The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-16
THE WATER LINE.
Points to Which the Flood Has Reached on
the Cincinnati Side.


the Cincinnati Side.
The water line yesterday afternoon at 4
o'clock was observed by a reporter to be as
follows;
On Broadway the water reached up the
gutter one hundred feet north of Pearl, and
the water line here crossed Broadway about
opposite the middle of the Pearl-street mar
ket The water covered Pearl street over
both sidewalks, on the south side being over
two feet deepin some places. The Broadway
Hotel was surrounded by water four feet
deep.
The Spencer House, on the corner of Broad
way and Front street. was surrounded by
water which on Front street, was eight feet
deep, or Just up to the crossbar on the gas
post, below the glass.
On Pearl street. between Broadway and
Sycamore, it touches the top of the north
curb.
At the corner of Pearl and Sycamore the
water line receded few feet toward the
river, for distance of 200 feet west of Syca-
more then covered the entire OF Pearl street
for about 200 feet further west. AT the cor
ner of Pearl and Main streets the water
reached one-third across Pearl northward on
Main. The sidewalks on the south side of
Pearl at this corner however, were just
above the surface of the water, although the
curb itself was submerged.
Pearl street between Main and Walnut
streets was impossible to pedestrians the
water being TWO or three inches above the
sidewalks on both sides.
On Walnut street the water line was even
with the line of the houses on the south
side of Pearl. AT the corner of Vine the
water line in the cutters was about forty feet
south of the line of houses on the south side
of Pearl street The water line in the mid
n Ia Of aXacflV
Vine-street entrance of Goodheart Bros &
Co.. on the southeast corner of Pearl and
Vine. In front of Taylor & Hooe's china
store No II Vine street, second door south
of Pearl, the water was then about three
inches deep on the sidewalk.
At the corner of Pearl and Race street the
water came over the sidewalk on the north
side of Pearl street, although certain por-
tons OF the sidewalk on the south side of
the street which were higher were just above
the surface of the water. On Elm street the
water line was about twenty feet south of
Pearl in the cutters and about sixty feet
south of Pearl IN the middle of Elm street
West of Elm the water covered the south
sidewalk of Pearl as far as the warehouse of
the Hall Safe and Lock Company, No. 173
Pearl street. Al Plum street the water was
even with the curb on the north side of
Pearl street
At the time these observations were made
between A and 5 O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
the water was slxty-fve feet nine inches; af-
ter that, as will be seen by referring to the
table published elsewhere, it rose several
inches. A -rise OF one inch would
in some places, where the grade of the streets
is nearly level, send the water mark many
yards farther up the street. The depth of
the water in the submerged districts varied
according to the grades of the various streets
and could only be guessed at or estimated by
the height it reached on gas posts on the
street corners. At the corner of Second and
Vine streets it was about five feet deep. All
of Second street is covered with water vary
Eng In depth from five to eight feet. At the
corner OF Elm and Commerce streets the
depth is eight and one-half feet The build
tngs of the Robert Mitchell Furniture Com
bany on Second street between Smith and
John, were surrounded with water exactly