The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-22
Fifty Goal Boats Belonging to the
Pittsburg Coal Company Sink.
The Drainage Machines Cannot
Work on Account OF the Flood.
The Country About Wheeling, w. Va
Cots a Repetition of the July Dis
aster-Crop Prospects Blasted
in Mississippi-De

day the wind continued from the east
ward but had so moderated that no at
tention was paid TO il. At $50 O'Clock |
pm. the wind again strengthened, and |
by o'clock am. Sunday was blowing
gale, which held from the eastward until |
o'clock Monday morning. when il veered |
TO southwest. Al s o'clock am. the storm |
began to lull, and by noon had about
ended. The signal service reports the
rainfall for the twelve hours ending at
o'clock Sunday morning $1,000 inches.
The total for twenty-iour hours was 81
inches. The highest velocity OF wind OBJ
served was sixty miles an hour at g O'Clock
in the evening oithe 10th inst, which blew
the wires off the thermometer and pre-
vented observations of the maximum
velocity, but the average is given as forty
miles per hour. Great damage was done
in the city and throughout the sugar belt,
from Baton Rouge 10 the gulf, including
the rice section Of the State. Much of the
sugar cane and rice was blown flat on the
ground and many sugN-houses and dwell
ings were damaged. The damage 10 the
sugar crop is roughly estimated at from 10
TO 20 per cent, and 10 the rice crop 20 TO
90 per cent.
In the city many houses were uproofcd,
fences Frustrated and trees unrootcd.
The heavy rain on the night OF the 10th
for time flooded the entire city. The
rear portion of the city, west OF Claiborne
street, is still inundated, the water in the
canal being 80 high that the drainage ma
chimes are comparatively useless. The city
was in darkness Sunday night (l0th), the
| electric light wires coming in contact with
| the wires OF the telephone and telegraph
companies, necessitating the cutting of OF
| the electric current. The greatest damage
done by tho storm about tho city was
along the river front with fifty coal boats
belong 10 Pittsburg and Southern COM
pany were sunk, valued at $1,000 each.
The small steamers, w. &. Little, Laura
and Barataria, were also sunk. The
steamboat III Richardson went adrift, had
her chimneys blown overheard aud sus-
tanned other damages. There are hun.
drcds OF minor losses throughout tho city
that will in the aggregate amount 10
thousands OF dollars.
The storm drove waters Of the gulf up
against and over the Louisville q Nash
vile railroad embankment, extending
from Michon to Lookout station, distance
OF twenty miles, causing many washouts
and the suspension Of traffic over that
portion of the road.
The loss on coal bargcs sunk Is today
estimated at 100000. The crops alonl
the river for distance OF over twenty
miles have been entirely destroyed. A.
number of vessels aTc overdue, and un
doubtcdly encountered the storm IN the
puli. The Future City, with seven bargcs
and the Oakland, with xix bargcs, bou
from ~. Louis, due here sunday, have MOI
yet arrived, and nothing has been hear
from them.
Passengers arriving by the Texas & IA
=, cinc railroad from Shreveport rvport dam
: nyr Ia buildings and crops similar % tia
done nj Donaldsonyillc and ilnIucnihc
, | Sugaf.houscs aud other buildings wcr
damaged or destroyed, and crops wcr
= blown down. A similar condition OF ~
f,ir. h rpported from many points on th
, Morgan road A sugaf-lou on Ngenics
Magnolia plantation WIS demolished. Fiv
~ snpit.houscs In the vicinity Of Jcnnctt
ars reported TO have been badly damaged
The steamboat Warren had her chin
ncys blown overheard nt Baton Rouge %
sunday night, and during the cNgl,cmcn
I, which followed, John u. l.ucketi, one q
u the best known clerks on the river, fell
the boiler deck aud broke his neck. III
= body was sent to Louisville.
pI.,strous Flood About wheeling.
, wngsLlsa, W. Va, Aug. 2l.-A siorI
~ which. in H. disastrous effects, rivals thi
Of July 10 last, has been In progress he
n since 3 o'clock am, and shows no sigI
= of abaiing. Wheeling creek, In the na
N row valley cast Of Wheeling, Is q 70
higher nj q o'clock pm. than ever bCiur
y roads being flooded from two 10 six f.
n. deep and bridges destroyed. II
valley Is now one angry flo
M and the damage can DO ON
al estimated by the wreckago that dash
ny through tho city aud out into the nv,
AZ I:.IO y. m. q piece Of the wooden bird
H., ON tho Baltimore X Ohio from out Z
W, Pittsburg division struck tho Baltimore
wv Ohio bridge nj Main and sixteenth stree
which was destroyed In July and rcbuI
~ and II was carried away with the rapid
IN OF a cannon ball Warned by lOrn
lay experience, thcW was no person on u
$50 =. M, while LOW ot moro "
., ple were massod on The snbsll
al. / tal Htono UIlhRt oNNi 'H'''l
W. ~ creek at Main street, man ON
W. creek bank, 100 feet above shouted va
w ina aud the panic stricken crowd rust
over AMI into each other In Wild OF
M 10 reach terra lnna. After the bridge
mas cleared those nearest, seeing II still
rs pareutly safe, turned back laughing at VI
lt2, Iatc alarm, but before they reached II
WI, bridge, ilO feet Ia length, fell with O.
ana and tiie water loaped sixty icct !
the air. Water gus aud mi
liss rial. gas mains, sewers, telegraph
IN n telephone wires, electric lights aud ~
has car wira conductors were carried do
vol The Baltimore x Ohio depot, built 9
Sow tho creek, and the Market street
MI bridge. II Is feared, will 20 The 10
will reach $4,000. Tie fact that
last wafer rose gradually aud in daylight is
lille, lieyod 10 have prevented loss Of lie.
tho n Il known that five Baltimore & {
l3b. bridges, rebuilt after the Former III
Iem- have been destroyed, and the WhecliI
tho Flm Grove bridge over the Woods ~
Iablo also gone.
All trains have been ordered abandC
..iio ON the Ohio River road. About 20O'
L., yates 10 the Republican State convcu
81, al Charleston tomorrow are stuck on
iii, road nj sistcryiilc, forty miles south OF
rcen. river ---------
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