Telegram-herald., 1891-02-24

re 0Aie River Rapidly Rising AZ
Many Panls.
4 Disssffocs FIooa TarsSteRec - Cla.
elnnssi-Lises Reported Lest IA
hsso4ri snd Arizona

Il the fact that L i failing rapidly
Wheeling ana st Parksrsbarg, and
also that TIE headwsters of the great
k4aawha age falling The effect II tie
rood here AZ this stage 0f tie water is
ineQnYenient. bat pot disastrous The
raalr ads 4 use the Central depot
are compelled 10 vae.ts il. bat they
al have imProylsed passenger sta-
tioDs which they use Instead The 1hes-
speaAe ( Oh o aud the Kentucky Cea-
tral are * options e. th-s rales as the
water viii not reach the door of TIE
I Central station until rise 90 al least
about q foot more. The Panhandle
road is not affected a. all, nor its
depot. The Cincinnati Hamilton s.
Dayton and the trains running into
its depot arrive and depart as usual
I Since the food Of 1854 when the Ohio
& Mississippi road was disa oled between
| here and Lawrenceburg, its track has
/ been raised, So that IL - out of dan
ger against any Hood that IS likely to
( come. At Newport water is four feet
deep at ISABELLA and Fourth streets and
a number of families are seeking other
houses In Coy.ngton the low-lying
portions are submerged, but none of
I the large manufactures are interfered
with yet At Portsmouth the water
works have been stopped by the over
| flow, but the manufactures are situated
above what IS now regarded as the
probable height of the flood. ParlSers-
burg has lost It's gas and water, and is
| in danger from a coal famine.
The big Four" road IS under water
froIn Lawrenceburg 10 Aurora, Ind,
and is abandoned. The Mill creek
| bottoms are vast lake miles
/ in extent. Under the water
| thousands of acres Of truck
gardens lay submerged and damaged
thousands of dollars Out in the west
| end a hundred houses are submerged
and the inha bitants have fled to higher
| ground A half-dozen factories in that
section are closed down and probably
ESQ hands are out of employment.
Louis Cook & Co.'S big carriage fac
| tory has shut down. The White Lina
street-car route IS covered with water
! for 2 miles. Down in the bot
toms all the Easements and first
floors have been emptied for four
squares back from the river. On Front
| street the water is on the third floors.
A dozen foundries are stopped and busi-
| ness of ell kinds in that section of the
city is largely suspended. Livezay's
monster sawmiil is closed down and
| half the other factories in the town, in
cluding the Addystone pipeworks, are
also closed. Dayton is completely sur
rounded
IRoNToN. o., Feb. 23.-The city is
suffering from another food. The
water has submerged all the lower sec
| tions and driven hundreds of families
ing in the business parts of the'city and
the river is stiil rising.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. 23.-The
| heavy snow, which was followed by
rain, has caused an oveEiowing of the
| Missouri river and resulted in a casualty
| in which five lives were lost. Frederick
| Warner, a German fisherman, lived
| on the bank OF the river with
| his wife and three children in a small
house. Saturday night the combined
| rain and high water caused the house
!
into the river with the whole family.
! The cries of the people reused the neigh
| bors and they rushed to the spot, but
were too late to be of assistance. The
/ bodies OF Mrs. Warner and two of the
| children were recovered about mile
below the place where the accident oc-
cnrred. but Warner and the youngest
child were not found, and il is supposed
that they were swept further down the
| stream.
PARKERsBuRs, VI. Va, Feb. 23.-Fire
broke out Friday night in . warehouse
| IN the submerged districts. caused by
the water overfowing some lime. 1t
spread rapidly and ten houses, includ-
ing four warehouses, were destroyed.
| The estimated loss is over $40, 900. The
river is slowly falling and the
worst is believed to be over. The
heavy rains Saturday night damaged
many stores and household goods which
were in the street. The report that
Riverside, a populur suburb of this
city, was swept away proved erroneous.
| The suburb has not less than 1000 pec-
pie and every house is in the water. bu.
the houses and people are safe and we'll
cared for.
WHEELING, W. Va. Feb. 23.-The
falling water in the Ohio showed that
the railroads centering here have lost a
very large amount of money through
/ damage TO tracks, bridges. embank-
ments and rolling stock. The Wheeling
& Lake Erie track, extending along the
[ xxass haul. Of +ha river from, Mo,4fr.s
Ferry to Steubenville, distance of
twenty-five miles. is almost total
wreck and will have to be very largely
reconstructed. involving loss of per-
haps 500. 000 The Cleveland Il Pitts
burgh had one washout over 200 feet
long and numerous smaller ones. and
the other roads suffer in proportion
The Ohio River road viii not be able to
move trains before Wednesday newt
CHARLEsToS. W Va. Feb. 2s.-Nevs
from PocahcEtas county is to the effect
that a considerable number Of people
living in the upper part Of that county
who were cut eff from supplies
Of fcod hy the recent terrible
storms arr IN destitute con
dision. The roads cannot BE traversed
ard al available stores Of food. gsr.
+ eraI groceries. etc. were soon exhaust
et. cora meal now being The lea6iu z
article of eoasunutfaa- MssTer sss-.
Plies are being brought On horseback
over tie mountains II sppesrs to be
the only source Of supply available
Msch suffering and want wiz inevIsa-
( hlv resnlt