Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-03-04
DEATH IN THE FLOOD
SEVERAL PEOPLE DROWNED IN
OHIO VALLEY RIVERS.
Disaster to Many Towns Inundated
by Swollen streams-Houses Arc
Torn Apart and Residents Forced to
Flee-Property Loss IL Heavy.
Floods Bring Disaster.


Streams in Kentucky are clear out OF
their banks and doing unreasonable dam
age. -Four men were drowned in eastern
Kentucky and one man in Butler County.
Much stock has been lost, fencing swept
away and other property almost ruined.
The streams all through the mountains
are higher than for years and the greatest
damage Is feared. News comes from Pine
vile, KY, that two white men, while
crossing q raging stream, were drowned,
and also a revenue officer, who was in
the mountains looking after moonshiners.
Among the heaviest losers In the noun
tains are the lumber men, who have lost
thousands of dollars worth of timber. 1t
has been raining for week. The people
have been forced to seek shelter on the
mountains. Reports from Jackson and
other places up the north fork say there
has been considerable loss of life and
property. Mrs. HutzeIl and little daugh-
ter were drowned in their house, which
was washed from the mountain side in
Breathitt County. Two men whose names
could not be learned were drowned in one
of the streams in Bell County. In Frank
fort the Kentucky river is away out of its
banks. Families in the west end are be-
ing moved from their houses in boats.
For seventy-two hours, a steady rain
fell over the entire area of the immense
watershed of the Ohio valley, with the ex-
ception of the mountainous portions Of
western New York and western Pennsyl-
vania. Considerable alarm Is felt in Gin
cinnati over the rapid rise Of the Ohio
river. A stage of forty feet indicates
the danger point. The river had reached
forty-four feet and was rising ut the rate
of seven inches per hour. Reports from
all the tributaries tell of floods.
At Charlestown, w. Va, the steady
rain for two days put the Kanawha and
Elk rivers above the danger line. The
lower part of the city is flooded, and many
people had to move out of their homes.
Blizzard in WISCONSIN,.
Advices from northern Wisconsin are in
effect that a violent snowstorm ragged all
day and that railway and other traffic
is practically suspended. At Black River
Falls, the snow is fifteen feet deep on a
level. Plainfield highways are blockaded
and all business is suspended.
A cyclone struck near Benwood, north
of Brazil, Ind, leaving ruin in its wake.
The path of the storm was 100 yards
wide and three miles in length. Trees
were torn up and carried for miles through
the air, fences were lifted and strewn over
the county and small buildings were
caught up and twisted into splinters. Two
large stock barns on the farm of NJ. A.
Johnson q Co. were lifted clear of their
foundations and whirled and twisted
through the air, being deposited in debris
for several miles along the path of the
cyclone. One barn was filled with live
stock, but the animals were left standing
and unhurt. The storm took the top from
a buggy occupied by an employe, and car
ried it two miles. doing no harm to the
man or his horse. Much other damage
was done by the storm.