The Indianapolis journal., 1883-02-12
All Railway Freight Business and Nearly
All Express Business West and North
at q Stand Still.
Cincinnati's Gas Extinguished, and
the Water Supply in Danger
Coal and Provisions Taken to Newport
People in Boofs and Delivered at
Upper-Story Windows.
HIGH WATER AT CINCINNATI.
The River Still Rising and Expected to Reach
Sixty Three Feet.

Sixty-Three Feet.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 11.-Good business men
here, who are not sensational, say tonight
that the damage by the present overflow of
the Ohio river in Cincinnati Newport and
Covington will amount to millions. The
stage at tonight was sixty-one feet and
eight inches ana rising nearly two inches
hourly. Thousands of people crowd all the
bridges watching the floods Three feet
more water is expected, All the transfer
wagons in the city are employed removing
goods from danger The suspension bridge
is lined with wagons taking leaf tobacco over
to Covington, the water through which they
pass going to the suspension bridge is
over the axels of the wagons Passengers
between Covington and Cincinnati are COM
PEELED to cross the water at the Cincinnati
approach to the suspension bridge in boats
or vehicles. At the present rate of the rise
the passage to the bridge by vehicles will be
impossible. Steam ferry and street rail
road communication between here and the
Kentucky side of the river is cut off entirely.
The Cincinnati approach to the Newport
bridge was free at 8 o'clock, but is in danger
In Newport the military barracks are flood
ed, and nearly two square miles of the city
are under water. The people were taking
coal and provisions IN boats all day to
the inhabitants and delivering through
the second and third-story windows
All the houses and factories on the entire
river front of Covington are flooded with
water some of them to the second story.
Nearly ten miles of the river front OF Cincin-
natl is more or less under water. The flood
extends on Vine street to Second street, and
Pearl street cellars are filling. Along the
landing the flood is up to the second and
third stories of many buildings. The roof
of the big wharfboat, viewed from the sus-
pension bridge, looks nearly as high as the
roofs of fve-story houses on the public land
ing.
All railway freight business and nearly all
express business west and north is
stopped. The Ohio & Mississippi rail
way transfers passengers by omnibus
four miles down the river and thence
by steamer makes connection with Aurora.
Ind. The Cincinnati, Indianapolis st. Louis
& Chicago uses the Cincinnati Hamilton &
Dayton lines to reach its own line in In
diana. The Cincinnati, Washington & Balti-
more goes out from the Cincinnati Hamil-
ton & Dayton depot If the present rate of
rise continues all these lines will have to
transfer at Cumminsville tomorrow morn
ing. The Little Miami division of the Pitts
burg Cincinnati & st. Louis, and all roads
south of the Ohio river remain intact and
are likely to continue SO.
REscUING LIVE STOCK
In the West End people are trying to save
cattle from inundated pens. The difficulty is
very great, as boats have to be employed, and
the cattle must be led out one by one
They often get frightened, break away and
go back into the pens
All the Mill Creek valley for miles north
from the Ohio is a broad sea.
In the city from Pearl street down to the
river front, the greatest activity and excite
ment prevails. The fire department is out
pumping out Pearl street cellars, trying
to enable merchants to save goods.
The river this morning invaded
house adjacent to the suspension bridge,
where Stacked lime was stored along with
quantities OF rosn. The heat from the lime
set the rosin on fire. The fire department
has been working at this fire all day 1t con-
tinues obstinate, but not violent. On Wal
nut street up to Fourth street the entire side
walks are covered with packages of sugar and
groceries which have been hastily removed
from cellars. The work of removal contin-
ues tonight as far as men can accomplish it.
Damage to goods in cellars on Pearl street is
much feared.
The Cincinnati Stockyards are flooded, and
stock trains cannot move in any direction.
All business will be suspended until after
this danger is past.
At $50 tonight it was expected every min
ute that the gas-lghts would be extinguished;
only few inches more rise will bring that
result. The belief now is that it will not
stop under sixty-three feet
GAS WORKS SUBMERGED.
The gas works at o'clock were submerged
and only enough gas to last through the
night. The pressure is so weak that the gas
will not burn now in many places. The
water supply is also in danger, as but one