomeroy
Bend.
TERRIBLE SUFFERING.
PARKERsBURG, w. Va, Feb. 18-The
United States relief boat Katie Stockdale,
in charge OF Col. Thomas Rose of the
Fourteenth Infantry, and carrying one mil
lion dollars worth of provisions to the suf
ferers, arrived here yesterday morning.
The Stockdale lay at Marietta, o., from mid
night until morning The inhabitants Of That
city are supplied with provisions, but
in bad necessity for clothing and bedding,
They are still in the school-house, churches
and barns on the high ground. The water
has Teceded twenty feet, and stood at 6 a.
m. thirty-three feet three inches. The
banks are coming out of water on both sides
on the river, and the full destruction is eX-
posed. 1t paralyzes description. The people
at ParkerSburg are in good financial con-
dition, and though the losses are heavy,
the city will take care of its own sufferers.
The city has lost over one hundred build
ings. The TraceWell corner has fallen in.
The homeless are in the churches and
school-houses The town of Belpre oppo-
site Parkersburg, is mass of desolation
It's principal street. with Stone
and Hadley's flour mill, and nu-
merous brick and wood buildings,
has totally disappeared. The losses al
Parkersburg, as carefully estimated to date,
are one million dollars, with more returns
to come in. The Parkersburg Mill Com
pany's loss is $40, 900 of this amount. The
Stockdale will proceed from here direct to
Ironton, 1926 miles west of Pittsburg, and,
turning there, come up stream and deliver
to the sufferers on the route. The Govern
ment has notified the towns needing fnan-
cial aid to draw upon Colonel Rose
i'll sums of from $500 to $4,000, according
to necessity. The river has fallen twenty
feet from the high-water mark, but is sta
tionary. With the present cold weather,
however, no more floods are feared. Old
river men state that it will be about ten
days before the river regains its normal
condition.
SHAWNEEToWN, IND.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 1S.-At Shawnee
town the river had reached fifty feet four
inches a rise of nearly five inches during
the night. A heavy rain fell all night and
during the early hours of the morning
The latest news from Wabash is
that the river is again rising and
the Tennessee is pouring a great flood
into the Ohio. Taking these facts into ac-
count, Shawneetown people can count upon
more. water than they had last year. At the
nour mentioned, the water is eighteen inches
below the highest point touched last year,
The highest water previously recorded.
Several more of smaller, more exposed
buildings left their foundations last
night, and other disasters of this kind are
inevitable. Many of these houses are tied
up to neighboring trees or are securely
anchored and will not float off. Many
however, have been carried by the swift
current as far as the southern embankment
and most of them have gone to pieces.
PADUCAH, KY.
The news from Paducah is far from assur.
ing. Much of the city is now under water
and the river is rising steadily, and during
the past thirty-sx hours has increased rap
idly. The people there are counting upon
three CT four feet more of water, which will
carry the water to a greater height than last
year. The situation in several towns
above and below is already quite as bad az
last year, but owing to the frequent recur-
renee of such disasters the facts are not so
well known to the country at large.