Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — FLOOD NOTES. [ARTICLE]

FLOOD NOTES.

Minor Incidents of the Great Deluge. By actual count 110 bouses floated through Moundsville, near Wheeling, In one day. A cow belonging to Mr. MacGregor, of Wheeling, when the flood came, climbed up the steps Into the second floor of his residence, and has lived ever since on the contents of a hush mattress. Sharp cow, that. A coop full of chickens which floated to Parkersburg, about four weeks ago, lodged there, and was covered by show. The other day owhen the* snow had melted off, three chickens were found in the coop alive, having lived the whole four weeks without food. A Cincinnati relief boat was bailed by a fellow in a skiff with the statement: “There’s a woman drowning up that alley.” The, relief boat was filled with women and children; but it was turned in the direction of ths alley. The lazy brute in the skiff offered ns assistance. A young woman was found struggling in the water with her rubber cloak caught on an iron rkillng. Had It not been for this she would have been drowned before the relief boat could reach her. Henry Dooley, an adventurer about the Louisville wharf, entered an abandoned house In O’Neil’s alley, and In an upper room found fully half a bushel of hungry rata piled up In a corner, and, thinking he would benefit humanity, made an onslaught, Intending to kill them; but the little beasts flew at him like wildcats, biting his face, hands, and legs so rapidly and mercilessly that he failed to mako but ono stroke and retired hastily, badly whipped, and bleeding profusely. He Is terribly swollen all over, occu pylng quarters at the hosplUf. - Thoughtful people in Cincinnati, during the reign of the watery waste helped brighten the path of tbe belated pedestrian by placing lamps in the windows of their residences. A ChioAoo builder makes buildings fireproof by covering ceilings with thin*sheetiron and filling in with ashes.