Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-12
CINCINNATI DISTURBED.
HOW THE OHIO RIVER OVER
FLOWS ITS BANKS.

O'Clock was about 81 feet 4 inches, and
is about on a stand. The cellars are
filled in all the main part of the city
south Of Pearl street. Water street is
completely under water and skiffs are
used to reach the business houses. Vast
quantities of merchandise taken from eel
lars are in the streets. A bridge leading
from the river bank at Newport to the water
works building was swept away this morn
ing and the building itself, in which more
than 100000 worth of machinery was re-
Gently placed, is in imminent danger. 1t
stands 100 feet from the shore. Large
quantities Of ice were reached by the
water to-day in Newport and destroyed.
More than 1000 head of cattle have been
removed from the distilleries i'm Mill
Creek bottom. One extensive break in
Gist street cuts of communication over
that thorOughfare and threatens the rail-
road embankment.
Early this morning an embankment on
the Cincinnati, indianapolis, st. Louis
and Chicago Railroad, near Lawrenceburg,
Ind, gave way, and that town was flooded
to a depth of three feet on all the lower
level. No lives were lost, but there was
much discomfort and loss. The school
house is submerged above the first floor
and the saw mills and distilleries are
closed. The mills lose heavily in lumber.
The break shuts out trains ON that road.
The river here was about stationary at
noon to-day, but about 2 O'Clock a furious
snow storm set in, which shortly changed
to rain, and tonight the water marks 80
feet inches, and is rising nearly inches
an hour. Serious damage is likely to re-
suit if this rise continues. 1t was raining
steadily at 8 O'Clock.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 1.-THE city is i'm
CONSERVATION on account of the great rise
in the Ohio river and what is expected to
come. The water reached 81 feet 21%
inches at half-past three O'Clock this
afternoon, and was rising at the rate of
two inches per hour. Desperate efforts
are being made to save merchandise in
the lower part of the city. Adyices from
above indicate that the heavy rise is still
coming. Prominent business men here
who are not sensational say tonight that
damage from the present overflow of the
Ohio river in Cincinnati, Newport and
| COvingtOn will amount to millions of dol
lars. The water at seven O'Clock this
evening Is siXty-one feet eight inches
high, and is rising nearly two inches
hourly. Thousands of people crowd all
the bridges, watching the flood. A rise
of three feet more is expected. All
transfer wagons in the city are en-
ployed III removing goods from dam
ger. The suspension bridge is lined
with wagons taking leaf tobacco over
they pass in going to the suspension
| bridge is over their aXles. Passengers
| between COYingtOn and Cincinnati are
| compelled to cross the water at Cincin-
natl. The approach to the suspension
bridge in boats or vehicles, at the present
rate of the rise, passage will soon be i'm
| possible. Steam ferry and street railroad
communication between here and the
! Kentucky side of the river is cut off en-
| tirely. The Cincinnati approach to the
l Newport bridge was free at s O'Clock, but
| is in danger. In Newport the Military
/ Barracks are flooded, and nearly two
square miles Of the city is under water.
People have been taking coal and prOYis-
/ ions i'm boats all day to the inhabitants
and delivering them through the second
/ and third story windows.
All the houses and factories along the
/ entire river front at COvingtOn are flood
/ ed, and the wafer is in the second story
/ of some of them,
/ Nearly ten miles of the river front in
( Cincinnati is more or less under water.
/ The flood extends on Ninth street to Sec
( Ond street. and on Pearl street the cellars
are filling along the landing. The flood
is up to the second and third
| stories of many buildings. The
| roof of a big wharf boat viewed from the
suspension bridge looks nearly as high as
! the roofs of five story houses. On the
| public landing all the railway freight
/ business and nearly all the express busi-
ness West and North has been stopped.
The Ohio and Mississippi Railway trans
| fer passengers by omnibus four miles
down the river, and thence
by steamer make connection with
Aurora, Ind. The Cincinnati, In
annapolis, st. Louis and Chicago uses
he Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton lines to reach its own line in Indi-
Cincinnati
Baltimore trains 90 out from the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton and Dayton depot. If
the present rate of the rise continues, all
these lines will have to transfer at Cum
minsvIlle tomorrow morning. The Little
Miami division of the Pittsburg, Cincin-
natl and st. Louis, and all the roads
south of the river remain intact, and are
likely TO continue so.
At the West end people are trying to
save cattle from inundated pens, Ehe
difficulty is very great, as boats have to
be employed and the cattle have to be led
out one by one. They often get fright
ened, break away and go back into
their pens. All the mill 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 prevails. The fire depart
ment is pumping out Pearl street cellars
to enable merchants to save their goods.
The river this morning invaded a house,
adjacent to the suspension bridge, where
unslacked lime was stored, along with
quantities of rOsin. The heat from the
lime set the rOsin on fire. The engines
have been at work on this fire all day,
which continues obstinate, but not viO-
lent. On Walnut street up to Fourth the
entire sidewalks are covered with pack
ages of sugar and groceries, which have
been hastily removed from cellars, and
the work of removal continues tonight as
far as men can accomplish it.
The damage to goods in the cellars on
Pearl street is much feared. The Cincin-
matt stock yards are flooded, and the stock
trains cannot move in any direction. All
business VIII be suspended until after
this danger is past, At about $50 p. ~.
it was expected every minute that the
gas lights would be eXtilguished, and
only few inches more Of rise will
bring about this result. The belief Is now
that the rise will not stop under 63
feet. which would be the highest
on record. At 8 O'Clock the gas works
were submerged, and there is only enough
gas to last through the night. The pres
sure is SO weak that the gas will not burn
now in maIfS places. The water supply
also is in danger, only one engine at the
pumping works being able to work Its eas
pacity, which was at the last
trial 100000 gallons per day,
while the daily consumption is
16, 100000. 1t will require rise of four
feet more to disable this one engine. The
coal fleets are believed to be safe. The
weather. is still warm and the snow is
melting. Occasionally there is a light
rain. Advices from above indicate that
the rise will continue at least tweHtys
four hours. The Commercial Gdzette'S
specials report three inches of rain
at Parkersburg, and the river is rising.
The Little Kanawha is rising an inch
hourly at Marietta. Two and 9 half
inches Of rain has fallen, and the river is
rising slowly. At Portsmouth heavy
rain has prevailed for twenty-four hours
ending at noon to-day. The river is a
foot higher than on Friday
night. At Pittsburg it is
raining, and the weather is warm. The
snow is melting aad the river is rising.
At MaysYille the water Is rising two and
a half inches per hour, and many business
houses have their cellars flooded. The
excitement here tonight continues. The
stage or tHe wafer is taken half hourly
and bulletined at the mex spaper offices.
Crowds are still going to the waters edge;
where workmen are busy removing goods.
No services were held in some of the
churches tonight on account of the. fall
ure of the gas supply.
PITTsBURG, Feb. 1l.-1t Is probable
that this section will be visited by another
flood within the next twenty-fOur hours.
At 10:SO tonight there was fourteen feet
ami a half of water in the MOnongahela
river, and it is rising si1 ipches az hour.
DISPATCHES from points above report the
river rising at the rate of eighteen to
twenty inches an hour. 1t has rained
homo for aiVhfnnn hours.