Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-20
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PROBABLE DrsfrHuCriioN ii OF CROPS, a 4o.. 90

rapidly during that atternoon' luesuay
night and yesterday. Last evening it was
doubtful whether the water had began TO-
subside. This sudden flood is'supposed to
have been owing to therecent heavy rains,
which have doubtless been more copious
In the northern part OF the state than at
this point. !'l}1tt ja .'hg i.Ii' .i''.
Yesterday morning the Scloto at TINS
point had swelled to full banks, AMI pre-,
senteda variety OF novel sights. Haystacks,
the planks and timbers of bridges, fence
rails, logs, trees, apples, pumpkins, water
melons, So, &c, were seen floating down
stream in almost endless Drofusion, certify
ing tile ravages and destruction the Hood
had caused higher up the river. Kats also
came down on the logs, causing no little
amusement to the spectators on shore anu
on the National road bridge, ..i,.. ...'..,'
/ Yesterday afternoon the river had attaln-
ed height said by the "oldest lnhaDltahE
to have been unprecedented since the men,
orable flood sixty years ago. de says there
was a, rise in the Scioto sixty years ago,
which was greater than this OF September
10, 1886. Nineteen years ago, that Is to say,
ia January, lS47, there was a great flood,
caused by a rise in the Scioto, which was
remarkable for its extent, and which some
say was greater than the one yesterday.
But the current opinion last evening,
so far as we could ascertain il, was, that the
flood then on exhibitionwas several inches
higher than that of 1SH. H. ao
In less than twenty-four hours after 1t
commenced to rise, the Scioto began to
overlap its usual barriers at this point.
Between ten and eleven o'clock yesterday
forenoon, it broke over the leyee above the
National road bridge, and above Money
penny's warehouse. In short time the
water aoVerflowed the entire area on the
west side Of the river from the National
road to the G. 81 X. railroad, making a lake
extending from the river almost to the an
cient town of Franklinton. '9S 10
1t was not long before the water. at the
culvert on the National road about half
way between the bridge and Franklinton,
broke over the road, and commenced mum
dating Middetown, south of the road and
west across the river from the city, and
forming portion of the Seventh ward OF
the city, But this was not all the watery
doom that awaited this unfortunate por-
tion of our goodly CITY,. Between twelve
and one o'clock, the flood broke over the
embankment just below the bridge and
flooded Middletown from that quarter.
By two or three o'clock in the afternoon,
the greater portion of Middletown was
more or less submerged. Cellars and base
ments were filled with water. The school
in the public school-huilding had been dis
missed by Capt. Mitchell, City School Su-
perintendent, in the forenoon, who visited
thsscbool and saw the danger to WHICH the
pupils would be exposed by the rapid rise
of the water. People, the town being prin-
cipally inhabited by mechanics and labor
Ing men, commenced removing their pros
visions from their cellars and their goods
from their houses to places of safety. Many
were unable to do this, save to limited
extent and great loss of property has
doubtles befallen families poorly able TO
bear it. .a.'!' ' VT 9'o95 u % .u
AT this time, two or three o'clock in the
afternoon, agrand spectacle was presented
by the magnificent food. An immense
body Of water was rushing, foaming down
the main channel of the river, with tre-
mendous force and at "a rapid speed. A
side current was flowing over the embank-
ments above MoneypennE,s warehouse,
overfowing the entire bottom, and rush
ing across the National road like great
river OF itself, overfowing Middletown
and the land beyond on that side of the
river, giving it the appearance of vast in-
land sea augmented and made still larger
and more overwhelming by the rapid and
/ swollen torrent pouring over the embafik.
ment just south of the bridge, and inundat-
ing Middletown in that direction. 90
Atabout twelve O'clock yesterday, it was
supposed Rickly's dam up the river gave
way, though we have as yet no certain in
formation on thatapoint. But the water
was observed 10 rise aDouVCWo IeeC In zen
minutes, indicating some sudden outlet
from some quarter. The water came up
into Fitch's warehouseatthewest end of the
National road bridge, bat nearly everything
that could be damaged by the water was
got ont. There was boat load of salt. at
! the warehouse; some OF which was proba-