The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-17
THe DEUCE.
The Onto River Reaches its Highest Stage
Ever X nown Mt Cinofnnatf. W


| We mentioned IN our last that the Hoods
which had proved so destructive two
weeks ago in Eastern Ohio and Western
Pennsylvania, but which had been arrested
by sudden freeze up, had been renewed
by the advent IF another warm rain in the
middle of last week. The rise commenced
In tle Allegheny and Monongahela on
Friday and Saturday, and without reach
log the height of the week before at Pitts
burg and wheeling, on Sunday the Ohio
commenced at those cities 10 fall. But be-
low Wheeling every stream came down a
full torrent, swelling the river from CALI
polls down to height never before known
in It's history AT Cincinnati the height
reached was 65 feet above low water mark,
against SO in 1877. it's previous maximum.
The dispatches ON Sunday night say %
Good business mon here, who are not
sensational, say the damage by the present
oveItlow OF the Ohio river III Cincinnati,
Newport, and Coglngton VIII amount to
millions. Thousands OF people crowd all
the bridges watching the floods. All the
transfer wagons in the city are employed
! in removing goods from danger. The sus
pension bridge IL lined with wagons, TAX
lng leaf tobacco over to Covingt0n. The
water through which they pass in going to
the sus pension bridge is over the aXles OF
the wagons. Passengers between Coving-
ton un6 Cincinnati are compelled to cross
the water at the Cincinnati approach to
| the suspension bridge in boats or vehicles.
Steam, ferry and street railraod communl'
cation between here and the Kentucky side
of the river Is ...
CIT OFF ENTIRELY.
The Cincinnati approach TO the Newport
bridge was free at 8 o'clock, but is now
submerged.
! In Newport the military barracks are all
flooded, and nearly two square miles of the
CITY arc under water, and people were TAX
| ing coal and provisions IN boats all day to
the. inhabitants, and delivering them
through second and third story windows,
All houses an factories on the entire river
front at Covington are flooded, the water
rising to the second story in some o! them.
| Nearly ten miles Of the river front OF
Cincinnati Is more or less under water.
The flood extends on Vine TO Second
street, and Pearl street cellars are filling.
Along the landing the water is up TO the
second and third stories of many build.
iugs. The roof of big wharfboat, viewed
! from the Suspension bridge, looks nearly
as high rs the roofs of five story houses on
the public landing. All railway freight
business and nearly all express business
west and north has been stopped.
In he west end people are trying to
save cattle from inundated pens. The diff
ticulty is very great, as boats have to be
employed and cattle must be led out one
| by one.
All the Mill Creek Valley for miles
north from the Ohio is broad sea.
The gaswoiks at 8 O'Clock this evening
were submerged, and there is only enough
of gas to last through the night. The
pressure 10 so weak that the gas will net
burn now in many places. The water sup
ply Is also in danger, as but one engine at
| The pumping works is able to work. Its
capacity at the last trial was 10000, 900 gal.
Ions per day. while the daily consumption
A dispatch at 10 o'clock on Monday
night says:
The flood has reached "a n. "a inches,
and is still rising. The scenes OF the day
have been to great extent q repetition Of
those of yesterday. Twenty. five Thousand
working people of Cincinnati, Covlngton
and Newport are prevented by the great
floods from engaging in their daily avoca.
tions. The shops and factories IN which
they earned their daily stipend are flooded.
In Cincinnati. COvington and Newport
alone more than two thousand families are
shut off from the world by the waters
Five square miles of Cincinnati and fully
square mile of Newport are covered with
water, which in the streets is from one
inch to twenty feet deep. In streets IN
Cincinnati running cast or west the cur
rent Of water rushed with fearful rapidly
In some places. In Newport Covington,
and notably IN Cincinnati, families are
quartered In halls, churches and public
buildings for shelter. .
Cummlnsville 10 all flooded, for the first
time In the recollection of Its citizens.
The Cincinnati stock yards are oil inua-
dated tonight, except few of the stables
with high floors. Stock yards afford re.
fuge and ieed for five thousand cattle from
the distlllery pens below. ......
A Louisville dispatch on Monday night
says; -.. ..,,rn.
The highest point OF the food Of Febru.
airy, 1892, WAS reached this afternoon and
pas sad, and now there il more than thirty
SIX feet ON the falls and sixty.four feet IN
the channel at the fjrot Of the falls, which
is but two feet below the great December
flood Of 1s4i. The river II yes rising slow
L y, with q great tide from the Kentucky
river 10 be added Houses along the river
front have been vacated, and the DRIFT is
damaging them seriously, breaking doors
and windows. Fourth street is closed from
Nam to the river. Every building in
Shipping Port hiss from three to eight feet
Of water OF the 5noors, and the cement
mills, the principal industry there. are all
submerged, Nine squares of Portland are
at the mercy of the water, business being
at an end.
valuable to Stationers and Printers.
The live bookseller, stationer and printer
| or paper dealer cannot afford to DO business
! in these days without keeping posted on
matters pertaining to his business. Every.
thing relating to paper and printing 10 found
in The Stdtioner and Printer, Of Chicago. BE-
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