The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-24
Far Away" There is a Cracker
Jack of a Flood.
Floods Are Reported Through
out the State of Indiana.
SOME LIVES ARE LOST.
GAINESVILLE, o., Reports a Num-
Der Drowned in the Flood.
The Flood Area Extends Over
Three States.

Indianapolis, Ind, March 24.-F1oods
are reported throughout the state OF
Indiana, many important towns are
temporarily cut off from communica-
ton and trains have been entirely
abandoned on some roads. There have
been thirteen rainy days in March, With
a total precipitation of 7.22 inches, of
which 355 inches has fallen since Sun
day.
White river, Big Eagle and Fall
creeks are out of their banks and many
families here have been driven from
their homes. 1t is reported that $780,
600 damage has been done at Green's
burg, where eight heavily laden pas
senger trains had been stalled for SIX
teen hours, owing to washouts.
At St. Paul, the Bickhart Touring
mills were washed away, and other
losses there will bring the total up to
$40 900.
Wrecks have been reported from diff
ferent parts of the state and railroad
traffic in Indiana, east of this city is
demOralized. Not a passenger train
reached Indianapolis from the east last
night. All the bottom land outlying
Indianapolis is covered with water and
White river is slowly rising, but no
great apprehension is felt.
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, March 24.-Sir ce
midnight AIuskingum and Licking
ers have risen Is feet and all the Eighth
ward and parts of four other wards
pie 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 it's path. There have
been a score of hairbreadth escapes
The supply of skiffs was wholly mad
equate to rescue the people.
The number of lives lost here is a
matter of conjecture, the only bodies
SO far recovered are those of Mrs.
Church and John Leach, drowned in
their homes before being rescued.
Columbus, Ohio. March 24-Owing to
the Unprecedented floods, only two of
the fifteen lines of railway centering
here were able to move trains out of the
city today. The washOuts were most
ly in or near the city. In the western
part of the city probably 1000 persons
have been driven out of their homes,
or are living in the upper stories. The
waterworks' pumping station is flooded.
and the water supply in the central
part of the city is cut off.
Columbus Ohio, March PA train
consisting of a passenger coach, ca
bOOse and locomotive, with a wrecking
crew of "a men aboard, was wrecked
near here this evening. The river broke
over its bank and the scene of the
wreck is surrounded by water for a
mile, and can only be reached by boats.
The engineer cannot be found. The
fireman was washed away and swan to
a tree. Nearly every man of the "a
was more or less injured. Six or eight
are badly injured and may die.
Cincinnati, Ohio, March 24.-The
Ohio river is swollen by a peculiar and
remarkable flood, peculiar in that.
while the stage of water is phenomenal
from Wheeling to Cairo, no tributary
on the left bank of the river makes
the slightest contribution to the freShet.
Added to an unusually high stage of
water at Pittsburg, there have been
freshets and floods throughout Ohio
and Indiana. and torrents are pouring
into the Ohio from the north.
In Cincinnati the stage of the river at
9 o'clock last night was Al feet 6 inches
and the flood was rising at the rate Of
3 inches an hour. Rain is still falling.