The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-02-24
OHIO FLOODS.
The River Nine Feet Above the
Danger Line.
no GREAT DAMAGE DONE As YET.
Fearful Effect of q Locomotive Boiler TX
pIosion Freight Wreck Ia In-
diana-Floods In Queens
land.

CINCIN NATI, Feb. 20.-The Ohio has
| passed to nearly nine feet above the
danger line and is still slowly advanc-
/ ing. 1t is feared that the water will
reach ffty-seven feet before the rise is
! checked. The Cincinnati wharfboat
which sank last Tuesday was raised
! yesterday. Backwater in Mill creek
/ has flooded the lowlands along its
! banks.
The water has reached the railroad
tracks leading into the Grand Central
/ station, and it is possible that the in
! coming trains on some of the roads may
be delayed. The Scotia, a Pittsburgh
packet, was obliged to leave an hour
/ before its advertised time, in order to
| be able to pass under the bridges.
The Upschenecll is lying below the
| city, unable 10 come up on account of
| the high water At Il p. m. the river
| had reached 81 feet and is rising an
/ inch and a half an hour.
! PORTSMOUTH, O., Feb. 2G-The Ohio
river has passed the danger point here,
/ being 55 feet and inches, and is still
rising slowly.
The low lying portion of the city on
! East Front, Mill and Jackson streets
has been flooded and residents COM
| PEELED to move out A rough river pre-
/ walls and threatens further damage to
/ the flooded part As yet the business
/ portion of the city has suffered no dam
! age and none is expected. A falling
barometer and stiff wind prevail.
LOCOMOTIVE EXPLOSION
FORT WORTH, Tex, Feb 20-A Texas
/ & Pacific freight engine exploded in
the yards here this morning at $40
! o'clock, creating death and terrible
havoc. Engine No. 219. which had
been in use one and Il hall years, had
been run out of the roundhouse to go
on its run at o'clock Steam was up
and sufficient water in the boiler and
she carried 10 pounds OF steam fifteen
minutes before the disaster happened.
! At the hour of $40 the engine exploded,
arousing the entire city. The shock
broke window glasses in the immediate
neighborhood and at many points for
eighteen blocks away. Huge pieces of
the massive engine were hurled to al
most incredible distances around the
yard and the bell has not yet been
found.
Those killed and injured are; john
Mills, colored fire knocler, horribly
mangled, killed outright; Robert
Thompson, night roundhouse foremrn,
right leg broken, face and body badly
scalded, eyesight destroyed; S. NJ. Deats,
night hostler, right arm broken, left leg
and knee cap badly bruised, face anc
eyes scalded, head bruised; II. Z. Haden,
night car marker, nose broken; w. B.
Barrett, night yard foreman, left hip
dislocated, face and body bruised; w.
A. Ford, seven ribs broken, hurt in
ternally.
WRECK ON THE FORT WAYNE.
Fort WAYNE, Ind, Feb. 2O.-Satur-
day night disastrous wreck occurred
on the Fort Wayne railroad at Monroe
vile, twenty miles east of here. Two
sections of No. 73 collided The engine
of the second section dashed into the
caboose of the first section. The ca
booSe and four freight cars were hurled
into the air. The engine and seven
cars of the second section were ditched.
Ic 1bllON4n bdNiy Ju
Ernest Knode, engineer; G. Graham,
NJ. Blackford, brakemen.
Graham inhaled escaping steam and
will die. The engineer and brakemen
may recover. All trains were delayed
several hours.
MORE FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND.
MELBOURNE, Feb 20.-Steady rain for
several days has caused the rivers OF
Queensland to rise rapidly and to
threaten repetition of the recent
floods Gales have accompanied the
rainfall, so that between the wind and
water most of the railways telegraph
lines have been rendered temporarily
useless. Ipswich, Brisbane and several
smaller towns are partially under water.
In Brisbane the water IS but ten
inches below the highest mark during
the last flood, and some ten or twelve
lives have been lost The three vessels
which were left stranded in the botan-
ical garden of this city during the last
flood have been got back to the river
In northern New South Wales the
floods have done enormous damage to
crops.