Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-01
THE GREAT FLOOD.

Ffre-Damp.
A Cincinnati special of the 18th to the Chi
cago Inter Ocean says:
Since noon to-day the weather for the first
time since the flood was fine overhead. The
sun shone out bright, and as all factories
using steam are closed, to save water, there
were multitudes with leisure to come out.
The streets were soon thronged, ana potni
bridges spanning the Ohio were nlled WIN
sight-saers. Along the waters edge. and from
haIfsubmergcd houses, photographers were
busy everywhere taking views as If photo
or 10 900 of them could convey the fa1ntest,
conception of this appalling reality. The view
from Mt Adams and from tie Shelter House
Hill in Eden Park was grand beyond all pow
ers of description. From the point or
Shelter House Hill glimpse can be-
had of Columbia, the southeastern por-
ton of Cincinnati 1t can be seen
peering across the point of a Kentucky hill,
around W hch 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
water up to their very caves, and barges OF
coal and RATS of lumber far inland from them
In ordinary stages of water these DulidlngS
stand high on the bank, hundreds of feet from
the shore, and out of view to an observer
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For a 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 a 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 a 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 Che 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 if 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
is under water to the depth of few
inches to several feet on the ground floor.
Below Dayton is what is known as Taylor
Creek Bottom. The Ohio overHows this more
or less at stage of from fortyfive to fifty-f1ve
feet. 1t is not built up as village by any
means, but is pretty thckly 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 roofs above the foods,
and they look like little black islands on the
shining waters. Taylor's Creek would be
easily mistaken by stranger for the Ohio
River winding to the north out of the Ken
lucky hills but for the forest trees peering
to shore. This phenomenon of trees far
from the shore is a striking sccna 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 pumping-house. is what
was once VOLTS Rolling MILL situated on
high bank just below the mouth of Taylor's
Greek, Ky. 1t is large strong building of
brick with lofty chimneys. AMI has not heen
used for several years. Only from the caves
up is this great building visible. From the
lower edge of Columbia down to Taylor Creek
the river makes great sweeping curve. and,
while ordinarily it averages about 400 yards in
breadth, to-day it Is never less and often more,
than mile from shore to shore.
From the top Of Mount Adams magnificent
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 back.
1t winds through the hills and disappears at
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series of terraces. Its banks lined with
foresttrees, and Mt its present stage it looks
Ike q mighty river with great trees scattered
across it from shore to. shore. At ordinary
is arnss ars and high ana its
Turning d wn the Ohio. the great suspen-
sion t n, bridge looks dwarf e. by the magnitude
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
they can get to the shore, look insign fican. on
the top of these waters. - 7
In Newport and Dayton. KY. there are now
many persons suffering One man in Dayton
has three children in a garrett, above high
wafer dowm win scarlet fever and to-day he
from over-work. anxiety and exposure. Much
suffering of this sort, it is feared, win follow
on the heels of this calamity.
AN EXPLOSION. i
CINCINNATI, February IS.
At one O'Clock this morning the people in
the vicinity of No. 80 Wilstach street. on the
border of the inundated dstrfctin the western
part of the city. were startled by q loud ex-
plosion which broke the glass in windows in
the neighborhood. A three-story brick build
ing, occupied by, four families numbering
seventeen persons, was found in ruins. The
explosion was from fire-damp or sewer-gas in
the cellar, and all of the seventeen people were
buried in the debris. A scene of terror followed
fire alarm was turned in, and tho Fire De-
partment responded promptly. Finding no
fire, the men began the work of rescuing 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, a
speciai policeman at Fourth and Vine streets
and known as liking William occupied the
front room on the second floor, with his wife,
The back part of the same story was occupied
by W lillian Miller wife and two children The
third floor was occupied by William Harmon:
wife and two twin daughters two years old
BY five o'clock all the occupants I'd been
taken cut. .-e
Officer Macke and wife and a two-year-old
daughter of Mr.. Miller were dead John and
Henry Brown and Robert RockamaIl a neigh.
Dor who was in the. house at the time, are bad
" injured and can hardly recover Jacob
Brown and wife were rescued, after several
hours labor, severely but not fatally hurt.
Their daughters were taken cut com pa rative-
ly unhurt Mr.: Miller is badly injured. Air
the rest of his family, except The child named
above, escaped with small in Jury. Hannon
and family also escaped with slight injuries.