The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-01-16
Remarka able Floods I'm the Ohio and Nlissis.
Sippl Rivers.


siPpl Rivers.
correspondent furnishes the following to the Gin
einnafi Gazette: AFTER interval of nearly sixteen
aPont' above the mouth Of Muskingum, has formerly
been often visited with overhowipg yet II forty
feet above low mark Il not been ovsrnowed
since February, 1892, aud yet foods have abound
ed OF late years around and through the Union.
The inoonvsnsnos Of occasional noodngs to which this
Point and some bottom grounds the Muskingum are
subject Is common to portions Of most towns the
Ohio and the ovsrnowsd part Of Marietta is in
up suffers in proportion, less than almost any ether
place that ID subject to the like casualty The present
to the town, has been surprisingly small It about
six feet less Ia height than the great flood 1881
comparatively few small buildings have been disturbed
hardly one has nosted off, After 20 long respite the
people would not believe In another huvial nvasion-
the loss Of some movesblss the consequences. A
amount Of timber, So. lost from the shipyard and
from Grams mills Harmsr 10 about three feet higher
than the upper Point II is subject in aeod, to
noted floods here within forty years, have been the
Christmas food Of lsos-two higher than any pre-
less than 1882 The Pumpkin food In the autumn of
ls0yery destructive at Pittsburgh, but harmless here
was submerged The Ohio backed the Muskineum about
Is miles, the drift ran up the latter stream with great
rapidity and down river boats oated in the
kingum In the night Pumpkins in abundance were
sporting the and hence the Of this fresh
The los Flooa JAM 1918. The rise progress of this
was low but rapid from the iufax Of snow water On
Monday morning 1t within about 10 feet of coming
over the upper " point" raining in torrents There
had been very uncommon depth Of snow-some eight
or ten days thsw had put 1t in solution and terrible
rains commencing probably at the mountains swsllsd
spread along the valleys but checked as It were)
in mid Valley by the northern blasts. So sudden
reminded of Dryden's lines from Ovid, describing the
repusion by Jupiter Of the Dsucslion d sluge:-
He loosed the northern wind fsrcs Boreas 1ies
TO pun away the clouds and purge the skies"
1t was the opiaion of General Rufus Putnam that II
this Intervention had not occurred the food would
have been from two to Ave feet higher As It was it
exceeded the 'Christmas Fresh" by four and q half
feet sudden and powerful rains with melted SHOWS
occasoned the January food The next of about the
same height was the April FoOd-sttsining its maxi
mum April l, 1915. February and March had been
mild There was no apprehension of melted snow But
miles above the mouth it four feet higher than in
the January flood But the difference in Marietta
scarcely perceivsble Some minor foods occurred-one
in the winter OF lSi0during the period Of about six
Years and four months already noted The year 1916
was remarkably cold and dry but the months succeed
ing that year prolific in foods not less than three
occurring In about nine consecutive months. One was
In June IN III or 'ls) very Troublesome to farmers
ted One was in November lsl7-anothsr perhaps
in February, 1878; it, height perhaps about half
wey sstwssn tho Christina; and the Januay The
The great fresh" Of 1882 ct its height the 2th of
February II was preceded by long spsll'' Of unusu
rough going January thaw," which cleared the ice
even from the head streams in thu mountains It ex-
rietta which, nevertheless suffered but lightly com.
pared with other in the gossip Of slang
whangsrs whereby was driven to the verge Of
snnihiaton 1t was chroncled the Union (snd is
probably at this day. that every house
in Marietta except ONE was swept OF by that food.
brick structures not frame house any note was oar
ried of The December Flood Of ls47 was preceded for
months BY frequent and abundant rains seldom has
the Ohio held up so during autumn. The earth WA
anywhere surcharged with In about thirty-sx
hours after the rise became alarming Sunday night