Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-02-15
THE RAGING OHIO.
The Flood at Cincinnati.

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men here who are not sensational say to
night that damage from the present out
dow OF the Ohio river in Cinsinnati
Newport and Covington will amount tc
millioDs. At ~ p. m. the river was 81
feet eight inches. and rising nearly two
inches hourly. Three feet more water Il
expected. All the transfer wagons ir
the city are employed moving good
from danger. Passengers between Gov
ington and Cincinnati are compelled t.
cross the water at the Cincinnati ap
proach to the suspension bridge in boat
or vehicles. In Newport the military
barracks are all flooded. Nearly two
square miles of the city is under water
People have been taking coal and pro
visions in boats all day to the inhabitants
and delivering through the second and
third story windows. All the houses and
factories OF the entire river front of Gov
ington are flooded. The water is in the
second story of some of them. Nearly
ten miles OF the river front of Cincinnati
is more or less under water.
All the railway freight business and
nearly all express business west and north
are stopped. In the west end the people
are trying to save their cattle from inun.
dated pens. The difficulty is very great
as boats have to be employed and cattle
must be led out one by one. All Mill
creek valley for miles north from the
Ohio is broad sea. In the city from
Pearl street down to the river front the
greatest activity and excitement prevail.
The fire department is out pumping out
Pearl street cellars trying to enable mer-
chants to save their goods.
AT half past eight this evening it was
expected every minute that the gas lights
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 which will make
the rise the greatest on record.
Up. m.-The gas works are submerged
and only enough gas to last through
night. The pressure is 80 weak the gas
will not burn now in many places.
The water supply is also in danger.
But one engine at the pumping works is
able to work. Its capacity at last trial
was 10000, 900 gallons per day, while the
consumption is 10000, 900 will require
a rise of four feet more to disable this one
engine. Weather still warm and snow
melting. Occasional ligh rain.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 1.-THE Ohio ct mid
night is so feet 4 inches and rising an
inch and half hourly. This is half an
inch higher than the great rise of Al.
Since half past nine the weather has been
clear and warm.
The city of Lawrencburg, Ind, twenty
miles below here, is entirely inundated.
No spot OF ground will be visible in it to-.
morrow. They are isolated and cannot
hQ rooChnA hu P0il nd ofa
land there. They have telegraphed here
tonight for bread. It will have to be
conveyed to them by skiffs.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 12.-The river at II
has reached 83 feet five inches, having
risen two inches in the past three hours.
Barges are being run along Second street
to relieve the wants Of the people living
there. The current is 90 rapid as to make
navigation dangerous. The Suspension
bridge cannot be reached at all except by
boats or wagons. The suffering among
the people in the flooded part Of the city
is unavoidable. No organized effort has
yet been made to relieve them, but must
be done or loss Of life is inevitable.
The gas is completely exhausted. Cit
liens are providing candles and lamps.
The theaters will be equipped with
electric light, but they fear the audiences
will be small on account of fear to be on
the dark streets. The river is SO feet ~
inches at 1:30 p. m. and still rising.
The flood of 1889 is now surpassed.
Taking the most liberal standard, it then
reached 84 feet and three inches. At II
p. IN. it stood one,half inch above that
and is still rising. Reports from above
indicate the river is rising at Wheeling
and falling at Marietta an1 Pomeroy. It
will probably continue to rise here to-.
morrow. The people at Lawrenceburg.
at last report, were virtually helpless,
lacking food and unable to procure any.
Telegraph and telephone lines are down
and there is no means of communication.
Arrangements are made here to mount
fire engines on floats in case of fire in the
flooded districts.
The river is rising more rapidly to-
night than in the afternoon. 1t reached
GA feet 224 inches at 10 to, night. The
scenes of to-day have been to great ex-
tent repetition of those of yesterday,
with the exception the work of removing
goods is less active and more attention is
paid to the suffering people.
The Relief Committee have given or
ders for the most rigid inspection of the
wants of the sufferers and immediate
help. The station houses are filled with
beds for the accommodation of persons
driven from home. No accident has been
reported and every precaution is being
used to prevent the loss of coal fleets and
other exposed property.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 13-1. p. m. The Ohio
river continues to swell its mighty vol
ume of waters and has now reached the
unprecedented highth of GA feet and II
inches, being eight inches higher than
the great flood of 1889.
The suffering and destruction of prop.
eriy is still on the increase. Yesterday
fifteen thousand dollars were raised on
Change in half an hour, and the amount
is being largely increased to-day by pri-
vate subscriptions.
The dead body of little child was
seen floating in the swift current to day,
but could not be secured.
The MALTA patrolled the streets of the
city last night to prevent robbery that
could be done under cover of the intense
darkness that enyeloped the city, the gas
works being wholly flooded with water.
The Water works, likewise, are still
unable to do anything, but there ia
enough water left in the reservoirs to last
five days.
The latest from Lawrenceburg, In
diana, shows terrible state of destitu-
tion, the only communication being by
boat, it is greatly feared that actual star
vation may occur
News has just been received that the
levee at Jeffel sonville, Indiana, broke
this morning, flooding most Of the town,
but no loss of life has been reported.
At IL o'clock to-day the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad depot on Gest street