The San Francisco call., 1897-02-24

standing about FIVE feet over the main
tracks entering the Grand Central railroad
depot and al of the passenger trains OF
the following railroads abandoned the
depot: Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern,
Ohio and NJ ssissippi, Big Four and Queen
and Crescent. The Chesapeake and Ohio
and Louisville and Nashville. by reason of
their tracks being more elevated will not
be reached in the depot under sixty feet.
The roads abandoning the Grand Central
have temporary depot that will be used
until he water subsidies.
A dispatch from Charleston, w. Va,
says there is fully six feet of water in the
Capitol yard. Every newspaper in town
is submerged. The electric-light and gas
plants are both under water. A bureau
for the relief OF the food sufferers has
been opened. The water is falling, but
second rise is reported coming. Business
Is suspended.
At Bristol, Tenn, this morning food
poured down the valley, and but for the
blowing of alarm whistles several families
would have perished. The damage 10
property will be heavy.
FRANKFORT, KY, Feb. 23.- Streams
IN Kentucky are clear out of their banks
and doing immeasurable damage. Several
people have been drowned in various
parts OF the State. Much stock has been
lost, fencing swept away and other prop
erty almost ruined.
News comes from Pineville, KY, that
two white men while crossing a raging
stream were drowned. and also a revenue
officer, who was in the mountains looking
after moonshiners.
In Berry, Knott. Letcher and Breathitt
counties the flood is doing much damage.
Jameson, the county seat of the latter
county, is partly under water
At Mlddlesboro, clouds burst deluged
the locality drowning James Charwell, his
wife and four children.
AT Harrodsburg, near Dixville, the water
ran over the bridge. E. Patterson and
wife attempted to cross. Mrs. Patterson
and the mule she was riding were carried
away. The woman caught the limbs OF
tree, half mile down the stream.
The husband swan to her and got her
out OF the limbs. Neighbors made a raft
and reached them. The water washed
Patterson off the raft. He was finally
rescued III an unconscious condition and
will die.
Reports from Jackson and other places
up the north fork say there has been con-
siderable loss of life and property
Mrs. Hutzelle and little daughter were
drowned in their house. which was
washed from the mountainside in Breat-
htt County last night. Two men whose
names could not be learned were drowned
in one of the streams in Bell County.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 23-The Ohio
River has risen so feet here since yester-
day aad il is stIll rising Mt the rate Of
three inches an hour. Two-thirds of the
! town of Corbin is under water. The dam
age from the flood in southeastern Ken
| lucky is 100000. Near Donkeyville Jonas
Tyree was caught in the Powell River and
drowned.
PITTSBURG, Pa, Feb. 23.-Floods con-
tinue throughout this section. The rivers
have overtiowed their banks, causing con-
siderable damage. George Athey has been
drowned. A number of cattle have been
lost.
McKEESPORT, Pa, Feb 23-Both the
Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers
at this point had overflowed their banks,
and the streets and all the houses in the
lower portion of the city are inundated
All the mills and factories in the flooded
district are submerged, and operations
are suspended. The situation is serious.
The loss in this city alone is 5000, 600.