New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-16

refuge may not be able to Withstand the actloh
Of the water A food is expected at VIII
Transport, Penn, to-day.
THE WORST AT CINCINNATI OVER.
SCENES IN AND ABOUT CINCINNATI-TIIE RIVER
DOWN TO LOUISVILLE GREAT YELLOW SEA
FIFTY THOUSAND PEOPLE IN THE VALLEY HOME
LESS OR DdPRIsoNED-RELIEF MEASURES
IBY TELEGRAPH THE TRrBUSE.l
Crxc1SS.TI. Feb 15-The proportions of the
disaster that has visited the people of the Ohio val
lev are hourly increasing. The details OF lhe
distress caused by the recent Hoods III Hu-
rope except as to the loss OF hfe are lugely re-
peated in this valley to-day. Twice has the mood
been STAYED and twice has it risen again. But the
water is now falling and the WORST s
believed to have come. The rams
of Tuesday night and Wednesday extended over a
wild. area tributary to the upper Ohio River, ana
the repors Indicate almost repetition OF the noods
in Northern and Central Ohio of a few days ago.
But when these waters come down the ONO Vaiiey,
il IL thought that not much additional damage wiz
he done here. as by that time the flood here VIII
have receded sufficiently to allow the increase 1ron
above to pass without raising the level greatly
A SEA OF YELLOW WATER FROM CINCINNATI Io
LOUISVILLE
For thirty miles beginning with the upper sub
urbs of Cincinnati and ending with Lawrenceburg
Ind TWENTY-FIVE miles below, the damage destitu-
ton and distress are unparalleled IN American
history. Below Lawrenceburg and to Louisville
the situation remains unchanged. At Patriot and
Veyay the river is five or SIX miles In width,
and at all other points 1t EXTENDS
from, the Ohio to the Kentucky hills
covering all the rich bottom lands. Its average
width is from one to two miles-a sea OF yellow
water. At all points between here and Louisville
more OF less damage has been done. Vevay, War
saw and Ghent have escaped with less damage than
the other river towns. No detailed statistics are
available but cool guess would place the number
of people either homeless or imprisoned at not
less than $4,000. There are $4,000 in Newport
alone.
LIBERAL AID FOR THE SUFFERERS.
Though no. call for outside aid has been made
Cincinnati is being amply repaid for her liberal re-
snonses IN the calls of charity elsewhere in past
wears. Money; contributions of various sorts and
offers of and come pouring in from every quarter
Everything is being done that can be done for the
sufferers and almost eve rybody who is not In person
affected by the water is doing more OF less School
houses are largely used for asyiums' Al
the Seventh district school-house 10 families
were given she tier last night and fed TINS morning;
and this but sample case The Oovernnent
beacon-lieht steamer Lily starts tomorrow morn
ing I'D the river relieve cases OF distress along
the shore away from towns and villages, and VIII
he loaded with provisions and other necessaTles.
MANY cases of distress are expected 10 be brought
to light by her cruise
MANY HOUSES SWEET AWAY.
The East End, up in Fulton and Columbia, has
eight feet of water flowing through the main street
Many houses have been swept away and many others
are expected to follow. If the weather were not
so warm and pleasant the suffering there would be
intense. The wafer is five miles wide from Colum-
bia to the other side of the Little Miami River, and
and all houses on the bottom have disappeared, not
even their roofs being vis ble. Western-aye.. on
the western side of the city, along Mill Creek VAL
ley has been declared unsafe, and travel on 1t is
stopped 1t is feared that some OF the houses VIII
oolIapse as the ground there is all filed in and now
made soft by the water. The American Oak and
Leather Company's Tannery, the largest III the
world was submerged at o'clock this morning.
Along Mill Greek Valley. further up, are most Of
the large packing houses. nearly all wellfled.
Most of them are submerged. One packer has
5000 900 pounds of meat under water, and from
1OOOO,0OO to 100000 pounds of dry salted
meats are in the same condition.
No one has yet dared to make estimate of the
total losses here, but they will amount TO millions
OF dollars There now only 50,00O,O00 gallons
of water in Eden Park reservoir, but
the consumption has been reduced by econ
omv from 100000 to 100000 gal
Ions daily and hopes are entertained that the
epnnlv NAV last. There is hope of starting one
engine at the water-wOrks Tomorrow One or two
railroads hope to resume tomorrow, possibly to-
night. Last nights sudden rise left hun
dreds of shop girls, wOrkmen and school
children In the city, without money Tor
a meal or a nights lodging in many cases. Inc
telegraph Offices last night did their heaviest busi-
NESS since General Garfclds dea tn, mostly in per
sonal messages from detained travellers OF IN dls-
matches ountermanding orders for goods
PRICES OF PROVISIONS RISING RAPIDLY.
Provisions are going up at a fearful rate. A
dozen eggs have been sold in places for 70 cents,
but this il exceptional. Bread remains the same,
thc nrce beinQ fixed by law. Coal dealers refuse to
sell more than one load but seldom have taken adj
vantage of the situation. However only one coal
ward is high and dry and the Others can do very
little except by taking the coal IN barges TO land
inc n1oce Meats have advanced 20 per cent, and
the suppy is very short Flour is scarce and high.
But # the river continues to faii all theSe tnihg'
will be remedied in a few days
TWO BROTHERS DROWNED TOGETHER.
An unusnaly sad case of drowning occurred TINS
afternoon at Camp Washington, TWO Drotheis eoinS
down to death together. George and FRANK moss
brook had made small skin, hastiiy 'aoAou
together with few nails and started out over tno
bottoms to gather driftwood. While one OF them
was leaning over the gunwale the boat upset ano
its occupants fell INTO the water. They struggieo
for a few minutes and then sank IN full view Oh q
number of people who were stahuihs
poweress on the shore. At the p'ac'
where they were drowned the water was apou
eight feet deep making it easy matter TO recover
the bodies.
TIVE SITUATION 1T CONVICTION AND NEWPORT
Covington is now supplied with water by the ne"
steam fire engine, Nv. Loffiin, which is at Work al
the foot of Madlson-st pumping water into the pipe