The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-02-16

| CINCINNATI, FEBRUARY Il.
The Ohio at eleven o'clock tonight had
reached depth at the water-works in this
city of sixty-four feet and three and a half
inches. This is half an inch higher than the
memorable mark of February Is, 1882, the high
est point the river has ever before reached
since the city was founded During the las
hour the rise has been three-quarrers of an
inch. Those who are acquainted with the city
will re llize the enormous extent of the flood
when it Is stated that coal-barge was easily
noated to-day along Second street, across Main
Walnut Vine and Race streets. This is in the
very heart of the wholesale business of the
city. Nearly all the warehouses; the produce
/ business, tie large manufactures the tobacco
houses, the gas-works and railroad depots are
on lower ground than Second street at the
points mentioned. The losses cannot be est
mated. They are much the most serious tn
city has ever suffered from any cause what
i ever - 9 E
Business is completely Frustrated in every
/ department. Thousands of families are liv-
ing in the second stories of their houses, and
the police stations and other public buildings
are crowded with people who have been
driven from their homes and are in condi-
ton of most utter destitution Those
who have remained in their houses are for
II.
They are being supplied to a very limited ex-
tent by the benevolent organizations of the
city, which have sent men through the mum
date portion of the city in skiffs loaded with
provisions. a IS e
herd of 300 cattle were drowned in Mill
Creek to-day.
But one railroad on the north side of the
Ohio can be used, and water is over the tracks
of that one in some places No steamboats,
either leave or arrive. ~
/ The streets of the city are lighted only by
the moon. Lamps and candles are used in the
hotels, newspaper and telegraph offices, and
i in private houses, SO far as they could be pro-
cured. There is not oil enough to supply the
| demand for more than one day, but barge
| load can probably be got down from Parkers-
burg tomorrow. 0aN
The extent to which general business has
suffered is shown by the business at the rev..
enue office. The sales of stamps to-day
amounted to between 81 and IS, Usually the
sales amountto $4,000 and Sac, coo day.
CUMMINsVILLE.
Cumminsville, a popular suburb lying north
OF the city, is one vast lake. The water has
! reached Knowton's Corner, at the intersec ion
! of Spring Grove avenue and Hamilton pike
and all the residences and business-p places be-
tween that point and Mill Creek are sub,
| merged. Husbands may be seen carrying
! wives and children on their backs to places of
safety. The district bounded on the south.
and east by the Marietta Railroad, and on the,
| north and west by Hoffner street and the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton g. Dayton Railroad is all
| under water, and all of the families who have
not moved out are now in the second stories.
| West Fork is backed up to Hamilton, all the
gardens in the valley being submerged There
is foot of water on the avenue bridge
There are 500 families in Cumminsville in dis
| tress. Ns
/ NEWPORT. ,
| The city of Newport, on the east bank of the
Licking River opposite Cincinnati, contains
10000 inhabitants. A great number of working
| people I've there 1t is estimated that there
| are 1000 dwelling which the water has
| invaded to sufficient extent to drive the in
mates from the first floor. Numbers of houses
| are submerged to the caves. Several COTTAGES
have floated away.
AT the Newport bridge-steps the water to-
| day was fourteen feet. and at the street-car
| track leading on to the bridge the water was
| seven feet in depths The only way of reach
ing Cincinnati is by the Short-Line Railroad
bridge trestlework. Business, of course, is
| entirely suspended. Merchants and others
who have escaped the flood have turned out
| en- masse to assist those in distress.
The scenes at the various landing-paces to-
| day were indescribable. The sick in many
| instances who had been removed to the Sec
| ono stories had to be taken out to-day and
| lowered into boats. st. Pauls Episcopal
| Church is crowded with homeless PEG
| pie. This afternoon q sick child was
! taken there. The story was started that
it was suffering from the smallpox, and a
| stampede ensued. A physician examined the
| child and reported that it recently had the
| smallpox. but he thou rht the case too far
advanced to be contagious. The people, in the
absence of other shelter, then slowly returned
| to the church. 4#gr
| BELLEVUE.
In Bellevue, a town of 1000 inhabitants,
| mile above Newport, the situation is not quite
| SO bad. ALL the houses on Front street are
| completely submerged, the water being upin
| some of them higher than the windows The
| residents of the lower side of Rhensford street
have all moved except two or three. s.
DAYTON ~
| Dayton, KY, is situated two miles above
| Bellevue All day yesterday the expresses
| and grocery-wagons, as we'll as cosal-carts and
/ wheelbarrows, were brought into requisition
| to convey furniture from the inundated dis
| tricts. 1t is estimated that in this town of
| 2.S0O inhabitants over one hundred families
| have been forced to flee from their homes to
| places of safety. On account of.1he DAYTON
bakeries being all located in the submerged
| district the bakers'were unable to furnish the
citizens with bread, and before nine o'clock
Saturday night all the groceries in town had
sold out their stock of breadstlTffs, and the
people in some instances were eompelled to go
hungry. All day. to-day people could be
seen carrying baskets of provisions to the
| watery captives in skiffs. Those driven from
their homes are all quartered in the Baptist
Church and the different public halls The
citizens nobly opened their doors to their I'M
fortunate neighbors, and every available
means was brought into power to save the
property. ~ - va
Telephone communication is entirely cut
off, and the only means of getting to Newport
is by skiffs. Covington, directly opposite Gin
cinnati, contains 0,00l inhabitants. The
larger part of them are employed or do bust
ness in Cincinnati. The only way of getting
from the Cincinnati end of the Suspension
Brisge is by skiffs and but very few COM
plratively we're able to get over. The water
is up to Third street, west of Madison, and
residents of that street have been driven up
stairs. The city is supplied with water by the
Holly system: The pumps have refused to
work, and only those who have cisterns have
any water.-
CINCINNATI IN TOTAL DARKNESS "a
-Four hundred soldiers of the First Regiment
Ohio National Guards in fatigue uniform.
with pieces loaded, arc on the. streets adDing
patrol duty tonight The extipgrnshing of
private electrical lights at midnight left the
city in total darkness. 1880
S.grvaa PITIABLE SCENES. n
+ A most pitiabe case was discovered by
Chief-of-Police Smith in a house at the lower
end of Chestnut street. where woman named
Mary Halllost her mind andwa wading around
onthe floor in several feet of water. She
stubbornly refused any. assistance. and her
family were compelled to desert her the night
before and seek safe quarters. 1t REQUIRED rho
united strength of four men to take her ont
and hold her fast in the boat.
An aged woman named Hamilton, who lived
on Elm street, while being lowered into boat
fell and dislocated her hip-bone. She was
taken to the Episcopal Church.
- woman in the last stages of consumption
was rescued from seeono-story window on
Bellevue Street
A family named Applegate. living on Belle
vue and Central avenue, the father and mother
Frustrated with sickness, were taken out of a
window this morning. ~
A New YORK jury has given a verdict
giinst we'll known banker, for nearly 5000,
due from him to aiwashwoman who had been
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