Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-02-27
LIVES ARE LOST,
Disastrous Results of Floods I'M
Several States.
Several PersOns Drowned In Ken
tucky--ItaDid Rise in Rivers Cnuae
Much Damage-RniIwny Trnf-
tic Impeded.


hc Impedcd.
Sparta, KY, Feb. 23.--Charles Hoton,
the 10-year-old son of j. w. Holton, of
this county, was drowned in the floods
following the terrific rains of the last
two days. Others are reported missing.
and more than 25 families were COM
PEELED to flee from their houses by the
rising waters of Eagle creek. Young
Holton attempted to cross the creek on
his way from call on a young lady.
The water is eight feet deep in the
houses along the creek, and the loss in
cattle and hogs has been great.
Huntington, w. Va, Feb. 23.-Hun-
dreds of families are moving out of the
lowlands in the Guyan, Twelve Pole
and Big Sandy valleys. The loss of
property has already reached alarm
ing proportions from flood and rain
continues general along these streams.
Some lives are reported lost in Tigriver
valley and much live stock drowned.
Landslides are reported along the Nor
folk e Western railroad, and business
is temporarily suspended.
Frankfort, Ky, Feb. 23.-Streams in
Kentucky are clear out of their banks
and doing unmeasurable damage. Four
men were drowned in eastern Kentucky
and one man in Butler county. Much
stock has been lost, fencing been swept
away and other property almost ruined.
| The streams all through the mountains
are higher than for years, and the
greatest damage is feared.
At Middlesboro Sunday night cloud
burst deluged the locality, drowning
James Charwell and family. Charwell
and his wife and four children, while en-
route home from n neighbor's in
wagon, were caught in the cloudburst
and all drowned.
louisville, Ky, Feb. 23. - Thirty-six
hours of steady rain has caused nearly
| every stream in the state to overflow its
banks and sweep away live stock and
fences. Kentucky river is carrying off
thousands of logs. Immense damage is
reported from Harlan, Perry. Leslie
and Letcher counties. At Pineville the
Cumberland river has reached the doors
of the courthouse. At Frankfort 20
houses are under water and the gas
works threatened The lower portion of
Catlettsburg is under water. AT Rich
uund the reservoir of the water works
overflowed and drove 100 people from
their homes.
Cincinnati, Feb 23.-Shortly after
three o'clock Monday afternoon the Ohio
river reached the danger line, 45 feet.
At nine o'clock p. m. the stage was AZ
feet inches, rise of nearly six inches
in an hour. That has been the average
| boI 81 Ell M fcn z thes
streets next the river are moving out.
Front street merchants have removed
nearly all the tobacco from the immense
warehouses of that vicinity. Goods have
already been taken out of cellars at
that point. The Licking and both Miami
rivers and Mill, Duck and Crawfish
creeks are still rising rapidly.
The greatest fear of destructive river
. is in the remarkable rises in the south
ern tributary streams, particularly the
Kanawaha, New and Big Sandy rivers.
All the streams in the region of Hunt
ington, w. Va, are still overhowing.
From the Guyon river 100000 logs have
been swept into the Ohio. Eight inches
an hour is still the rise there.
Commodore Lee Fl. Kreck, the we'll
known steamboat owner. said that in
an experience of 30 years on the river
he had never known as rapid rise as
that of the last "a hours-over 1s feet,
He thinks the river may reach SIS feet
! Fifty-eight feet, he says, will cause
great damage here. The rain has stopped
and it is growing colder, favorable
changes.
= Columbus. o.. Feb. 23.-Rains which
have fallen heavily all over Ohio in the
last four days have caused floods in all
the river valleys, with loss to railway
+ property and serious interruption to
4 train service on lines centering here
The most serious wnshouts are reported
: on the Norfolk &, Western, the C. q NJ
!. ", B. 81 o. Southwestern and the We Is
ton S Jackson branch of the Columbus
, Hooking Valley & Toledo.