Morning journal and courier., 1890-02-27
NeWS Dy iel6gFapn FR0M ALL QUARTERS. CYCLONES AND FLOODS. Life and Property Destroyed
 by Their Work. THE GRAVE ROBBERS INDICTED: Resolution Adopted by the
 Pan-Americans. SIX PRISONERS TRY TO ESCAPE. More Details of the Dam
 Disaster.
SIX PRISONERS TRY TO ESCAPE.
WORK OF THE ELEMENTS.

Heavy Rains In ohio, Indiana and Illln0Is-Railroads Blocked by Snow in the Northwest.
 WASHINGTON, D. O., Feb. 26.-Ths weath- CT reports from the south Atlantic and east Gulf states indicate that one of the warmest periods of which there is any record during the month of February occurred over that section yesterday and to day. Following are the maximum temperatures of Tuesday at selected stations with their relations to the highest temperature ever observed during February, viz:
 Washington City, 72, six degrees below.
 Lynchburg 72, two degrees below.
 Norfolk 78, three degrees below.
 Wilmington 7S, three degrees below.
 Augusta, 84, two degrees above.
 Charlotte 78, two above.
 Atlanta 76, one above.
 Montgomery 80, one below.
 Savannah 80, one below.
 The highest recorded temperature during February at Washington City-seventy-eigh degrees occurred in 1874.
 STRUCK BY CYCLONE.
 MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 26.-Brownsville, Tenn, six miles northeast of Memphis, on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, was struck by oyclons at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. Half the business houses of the town were unroofed and many materially damaged, while several buildings are in press wac unroo1ed, the Northern Methodist church was demolished and . brick mill was unroofed. It next struck the handsome building of the Bzownsville Savings bank. The roof was picked off and fell to the street with tremendous crash. Three squares of buildings across the street just north of the bank were unroofed with the exception of the house of J. B. Phillips & to. Only one house is reported to have been damaged, that of Mrs. s. A. Paynson, Washington street. Just following the cyclone came great flood of rain that completely drenohsd the goods in the various unroofed houses, causing almost complete destruction in most cases. The life reported is that of woman about three miles from Brownsville, who was struck by Q falling tree and instanly killed. Her two children were severely injured.
 ST. LOUIS, Fob. 28.-A tornado swept over and through the southern part of Hot SprinRs, Ark, yesterday, carrying away fences. overturning frame houses, and doing g good desl of damage to other property. which stood on top of Hot Springs Noun tain for several years, was blown down. The storm came from the west, and reports are coming in that its track between Wichita river and the springs is marked by wrecked farmhouses, prostrated trees and general de- struction of property. No lives have been persons have been killed and wounded.
 TELEGRAPH WIRES DOWN.
 LOUISVILLE, Feb. 26.--Ths storm on Mon telegraph service and not . word of direct communication can be had with the south. Until Il o'clock last night all connection with the southern states was cut oil, but at that time the Western Union succeeded in getting Southern by way of Cincinnati. Chattanooga is below the track of the storm and the prin- cipal cities of the south can be reached by It.. Manager Smith of the Western Union says that while one wire is better than none it Is not sufficient to enable the transmission of ons-ten,h the messages. The wires went down all oyer the storm section at about the same time, soon after midnight: Until Q o'clock yesterday morning all com municstion was cut off. Then one wire was found, but at Il o'clock a storm-shattered pole gave way, and 1t, too, was lost. It is impossible to ascertain anything about the damage done to either wires, houses or peo- pie, or even to find out the area covered by tho storm. It ii reported that thirty poles are down near Rocky Hill, Ky. Mr. Smith ordered three gangs of men on special trains last night and two more came up from Nash vile. All the gangs are at their destination and are waiting for daylight. The work of repairing the wires and erecting new poles will be pushed speedily, and Mir. Smith says noon to day. The furthest south that wires have been found safe is fifty miles, where one wire is sound, but here it, too, breaks ab- ruptly of.
 INJURED BY FALLING BUILDING. NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 26.-Thsre is little damage around Nashville 90 far as heard from. Two spans of the Tennessee river bridge at Johnsonville are blown ont. The Cumberland river and all streams are rising rapidly. Several houses were unroofed | are reported. At Frankfort the Kentucky river is rising very rapidly and great loss Is | reported. At Keathley, Tenn, the bank building belonging to Winslow, Fisher q Baird was blown to splinters. Thirty five persons were in the building at the time, of whom about six were more or less injured, none fatally. George Kitchiner of Lowell, Mass. had his head and thigh severely bruised; E. o. Cross of Proctorville, Vt, had his right leg crushed at the thigh; George Thatcher of Middlesboro, had an arm broken; Dr. Hudgings of Knoxville, Tenn, was severely injured in the eyes and had both legs and an arm broken oil. At Marion, Ky, there was severe wind storm. The court house was unroofed and partly blown down and the records badly damaged. The opers house was unroofed, | and several big houses were more or less damaged. Several dwellings were injured, and Mrs. Bells was badly injured by falling timbers.
 FLOOD IN THE OHIO.
 CINCINNATI, Feb 2e.-All the elements of a disastrous flood in the Ohio river seem to be HOW present. Continuous wet weather has saturated the earth SO that the excessive rainfalls of the past three or four days have all found their outlet in the tributaries of the river. Along tho entire valley of tho Ohio the rainfall has been enormous. From the Kentucky side, Big Sandy river comes with a boom almost unparal- leled, while Kanawhs river, further up, also pours out its swelling volume. The scioto. Hooking. Muskingum. in ohio, as we'll as the two Miamis, keep the river bed full, while rise is coming down from head waters. The rise since nine 8. m. yesterday for twenty four hours is over seven feet, and the gauge now shows forty-nine feet six inches in the channel. About five feet more will begin the interference with rail, road traffic, and every inch after that will increase that trouble, as we'll as cause the elevation of great quantities of goods in all the bottom part of the city. Flood is in. evetable; It's proportions depend on ths weather of the next few days. Instead of the twenty-two degrees foretold yesterday for eight a. m., the thermometsr t above fifty and all shrinkage from freezing il loat. If rain should follow, 1t will only in crease the dimensions of the coming flood. There is already disturbance of river navi' gation, as steamers cannot pass under th' suspsnsion bridge. The steamer Sherlock ,fol New Orleans.is compelled to defer her depart ure until the water falls, on that account At Hamilton, O., the Big Miami was higher last night than it has been for ten years. I'm water had entered the Straub house, one Q the principal hotels of the city, and many houses were submerged in part. In many places the heavy rainfall was attendsd' wisl high wind.
 IN OHIO, INDIANA AND IrLINos.
 COLUMBUS, O., Feb. s6.-The water in tn ss Scioto river did not reach the point of dam
 age until ? o'clock this morning, when th
 river broke into tho canal bel0k the city, lan the water covered vaat expanse ot lol
 lAnds. Tho principal damags VIII hs to th