Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

WESTERN.

The popular little actress, Maggie Mitchel), supported by a strong company, is playing at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, this week. Her repertoire embraces “Jane Eyre,” “Little Barefoot,” “Pearl of Savoy,” and “Fanchon.” “Hazel Kirke" is underlined for next week at McVicker's. The stage of the Ohio River at Cincinnati, on the morning of the lltb inst., was •ixty-five feet five inches, still rising, and still raining. A Wheeling dispatch of the 11th reports the calamity there as general and appalUng. Dwelling houses, many of them formerly costly and handsome residences, have been carried away, overturned, or battered to pieces by ice and drift, ]

the debris filling the streets, alleys and yards being piled in many places twenty feet high. When the Belief Committee took food and clothing to them they almost bsi their clothing torn from them by tho starving inhabitants, everybody crying for the first supply. Several steamers arriving at Wheeling were fired upon, the inhabitants fearing that the waves created by the boat? would complete the work of destruction. An unknown women was drowned by falling fr?m a second-story window into the river. A baby of a family named Lash, on the island, also fell into the water and disappeared from sight. Neither body has been recovered. Many narrow escapes are reported, and doubtless several Jives have been lost not yet discovered. Tim McCarty, on the Island, Jost $2,500 in gold in his house, which was swept away. Many other large sums of money have been lost. The estimate of the total loss in this vicinity on both sides of the river is $8,000,000. Miss Clara Barton, President of the American National Association of the Red Cross, accompanied by Dr. Hubbell, Special Field Agent of the association, left Washington on the 11th inst. for the scenes of the floods. She will go first to Pittsburgh and follow the Ohio River down, visiting such places as have suffered. Miss Barton requests that Red Cross societies North will, until further notice, forward supplies to Cincinnati as the central point of distribution. The Governor of West Virginia has telegraphed the Congressional delegation from that State that the work of relief for the sufferers by the floods will require $1,000,000. Detective Giles Brown, who was shot near Horton, Mich., is positive that Judd Crouch was the assassin, and Crouch and his hired man, named McCullum, were taken from their residence and lodged In jail at Jackson, but were soon released. Crouch claims that he can establish an alibi. The people in the district are intensely excited.