The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-02-13
1'ELEGRAPHIC
THE DELUGE.
Booming of the Ohio River
ana Tributaries.
Great Destructlon OfPrOperfy.

reached slXty-0he feeL Two anu nail
inches at $50 PM, and was rising two
inches an hour. There are desperate ef
forts to save merchandise in the lower
part Of the city. Advices from above incI-
safe heavy rise is still coming.
Good business men here who are not
say tonight the damage
from the present overflow of the Ono
River in Cincinnati, Newport and
OoviDgton, will amount to millions. The
stage at tonight was sixty-one feet
eight inches. and rising nearly two inches
hourly. Thousands OF people crowd |
all the bridges watching the floods. !
Three feet more of water is ex-
pected. All transfer wagons in tie city |
are employed removing goods from
danger. The suspension bridge is lined
with wagons taking leaf tobacco over to
Covington. The water through which
they pass going to the suspension bridge
is over the axles Of wagons. Passengers
between Covingten and Cincinnati APP
ploach suspension bridge in boats or
vehicles. At the present rate OF rise the
passage to the bridge by vehicles. will be
impossible Steam ferry and street rail-
way companies between here and the
Kentucky side Of the river is cut off en-
tirely; the Cincinnati approach to New
port bridge was free al O'Clock, but in
danger. Newport military barracks are
sill flooded; nearly two square miles OF
tie city is under water. People were
taking coal and provisions in boats, all
day, to Inhabitants, and delivering
through second snd third story windows.
All houses and factories on the entire
river front Of Covington are badly
flooded, the water being in the
second story of some of them.
Nearly ten miles Of the river front of
Cincinnati is more or less under water.
The food extends from Vine ID Second
street, and Pearl street cellars are filing.
Along the landing the food is up to the
second and third stories of many build
ings. The roof Of the big wharf boat
as viewed from the suspension bridge
looks nearly as high as the roofs of FIVE
story houses on the public landing. All
railway freight business and nearly all
express business west and north is now
stopped. The Ohio and Mississippi rail
way transfers passengers by omnibus
four miles down the river; thence by
steamer, makes cor nection with the Au-
rora, Indiana, Cincinnati and Indian
spolis. The st. Louis and Chicago uses
the Cincinnati, Hamilton snd Dayton
lines to reach its own lines in Indiana.
The Cincinnati, Washington and Belti-
more goes out from the Cincinnati, Ham.
lilton and Dayton depot. II the present
rate Of rise continues, sill these lines will
have to transfer at Communicable 10.
morrow morning The Little Miami
division of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and
st. Louisiana all roads south OF the Ohio
river remain intact and are likely to con.
tinue SO. In the west end people are
trying to save cattle from inundated pens
The difficulty is very great as boats have
TO be employed and cattle must be Leo
out one by one. They often get fright
. ened, break away and go back into the
pens. All Mill Creek valley for miles
north from the Ohio is broad sea. II
the city from Pearl street down to The
river front the greatest activity and ex
icitement prevails. The fire department il
out pumping out Pesrl street cellars
trying to enable merchants to saw
r goods. The river this morning invaded 4,
, house adjacent to the suspension bridge
q where unslacked lime was stored slonl
with quantities OF rosin. The heat from
the lime set the rosin on fire. The fir
all day. 1t continues obstinate. but no
violent. On Walnut street up to Fourtl
stree THE entire end Of the sidewalks i
3 covered with packages of sugar and gro
ceries, which have been hastily removed
from cellars and the work of remova
continues tonight as fast as men cal
accomplish it. Damage to goods in eel
lars on Pearl street is much feared. TIL
Cincinnati stock yards are flooded AM
stock trains cannot move in any direc
r zion. All business will be suspended
until after this danger is past. At S.S
lo'clock tonight 1t was expected ever,
minute that the gaslights would be ex
tinguished. Only q few inches more of
rise will bring that result. The belle
row is that it will not stop under sixty
three feet, which will make the rise tn
greatest on record.
Louisville, 1.-THE food is absorbin,
ali interest on the river front. The rive
il now rising I'll o'clock, 1.-TWO inches 81
hour. 1t is thirty-six feet. The cana
is something less on the falls. TIL
ground floors Of all houses are full G
water, the streets inundated, and occu
pants removed to upper stories, or gon
!. out entirely. In the. eastern part of tn
city large sewer has broken, and th
: water is flowing rapidly. 1t promises t
do much damage to msnufa { ,rief. Muc
OF Portland is under water. The condt
ton of distilleries are all under water
The cattle fed there are in danger Of BE-
ing drowned.
q Dispatches from Frankfort say til
} Kentucky River is thirty-four feet hig
and raising q foot each hour. When tn
reaches the Ohio River there is gres
danger of the result here.
Cincinnati, 12.-At midnight the rive
is sixty-two feet four inches and risin
an inch and ahalf hourly. This is hs
an inch above the great food OF u
= Since $50 the twestherishAs been cles
and warm. The city of Lswrenceburs
Iadians, twenty miles below here, is en-
tirely inundated. No spot of groun
will be visible in it Tomorrow. The
are Isolated and car't be reached by raj
E and boats can't land there. They hAv
y telephoned here tonight for bread.
a. will have 10 be conveyed to them b
q skifs.
c. Wheeling, w. Va, 12.-The river BIZ
c. been falling all day and is now twenI
to feet; has rsiDed constantly for the pa
! two hours, the rain following d heav
a fall of snow. Little streams were muc
or smaller, and dam age to fences, buildirs
" and bridges Is spprehended to nigh
Wheeling Creek is higher than durin
the recent rise. A third rise is locke