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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24
BLIZZARD IN THE WEST.
SnOwstOrm In Missouri, Arkansas and
IlinOfs-Rivers on the Rampage.


ST. LOUIS, March PA regular blizzard
prevailed in st. Louis and vicinity, extend
ing down into Arkansas and part of llli-
nois. The temperature showed drop OF
4S degrees since yesterday. The ground Is
covered with heavy wet snow, something
unprecedented for this season of the year
The heavy rains of the past few days have
caused all rivers in Missouri to rise rapidly
The Usage and Gasconade, especially, are
pouring floods of water into the Missouri,
which in turn flows into the Mississippi.
The gauge here is AZ feet higher than was
registered yesterday. 1t is expected that
by tomorrow all low lands on the Missis-
sippi as far as the mouth of the Illinois
river will be under water. Damage from
the rising rivers in this State is feared as
the rivers are very high At st. Charles
the Missouri has risen at an alarming rate
threatening to overflow large area cover
ing the best farming lands in the state
The melting snow will add much TO the rls-
ing waters.
only a few of the incoming trains reached
the Union Station on time to-day The be-
lated ones were anywhere from two to seven
hours late The delays were caused by the
washouts and landslides. All the streams
about Nashville ILL.,, are rising, and the
Okaw river is on the rampage. Wheat
fields are flooded and the bottom lands
north of Covington are submerged. the
Okaw being five miles wide at that point
The new iron bridge there is in danger or
being washed away.
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HE MAY SOON RESIGN
MARQUIS OF, SALISBURY ANXIOUS TO
QUIT PUBLIC LIFE.
He Is Said to Have Intimated His De-
sire to Surrender Both of
His Cabinet Offices.

LONDON, March 24.-The Daily Chronicle
says: 1--WE learn that the long Cabinet
council on Monday was to consider an inti-
nation from the Marquis of Salisbury OF
his desire acting under medical advice, to
resign both the premiership and the foreign
secretaryship. Our news is obtained from
a source usually trustworthy. but the crisis
may take a few weeks to develop, the
Queen being abroad. Lord Salisbury's sue
cessors are almost certain to be the Duke
of Devonshire, as premier, and Arthur j.
Balfour as secretary of state for foreign
affairs"
The Nagasak correspondent of the Daily
Mail says: China, it is reported, refuses
to accept Russia's pledge that the occupa-
ton of Port Arthur will not be permanent
unless the document is countersigned by
France and Germany, but it is believed that
if she does not accede to the Russian de-
mands before Saturday next Russia intends
to seize Port Arthur and Ta-Lien-Wan and
to hoist the Russian flag there"
1t was reported in the lobby of the House
of Commons tonight that France had fin
ally admitted the accuracy of the news of
the French advance in Sokoto, West Cen
trail Africa, last month, which had been
formerly denied. 1t is understood that the
admission was accomplished by explana-
tionS and by an expression OF regret:
A dispatch from Peking says: During the
last few days the constant consultations be-
tween the Emperor and the high officials of
state have shown that China is finally alive
to her serious situation. One night the EN-
peror actually decided to resist Russia by
force of arms, but lack of money and the
councils OF Lii Hung Chang prevailed upon
him to stop. Nevertheless. the eyes of the
Tsung Ii Yamen have been opened to the
full extent as to the value of RussiaS prom
Uses of friendship. and during recent dis
cussion the Emperor exclaimed: why did
l not accede to the opening of Ta-Lien-Wan
when England proposed it," Germany is
the province of Shan-Tung, where the ma
tives declare that in spite of the Emperor's
proclamation they will oppose with vio-
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by employees of the Reeves Iron Company.
At this hour the lower stories are flooded,
and many of the families are imprisoned in
the upper stories. The water rose so rap
idly that the employees of the American tin
mill were imprisoned, and these are now be-
ing taken to their homes in boats The
Reeves Iron Company's works and the
Dover furnace are both flooded and all the
employees. numbering several hundred,
have been temporarily dismissed
The railroad blockade is complete, as no
t. aims have arrived since yesterday. The
Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad
tlestle between here and Strasburg is
washed away and for many hundred feet
the tracks have been swept away. The
Cleveland & Marietta tracks between here
and Stone creek, ten miles south, are most
ly under water, while the Cleveland & Pitts
burg trains can go north only as far as
Zolar Station.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24
AT OHIO's CAPITAL.
People Forced to Move to Upper StO-
ries-COnditiOn of RaiIMays.

COLUMBUS, O., March 23.-The CleFe-
land division of the Big -Four Railway, and
the South line of the Columbus, San
dusky & Hooking Valley were the
only two of the fifteen railroads
here that could move trains out of the city
to-day. The fine condition of the Big Four
line north enabled it to handle it's own bus
mess and trains Of the Panhandle and CO.
lumbus, Hooking Valley & Toledo Railways
The water trouble with most of these roads
was, and is, in or near this city. 1t seems to
be settled that the system of levees which
protected the west side of the city against
ordinary floods are gone. They are sub
merged and are known to be badly broken
in many places. These breaks permitted
water to flow where it had not gone, perhaps
in forty years. People in these parts were
slow in moving out or upstairs. There are
1900 or 1900 of them on upper floors of
dwellings situated in an artificial lake.
Men who worked all of Tuesday night to
save bridges and levees sent out. messengers
to warn householderS, but many of them,
considering themselves safe, remained at
home.
The central part of the city is without
water. the west water works being subject
to inundation and the east station not being
adequate to the emergency. The electric
power house of the Columbus Street-rail-
protected, it is believed, to continue opera
ton. The first gas holder TO be erected
on the site of the proposed new gas works
is enclosed by water. West Broad street,
part of the old National road, being high
and compactly built, is the only West Side
avenue open to travel its full length. 1t di-
vides the upper and lower artificial lakes
except as connected under bridges The
water is now falling.
At 10 o'clock tonight the danger had
passed, the water in the Scioto river having
fallen about three feet. This was a great
relief to several thousand people on the
West Side of the city whose homes had
been inundated by the river breaking over
the levees. 1t is estimated that about GOO
houses We're, invaded by water and a large
proportion of these were surrounded by wa
ter so quickly that the residents had no OPP
portunity to escape. and We're compelled to
make the best of the situation. The prop
erty damage on the West Side and along
the river section will amount to several
hundred thousand dollars. No fatalities
have been reported thus far, although there
have been many narrow escapes from
drowning. Sydney B. Bretsford, an en-
ploye of The United States EXPRESS Com
pany, and Percy Mayo, an employee of the
Ohio Central Railroad. are missing, and 1t
is feared they are drowned.
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Special 10 the indianapolis Journal
MORRISTOWN, Ind, March 23.-The
heavy rains have raised Blue river two feet
higher than ever known before. Several
washouts have occurred along the c., Fl. &
D., and but one train has passed since $50
last evening. The telephone lines are down.
and 1t is not likely that the telegraph can
be long used. The railroad bridge at Foun-
taintown is reported out, but confrma
ton or denial of the statement can be Sc
cured. The Blue river bridge, one mile west
OF here, is badly damaged and now unsafe.
1t even shakes under the weight of a man.
A washout is expected there Also There
are no mails.
F'reeport, three miles southwest of here, is
completely submerged, and there is much
fear for the lives of the inhabitants. 1t is
dangerous to even use a skift In going there
on account of the very strong current
Road bridges are washed out everywhere.
All the lowlandsl are flooded and an i'm
mense amount of damage has been done.
The rain continues at intervals, and the
position is considered dangerous in the ex-
IRENE. Last night this place was flooded
on account of the failure of the street i'm
provements to do their intended work prop
erly.
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ALBARA, On the Nile, March 23.-An An
glo-Egyptian patrol was in conflict with a
large party of Dervish horsemen on Mon
day, eleven miles up the river A sharp
engagement took place, in which there were
hand-to-hand encounters with spears, and
the Dervishers were driven back. The horse
artillery went to the support of the Anglo
Egyptian cavalry and shelled the Dervishes
The Anglo Egyptian loss was seven killed
and eight wounded. No officers were wound
ed. force of 100 Dervish cavalry appeared
a few miles from here on Tuesday morning
1t was met by a squadron of cavalry and a
force of Soudanese. who drove off the Der
wishes with considerable loss, following
them several miles beyond Abadar NAH
moud's force occupies the same positiOn.
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Flat Rock Bridge DESTROYED.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW CASTLE, Ind. March 23-The rains
of, the past week eliminated in a heavy
downpour yesterday and last night, result
ing in a large amount of damage to prop
erty. The Big Four between New Castle
and indianapolis was the only railroad line
open for traffic this morning All trains on
the Panhandle were annulled yesterday aft
ernoon. but We're able TO resume late to-
w. near, New Lisbon this county will pre-
vent traffic for day or so. One large
bridge In the north portion of the city was
swept away and the bridge across Flat
Rock east of this city, was destroyed Blue
river was one-haf mile wide and raging
torrent to-day.
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Equals Last Years Flood.
he indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
PRINCETON. Ind, March 23.-The flood
situation in southern Indiana is becoming
more alarming hourly. Wabash, Patoka and
White rivers have reached a stage equal to
that of last year and the steady rainfall
makes the outlook more gloomy Thousands
or acres or bottom lands are covered with
water and the farmers are fleeing to the
high lands. Trains on all roads are late.
The town of Fetters. west of here is almost
inundated: A woman living in that village
died Monday, while her house stood in four
feet of water. Her body was taken out in
a skiff yesterday and the mourners fol-
lowed the remains in skiffs, forming a
strange marine funeral procession
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LOSS OVER 100000.
Three Great Rivers Causing Havoc at
Pittsburg and Suburbs.

Pittsburg and Suburbs.
PITTSBURG, Pa, March 23.-Three great
rivers-the Monongahela, Allegheny and
Ohio-are now in a flooded condition. and
there is every indication that the loss to
coal operators, manufacturers and property
holders in general will eclipse that of the
freshet of 1891. Already river coal interests
have suffered losses aggregating 100000.
while manufacturing interests are so severe
ly crippled that great loss and inconven-
fence must necessarily follow. Reports re-
ceived from towns on either side of the
three great valleys show great damage TO
valuable property on the low lands, and
with the water still rising grave fears are
entertained of even heavier losses. Fleets
swept from their moorings, bridges washed
away, mills, factories and houses flooded
railroad tracks buried several feet under
water for miles and miles, and numerous
washOuts causing a complete te-up of
many branch connections of railroads en-.
tering Pittsburg, are the results of the I'M
precedented rainfall of the past few days.
At midnight the gauge recorded tWenty-nine
feet a rise of four feet in fifteen hours, and
hour. River operators expect thirty-three
feet tomorrow.
The greatest loss is to the railroads, the
Pittsburg & Western leading the list. Mills
along the three rivers are silent, and mer-
chants and families in the lower part of the
two cities have been compelled to remove
their goods to higher ground. The loss can
not be estimated tonight, but 1t VIII reacn
a high figure.
The recent heavy rainfall has wrought
great damage throughout eastern and CEN
trail Pennsylvania. AT Dubois many acres
are under water tonight and hundreds of
homes are surrounded. The Pennsylvania
Railroad is the only road able to move
trains in Clearfield to-day on time.
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wheeling Almost Isolated.

WHEELING, w. Va, March 23.-Wheel-
ing will suffer heavily from the flood which
is now invading both the wholesale and re-
tail districts. At 10 p. m the stage is
Al feet inches, and the steady rise of four
inches per hour is being maintained In
the Main-street business district alone the
loss materially amounts to $40. 000 The va
rious manufacturing establishments en-
ploying 10000 to 1900 men, have shut down
either for want of natural gas which was
shut off tonight, or too much water Wheel
ing is isolated from the world tonight
Trains have been annulled on every road
entering the city, seven in number.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24

GAINESVILLE, o., March 23.-Since mid
night Muskingum and Licking rivers have
risen fifteen feet and all the Eighth ward
and parts of four other wards are sub
merged Four thousand people have been
driven from their homes and very few Of
them have saved any of their household
effects. The current of Licking river has
turned down Lee street a half mile and is
washing out everything in its path. There
have been q score of hair-breadth escapes,
and more than fifty persons are missing.
The supply of skiffs was wholly inadequate
to rescue the people, and 1t will take all
night to get them on dry lane. Every rail-
road entering the city is tied up. and all
of them have experienced accidents. A
bridge over Wakatomike creek gave way
while the Baltimore & Ohio passenger train,
No. 105, was crossing the stream and the
whole train was submerged. The passen-
gers crawled to the tops of the cars and
were rescued in skiffs. Two of the train
men were badly injured. The river now
registers % feet inches and rising five
inches an hour. A relief fund has been
started for the destitute victims
Later-The number of lives lost here is
still matter of conjecture, although it will
not reach the original estimate. The only
bodies so far recovered are those of Mrs.
Church and John Leach, drowned in their
homes before being rescued. The work OF
rescue is going on all night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24
Levee Breaks Near Sullivan.

SULLIVAN, Ind, March %. - Patterns
levee situated about two miles east of this
city, broke this morning, flooding hundreds
of acres of bottom lands. The loss is about
$4,000. The levee was just completed last
fall. The waters are higher than ever
known in this section. The Indiana & Illi-
noiS Southern Railroad has suffered ga great
loss and no trains can be run along its
line. The water in the engine room of
the Sullivan water works is twenty Inches
deep and the city's fire protection is cut off.
All the gravel roads throughout the county
are badly damaged.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24
Biz Four Tracks Destroyed.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
HAGERSTOWN, Ind, March 23-The re-
cent rainfall was the heaviest ever known
here. All the streams in the neighborhood
were overfiowed, and much damage done
to live stock, wheat and fences. Bridges are
washed out everywhere and roadways de-
stroyed A washout on the Pennsylvania a
mile west of here delayed trains twelve to
fifteen hours Trains on the White Water
Valley division of the Big Four are laid up
here, the track being practically destroyed
between this place and Cambridge City
With one exception the water was the high
est ever known.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24
$4,000 Damage at COnnersviIIe.
Special to the Indananolis Journal

SpecIdI 20 tIe IndlanapoIls Journal.
CONNbRSNILLE, Ind, March 23.-The
heavy rains of the past week have caused
the most damaging floods ever known in
this vicinity. Damage to bridges and roads
in the county has been estimated at not
less than $4,000 An aqueduct through
which the city gets its water supply has
been washed out. Forty-six hundred feet
of the Big Four Railroad tracks, just south
of the city, is washed out and many of
their telegraph poles carried away. The
stables at the race track have all disap-
peared and the fence that surrounded the
ball park is a thing of the past. The In
diana Furniture Company has loss on
lumber of $1,000 No lives lost, but several
narrow escapes are reported. The river at
this point two feet higher than ever
known before. 1t raised four feet in one
hour. Since last midnight it has fallen five
feet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24
Big Deal i'm Corn.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, March Bone of the
biggest corn deals carried out in recent
years in the st. Louis market has just been
made between the Consolidated Elevator
Company, of this city, and large export
ing house in Baltimore. Within the last
two days close on to !. 900 bushels of No.
cash corn has been sold on basis of the
May price the understanding being that the
grain will be shipped out within the next
few days. Secrecy was maintained in con-
Quoting the deal, but Tate, Muller & CO..
OF Baltimore. are understood 10 be the pur-
chasers. 1t is said the corn was bought for
export.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24

Water Three Feet Deep on East Side
of Public Square.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RUSHVILLE, Ind, March 23.--This city
experienced pretty bad case of high wa
ter, which reached its highest this morn
ing. Two hundred feet of track and ties of
the Big Four south of town, were washed
into the ditch, and traffic on the line is
suspended. The c., H. & d. had a bad
washout east of town and the L. E. & w.
did not run its trains into the depot until
this afternoon. The swell in Flatrock was
caused by days heavy rain yesterday,
which at o'clock last night had the force
Of a cloudburst Fully one hundred families
were forced to leave their homes and seek
shelter in higher parts of the city. The
water stood three feet deep on the east side
of the public square and extinguished the
fire in the furnaces that heat the steam
boilers for the courthouse. Whole blocks
in the southwest part of town were sub
merged. 1t is almost impossible to estimate
the damage. Such a flood of water around
Nashville was never known before. 1t will
require months to get the public roads in
condition for travel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24
Dynamite Struck by Lightning.

YOUNGSTOWN, o.. March 25.-Shortly
after last midnight half ton of dynamite
stored in a vacant building at Hillsvilie'
a quarry station on the Mahoning branch
of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie road, just
across the State line in Pennsylvania, ex-
n1oded with terrific force, wrecking the
building and partially demoishing num-
Der of nearby cottages occupied by Italian
ouarrymen. Several persons, whose names
could not be learned, were more or less
Seriously hurt, but no fatalities ensued
lightning struck the building. The wound
ed were taken to the New Castle, "a, Hos
Dital
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24
Mad River Causes Havoc.

URBANA, o., March 23.-The rainfall
here last night was a regular cloudburst.
Mad river overlooked it's banks for a half
mile on each side and all the low lands
throughout the country are inundated,
forming large lakes. Great damage has
been done to farms and miles of fence has
been swept away. Innumerable wagon and
railroad bridges and culverts have been de-
Stroyed. The Big Four, Panhandle and Erie
Railroads suffer heavy losses. Besides los
ing several bridges, yards of their main
tracks have been washed away and the
roads are now impossible. Not single
train has entered the city to-day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24
washouts on the vandalia.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

/ Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, March %
The rains having ceased. the flood is al
ready going down here and the damage is
now being estimated Sugar creek is still
very high, but has fallen two feet TODAY.
and further danger is past. The Vandalia
trestle across Walnut fork is six inches out
of line. This is the same place where a
flood two years ago took out the trestle sun
ports and an engine went through killing
two men. There were no Vandalia trains
run to-day on account OF washouts in both
directions The Monon and Big Four are
running on time. Reports are still coming
in concerning more bridges being washed
away and roads badly washed.
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Little Damage at Anderson.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, March 23-High-water
marks are being covered tonight by White,
kllbuck, Green Branch and other streams in
the vicinity of this city. The city is shut off
from direct Cincinnati-Chicago traffic by
bridges being washed out on the Panhandle,
and tonight all of the Gas Belt electric cars
were run into this city for fear that bridges
north of the city would be carried out to-
night. White river has shown a steady rise
OK 1--WE inches an hour. Kilbuck is a mile
wide at many points Where it comes into
White river ali of the lands are flooded.
1t is not thought that the crops now in
the ground are injured, though in places
the Wheat has been washed out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24
Flood Losses at Richmond.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND. Ind. March % = Complete
returns from the flooded districts to-day
show that the loss from the high water will
reach figure between $4,000 and $40 600.
The losses are as follows: Nixon paper
mills.A 1000; light. heat and power station,
$1,000; Pennsylvania Railroad, $4,000; bridg-
Company $500: Test wooden MILL $500;
streets and sewers, $500; Central Union Tele-
phone Company. $3.50. This does not include
to the farmers. Telephone communication
is still cut off and the train service is badly
demnra Lied
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24
washout ON Big Four.
al to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
GREENCASTLE, Ind, March 23-Tht
Big -Four road suffered a washout several
miles east of this city this afternoon, de-
laying trains. The Knickerbocker was sent
ever the Monon and Vandalia roads. Sew
eral j., NJ. & L. trains have passed through
here to-day on the Valdalia and Monon on
account of high water on their roads The
annual fraShet of streams in this vicinity
Is more severe than for several seasons.
Walnut creek. the principal stream in the
county, is out of its banks and is causing
considerable loss 90 the farmers in the low
lands. There has been an unusual fall OF
rain In this vicinity