The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-05-20

siderable. The suburbs report slight
damage. Reports come of damages by the
Washington, @. H., Albany. .Greenyille. Mari.
eta Lancaster and other Ohio points.
LATER FROM THE STORM.
xENIA, o.. May l4.-To-day the work OF
clearing away the debris OF the Wednesday
night Hood has progressed with considerable
effect. Large gangs of men are at work in the
stream, cleaning out the lumber, household
i goods, etc, with which IL Is filled, working
waist-deepin the muddy water The remains
/ OF the destroyed houses are being carted back
| TO the lots from whence they came, and where
| houses were not swept from their foundations,
1 but only flooded, the people have been busy
| shoyellng out the mud and sand that cover
i the carpets n foot deep. On East Water
| street several dwellings, containing fine fur
| niturc were flooded badly, the rich carpets
and costly household goods being utterly
ruined, sllverwnre foated away. fine stoves
| demolished and elegantly papered walls
ruined. Many OF the residents of tho
flooded part of the city are making
arrangements TO move to higher parts
| OF the city as soon as possible. The
| homeless who are without friends or rola-
tivee here. and who are principally colored
| people. nre being taken care of at the skat-
Ing rink, where the committees are Mt work
distributing food and clothing, large quanti-
ties of which have been handed In by Kindly
| disposed people. The word from the country
Is growing worse all the time. Houses on
! nearly all the roads leading TO the town have
suffered severe damage and many houses and
barn &basssihaySe been utterly DESTROYED; on the
Home, the houses are all damaged, the plank
walks thing OF the past, and the timbers
block up the road badly and have damaged
the bridges. The Office of the Xenia Manufac-
turing Company lies against the railroad
bridge on the road to the Home ms well as
great masses OF timbcrs. planks. The bridges
gone, and great holes washed In the road
beds.
Houses fences and trees, on the Cooley
Lesourd, late OF the Cr1Vipnati horse mar.
kets, were swept entire. Inway. The family
escaped by being in the cellar. The orchard
on this place yielded an income of about 500
year. Near this place the mills of the
Miami Powder Company are located, and
they are damaged badly, materials ruined
and houses ioated away. The loss will be
very heavy The, fences between yellow
Springs and Clifton nre about all gone.
and most of the orchards burns and out
buildings DESTROYED and houses nnroofed.
Xenla, the United Presbyterian Church was
destroyed and the usual number OF barns,
fences, etc., as well ne number OF valuable
horses killed, which was aise the case in
many places east Of town. The damage to
corntields was such that they Will all have TO
be repantcd.
Morris. who with his wife and fye children
was drowned. was warned by a neighbor in
time TO have escaped with his family. but
laughed at the idea OF danger. but u few
AhoAlthto uANtt thty WcAC uii III WhNtIl
graves.
DAYTON, o., May l4.-The losses by tho
storms and floods of "Wednesday night In the
nine counties of Greene, Clarke, Madison.
Miami, Darke, Preble. Montgomery, Butler
ana Warren are estimated TO foot up $1,000
900.
Edw Morchouse, Narrow-guage conduc-
tor anxious about his mother, who lives
in Xenia, walked from here there to-day
aud baok again. because by reason of the
fallen timber, debris and wNckage, no ono
can even ride horseback, and the
are gone. At Trebein station, while being
ferried across the Little Miami river, he and
the oarsman discovered living boy child in
a drifted tree top, and rescued the child. who
had an arm and leg broken. He had drifted
four miles down Shawnee creek from Xenia
into tho Little Miami. Hurricdly they started
In buggy with the child, but ii died before
they gotto Xenia.
Many incidents OF the disaster are related
now. In the angle formed by the railroad
family tottcred dangerously and lusty calls
drew the crowd around it. Planks would not
reach, but soon ladder was brought from
the wrecked fire truck and the family rescued.
Scarcely had the last member landed safely
when the house turned over, and u |
moment after went 10 pieces. The crowd
looked at II in nastonishmcnt and a stampede
followed the crashing of a portion OF brad
leys lax mill which stood near by.
In Bars Bottom. a stretch of low land noith |
Of the railroad, was a scene OF terrible de-
struction. or the fifteen or twenty houses
that occupied the fiat only two or three
could be seen, the rest having gone with !
the tide Here man dashed into the
water, reached a floating house Just as II |
turned over, but nothing daunted, he
crept in aud came out with babe A |
sudden crash sent the house in pieces
and he struck for the shore with his
precious burden when he disappeared be-
meath mass of debris When he reappeared |
he was hurllng through the culvert aud called |
out, II have lost the baby catch IL; 1t is right
down there; / can't reach it, A few rods be-
low he reached land. but the baby was not |
found until next day, II was dead. Six |
the same house that the baby was taken |
from.
AS terrible as the scene was along Detroit
and Water streets and Bars Bottom, the |
mad sweep of the waters WAS worse below. i
West Shawnee had caved out tho railroad |
bank. and the leaplng waters vled with East |
Shawnee In the work OF destruction Nearly |
two hundred houses were. overturned and de- \
molished west of the railroad, and tho cur |
rent quickly covered its track of devas- |
sston by s,TSeepns every covsrIns sraSe
the foundations with sediment. Several
hundred yards below much of tue debris
was stopped by. the Main-street bridge, and |
an indication of the destruction is given by |
the piled-up mass. At this bridge most OF |
tholives were lost. Those who were able 10 |
hang TO plank, or the house that remained |
went TO pieces here, and they were either /
dashed TO pieces or relentlessly held under
TO drown, or, II they were spared this terri
Bile fate by succ mbng sooner. they were /
buried under the debris.
At this place lodged the house Of 0rrin
Morris, wife AID seven children. The
house came for two squares with /
terrible rapidity on TO rs fate, and just
before the crash came. Norris appeared at |
the window with n light. The crash un-
balanced him, aud as the house turned and
twisted and all life disappeared, aud the
house went TO pieces. the family Of nine
went down. Next day seven we're found dead
and two appeared ul We. One, a Echild OF s,
had been washed ashore few rods below; |
mile and caught the abutment OF the last
bridge. He sags he could not find q piece OF
ilmhcr 10 catch hold OF SO he smam for the
shore.