The Evening critic., 1883-02-15
SIXTY-SiX FEET
Is the Height OF ihe ohio River at
Ciuriunpti.


At 8 o'clock last night the Ohio River at
Cincinnati was sixty.six feet three-quarter
inch above low water mark, and rising
slowly. Yesterday was the gloomiest in
the history of the city. Business was
wholly neglected on Change, all attention
being given TO saving property aud afford
ing relief While the unexpected rise of
nearly foot has not made n very great
change apparently in the situation, there
is such an uncertainty about the future
that all plans are unsettled.
Wagons can no longer cross Newport
Bridge. The Louisville and Nashville
trains receive passengers OH the trestle at
the Cincinnati end Of the bridge. They
reach it by boats. The Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton Road, which has been the
only outlet for trains North and East, to-
night went under the flood to such an ex-
tent that no trains could pass. This leaves
the city practically cut off from the rest of
the world to the North, East and West by
rail communication, except that the Bee
Line Road still runs trains leaving
from the stock yards station. This out
let is also accessible by Cincinnati
Washington and Baltimore trains, and
they may enter and depart in that way.
Three hundred passengers are waiting at
Winton Place for transportation by omni-
bus into the city. The Cincinnati Southern
Railroad sent out train last night and re-
ceived one, but the water has so permeated
Mclean avenue that wagons sank to the
hubs while removing express and baggage.
and lively fears are entertained that the
whole street will sink under the trains.
But single road is now able to reach the
depot-that is the Cincinnati Northern, the
narrow gauge, which comes into the city
over the hilltop and has n depot ten
squares from the river. Not steamer is
running. There is no place to land.
At Louisville
the river has reached the height of IL feet
inches, and is still rising one inch an
hour. There are reports from upper points
of rain, and the continued rise of the Ohio
and its tributaries creates intense excite
ment. Business is practically at stand
still, and no boats arrive or depart. Trains
on the railroads are irregular, and many
have stopped entirely. Nothing further is
known regarding the loss of life by the cut
off disaster, owing to the impossibility of
entering the houses save by the means OF
divers. 1t is generally agreed that the loss
of life is not extraordinarily large.
The Floods Mt Other Points.
Every house in Milton, KY, has been in
vaded by the flood and many of them are
tied with ropes to prevent them from float
ing away. Fulton, suburb of Madison,
Ind, has been entirely deserted by its in
babitants Other portions of the city, in
cluding Springdale Cemetery, are under
water. The Western Hotel is deserted it
being considered unsafe. The steamer Hor.
net arrived at Madison yesterday from Car.
rolltown for provisions for the suffering
people. A carload of provisions from In.
dianapolis reached Laurenceburg yesterday
and another carload was dispatched last
night. i. G. Burkham, of New York, tele.
graphed TO the Indiana National Bank oi
indianapolis to send 81 900 to the Laurence.
burg sufferers on his account. The Indiana
Legislature has appropriated $4,000 to the
same end.
A private telegram received at Indian.
apolis from Jefferson, Ind, says: The
city is flooded from two to twenty feet
deep. Five Thousand people are home
less. Many have lost all they had on
earth. A large number of cottages in the
lower part of the city were swept away
and hundreds of people are quartercd in
second stories, in public buildings and ID
business houses Food is sent to them in
skiffs. The scenes of suffering are appall
ing. 1t is still raining and the river i;
rising. The loss will reach Sl,0oo,000."