The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-02-23
THE OHIO RIVER FLOOD.
Description of BIrd's-Eye View of the
Flooded Region Around Cincinnati-Sev-
era1 Persons Killed by an Explosion of

Description of a Bird's=Eye View of the
Flooded Region Around Cincinnati-Sev-
eral Persons Killed by an Explosion of
Fire-Damp. +s
a Cincinnati special of the 18th TO the Chr
cago Inter Ocean says:
Since noon to-day the weather for the first
time since the flood was fine overhead. The
sun shone OUT bright, and as all factories
using steam are closed, to save water, there
were multitudes with leisure to come out
The streets were soon thronged, and 18th
bridges spanning the Ohio were filled with
sight-seers. Along the waters edge. and from
half-submerged houses, photographers were
busy everywhere taking views, as if photo
or 10000 of them could convey the faintest
conception of this appalling reality. The view
from Mt Adams and from re Shelter House
Hill in Eden Park was grand beyond all pow
ers of description. From the point of
Shelter House Hill glimpse can be
had Of Columbia, the southeastern por.
ton of Cincinnati. 1t can be seen
peering across the point of a Kentucky hill
around which the Ohio River sweeps from the
south and curves nearly due west. Pendleton
and Fulton, ON the Ohio side, are in full view
and on the Kentucky shore are successfully
Dayton, Bellevue, Taylor's Creek, and the
eastern portion of Newport. All along the
Ohio shore in Pendleton are great houses, the
water up to their very caves, and barges of
coal and RATS oflumber far inland from them.
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 a steamer in the river,
For stretch of four miles down the Ohio
River, from Crawfish Creek to the water
works, this sceneis repeated. The houses that
line the Ohio shore stand thickest, and
there are many clusters of little COZ
tages with only the g bles above the
water. Hundreds upon hundreds of hand
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 as if situated on 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 a little home, and the statelier 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 hill-tops it looks as if 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
js under water to the depth of a few
inches to several feet on the ground floor.
Below Dayton is what is known as Taylor
Creek Bottom. Tue Ohio overlows this more
or less ut stag of from forty-five to fifty-five
feet. 1t is not built up as village by any
means, but is pretty th;ckly studded
with houses in the higher grounds, where
people have lived for years without
disturbance by high waters. To-day these
HOUSES show only their 70 IFS above the floods,
and they look like little black islands OIL thu
shining waters. Taylor's Creek would b !.
easily mistaken by. a stranger for the Ohio
River winding to the north out of the Ken
lucky hills but for the forest trees peerlng
atove tie surface of the waters from shore
to shore. This phenomenon of trees far
from the shore is a striking scene ali along the
| four miles of the distance down the Ohio, from
Pendleton to the Cincinnati Water-works
pumping house. Just across the Ohio oppo-
site the water-works pumpinghous is what
was once Woltf's Rolling Min, situated on q
| 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 been
used for several years. Only from the caves
up is this great building visible. From the
l ,wer edge of Columbia down to Taylor Creek
the river makes a great sweeping curve. and,
while ordinarily it averages about 400 yards in
breadth, to-day it 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 it
| 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
/ forest-trees, and at its present stage it looks
| like mighty river with great trees scattered
across it from shore to shore. At ordinary
stages lis banks are steep and high, and its
channel narrow and deep.
Turning down the Ohio, the great suspen-
sion bridge looks dwarfed by the magnitude
| of the waters beneath it. Its arc seems to
rise from the river on the Ohio shore, and to
touch it again on the Kentucky side. Even
| the large steamers, that nestle in as closely as
they can get to the shore, look Insignificant on
| the top of these waters.