Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1883 — Page 1

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THE DELUGE.

Tbo Great Flood Reaches an Unprecedented HighWater Mark. Gloom, Destitution and appeals for Aid Throughout the Flooded Districts. Details of the Horrors of the Situation at Cincinnati and Newport, Louisville, Madison, Lawrenceburgh, Evansvllle Thousands Homeless Terrible Scenes, Etc. THE GREAT FLOOD. The Waters Gradually Spreading- Over Evansvllle Great Damage Expected. Special to the Sentinel: Evansville, Ind., Feb. 14. The all absorbing topic is the rapidly rising waters in this section. The Ohio River has risen fifteen inches in the past twentyfour hours, and now stands at forty-five and a half feet on the guage. An eddy has been formed above the mouth of Pigeon Creek, which is undermining the Water street approach to the bridge connecting with Independence. The L. and N. tracks are built on this approach, and danger is apprehended in this quarter. Reports from above have alarmed Water street merchants, who are preparing for the worst. The city is the only point of any size along the Ohio which is not submerged, but prospects are now that many stores will be flooded. The water is nine Inches deep in the Pigeon Creek bridge. Rain fell during the most of the morning in torrents. Tbe water is ten miles wide from a point directly in front of the city. The river continues to rise a half inch per hour. AT MADISON Special to tbe Sentinel: - Madison, Ind., Feb. 14. The river rose about nine inches last night and still rising slowly. It has now eclipsed tbe floods of 1847-32, with prospects of coming still higher. It rained all last night and is still rain ing at this hour. We heard of a man named Smith dying at the Village of Brooksburgh, eight miles above here, with the water at the edge of his bed. Your correspondent took a trip to Fulton yesterday, and indeed everything looks desolate. The houses which stand on Ohio street are almost completely submerged, the chimneys of some being all that is visible, while thoje on higher ground are deep in water. In one two-stoy frame house we saw the water almost up t the second story windows, and still the people had not yet moved, and the innocent little ones were playing on the upper floor near the windows, not dreaming of the danger they were in and that if a wind would rise, any moment tbe house might be thrown over, and the occupants plunged into the deep waters below. Three houses floated away from Milton yesterday, Ben Morris' warehouse, Cassidy's wagon shop, Mrs. Glven'a residence and Vawter's grocery. Thousands of people visited the city yesterday to view the greatest flood the Ohio Valley has ever known. Farmers came in wagon loads, bringing whole families, While a great many came down from Vernon and North Vernon. Mr. Dewese, of Trimble County, Kentucky, has 15,000 pounds of tobacco under water, which will be ruined. As he rain is still pouring down, the scene becomes more desolate and the situation more alarming. Tbe back waters have illundated a greater part of Springdale Cemetery and many graves are now under water while along the river men can be seen with forlorn faces and women crying, and they see the homes which they had toiled for years to pay for, now under water, and liable at any moment to float off, leaving them without shelter. At Fulton the situation is unchanged. A meeting of the citizens was held at the City Ilall last night to provide means of relief for those in distress, and Ward Committees were ap pointed to solicit subscriptions. This morn ing the ferry-boat J. C. Abbott was char tered and used to carry bread and provisions to the sufferers at Fulton. People are now being gotten out of the tecement houses which the water is reaching and taken to other places lor shelter. The steamer Hornet, from Carroll ton, arrived this morning and departed again at noon. The Ella, w ith a large tow of empties, passed up at 12:30 this afternoon. Later The river is rising two inches per hour. Several houses have passed here. Madison, Feb. 14. The situation here grows more appalling. The river rose six inches and a half last night, and reports just received from Carrolton say that the Kentucky River is pouring out a new flood and rising rapidly. It has rained here steadily and hard since 4 p. m. yesterday. The water is rising one and a half inches per hour. Milton, Ky., opposite Madison, is completely submerged; not a house is exempt from the overflow. Large cables are being used to anchor the buildings. The water is up to the second floor of many dwellings. Fulton, the eastern suburb of this city, has been abandoned. All the front and extreme western section of the city is also abandoned. The back water and Crooked Creek have inundated the city on the north, and Epnngdale Ceme tery is partially covered. It has rained hard until the present hour since last night More rain will cause Crooked Creek to deluge Walnut street and a large part of the town. The Hornet came up from Carrolton this morning for food for the sufferers there.

The provisions in the stores there are exhausted. Later The Western Hotel is destroyed, being considered dangerous for the people to remain on the second floor. It stopped raining at 1 o'clock, but still remains cloudy, warm and threatening, with occasional showers of wind from the south. The river is steadily increasing upon tbe city, rising at this hour at the rate of f ally one inch an hour. No casualities, however, yet reported in the city, but the damage to property and destitution of the people must be great in any event. KKW ALB AMY. Special to tbe Sentinel: New Albany, Ind., Feb. 14. The loss by the flood here is not less than $250,000. No lives lost. Farmers along the Ohio suffe

greatly, many losing their entire crops. Six hundred families are houseless and many destitute. The manufactories are stopped. M05TEZCMA. Special to tbe Sentinel: Moktezcma, Ind., Fäb. 14. A heavy rain storm prevailed throughout this part of the country last night, causing the already swollen streams to rise rapidly, and flooding all the low ground within the town limits to an unprecedented extent. Several dwelling houses were flooded to such an extent that the occupants were forced to leave them during the night, and J. X. Ireland's grocery store had over an inch of water on the floor when opened this morning. The river is still rising rapidly, with a heavy flow of ice in the channel. There is more water visible here now, excepting in the river, than was ever before known. All trains are delayed on roads ran nine through here, on account of damage done by water. CINCINNATI. Appalling Destitution Children Crying for Food Fears of a Famine The Depot Disaster. CiacissATi, Feb. 14. Additional gloom came over tbe people this morning, caused by the fact that the river, after falling to sixty-four feet ten and three-quarter inches, began to rise, under the influence of a steady, hard rain. The rain has advanced from the West, thus checking the fall, and extends this morning as far as Pittsburg. Unless it stops speedily there is no hope cf the river receding, while there are great fears that the great height reached yesterday will be surpassed. The rain seriously embarrasses the work of the Relief Committee, but they are doing all they can to distribute food. Soup houses will be opened to-day in various parts of the city to feed those able to get to them. Bishop Elder has ordered all Catholic Churches thrown open to accommodate the homeless, and sends a circular to the Churches tonlay asking that contributions be sent to the Chamber of Commerce and City Council Relief Committees. The sink ing fund trustees will advance money on the bonds yesterday authorized by the Legislature, so that relief will be prompt. Manv cafes of extreme destitution are re ported by the relief boats, and in tome cases the frantic cries of starvirg children lor food arc heart rendirg. The bakeries not inun dated are pressed to their fullest capacity to keep the supply of bread. There have been some fears of a meat famine on account of the difficulty of receiving live stock, but several thousand rescued distillery cattle can be utilized In case of necessity. The river is rising at the rate of an inch in half an hour. It stood sixty-five feet, an inch and a half at 12 o'clock, when it was warm and still raining. Reports up and down the river show rain. The river is falling at Portsmouth and Maysville, slowly at the latter place. The first authentic report concerning the loss of life at the Cincinnati Southern Depot yesterday was made to-day to the police at Oliver Street Station, by Herman "Wielsberg, boarding at 17 Wilstach street He says he and his brother, Joseph, with thirteen other boys, were on the platform when the water broke through McLean avenue; that the entire party were thrown into the water; that he swam to Gest street and escaped; that his brother and all the other boys were drowned. He does not know the names of the other boys. No other reports of missing boys have been made to the police. The river at 9 o'clock to-night was eixtysix feet and three-quarters of an inch and nung slowly. Tbe day has been the gloomiest in tbe history of the city. Business has been wholly neglected on 'Change, and all attention given to saving property and affording relief. While the unexpected ris of nearly a foot to-day has not made a very great change apparently in the situation, there is such uncertainty about tbe future that all plans are unset'led. Not only is it impossible to estimate the extent of the coming rise, but no oue can tell when the rain will cease along the river. Here clouds broke away late in the afternoon, but gathered again be'ore 10. The rain is falling above and below. The weather is warm and almost sultry. The effect of this un certainty is to cause another lifting to higher levels of tbe vast quantities of goods hither to supposed to be above the reach of water. This is done at immense labor under the moät trying circumstances. Men are stand ing in water. The water now stands in the eutters on the south eide of Pearl street on Walnut The Little Miami Depot is flooded. Wagons are no longer able to cross the New port bridge. Louisville and Nashville trains receive passengers on the trestle at the ein cinnati end of the bridge, they reaching it by boats. The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Road, which has been the only outlet'for trains north and east, to-night went nnder the flood to such an extent that no trains could pass. This leaves the city prao tically cut off from the rest of the world to the North, East and West by rail communiciticn. exespt that the Bee Line Road still runs trains, leaving from the Stock Yards Station. This route is also accessible by the Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore trains, and they may enter and depart in that way. The difficulty on the Hamilton and Dayton Iload Is not fully understood, though the water on the track in the city limits is sufficient to account for the stoppage. Three hundred rassengers are waiting at Windom place for transportation by omnibus into the city. The Cincinnati Southern sent out a train to-night and received one, but the water has so permeated McLean avenue that wagons sank to the hubs removing express and baggage, and the most lively fears are entertained that the whole street will sink under the trains. No effort will be made to-morrow to run on this road at all into the ritr. There is no point this aide of the bridge where passengers can be taken on the cars. It can not yet be told what arrange ments will be made for forwarding mail, or even what will be done about running trains. But a single road ia now able to reach the depot that la the Cincinnati Northern. The narrow-gauge, which comes

into the city over the hill top, has a depot

ten squares from the river. Not a steamer is running. There ia no place to land. Tbe little steamer used by the O. and M. to con vey passengers from Storria titation to Aurora. Ind.. on its return last night had a fearful experience. The fog overtook It, and unable to proceed with safetr.it found almost equal difficulty in rinding a place to tie up. x many it succeeded, and reached Storris Station this morning. , Coal barges to-day bare been towed up Central arenne to Pearl, where carts are run alongside and receive loads. Stories have been current of tbe mobs of lawless men standing at tbe water's edge and demanding whisky, and doing other lawless acts, but careful inquiry shows no reason for such stones. The fact is creditable, eren to criminals, thit they either have enough heart to behave properly in the face of this great calamity or they are restrained by wholesome fear from pillage or lawlessness. No doubt that swift punishment would follow the discovery of the crime. In addition to the precaution of the increased police force, the city is partly lighted tonight by coal oil lamps set Inside tbe gas lamps. The work of relief has gone on vigorously to-day and many touching scenes were witnessed. The citizens have not waited for the cry of distress before extending help, bnt have taken steps to prevent suffering. The gratitude of the recipients can not be told. The Relief Committee, composed of leading citizens, attend personally to tbe work, remaining all day at the office or going out with relief boats. The work ia done most thoroughly and promptly. Though no appeal has been made for help from abroad, assistance has been sent Among these are $2,500 reported by Moses Mosler eent htm by H. H. Warner A Co.. of Rochester, N. Y.; $1,000 from the Adams Express Company, New York, through A. L. I ogg, local agent, and $250 from tbe proprietor of the Gibson House, New York. The Masonic fraternity has organized a special relief force and telegraphed Cleveland, Sandusky and Toledo for boats. A Cincinnati special says: "A donation of $1,000 cash and the gross proceeds of the sale of ICO cases of Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Care, making in all over $3,000, has been contributed by the proprietor for the benefit of the sufferers in the Cincinnati floods. Mr. M. Mosler. of the Mosler Safe and Lock Company, is designated as treas urer and dispenser of tbe funds. Washington, xeb. 14. ihe Lighthouse Board has instructed the Inspector for the Cincinnati District to render all possible assistance to the authorities of that city, and to ailow them temporary use of tbe lanterns used by the service on tbe Ohio River to aid in lighting the city at night Among the incidents of the flood was the finding of a baby asleep in its crib in a hoise floating at Fern bank, below the city. The little waif was rescued and taken care of by a Catholic Orphan Society. A barn, with a line barouche ia it floated by tbe city to-day. Parties nnding it were unable to secure the prize. Commercial Gazette specials show the river "is rising at Pittsburg. It has been raining all day. A greater rise is expected. At mesville the Muskingum is rising fast It has been raining all day. At Poineroy the river has been Jailing an inch and a quarter per hour. There was a steady rain this morning at I'aducan, Ky., and tbe river is rising an inch per hour. A heavy rain last night at Hamilton, O., cut fit from Cincinnati by rail all traffic North and South, and stopped the meeting of citizens to-night to relieve the distressed. At xreeniont, u., heavy rain. At 5 this afternoon the dam gave way, and about tbe same time the trestle work for the new bridge on the Lake Shore Road was swept away. At Llkbart Ind., there was a heavy rain all day. The snow and slush is fifteen inches deep. Newport Appeals for Aid. Cincinnati. Feb. 14. The following has been issued by the Mayor of Newport, Ky.: A great calamity has overtaken tbia cltr. After pasting through a prot ected siege of thermallpox we find at least oue-third of our city cubmerged by the prevailing Hoods and about 3.0M) families gu nennt? and destitute, we need herb. It in only necessary to announce this fact to tbe citizens of our common country to obtain relief. Please send relief to W. II tape. Treasurer of the Citizens' Relief Fund Newport, Ky., or to the undersigned. William II. Harto.t, Mayor. The Damage at LouUvllle. Louisa-ills, Feb. 14 The Ohio River is forty-one feet six inches, and rising one Inch per hour. Reports from the upper points of rain and continued rise in the Ohio and branch creeks create immense excitement Business is practically at a stand-still. No boats arrive or depart. Trains on railroads are irregular, and many are stopped entirely. Old river men predict that if tee river does not soon recede tne water will cut across the east end and sur round the entire city. The wildest estimates of the damage to property continue to be made. obody knows what estimate should be made. Nothine further is known regarding the loss of life by tbe cut-off disaster, owing to the Impossibility of entering tne nouses ex cept by means of divers. The people are on the streets. Tbe flood is tbe only subject ci discussion. It is generally agiced that the loss of life has not been extraoidinarily laree. The Courier-Journal's special from Frankfort says the Kentucky River has been sta tionary with thirty-four feet of water. It fell four feet since last night It has been raining since morning, and it is now rising at Clay's ferry. The river has rien slowly but steady all day and i9 now rising an inch an hour, but owing to the preparations made less damage is being done than at tne beginning or tne Hood. Owing to fact that tbe former guage marks are far under water discrepancies occur in tbe statements of the stage of the river. Enough is known to say the water is higher than ever known before. Ihe stage of the water at this hour can safely be put at forty -two feet At the head of the canal it is sixtv-eieht feet Perhaps 100 additional buildings were taken more or less into the watery embrace since the last report This morning the heavy embankment of tbe Short Line Railroad, not far removed from the river iront broke at tbe foot of Clay street for sixty feet, one point of the earth being swept away and the rails and ties twisted around. The road is under water from First to Wenizel, a distance of nine fquares, and for a depth of four to ten feet A lot of freicht cars kept on the track to prevent a break were tossed aside like bubbles, lying in the water to the side of the track. Tbe sixty-feet break caused twenty-seven houses to be inundated, hitherto protected by the filL No loss of life occurred by reason of the break. At 10 a. m. a man and woman with trunks were seen in a skiff in a portion of tbe cut eff district known as the chute. They had no oars to propel the skiff. A party set off to rescue them, out betöre tney coulk be reached the skiff stnrck a log, broke in twe tarts, and the man and woman were lost The trunk was found, broken open, and contained a lot of children's and other clothing If any child was with them it was noe seen. A package of visiting cards were found tn the trunk, and bor the name of "Rosina RI. Greenbaum. It is supposed to be tbe name of the woman lost There was nothing to indicate.the name of the man, Thii la the only addition

to tbe death list so far to-dar.

In tbe cnt-off district 100 families are living in the most substantial two-story bouses not removed, are furnished supplies by boat, kept consequently, continually ronninr an der directions of tbe Mayor and the Relief Committee. They refuse to Jeave their hoxtes because thieves are plundering in erery direction, at every availa ble epportunity. Tbe police are patrolling tbe district in boats. Last mgbt Officer Broca bred on a party of rascals and wound ed a negro, but he escaped. Two brothers, George and John Gray, lie in a arret of their house cn the cut-oCf, ill with srxKrllpox without medical attention. Dr. Ed Carrigan rowed out to their relief this evening and gave them medical attention. They will be promptly removed ta the pest hause. Police Lieutenant Browing and fao'Jv. spposed to be lost were discovered to-day on the tiaabers supporting the uof of a stable near tbe former's horse, which Lad been washtd away, and were brought and cared for. Tbe large sewer ou East Broadway threatens to break at any nonient fror tne pressure or beck water. Tbe snbusbe known as Germantown and Smoketown will be under water. The flood has backed into BeargroS Creek. which runs throoch the city, twod broke orer the banks this evening. Thirty houses are under water up to the first story. Should tbe back water reacn twenty inches higher the flood will poor dowr Broadway and in tersect the residence portion of the ty, cutting off communication in all directions tare by boats. The earth is warned out beneath the Ro man Arch across the Keargrass and Brad way iron portion of ths bridge. This ia more tban half a miie back from the- river. Backwater in Beargrass rose ten inches one one hour, owing to the breaks at other places, and flooded Nelson's malt-ho'iee and the warersoms of Newcomb, Buchanan County,-distilleries, destroying malt in large quantities. It is reported that 2 000 barrels oi wbiskr are un der Water. Aloto? canon the distillery switch are off the track and lying in the water. The sewer at Logan and Broadway burst this morning,.3boding the immediate vicinity without causing serious damage. The Gas Works are in imminent danger. The foundation wall n keeping back the water, but the continued rise, with a promise of great increase from the Upper Ohio and Kentucky, will rut out tbe fires and wrap the city in darkness before to-morrow. Affairs at the shipping port of the river. in the suburb of the cityr can get no worse. Every house is under water. No one is left in them, the residents, who moved out, being careu for elsewhere; and at Portland, the- extreme western limits of the city, a numoer or auuitional' Aouses are under water to-day. In many oaees the water extends to the second-story. Business is at a etandstilL Tbe central idea is to devise ways aad means to take care of the sufferers. The- Board of Trade is doing splendid work in subscriptions. The Council voted $5,000- last night to be followed bv more if needed. Private individuals are generous in tendering aid and none need go hungry who will go to tue designate & points of distribution. No sane man would attempt to,estimate the amount of damage already done and to follow. ALONG TUE OHIO. Graph to Description of the Scene at Lawrence borg Condition of the Imprisoned Citizen, Cincijati, Feb. 16 Nowhere does the falling water give greater joy than tat Lawrenceborg, Ind. It is estimated that 200 houses have been overturned or washed away. Three thousand gcaple were driven from home with nothing but the clothes they wear. The loss there must reach half a million. Generous relief, sent them from Indianapolis, Shelbyvill?, Cincinnati and other places, has been received with un bounded gratitude. No loss of life vet reported, but many narrow escapes. A large furniture warehouse fell in, and thirty or forty pecple in the upper stories escaped safely. The County records have all been saved, they having been carried to the top stories of tbe Court House. Tbe interiors of the public buildings, in which are located a great majority oi the inhabitants, present many peculiar, though sad and interesting scenes. In some instances wealth and beau ty have for their nearest neighbors fthe family of the cart-driver. All are upon a common level, and no distinction is made. In one part of the Court House death was claiming its victims, while in another new lives were being ushered into the world. It is said upon good authority that no less tban fifteen babies have been born in the different public buildings since the inundation be gan. The reports c f the condition of the people have not been exaggerated. Ia fact, tbe half has not been told. The entire city, with a population of some 5,000, are in want and at tbe mercy ot tbe public. Distress extends from one end of the city to the other. Tbe situation of tbe citizens imprisoned in the Court House is constantly growing more dangerous. Added to the irregularity of the food supply and tbe crowded quarters Is the possibility that the Court House itself may collapse from the undermining cf its foundation by the flood of waters. Should that occur the loss of life will certainly be great The terrible anxiety of mind that many of thote imprisoned in tne Court House experience ia partly indicated by the facta published in the papers, but their dis tress is aggravated by other facts that it is impossible to name. Lrery hour that the rescue of these people is delayed .increases the horror of their situation. The fall of buildings in various places clearly indi cates that such a fate may await tbe Lawrenceburg Court House, and there is even more danger of this occurring while the waters are subsiding than while they are riting. The scene at Eranavllle and Vicinity Un. told Damage to Property. Special to the SeDtinel: Evaksvillk, Ind., Feb. 17. The river is rising slowly, and marks forty-seven feet six inches. It will probably come to a stand to-morrow. Tbe water baa backed up into the upper part of the city until a large number of Etreets are impassable. The race track, which was considered out of danger, is covered to a depth of three inches. All bridges on the roads to the country, excent two, are in water. While there is no actual suffering in the city, the County and surrounding country towns are needing assistance. The Legisla tive Relief Committee, composed of Senators Rah in and Mcintosh and Representa tive Spain, chartered a steamer at Lamasco this afternoon, and, with the Mayor and a Committee from tbe City Comncil, Local Relief Committee and your correspondent, went down the river fit teen miles, then left stream and went out into Union Township, and traveled for miles over cornfields where

the water is from six to twenty feet deep.

Every bouse in this Township is under water. They are all built on high fcunda tions, yet the water In all cases reach th second story. Tbe steamer rescued a oaiuber of persons, while the ferry boats are en gaged taxing people and stock y places of safety. Two hundre-s and fifty houses are under water, and fron 1.200 to 1.500 perole drive from their horaes. One old lady with two children named King were rescued from a barn, where tbey bad taken refine. Thev were without food, fire or sufficient clothCypress and Jarre-lav are inundated. Erery inhabitant has fled. A warehouse. ninety by 6ixty feet, the property of Senator Rahm, filled with vhet and corn; Francis Burke's residence, also those of Mary Morgan, John Miller. William Orwick -John Frujts, William BlarJsoe, Mrs. Niedwhof were swept away. One hundred thousand bushels of corn are lost? in Union Towrahin alone. The scene is m most distressing Tne. It will be two or three-weeks before the water will leave this township. Tbe Committee leaves in tbe mornine-Jbr a trip ip the river with boat load of re visions. A SCENE X)T DESOLATION. Xetm41e Report of the Saffertaa; at Jefferonrllle. Slew Albany an;iearenwortb.. Jl B. Van Tilburg and C. B. Judson tele graph from Louisville: Special to ths1 Sentinel: Loai8Vii.L, Feb. 17. After going all over the- water, we must say cf Jeflersonville that it ia beyond power to dceribe the great desolation. Tnlly 85 per cent'-of the city is under water. The business street of Jefiersonville ia a grand canal, and the streets only used by boats. So sudden was the flood upon them merchants had no time to remove any portion of their stock. It Is almost im possible for any one to niako' purchase. even if the wonld be had funis. Every thing is under water. There Is not much wealth ia the citv, and when oon&euuent sickness comes there will be an -open field lorooanty wori. Jenersonville will be quite largely de pendent upon the generous puUJic for at least thirty aay. We find a noble set of workers whs-are doing all that husians can do to properly distribute the donations re ceived. I is imperative to recognize Jtheir wants ror some time yet. We have visited Isew Albanr..and find that the generous donations now on their way will be gratefully received aad placed where erery cracker will fiind a hungry mourn. We learn of aooae loss and intecee suffering at Leayenworth and some intermediate points, and have from Captain Irrvin, who owns the ferry from Portland to New Albany,. noble oSer to transport any supplies sent to the needy as far as Leaden worth a pcintsome Bixty-five miles below upon his own boats free. Louisville is a great sufferer, but we saw its-Mayor in Jefiersonville to-day, nobly offering to aid if necessity demandeJ, but it is not reasonable to suppose Louisrille can do much more tban relieve their otto blood and sinew in their great distress. JeflFfereottTllle and New Albany. From, Monday's Wily Sentinet i?hortly after '1 o'clock yesterday a!ternoon C. E. Judson and J. R. Van Tilbuigh, who went down to Jeffersonville with, the car load, of provision sent ou Friday by the Board of Trade Relief Committee, returned home. Tbe gentlemen were almost completely worn out from their long trip, and soon after their return went home to rest up. A Sentinel scribe was on hand and met them on their arrival, and they kinily gave him an account of their j Darney and the condition of affairs in the two cities above named. They left this city at 6:30- o'clock Friday evening and arrived on the outskirts ot Jeffersonville at midnight the same night. They immediately notified the Mayor of their arrival, and he the next morning sent Marshal Glass with thirty relief boats and the provisions were taken to tbe relief depot, and the task of relieving the hunger of the inhabitants was begun. Mr. Judson said: "You sbonld have seen those poor people standing about waiting for their turn to get supplies, and when it was apportioned out to thera their countenances changed, showing bow much they appreciated vvfaat is being done lor them. In taking the provisions from the car at North Tower, where it was unloaded and which is situated at the crossing of the J., M. and 1. and O. and M. Railroads, it was necessary to pull across the Jeff Depot, which was six or eight feet under water, down Spring street to- Market and thence to the City Hall, where the depot for distribution is located. Every store on Spring street has from four to twelve feet cf water in them. None of the goods in. these steets will be saved in any condition, for selling and tbe reason the meicbants did not get their goods out of their stores was because the backwater came in upon them too quick ly. The imprisoned people are suffering terribly for drinking water, as that within reach ia most horribly filthy. The Mayor told us Saturday evening that there were 3vOOO people in the town without fire and suffering terribly from the severe cold. The "Mayor, Marshal and city officials, with many prominent citizens, are working. night and day doing ail in their power to relieve the suffering. The great demand for food will not cease when the water goes down. The inhabitants will need assistance for tbe next thirty days. There is considerable ticknef? ,. and there has been at least a dozen deaths since the waters came up. We received orders from the Committee to visit New Albany and look into thair wants, and to do this were compelled to go to Louisville in a skiff, and then go to Goose Island, which is at tbe foot of Portland, (which twon is perfectly submerged), and take the ferry for New Albany. Shipoirgport, a little town just across from Portland, is entirely undii water and the inhabitants have been- compelled to flee from the floods, leaving all of their household goods to be swept away by tbe waters. At New Albany we landed at the foot of Third street and were rowed up to Main street Here we did not ud things near as bad as we expected from the reports we had beard. It is true that all that portion of the city lying between Main street and tbe river is flooded, and as this is the manufacturing portion of the town, the loss will be very heavy, but the business portion of the city was not reached, and New Albany, in this regard, different from Jeffersonville, for in the latter city you can not purchase even a spool of thread or a piece of tobacco. The glass works at New Albany are completely under water, and their furnaces are total w reeks. We were told by a gentleman in a position to know, that it will take the remainder of the season to put tbe works in running order, and as the same state of affairs exists at the rolling and other mills a large number of men will be thrown out of employment and suffering must necessarily follow. Captain Irvin, of the Portland and New Albany Ferry Company, who hsa been a steamboat man for years, bad information from the towns between New Albany and Evansvllle which showed a terrible amount of suffering. At least half of the town of Leavenworth has beta

entirely swept away by the flood, and

Äauckport, Grandview, Rome, Tell City, Kockport and nmerou other towns hare Buffered terribly, and the inhabitants are in terrible want and misery and reed immediate aid. Wbea we left to-day the water was seventy feet above low water mark, and you can e that it will be some time before the floods subside." THJC WABASH. OrearT Disaster rrredlctetf Alone I2fet Stream VrsexHszs, Ind.. Fe: 17. The Wabasl is booming upward, with prorpects of still rising. The water is twsntv feet and sevon inches in the channel, and "is rising at the rate of tea inches in tweaty-toar hours. A remaraarje tning to-day ra -connection with tbwsudden rhe is tbaf.ths river 3b perfectly free from itc. The low lands on both sides of the river in Illinois and In)iana ar flooJed. Below this city about tnro miles the levee on the Illinois eids- jave wav. trecipitatinga large amount o water into the country and chasing peopls- from their hom. A sad spectacle is- one i3 which one of these bottom-Itond farmers takes his stock, wagon ani' family and moves off rbr a dry srxt. ae4 i mn tnr days, to return and only find desolation and starvation staring him in the face. In coaversa Jjm with CantAirTlndrlJTh of .the steamer Bell Grande, to-dav: that gen tleman predicted that by next Tr.esda7 the iflood would erceed that memorable one of lAugust. 3B76; wien the Wabash Valley raf-tfered-the greatest loss ever ksowm 21r. Joseph Fomerek also predicted that the Wabash would bo two feet hipZifrr. wYiirh will reach the highest mark on the Government water gauge. E. M. Thompson, of the wooden ware factory, ordered-' everything removed from the first floor of his atabhshmentr as the water was encroaohing upon it CINCINNATI. The River FalUng, Bot Other MUd drtune JottCommeiowl-Fears of a PeatUaoe CiteiifSATLi Fee. 17. At 6 o'clock- this morning the river stood bixty-two feet ten inches; at 7-o'clock, nine and a half inches: at 8 o'clock, eeren inches; at U o'clocty sis inches;. and at 10 o'clock, five and a half inches, ehowing a fall of only half an inch in the last hour. It rained nearly all night. but is much colder this morning. Tbc wind and falling water disturbed manv houses. It is still cloudy and the wind is frorrnthe west Tire total decline lacks an inch rn.l a half of being fou? feet. The river is now 8ixty-two feet two and one-half inches t p. m. a fall of half -an incn in tne- last hour. Tne weather is cloudy aeroury 'Jl. There are some unpleasant features con nected -with the present catastrophe that bnng out -strikingly tbe wickedness of man kind or womankind. Yesterday a ferrale with a small babe ia her arms called at tbe Covington engine house, and having related a pitiful story of her unfortunate circumstances was furnished with an abundance of good things She departed, and shortly af?3r another woman approached tbo scene bearing the identical baby thatha;been there before. She went through the same patbetical- business, bringing tears to the eyes of' Mrs.. Hogan, and melting thoH usually sympathetic heart of Colonel Orville v mston like a snow-ball on a red-hot stove. She was provided for like her predecessor, and went away rejoicing. Scarcely fiftf 2 a minutes had'pased when a third one niade-l her appearanoe. carrying the same precious specimen of infantile humanity. She tried the same-old 'rasket bnt the machinery was out of geari and the thing didn't operate. The river is falling, but the extra misfor tunes have but xst commenced. Thousands of men ar&oot of work, and while private premises will give work for many for quite , a while, relief1 will be needed for several days yet by thousands. Tbe subsidence of the waters will leave a vast deposit of mud of a more- or lets malarial character, who baleful effects will be aided by the decay of thousands of car casses of animals drownded by the flood and washed into out-of-the way places, where their preeenoe wLll be detected only by thair decay later. Should the weather turn coli; and remain so for some time, it will not be so bad, bnt t-bould the remainder of ths winter be mild, pestilence and death will stalk- ruthlessly through this valley later on. Tbe water should, at tbe expected rate at fall, be off the streets by Monday morning. By that time the nss from above sisosld be here, and may check tbe tall and possibly cause a small rioe, bringing. the-water to a phenomenally bigh plane for ordinary years, but it is not ex pected it wiii reacn anything lite the- pres ent State The creates magnitude of tbe disaster? m the larger cities has caused the condition, of smalli country towns immediately abave here to be-overlooked. In fact, they have been inaooessible for days. Their condition is about as here, except that the whole of them are in most cases entirely submerged, in some- plates nearly all the roofs being covered and the people driven ironi their , homes. They need akL as badly as any. In one place bzread has been falling at fifty cents a loaf.' The estimate last night that 50,000 people with in a radios, of twenty-five miles of Cincin nati,, were more or less anected by the ood. is thought by many to be too sr&alt, come putting it at 100,000. The first figures are probably more nearly correct, though possibly two small. Tbe railroads running into"CinnnatI as yet have not-suffered anj great amount of damage by water, except the loss of traffic. 2a.ro The river is still falling an inch an hour, reaching sixty-one rest seven inches at 9 p. m. The temperature is falling. There has been great activity, all day, and continuing to-night in cleaning: houses that are left by the receding waters. Additions to the relief fund to-day aggregate nearly $10,000. Tko Mississippi and TrlbatoalB B Ising, Bat " No UreatDsmas.Doai St. Locis, Feb. 13. The cold weather which set in here Friday last, while it stopped the rainfall and further thawing of enow and ice, has not . ihecked the rise in the rivers, as was anticipated it would. All streams, Lots great and- email, throughout this region are booming and while no great damage yi has beea diooa a good deal of land has been oversowed, numerous bridges tarried away or rendered unsafe,, and railroad train has been greatly, impeded Wy washouts aad high water. Trains on newly all the roads centering heia have been delayed from one to twelve! hours, and some roads have used tbe tracks ot other lines in orier to rnn trains at all. Tbe Wabash, for example, still obliged to nse the L and St L. as far sa Litchfield, 1U , owing to the washouts, and the VandaUa Road tends its trains via the O. and LL.to Odin, thence over the Illinois Central to Effingham, wbere it takes to its own track. The LouiaviUs and Nashville is submerged in spots in Ci iuthern Illinois, and no through trains are running; and tbe Keokuk and St Louis Iload is still broken by the washing out of a trestle on tbe Cut vor River. Tne Belmont Branch of tha Iron Mountain ia still suffering from the washouts, and the iloblle and New Orleans trains arc abandoned. The Texas Continued on Ilfta tags.

STISaTIXG STATISTICS.

T Shadow Baartor Orer New York City and tJjB Cntlre Country A Tirtiae Opinio. The Nation has keen horrified at the hnm, Ing of a Milwaukee? otel. whereby over eeventy ea were lest This event carried terror brcsmse it wasridaen and appalling; but had tbe same disastrous results to li? and lim come sileatly they would have been unncöced, not or.y by the people of the land, Vr also by ths very commnnirv in e which they"ccurred. Ätal events of a far i worse naturj laaTe taken ?lace in tiis very city, but the? have attra-sted no attention, nor would th7 now did rot the Bnrean of "Aral Statistic bring the: to our notice. "J-Xures do nc&ae," whatever else aay be unsertain, and the report on the death of this city is a startling com-ent on its life. Dcng the past ear the enormous increase of certain maladies is aimily appaMice. Whil the total number of ieaths has diminished, and thy death rats on mo6t diseases 2V-w decreased; still it is f.r greater ia one cr two Eeriou disorders tfc&n was ever knowrsfore. More people dird ia the of ty of New York in 1 of Bright': disease oL the kidaeys than frota diphtheria, small post and typhoid fever cJl combined! ' This scarcely teems possible, but it is true, and when if is remembered that less than onethird thcactual deaths from Brighfs diseaseare really reported as such, the ravages off the malaü can be partially undereod. The iniäwdiate query which every reader will make apon such a revelation of facta is: What cauEss this increase? This ia a diultquestion tc-answer. The nature of the cii' mate, the habits of life, the adulteration of foods and liquors, all undoubtedly contrib ute; but no immediate cauee can bs certainly assigned. Often before tbe victim knew it the disease has begun. Its approaches are so stealthy arsd its symptom so obeenre that they can not be definitely foreseen, and are only known by their effect. Any kidney, diaorder, however slight is tiie first stage-of-Blight's disearrs. But It is seldom that kidney disorders san be detected They do not have any certain symptoms. Mysterioua weariness, an unusual appetite, periodical headaches, ocsasional nausea, uncertain pains, loss of vigor, lack of nerve power, irregularity of the heart disordered daily habits, imperfect digestion all these and many other eyntoms are the indications oi kidney disorder, even though there may be no pain in the region of the kidneys or ia that iortion of the body. The serious nature of these troubles may be understood' from the fsct that Bright's disease is as certain to follow diseased kidnevs as decomposition follows dea:h. It is high time the doctors in this land who bare been unable to control kidney troubles,, should be aroussd and compelled to find some remedy, orracknowledge one already? found. The suffering public needs help and can not await th tardy action of any hairsplitting code or incorrectly formulated theories. If the medical world has no - certain remedy for this terrible disease, let them acknowledge it and seek or one outside the pale of their profession. For the discovery öf this remedy aad- for its application ta this disease, the people of this city, the people of the whole land, not only those who are suffering, bjut those who have friends in danger, are earnestly and longingly looking; The above quotaöoa from the New Yerk Tribune is causing-ensiderable commotion, as it seems to lift tbe cover from a subject that has become of-National importance. The alarming increase of kidney diseases. their insidious beginnings and fnghtfal end ings, and the acknowledged inability of physicians to successfully cope with- them. may well awaken the greatest dread of every one who has the slightest eymptoraa, It ia fortunate, however, that the sorest relief ia often found where, possibly, least expected;, and that there is a specific for the evils above described we ha?e come to f ullyrbelieve. Within the past two years we have frequently teen statements of parties claiming to have been cured c( serious kidney troubles,, even after hope had been abandoned; but, common with most people we Lave -discredited them. Quite-recently, however, a number of prominent and well-known men have come out voluntarily and stated over their signatures that tbey were completely cured. by the use of Warner's Safe Xidney and Livr Cure. Most people have been a war that this medicine has an unusual ständige, and one entitling it to be classed above ptoprietary articles generally; bnt that it had accomplished so much in checking the ravages of kidney disease is not so . generally, known. Its great worth has been shown, not only by the ires it has effected, but also because a number of base imitations Ive appeared in the market, fraudulently olaioaing the valuable qualities of the original Safe Cure. It it were not valuable, it would not be i mitied. The above may seem like an ultra Indorsement of a popular remedy, but it is not onewhit strong? than the facts admit Whatever assists- the world toward health and consequent happiness should receive the hearty indorsement of the pre&v and all friends of humanity. It is on precisely tbis principle that the foregoing. cLalemeüt is made aad it merits the carefulcpnsideation of: every thinking reader. They Want Protection. New Yoek, Feb. 13.-The first a so aal me&tingof the Finland Hc&p Spinne and Growers' Association of America. was hel3. to-day. Alfred Turner, 2c., was elected President Telegrams were sent. to Senator thinking them for their efforts in favor of the- industry an J concluding as.loilowa: :In OAier to continue in b isiress wa want and. must have & per cent duty. on brown and bleached lUens and o'iier wovan goods, '40 per cent on all flax and beup yaras, threads and tvines. With) proper protection th Js branch of business an be expended to be one of the leading industries- of this country, kota, in the rrowing of r!&x and hemp and lis manufacture, gining ataady employment and gooü wages to farm bands and factory operatives. A2arder itv Porter County. Special to m Sentlnfex MichivaxCity Ind., Feb. 1Ä A cruel murder aas just some to tbs surface in this commiaaity to-day. On Swiday night at a dancer seven aailes froxi this city, in Pine, Township Porter County, one Martin Parier stabbed the hostess. Mrs. August Ratltke, wi:fc a large pocket knife, and on Libke, a young German. Lifeke died tbJa leorning and the murderer baa escaraA There is great indignation in the vicinity at the murder. Anxious for tbe Tariff. Taaac Haut, Feb. 18. At a pur.D meeting held here last night reaolurjioiia wer adopted asking Congrt&J to pass. tariff commiwioa bill.