Hemingray glass works closed on account of flood

TOWNS DISTURBED.

Earthquake Shocks in Illinois,

Indiana and Missouri.

THE MOVEMENT DISTINCTLY FELT.

Shaken, Glassware Broken, and

Citizens Badly Scared, but no Damage

Ensues — Destructive Floods

In Ohio.

MOTHER EARTH SHRUGS HER SHOULDERS.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb. 7. — This city was visited by an earthquake shortly after four o'clock yesterday morning. A difference of opinion exists as to the number of shocks. Some claim there were five distinct shocks following each other in rapid succession, while others claim there were but three. The time between the first vibration to the last was from fifteen to twenty seconds. The first shock was the most distinct, the ones following diminishing in intensity until the vibrations ceased. Houses were shaken and windows and furniture jarred, but no damage was done.

Dispatches from Salem, Litchfield, Carmi, Mattoon, Carlyle, Moweaqua, Charleston, Champaign, Hillsboro, Centralia, Pana, Olney and other points in this State report the shocks distinctly felt.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 7. — This city was visited yesterday morning by two severe earthquake shocks, which were more severe than that of last fall. The shocks came in quick succession and were followed by a heavy rumbling sound, which awakened the soundest sleepers. The direction of the movement was seemingly from southeast to northwest. The shocks were most severe in the eastern part of the city. Houses were shaken severely, causing window-panes to rattle and chandeliers to sway perceptibly. The seismoscope at Rose Polytechnic Institute recorded the time of the shock at 4:15:16. This instrument is one of two owned by President Mendenhall, of that institution. President Mendenhall, who has given earthquakes considerable attention, estimates the duration of the shock at about ten seconds.

VINCENNES, Ind., Feb. 7. — The shock yesterday morning was felt shortly after four o'clock. It lasted twelve or fifteen seconds, and was preceded and succeeded by aloud rumbling noise resembling distant thunder. The vibrations were so great in certain portions of the city as to cause bedsteads to tumble. Prior to the first shock the atmosphere became very oppressive and the air was so close that many people were awakened from their slumbers by experiencing difficulty in breathing. The upheaval visited Petersburg, Bedford, Evansville, Sullivan and other Indiana towns. In each place the citizens were rudely disturbed from their slumbers, and the streets were soon filled with excited people, who rushed out of their houses screaming, praying and singing. The motion was from north to south, and the first shock, which last about five seconds, was followed by another ten minutes afterward. In Bedford, where the shock was the most perceptible, the plastering in many houses fell off, dishes and glassware were rattled, church-bells were rung and clocks stopped.

ST. Louis, Feb. 7. — A slight shock of earthquake was felt in this city between four and 4:10 o'clock yesterday morning. The movement was barely noticeable in the central portions of the city, but in the outskirts and suburbs several persons were awakened. In the southern part of the city pictures were moved from the walls, but no damage of any kind is reported. Reports from Southern Missouri say tho shock was also felt there, but it seems to have been no more severe there than here.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 7. — A slight shock of earthquake was felt at four o'clock yesterday morning in this city and in New Albany and Jeflersonville, Ind.

THE FLOODS.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 7. — The Ohio river reached its height at fifty-six feet three inches Saturday night, and yesterday it began to fall slowly. At midnight it was fifty-five feet seven inches and falling an inch an hour.

All the railroads entering the Central depot are now receiving freight and passengers at Eighth street. Some of the streets now having more or less water in them are Madison, Brighton, Isabella, Bellevue, Bouthgate, Hubbard, Central avenue, Moss, Chestnut, Front and Taylor. At Isabella and Bellevue the water is four feet deep, and at Isabella and Southgate eight feet. The houses on the bank of Mill creek are flooded in the lower stories, and people have moved their goods in many cases to the upper parts of their houses. On Sixth street at the Southern railroad bridge the water is nearly up to the top of the patrol-boxes and half way up in the first story of the houses, while the residents are moving out their household effects in skiffs. In Covington the Hemingway [sic] Hemingray glass works and the Licking and Mitchell, Tranter & Co. rolling-mills have now all suspended operations, throwing nearly 500 men into enforced idleness. Front street is under water and impassable. The water now covers many streets in Newport. The exodus from the low-lying ground is great, and the demand for higher houses and rooms is enormous.

Gloomy advices have been received from points on the Indiana side of the Ohio. Two-thirds of the business houses and dwellings of Troy and Enterprise, villages above Evanaville, are under water, and the people have abandoned Enterprise entirely, leaving most of their household goods to be ruined and their stock to perish. It is estimated that 400,000 pens of corn have been swept away or badly damaged by the water. At Newburg 700 bales of hay waiting shipment were carried away Sunday. The loss to persons engaged in buying saw-logs is very great, the product of the fall labor of several firms, each employing a large force of men, being swept away from the mouth of Panther's creek. The lower part of the city of Madison is flooded with water, and business there has been suspended. Many of the factories, cooper shops and ship yards are in extreme danger.