The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-03-03
THE GREAT FLOOD.

Descriptton OF Bird's-Eyc View OF the
Flooded Region Around Cincirnati-Sev-
sral Persons Killed by an Explosion OF
Fire-Damp.
a Cincinnati special Of the 10Th to the Chi
cOgo Inter uccda says:
Since noon tod V the weather for the ,Irst
time since the flood was fin overhead The
sun shoue out mi hit, and ms all factories
Il ing steam are closed, to save ,vutcr. there
were multi tuies with ,cisuv' to como out
The streets were soon throug d. aud both
bridg, spanning Tho Ohio were GIrd with
Sights ',rs. Along tn, waters edge and from
hultsubmergcd houses, Photographers we're
busy everywhere taking views a. II n photo
or 1000 Of them could convey the fontcst
conception Of this appalling reality. The view
from Mt. Adams and from e Shelter House
Hill in Eden Park was grand beyond all pow
ers of description. From the point Of
Shelter House Hin glimpse can be
had of Columbia, the southeastern plr.
ton of Cincinnati. 1t can lie seen
peering across the point of n Kcntu ky hill,
around which The Ohio River sweeps from the
south aud curves nearly due west. Pendlct II
ana Fulton, on the Ohio side, are In full view,
and on the kentucky shore are success vCly
Dayton, Bellevue Taylors Creek and the
eastern portion of Newport. All along the
Ohio shore in Pendlcton are great houses, the
water up to their very ives, and bargCs OF
Oh lar luldlft II ON lftIu.
In ordinary stages of water these buildings
stand high on the bank, hundreds of feet from
the shore, and out Of view to an observer
standing on the deck of steamer in the river.
For stretch of four miles down the Ohio
River, FROM Crawiish Creek to the water
works, this scene is repeated The houses that
line the Ohio shore stand thickcst, and
there are many clusters of little cot
tages with only the gables above the
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some frame buildings, neatly and beautifully
painted, are surrounded with water TO the
tops of the doors and windows of the first
story. On the Kentucky side, the village of
Bellevue lies between the foot of a lofty hill
| and the Ohio River, where the view of the
| Ohio River looking up stream from Eden
| Park is lost behind the hill bellevue from
! this view looks rs if situated on Il little cape
! The hill rising behind it is even now green
| with Kentucky blue grass. The waters on the
! point of this cape are dotted with the roofs of
many little home. and the state lier houses of
the village by scores are submerged to the
| door-tops of the first story. Next below on
the river, in Kentucky, and adjacent, Is the
| village of Dayton. 1t is larger and more ex-
| posed. From the hil-tops it looks as IL one
| fourth the town nearest the river was
utterly submerged and all the houses
rendered untenantable. Certainly one
half of the remainder of the village
| is under water to the depth of n few
| inches to several feet on the ground floor.
Below Dayton is what is known as Taylor
| Creek Bottom. The Ohio overflows this more
or less at a stage of from forty-fve TO fifty-fve
feet. 1t is not built up as a village by any
means, but is pretty thc<y studd ed
with. houses in the higher grounds where
people have lived for years without
disturbance by high waters. To-day these
| houses show only their roofs above tho foods,
| and they look like little black islands on the
shining waters. Taylor's Creek would be
easily mistaken by stranger for the Ohio
| River winding to the north out of the Ken
| lucky hills but for the forest trees peer ng
above the surface of the waters from shore
to shore. This phenomenon of trees far
from the shore is striking scene all along the
four miles of the distance down the Ohio, from
| Pendlcton to the Cincinnati Water-works
! pumping house. Just across the Ohio, oppo-
site the water-works pumping house, is what
was once VOLTS Rolling Mill, situated on a
high bank just below the mouth of Taylor 8
Creek, Ky. 1t is a large strong building of
brick, with lofty chimneys. AMI has not teen
used for several years Only from the caves
up is this great building visible From the
Lover edge of Columbia down to Taylor Creek
the river makes a great sweeping curve, and,
while ordinarily ii averages about 400 yards in
breadth, to-day il is never less, and often more,
than mile from shore to shore.
From the top of Mount Adams magnificent
view OF the Licking River, winding up from
the south, opens up to the view. One sees il
floating in the sun for miles and miles back.
1t winds through the hills and disappears at
intervals This gives it the appearance of a
series of terraces. Its banks are lined with
foresttrees, and at its present stage it looks
like a mighty river with great trees scattered
across it from shore to shore. At ordinary
stages its banks are steep and high, and its
channel narrow and deep.
Turning d wn the Ohio, the great suspen-
sion bridge looks dwarfed by the magnitude
of the waters beneath it, Its arc seems tC
rise from the river on the Ohio shore, and to
touch it again ON the Kentucky side. Ever
the large steamers, that nestle in MS closely as
they can get to the shore, look nsign ticant on
the top of thes waters.
In Newport and Dayton, KY, there are now
many persons suffering. One man in Dayton
has three children in a garnet, above high
water, down with scarlet fever. and to-day h
himself was disabled with rheumatic fever
from over-work, anxiety and exposure. Much
suffering of this sort it is feared, viii follow
on the heels of this calamity.