St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-03
Over 5000 Residents of Chattanooga
Driven From Their Homes by
the Great Flood.
Rome, Ga, Suffers to the Extent Of
$1,000, 0,000-Heavy Losses in
Many Other Cities.
The People OF Cincinnati Anticipat-
ing High Water by Moving Eff
fects to safe Quarters.
Large Loss OF Life on Alabama Plan
tations--The Water Falling at
Richmond.
High Water i'm the South.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April 2.-There
is no improvement i'm the condition of
affairs here tonight. The flooded territory
has been largely increased to-day and at 8
p. IN. the river reached tifty-two feet. and
is rising an inch an hour. The river has
been falling all day at London, lockwood.
Dayton and CharlestOwn. 1t is estimated
that 5000 people are homeless in this city,
though they all have comfortable tempOr-
airy quarters and relief committees are sup
plying the necessities of life. The water
now stands q foot deep in the Union
passenger depot and has entered the
lower floors of the Read house and some
stores on Market street. The express COM
panies have moved to higher quarters. and
at this writing the water lacks eleven
inches of entering the Times counting
room, which is about the average height of
all the stores on Market street. A colOred
man and white child were drowned to-
day. The city is pOliced tonight by the
military. All the railroads on
the Chattanooga side of the river
are under water, i'll some places
ten feet. Heavy washouts have occurred
on the Cincinnati Southern and Western
" Atlantic roads. All roads report that
their lines are open except about Chatta-
nOOga. and in consequence no connection
can be made. Trains are running on the
East Tennessee road to Cleveland, Tenn,
on the Western & Atlantic to Dalton, on
the Cincinnati Southern to Rathburn. Tenn,
on the Memphis Il Charleston to Stevenson.
Ala, on the Nashville IL Chattanooga to
Wauchatchie. Tenn. The Georgia division
OF the East Tennessee road has not re-
sumed. No mails have reached or left
Chattanooga since Monday.
THE DAMAGE VERY GREAT.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, April 2.-Specials
to the Advertiser from Rome, Ca, places
the loss there at 81. 500, 900. At Selma the
gas works are abolished and the city is in
darkness. A steamboat reached there to-
day with $50 rescued negroes. Nine ne
groeS were drowned on one plantation.
The Warrior river falls slowly. Great
damage is reported all along its banks, es-
pecially in horses and mules and corn.
Distress is reported from all the overflowed
sections. The loss of life and property
cannot be yet cOnjectured. Actual meas
urement makes the flood five feet and nine
inches higher than any record of the Ala
bama river.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, April 2.-The river
has fallen about sixteen inches. Boats have
been distributing food all day through the
inundated parts of the city. Several hun
dred persons, mostly negroes, have been
water bound for two days without food.
Reports from different points near here to-
day show that five more negroes have been
drowned. The steam ferry boat left here
to-day, going up the river to pick up all
persons in danger and to supply food to the
suffering.
REACHED ITS CLIMAX.
RICHMOND, Va, April 2.-The food In
the James river at this point reached its
climax at o'clock this morning. During
! the afternoon the water began falling
rapidly, and by tomorrow morning the
principal submerged streets will be free
from water. ALI trains have resumed run
ming except on the Richmond 81 Allegheny
railroad.
CINCINNATI APPREHENsIvE.
CINCINNATI, April AT $50 this even
| ing the snow, which had been falling nearly
all day, measured nearly four inches in
depth and was still falling. This fact to-
gether with reported rains up the river.
caused considerable apprehension as to
| floods, and business houses in the bottoms
have been all day removing goods from eel
lars and the first floors. Many cellars are
already flooded and the mills on the Licking
river have closed. The river at O'Clock
was fifty feet nine inches and rising two
inches an hour.
OPENING THE RAILWAYS.
LOUISVILLE. KY, April 2.-The Louis
vile IS Nashville has formed a connection
at Birmingham with the Georgia Pacific,
and is now taking passengers to Atlanta
and the Southeast by this route. Arrange
ments have been made for a boat transfer
at Montgomery and but small delay is now
experienced in all Southern business from
| the flood. The Knoxville division is also
open.
THE CONNECTICUT RISING.
HARTFORD. Conn.,, April 2.-The Con-
nectcut river at IL o'clock tonight wa:
twenty feet above the low water mark and
still rising. The cellars along the rive
front are flooded.