The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-07-30
GREAT DAMAGE BY FLOODS.


Cincinnati, July 24.-Specials tonight
show damage all over West Virginia,
eastern Ohio and Kentucky from floods.
At Parkersburg, W. Va, where the
Little. Kanawha empties into the Ohio,
the lumbermen suffered great damage.
The Ohio River railroad is washed out
between Wavery and Moundville, also
near Sstersville and Woodland.
The loss in Tygarts valley alone is $780,
600.
At Marietta. O.. where the Muskingum
empties into the Ohio, the merchants are
moving from Front street All the rail
roads entering the city are washed out.
None are able to get trains into the city.
At Ashland, KY, the rains did much
damage to bridges and property.
At Portsmouth, o.. the Ohio river is
81 feet and rising. Backwater from the
Ohio with floods above in the Scioto,
will ruin most of the corn i'll that valley.
Nlwark was deluged. All trains on the
Central Ohio division of the Baltimore
and Ohio are delayed on account of wash
outs. Floods carried away the Bald
more and Ohio bridges between Somerset
and Thornport and Junction City
Throughout southern and western Nir-
ginia the rain of the past fOrty-eight
hours had done inestimable damage. The
Baltimore and Ohio division between
Wheeling and Grafton is blocked.
A bad landslide occurred at Carrot Sid
ing, short distance from Bolton, W,
Va. that will keep traffic suspended for
some time. On the Ohio River railroad
there are innumerable breaks of trestles.
and landslides between Wheeling and
Sistersvlle. Tonight both freight and
passenger traffic was suspended.
Below Wheeling the main streams trb-
utary to the Ohio are on II rampage that
has been unsurpassed since the famous
flood of 1879.
Reports from Marshal and Tyler coun-
ties tell of inestimabe damage to crops
and broken timber booms, freeing NIL
lions of logs, which are now passing down
tbn Ohio, on the Ohio side of the river
the Belaire. GAINESVILLE and Cincinnati
railroad has six trestles washed out.
There are forty landslides in the OHIO
river between Sistersville and Wheeling,
and four trains are locked i'll by them.
The Paramount and Pittsburg Railroad,
fine Roaring Creek, Dry Fork, Grafton
and Bellington, the West Virginia and
Pittsburg and MOnongahela railways are
also badly washed out.
Adyices from Clarksburg and Grafton
report cloudbursts at these places TO-
night. A special from Caldwell; ono
states that the towns of Ava, Belleville'
Dudley. South Olive, Union, HARRIET
Vile. Carlisle and other towns along the
Muskingum river are completely SUD
merged. IN A..
A dispatch from Sistervllle says the
damage in the oil fields will amount to
hundreds of thousands of dollars. At
Belle Valley. on the Cleveland and Mari
eta Railway. the track has been swept
away. Word has been received mere
from Granville that the kanawha river
was rising at an alarming rate.
AT Muncie. Ind, the White river Is the
highest ever known. The suspension
bridge went down today, preclpitatlne
twelve boys into the river. one was
drowned and two others are MISSING.
At Richmond, Ky, heavy WindStorm
today blew trees and small frame housG
upon the tracks of the LoulsVlile ana
Nashville Railway, .,..,4 ,o+
At Stockport. Ohio, a cIoudburst GI
down rainfall Of eight inches. Bald
Eagle creek and Turkey Run are raging
torrents, carrying huge trees INTO the
Muskingum. 1.a,
Seven of the nine railroads at IaneS-
vile have been compelled to suspend trat-
fic on account of the floods.
At Gloucester. Ohio, the greatest f0od
ever known is pouring down SUNDAY
creek. flooding coal mine No. IT, one oil the
Slargest of Ohio.