Show THE FLOODS The Rivera Blsinc and the Destruction De-struction Continues The suffering Is iutense and Increasing Considerable LOBS ol Lite Louisville 14 Today Mayor Jacobs chartered a steamer and with a corps of mea traversed the submerged district taking off a number of persons and sup plying food to those who remained in houses above the water One man was found clinging to a tree As the men approached he cried out Go over to that house A woman and several children are over there I will hold here till you save them The men started but before they reached it i the house turned over and was carried away in the rush of waters The man clinging to the tree was afterward rescued Be declared a woman and several children were in the house when it turned over but did not know their names A family named Watkins living up the hollow near Adams was importuned to move out of the house but the mother said they did not believe the water would come over When the break came in the cutoff the water rushed down on them filling the lower floor of the house rendering escape except by skiff impossible The hcuse moved from its foundation and rocked to and fro in the water In the moment when the danger came the woman was in the pains of parturition parturi-tion In this condition the bed was taken up put in the skiff and the woman removed The excitement attending the removal threw her Into spasms and her recovery is doubtful An old colored man John Adams living alone ill fri m rheumatism is missing and probably lost Oa the point shipping port and Portland a thousand houses are underwater under-water The vast majority are owned by poor people The authorities have taken steps to provide food and lodging The Board of Trade is raising a fund entertainments enter-tainments for the benefit of sufferers will be held Water hides the ghastly results re-sults of last nights work Those anxious ones who demand the names of the dead must wait till the floods have gone and miles of hidden lands and hundreds of Sunken houses 1 QUUHQU UUUBUX eve UUUU more come to view UIti is folly to attempt to fix the loss of property Tim Donohoe and a man named Sipper were arrested on the charge of killing Sam Bell last evening After the water broke over the cutoff dam the parties drinking got in a boat to go to the rescue when Bell fell out or was knocked out by the others and drowned Cincinnati 14 Additional gloom over the people this morning is caused by the fact that the river after falling to sixty four feet ten and threequarters inches began to rise under the influence of a steady bard lain The rain baa advanced from the west thus checking the fall and extends this morning as far as Pittsburg Unless it stops speedily there will be no hope of the river receding while there are the gravest fears that the great height reached yesterday will be surpassed Ihe rain seriously embarrasses the work of the relief committee but they are doing do-ing all they canto distribute food Soup houses were opened today in various parts of the city to feed those able to get to them Bishop Elder ordered all Catholic churches to be thrown1 open to accommodate the homeless and tent a circular to the churches today asking contributions to be sent to the chamber of commerce and the city counc 1 relief committee The sinking fund trustees will advance money on the bonds authorized author-ized yesterday by the legislature so the relief will be prompt Many cases of extreme destitution are reported by the relief board and in some cases the frantic fran-tic cries of starving children for food are heartrending The bakeries not inundated inun-dated are pushed to their fullest capacity to keep a supply of bread There have been some fears ot famine on account of the difficulty of receiving live stock but several thousand rescued distillery cattle can be utilized in case of necessity People are being moved as fast as possible possi-ble from Hardentown The rains will raise the Miama and Whitewater Rivers Lawrenceburg is likely to be the most damaged People of the latter place received re-ceived a car of provisions in good shape his morning No lives are lost yet The water is six feet deep at the ford on Tinneri Croak alto at Guilford Ind The water rOle at Lawrenceburg Junction Junc-tion since morning an inch and a half It ii raining hard all the time The river is riling an inch and a half an hour It stood 65 feet an inch and a half at 12 oclock Reports from both up and down the river show rain falling at Portsmouth and ilarysyille ilowly at the latter place The first authentic report concerning the lost of life at the Uincinnati Southern South-ern depot yesterday was made today at the Alvin street station by Herman Welsburg a boy living at 17 Wilatsch street He says he and his brother Joseph Jo-seph with 13 other boys were on the platform when the water broke through McLane avenue that the entire party were thrown into the water that he swam to Gilt street and escaped and went home that his brother and all the other boys were drowned He does not know their name The river was sixtyive feet five inches at 230 and rising It is raining till but le31 Indianapolis 14 The legislature appropriated ap-propriated 40000 for Lawrenceburg this morning The board of trade has given 15000 for the same object Another car load of provisions has gone today I It has been raining hard since midnight Pogues run has again overflown The railroad tracks are under water for two squares A Jeffersonville dispatch says the city is flooded from five to twenty feet Five I thousand peaple are homeless and many lost everything Many cottages in the lower part of the city were swept away Hundreds are quartered in second stories and public buildings and stores Food ia sent in skiffs The water is filthy from sewers The suffering Is appalling It is still raining and the river is rising The loss is over half a million Contributions Contri-butions are asked for Cleveland 014Another deluge is feared Lumber piles are being anchored an-chored on flats and driftwood and ice gorges will be blown up with dynamite All practicable precautions are taken i against the threatened overflow Madison Ind 14The river is rising one and a half inches an hour Hilton Kentucky opposite ia submerged not s house being exempt Cables are used to I anchor buildings The water is in the second story of many place The east ern suburbs of the city are abandoned 1 and all the front and extreme western + t part Backwater and Crooked Greek have inundated the city on the north and Springdale Cemetery ii partly tub merged More rain will caUls the creek to deluge Walnut street A large part of the town of Carollton ia suffering for food the provision stores are exhausted The Western Hotel ia deserted aa danger tone t-one + ousNew Albany hid p4The lou by the flood here is not loss than A quarter j 1 a million No live are lost Farmers j along the Ohio suffer greatly many los a irg their entire crops tUx hundred families are homeless and many desti tute Manufactories are stopped Chicago HTwo committees have been appointed in behalf of the board of trade and theloall board to collect and forward money and material for the relief ot sufferers by the Ohio River overflow b |