Show DIRE DISASTER Sad and Sickening News From the Flooded Districts The Suffering Intense and Almost Al-most Unendurable loss of Property as Yet Un calculable T I The Floods Cincinnati 16 9 am The rive is i 63 feet 8 inches a fall of 72 inches since 2 am The weather is cloudy and moder at ng Portsreports a fall of 4 feet from the highest point of the floods Wheeling W Va l6The river is 32 feet and stationary The Stockdale passed last night at 8 oclock wih provisions pro-visions The weather is cool and cloudy Parkersburg W Va 16The United States relief steamer Katie Stock dale arrived at Parkersburg this morning morn-ing loaded to the guards with 300 tons of relief supplies and 100 tons of coal The supply aboard cost 50000 of the 75000 appropriated aud the government govern-ment has telegraphed flooded towns on the boats route the privilege of drawing on the remaining 25000 in sums of 500 to 6000 according to their necessities neces-sities The submerged country is slowly shaking off the waters and the devastation devasta-tion paralyzes description In many places the roofs of houses on piles of brick and timber tell the tale in all directions di-rections Provisions are said to be plentifully upplied but the people suffer suf-fer from cold weather Marietta Ohio is a hurricane wreck Houses are torn gutted and demolished on all streets There are no inhabitants except on sec cond floors and not man of them i Parkersburg will be able > > attend to its own sufferer but the destitution in smaller settlements is Intense Belpre is a wreck and its principal street has entirely en-tirely disappeared with only a few piles of brick to mark its location A towboat tow-boat with a tow was swung abreast the town of Ravenswood and held tho houses from being swept on Saturday otherwise the town and all its inhabitants would have been engulfed The ires are dewn in all directions from here News goes oBaltimore and is there transferred The disarrangement interferes with all transmission of news and it is doubtful if telegraph matter Cn be sent after lesv leg here The Stockdale leaves ten tons of freight b re to be distributed by the relief committee at this point for the suffering suf-fering below Dimness is entirely aus rended The loss in Parkersburg is one million dollars Louisville 16The river fell 1M inches and is till falling The height reached at 930 last night WB 46 feet 7 inches Cloudy and threatening rain Cincinnati 16ThJ river was faUiug at noon an inch an hour but is still two feet above the hitherto unprecedented flood of last year It will requ re tt least two days more to enable the railroads rail-roads to begin to ascertain the location of tracks A four story brick buildng on Central avenue near second fell lust night The last family removed from it yesterday afternoon In all the submerged sub-merged portions of the city where frame houses have been moved from their poi tions the owners are endeavoring to float them back to tbe r places The same thing is dine at Newport Ky Threatening Threaten-ing rain Washington 16The President has signed the joint resolution appropriating 200000 additional for the relief of the flooded sufferers The Secretary of War has sent telegrams tele-grams to the mayor oi Bellaire Galli polis New Albany Parkersburg Marietta Mari-etta Harmar Middleport Portsmouth Rockport Charleston and Batavii authorizing them to expend from 500 to 5000 for additional supplies Chicago Subscriptions in Ibis city for the aid of the flood suffe ers foot up 2000 Parkersburg WVa 16Tbe United States relief boat Katie Stockdale in charge of Col Thomas Rae of the Fourteenth Four-teenth infantry and conveying 1000000 worth of proviiions to the flood sufferers arrived here at 7 oclock this mornicg The Stockdale lay at Marietta Ohio from midnight until morning The inhabitants in-habitants of that city were supplied with provisions but are in bad necess tv for clothing and bedding They are still in the schoolhouses churches and barns on the high ground The water has receded 20 feet and stood at 6am 33 feet 3 in The banks are coming out of the water on bath sides of the river and tbe full of the destruction is exposed It paralyzes para-lyzes description People at Parkersburg Parkers-burg are in good finiicia COt dition and though the losses aft heavy the cit 1 will take care tf its own sufferers The city has over 100 sufferers in building Tbe homeless are in churches and schoolhouses The town of Balpre opposite op-posite Parkorsburg is in desolation Its princioal street with the store and Bad leys flour mill and numerous brick and wood buildings has totally disappeared The losses At Parkersburg are 1000 000 with more returns to corns in The Stockda e will proceed from here direct tc Ironton 325 miles west of Pittsburg Pomeroy 16The relief boat Katie Stockdala arrived here thie afternoon Her tenton was to gojdirect to Iron town after leuvmg Parbersburp but the people of Belleville W Va called the boat and a quantity of provisions was given out But six houses rotani in the town They ere nearly all badly wrecked As the bjat proceeded pro-ceeded on the streau the brsd farming bottoms on each side were gradually being relieved of water At Racine the head of the Pomeroy bend twelve miles long was entered Thfs bend IB a narrow bottom on both sides of the river and contains two coalmines coal-mines eighteen salt works twelve towns and 30000 inhabitents of whom SjOOO are laborers Six of the mines are flooded and will noi be pumped out for six or eight months 8000 people ale idle and 9000 homeless demanding immediate assistance The river in the bend has reached 64 feet it has fallen 12 feet and is going down at the rate of two inches an hour On Friday night the water first cleared from the streets of the town Thereare four relief boats helping the Bends destitution from GalJi polls which place is out of the water and comparatively uninjured Business of every kind is suspended Columbus Hocking the Valley Toledo railway and Ohio Central penetrating the Bend are all torn to pieces The trestles of the bridge and the road bed are gone It will be from three to six weeks before communication by rail will be resumed re-sumed There are no telegraph wires up The steamboats Jim Montgomery Champion Nora Bell and Chesapeake are distributing supplies to the people who are stored away in churches barns and schoolhouses through the country It is estimated that 500 houses have been swept out of twelve miles of the Bend There are destitute in I Camden 300 peoplei0ddleport West Columbia 400 Clifton 70 Shawneetown Ill 16 The Mayor of Millepaugh estimates that at least 1000 people in Gallatin county have been driven from home by the flood Most of them are on the hills and in immediate need but wten the waters subside many of them whose houses were swept away have no place to go to and will have to live on public charities It will be necessary to feed 500 for a month many will have to be assisted as-sisted in restoring their houses It is estimated that from Raleigh to Saline a distance of fifteen miles 150000 bushels of corn were swept away Several new cases of sickness sick-ness among the refugees are reported re-ported tonight Little Rock Ark lBThe river 1 here fell an inch today At Pine Bluffs the river rose seven inches and at 9 tonight was rising an inch an hour At Fulton tonight Red river continues to rise and the flood covers the banks on both sides for many miles Stock are drowning in large numbers people are help less nouses are washed In the river and unless relief is soon afforded the loss of life will be heavy It rained all day The Arkansas has fallen six feetat Fort Smith Cincinnati 1 a roThe river is 67 feet 4 inches one foot higher than the highest mark last year It is falling a little less than an inch an hour The steamer Gen Pike leaves at daylight and will go 83 far asKew Albany carrying government gov-ernment relief q |