Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-02-23
OHIO FLOODS.
The River Nine Feet Above the
Danger Line.
no GREAT DAMAGE DONE AS YET.
Fearful Effect of Locomotive Boiler Ex-
pIosion Freight Wreck In In
diana-FIoods In Queens
land.

CINCIN MATT, 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 1owlands 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 Upscheneck is lying below the
| city, unable to come up on account of
| the high water. At Il p. N. the river
had reached 81 feet and is rising an
| inch and a half an hour.
PORTSMOUTH. O., Feb. 2O-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 half years, had
| been run out of the roundhouse to go
| on its run at 6 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 vet been
| found
Those killed and injured are; John
! Mills, colored fire knoclser, horribly
mangled, killed outright; Robert
| Thompson, night roundhouse foremrn,
right leg broken, face and body badly
scalded, eyesight destroyed; S. NJ. beats,
night hostler, right arm broken, left leg
and knee cap badly bruised. face anI
| eyes scalded, head bruised; II. E. Haden,
night car marker, nose broken: w. Il.
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. IS 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.
The following were badly inju red
| Ernest Knode. engineer; G. Graham,
| M. 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.-Steaiy rain for
several days has caused the rivers OF
| Queensland to rise rapidly and to
| threaten a 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 PARTIAL under alter.
| 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