Show I LATEST TELEGRAMS I f + I THE FLOODS Pittsburg Pa 12The meeting of the chamber of commerce showed utter prostration of bui nes Only in the merest necessities was trade accomplished There was no disposition entered into anything of a speculative character char-acter 4 The president called the body to order and a resolution was adopted appointing a committee to collect money to provide relief for the sufferings M E Ingalls was made chairman On motion of Richard Smith the chamber gave 5000 to the committee Superintendent Superin-tendent Maxwell accepted an individual indi-vidual subscriptions immediately fully 5000 more were subscribed The committee goes to work at once The common council is called to meet tomorrow to organize relief measures Among the losses this morning were SOO cattle which were drowned at Gerl Lippmans distillery dis-tillery The work of removing the poor from tenement houses or of furnishing them provisions must begin at once just now available skiffs and other crafts are being used for saving goods and ferrying passengers at enormous rates The gas is completely exhausted Citizens Citi-zens are providing themselves with candles and lamps The theatres will be equipped with the electric light but they fear the audiences will be small on account of fear of being on the dark streets The river was sixtythree feet seven and half Inches at 130 pm and still rising ris-ing Louisville 12 The flood here has reached the highest point of the flood of February 22 82 and is rising an inch and a half per hour Business and navigation are practically prac-tically suspended The damage to proporty on Front street is very heavy Clear and warm Madison Ind 12The river is within thirtyfour inches of the flood of 1882 the highest ever known and is rising two inches per hour All factories depots and houses on the river front are inundated in-undated Should the waters sub side without heavy winds the damage will not be disastrous Cincinnati Ohio 12The river is rising more rapidly tonight than hi the afternoon reaching sixty four feet two and threequarter inches Tonight the scenes of the day has been to a great extent a repetition of those of yesterday with the exception of the work of removing remov-ing goods is less active and more attention paid to suffering people The relief committee appointed by the chamber of commerce is composed com-posed of most active and responsible responsi-ble citizens They already have taken prompt measures being be-ing supported by subscrip tions amounting to 15000 and will act in concert with existing charitable associations and have appropriated 1000 for immediate use In view of the exposed condition con-dition of property and the inade quacy of the police force to guard property the flooded district it is determined to call for the help of the militia A river patrol is organized or-ganized to watch the flooded district dis-trict and give relief when needed Captain W P Walker of the Chesapeake Ches-apeake and Ohio Railway is made commander of this fleet and authorized author-ized to seize boats when needed There being no gas the police have orders to make arrests of all suspicious suspi-cious persons on the street at night But little mercy is to be shown criminals who are found taking advantage of the present situation The relief committee com-mittee has given orders for the most rigid inspection of the wants of the sufferers and immediate help Father Cussack pastor of the Cathlic church Third street opened a builuing tonight for the homeless 300 are sleeping there The station houses me filled with beds for the accommodation of persons driven from home No accidents are reported re-ported and every precaution is used o prevent loss to the coal fleet mid other exposed property Lights improvised every where tonight coal oil and candles in the stores dwellingsnewspapers and telegraph offices and electric lights in the theatres and some hotels the latter use candles mostly for the rooms I There is very little change in the condition of railways except the Little Miami which was compelled com-pelled to abandon the track oetween here and Loveland mill and trains tomorrow from Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton depot to Xenia The Cincinnati Washington and Baltimore track is under water so trains cannot pass It connects a few miles out with the Cincinnati Hamilton and Day ton and will not be delayed The Ohio and Mississippi sends steamers to Aurora Indiana No tidings yet from Lawrenceburg Indiana except that the town is at the mercy of the water Frankfort Ky 12 The Ken tucky River was fortyone feet at noon and rising threequarters of an inch per hour It is expected to rise till nightfall One thousand people are homeless Much distress everywhere Communication with the outside world Is cut off save by telegraph The turnpike to Versailles Ver-sailles the low ground in Frankfort known as crow and a large part south of Frankfort is entirely submerged sub-merged Fort Hill the highest point about Frankfort is now an island caused by backwater Resi dences two miles from the river are under water Hermitage and F C distilleries are covered on first floors Six hundred head of cattle are standing in water above the knees The water is three feetsix inches on th n 11 floors uuc ce car iiuuis UL the penitentiary covering nearly the entire prison yard The prisoners are loose in the chapel and are doubled up in the cells on the second floor range The wooden bridge to South Frankfort is considered vere unsafe and is hourly expected to go down Thousands of people line the riverbanks river-banks on both sides watching the heavy drift and houses go downthe highest the river was ever known to reach The damage already reaches 100000 Indianapolis Ind 12The Ohio River is still rising at all points in this state At New Albany the water is ten inches higher than the flood of 81 About threefourth of manufactories are flooded If the rise continues till midnight every furnace in the immense glass works of W C DePaveu will be underwater under-water Ills loss will be fully 100 000 and other establishments suffered suf-fered to an equal amount perhaps much larger About five hundred houses are flooded in the lower part of the city Two or three thousand employes will be thrown out of work if the flood continues Between Be-tween Evansville and Henderson telegraph poles are covered in some places and the wire strung on the tops of trees Lawrenceberg is completely surrounded with water Louisville 12All day the river has been the center of attraction and dread the steady rise of each hour The highest point of the flood of February 1882 was reached this afternoon and passed and is now more than thirtysix feet on the falls and six tyfour feet in the channel at the foot of the fall which is but two feet below the great December flood of 1847 The river is yet rising slowly with a great tide from the Kentucky River to be added The houses along the river front are vacated Drift wood ete is damaging dam-aging them seriously Fourth street is closed Main to the river Every building in the shipping part has from three to eight feet of water on the floors and the cement mills principal industry there is submerged Nine squares Portland is at the mercy of the water Business isat an end Houses in front will have water on the second floors before morning It is estimated that in Portlond and at the shipping port 800 people pge homeless very many of them being poor Losses here aggregate 50 000 In the city proper the heavy damage done Is by the stoppage of work in the factories 2000 men are I thrown out of employment Merkle Cos great plow works Louisville iron works Dennies large extensive pipe works Kentucky Ken-tucky lead and oil works Central rolling mills Bell Coggeshells planing mill J P Hall and Hall Eddys saw mills are among the large establishments closd Others must follow tomorrow unless the waters subside Mayor Jacobs has ordered the Hospital to be made ready to receive sufferers to be cared for at the citys expense The Louisville Hotel Company has opened a free lunch house for women and children of the flood sufferers |