Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-03-02
THE OHIO RIVER FLOOD.

Dissertation of q Bird's-Eye View OF the
Flooded Region Around Cincinnati-Sev-
erai Persons Killed by an Explosion Of
Fire Damp.
Cincinnati special of the 18th to the Chi.
caro- Inter ocean says:
Since noon to-day the weather for the first
time sin the flood was fin3 overhead. The
scn shone out bright and as all factories
U ing steam are closed, to save water, there
were multtudes with leisure to come out
The streets were soon thronged, and both
bridge spanning the Ohio were filled with
sight-seers- Along the waters edge. and from
half.submerged houses, photographers Yere
busy everywhere taking views, as If photo
or 10000 of them could convey the faintest
conception of this appalling reality. The view
from Mt Adams and from the Shelter House
Hill in Eden Park was grand beyond all pow
ers of description. From the point OF
Shelter House Hill a glimpse can be
had of Columbia, the southeastern por.
peering across the point OF q Kentucky hill
around which The Ohio River sweeps from the
south and curves nearly due west. Pendleton
and Fulton, on the Ohio side, are in full view.
and on the Kentucky shore are successfully
Dayton, Bellevue, Taylor's Creek. and the
eastern portion of Newport. All along the
Ohio shore in Pendleton are great houses, the
"otSE up W IQelT very caves, anu DdTRtS VI
coal and RATS of lumber far inland from them.
In ord nary stages of water these buildings
stand high on the bank, hundreds of feet from
the shore, and out of view to an observer
stand. ny on the deck of a steamer in the river.
FOR stretch of four miles down the Ohio
RIVER, from Crawfish Creek to the water
works, this scene is repeated. The houses that
line the Ohio shore stand thickest, and
there are many clusters of little cot
tages with only the gables above the
water. Hundreds upon hundreds of hand
some frame buildings, neatly and beautifully
painted, are surrounded with water to the
tops of the doors and windows of the first
story. On the Kentucky side, the village of
Bellevue lies between the foot of lofty hill
and the Ohio River, where the view of the
Ohio River looking up stream from Eden
Park is lost behind the hill. Bellevue from
this view looks as if situated on little cape.
The hill rising behind it is even now green
with Kentucky blue grass. The waters on the
point OF this cape are dotted with the roofs OF
many little home. and the statelier houses of
the village by scores are submerged to the
door-tops of the first story. Next below on
the river, in Kentucky, and adjacent, is the
village of Dayton 1t is larger and more ex-
posed. From the hill-tops it looks as il one
fourth the town nearest the river was
utterly submerged and all the houses
rendered untenantable. Certainly one
half of the remainder of the village
s under water to the depth of a few
inches to several feet on the ground floor.
Below Dayton is what is known as Taylor
Creek Bottom. Tie Ohio overhows this more
or less at stag of from forty to fiftytive
feet. 1t is not built up as village by any
means, but is pretty thickly studded
with houses in the higher grounds, where
! people have lived for years without
! disturbance by high waters. To-day these
houses show only their 70 IFS above the floods,
and they look like little bllek islands on the
/ shining waters. Taylor's Creek would b
| easily mistaken by stranger for the Ohio
RNer winding to the north out OF the Ken
/ tucky hills but for the forest trees peering
al Owe tie surface of the waters from shore
TO shore. This phenomenon Of trees far
| from the shore is striking scene all along the
| four miles of the distance down the Ohio, from
| Pendleton to the Cincinnati Water-workS
! pumping house. Just across the Ohio, oppo-
site the water-works rumping-house, is what
was once VOLTS Rolling Mill situated on q
high bank just below the mouth of TAYLOR s
Creek, Ky. 1t is large strong building of
! brick, with lofty chimneys. an has not cen
us for several years. Only from the caves
up is this great building visible. From the
lbwer edge of Columbia down to Taylor Creek
the river makes a great sweeping curve. and,
while ordinarily it averages about 400 yards in
treadth, to-day it is never less. and often more.
than mile from shore to shore.
From the top of Mount Adams a magnifcen mt
view of the Licking River, winding up from
| the south, opens up to the view. One sees it
! floating in the sun for miles and miles hack
1t winds through the hills and disappears at
! intervals This gives it the appearance of a
series of terraces. Its banks are lined with
forest-trees, and ut its present stage it looks
| ike mighty river with great trees scattered
| across ii from shore to shore At ordinary
! stages its banks are steep and high, and its
channel narrow and deep
| Turning )wn the Ohio, the great suspen-
sion bridge looks dwarfed by the magnitude
of the waters, beneath it Its arc seems to
rise from the river on the Ohio shore, and TO
touch it again on the Kentucky side. Even
the large steamers, that nestle in as closely as
they can get to the shore, look insign fcant on
the top of these waters.
AN EXPLOSION.
CINCINNATI, February Is
At one o'clock this morning the people in
the vicinity of No. 80 Wilsrach street on the
border of the inundated district in the western
part of the city. were startled by loud OK.
plosion. which broke the glass In windows in
the neighborhood. three-story brick build.
ing, occupied by four families numbering
seventeen persons, was found in ruins. The
explosion was from hre-damp or sewer-gas In
the cellar, and all of the seventeen people were
buried in the debris. A sec ne of terror followed
A fire alarm was turned in, and the Fire De
partment responded promptly. Finding no
! fire, the men began the work Of rescuin0 the
unfortunate victims. This was slow work
The house was owned by Jacob Brown, who
with his wife, and two sons, and two daughters
occupied the first floor. officer Macke,
! special policeman at Fourth and Vine streets
and known as liking William" occu pied the
front room on the second floor, with his wife,
The hack part of the same story was occupied
| by william Miller, wife and two childr IN. The
third floor was occupied by William Harmon.
wife and two twin daughters two years old
! BY five o'clock all the occupants b I'd been
! taken out.
! Officer Mscke and wife and q two-year-old
! daughter of MIR. Miller were dead. John and
Henry Brown and Robert Rockaman. a neigh
| b who was in the house at the time, are bad
! ly injured and can hardly recover, Jacob
/ brown and wife were rescued after several
hours labor, severely but not fatally hurt.
] Their daughters were taken out comparative
/ ly unhurt. Mr.. Miller is badly injured. All
| the rest Of his family. except the child named
above, escaped with small injury Harmon
and family also escaped with slight injuries
The Brown boys and Mr.. Rockaman, who
were building a raft, wanted some lumber that
was in the cellar, and went for it with a candI :,
when the gas or damp exploded.
| A LOVE ROMANCE.
LOUISVILLE, KY, February Is
little love romance developed amid all the
want and suffering. About two w cks ago
Ben Krappeser was married When the water
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