Show bAT i EiT TELEGRAMS THE FLOODS ToleJo 5Reports received here show that the damage by the floods is confined for the most part to this immediate locality local-ity Telegraphic communication with n any points is still cut off The tracks of all the rairoads east south and southwest south-west are under water in many places and several bridges are badly damaged and impassable The ice in the An glaize river at Defi mce Ohio broke up yesterday afternoon and at 10 odocic was badly gorged at the mouth of the dream About midnight th gorge broke flooding that portion of the own compelling many families to leave their dwellings At 5 this morning tho river had risen thirty feet and everything was flooded At points along tha Jiinumef between here and Defiance the high water is still rising IL i < reported alto that there la considerable destruction of property flooding of buildings and dstn ago to bridge There me no Indications of a breaking up yet Wheeling W Va 5The river here is thirtyontj feet and nine inches and rising At the rate of even inches an hour the surface is a mass of ice and cloth with a targe quantity of driftwood drift-wood barrels and fences small bridgoa and the like About noon a mail barge with two wagons passed and ihoitly after a flat with a new buggy one end being sunk The fair grounds of the State expoEitim association and other low part of Wheeling Island are underwater under-water Indianapolis Ind 5White River reached its highest at noon tcday The water was higher than ever before known The damage along the river is very serious no estimate can be made There was eight inches of water on the floor of the engine house of the waterworks water-works It was feared far a time that the supply of water for the city would ba cut off The Wabash River is booming Two spans of the Wabash St Louis and Pacific Railway bridge are down at Logansport Regular train are abandoned aban-doned Floods throughout the state are general nearly all railroads suffered damage Dy washouts and lost of bridges On occount of the disordered condition of the telegraph lines it is difficult to get accurate information Cleveland 25Tbe bravlest losses by the flood were to the lumber firms of Monroe Bros 80000 Forbes Baritow Co 60000 Cleveland Saw Mill and Lumber Oompany 50000 Sturtevant r Co 840000 The tobl will reach 300000 Columbus Ohio 5Reports from all parts of central Ohio show the highest water by from six to twenty inches ever known The Sciota in this city is fourteen four-teen inches higher than ever before and the damage acre are enormous mOlly to the inundated portion on the west aide Over 100 families had to quit their houses The river by noon today had fallen three feet and the wrst was over |