The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-11
CINCINNATI.
The Flood of 49, Surpassed and the Water
Still Rising.

Still Rising.
CINCINNATI, Feb 10.-At o'clock on Satur
day night the river had reached hight of sixty
four feet and one inch, and at IL o'clock it had
risen two inches At A. NJ. the gauge indicated
sixty-fou feet and four inches.
The flood of 1882 was surpassed at 1 o'clock
this morning, and the river has been rising con
stantly all day. There is hardly a shadow of
doubt that the mark of last year will be reached
and passed within the next thirty hours. Indeed
at o'clock tonight the prospects decidedly in
dictate more rapid rise tonight than during the
day, for in addition to the reports of continuous
rises at points above, rain has been falling
steadily since o'clock. 1t is not heavy,
but persistent enough to indicate an all
night rain. The same condition exists at Rip
ley and Maysville, fifty and sixty miles up the
river. The rain, if it continues all night will
have decided influence on the stage of the
water The people here have lost confidence in
the representations of the signal service. Twice
the white flag has been raised to denote that a
cold wave was coming Most of the time the
temperature rose instead of falling The pre-
diction that the river would reach the maximum
here to-day was also false. On the contrary, the
maximum has not been yet reached at points 200
miles above this city, and new food is pouring
in from the Kanawha river. The arrival
of the highest water here must now
be postponed several days, if the pres
emit conditions continue. By extreme care
and ingenuity the gas company managed
to keep the gas supply up till tonight, but now
street lamps are unlighted and gas is burning in
very few places. The tables in the Western
Al.
with candles The theaters are running with
electric and calcium lights and private gas ma
chimes The warning has been given so long
that the absence of gas is scarcely felt At the
Music Hall a two-inch pipe is supported on
trestles leading from the Cincinnati Hospital
across to Music Hall, to supply the latter with
gas manufactured by the Hospital. This gives
the opera festival. which begins tonight, its
ordinary supply of gaslight. On the outside of
the hall, an electric light will be used to umin-
ate the streets.
The number of persons needing relief
increases with each days continuance
of the flood, but Cincinnati
is determined to take care of her own people
The high standing of the men composing the re
lief committee and good work done by the same
committee last year in points outside of Cincin-
natl has led many people to send contributions
here in anticipation of the same being done now
The relief committee has authorized the follow
ing:
ITO the Public-The relief committee of the
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and common
council, in view of the steadily advancing floods
in adjacent cities and towns and along much of
the upper Ohio where great suffering and desti-
tuition being entailed, begs to assure the out
trih 11tin adj fOr fba
sufferers will be expended for the relief of the
distressed in other localities with the same dill
gence and care which are exercised in relieving
the afflicted here upon whom it is the purpose
of the committee to bestow only such contribu-
lions as may be made in Cincinnati.
III C. URNER, Chairman"
The water to-day on both sides of the en-
bankment sustaining the tracks of the Cincin-
natl, Washington & Baltimore road, in Mill
creek valley, so softened the earth as to cause
two slides, leaving the track unsupported. This
compels trains of this road to enter the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton track at the junction.
seven miles from the city. 1t does not hinder
the running of trains Decline trains will be
compelled to make their terminus at the stock
yards, about three miles from the regular depot
The Cincinnati, Washington g. Baltimore road
has been opened through to Parkersburg, and
through trains will be resumed.
At9 NJ. the stage of water is sixty-fve feet
two and threefourths inches.
An engineer of the Scoto Valley railway
waded out from Portsmouth this morning and
telegraphs from Piketon twentyfour miles
north, that the water is five feet higher in that
city than last night. The steamer Bonanza is
lying afoat on the sidewalk, and people are
entering hotels through the second story win
dows. When the engineer left this morning
three houses were burning, which the engines
could not reach.
The postmaster at New Richmond telephones
the postmaster at Cincinnati: 81 have packed
the postofiee in the garnet, and don't want any
more mails until next spring"
The steamer Telephone went to the relief of
Point Pleasant to-day That town is completely
submerged. The inhabitants have gone to high
grounds Cheshire, Addison, and other small
towns are suffering in the same way
At Catlettsburg, KY the rise increased from
one inch last night to two inches per hour this
morning At l P. NJ. it was three feet higher
than last year A drilling rain began at
P. NJ. The outlook is most gloomy. The Big
Sandy river is reported rising at Richardson
At Ripley the day has been gloomy one,