The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-07
THE RISING FLOOD.
The Treaoherous Ohio Again Out
Of Ito Banks
With Prospect Of Scoring the Highest
Stage Reached in Half a Century.
Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Properly in
Imminent Danger Of Being Borne
Away on the Tide.
Thousands Of People Driven From
Their Homes-Liie iniDan-
- ger at Some Points.
Business at standstill in Cincinnati
Schools Closed In Pittsburg-Serious
Approximations Felt ct All Points
on the Rising Stream.
A GLOOMY OUTLOOK.

CINCINNATI, o., Feb. 6.-This morn
ing brings nothing hopeful about the sit.
ustion. Everything looking gloomier and
more ,unpropritious than yesterday. The
rain continues over the whole extent Of the
Ohio Valley and In the noun tains, aud the
river continues TO rise. Worse floods than
ever stsrts Cincinnati In the face, wreck
and ruin imminent.
The mighty Ohio, like a raging lion,
burst Its narrow bounds, and with I'M
plying strength, seeking what 1t can de.
YOUR, and the angry waves roll by In an
ever widening torrent. They mean de.
struction to all that lies In their way.
The Grand Central depot is covered with
water hSlf its ength, and no trains get In or
out. Great excitement 10 created on Front
aud Elm street.
ARELIEF FUND.
CINCINNATI, o., Feb. 6.-The Chamber
OF Commerce transacted out little business.
Measures we're taken TO provide relief
fund for the destitute. A committee Of If.
teen was appointed, and the Secretary was
kept busy for some time receiving subscrip-
tons, which were mostly for Q hundred
priated 81, 900 to the fund. The Health Of.
icer announced that he would place fifteen
men on the sanitary force at the disposal
Of the relief committee. The rain Is still
falling, the wind from the south and the
temperature Is not falling at 2 o'clock p. N.
2:90P. NJ.
CINCINNATI, o., Feb. b.-The river Is
50 feet IN inches and rising at the rate Of
inches an hour. 1t Is still raining.
RAILROAD TRAFFIC.
on all the river lines is greatly retarded,
and the Baltimore & Ohio, Pittsburg d
Lake Erie, Pttsburg b Western, Pitts.
burg, McKeesport & Cough, West Penn.
sylvania d Allegheny Valley Railroads have
either suspended entirely or will be com.
PEELED to before evening. So far there have
been no individual losses here, and the
damage is confined exclusively to flooding
property. The greatest suffering. and dam.
age reported In this vicinity come from
Cough, region where mining hamlets and
portion Of towns lying on the low lands
have been inundated aud hundreds Of fami.
lies have been forced to desert their homes
and fly before the coming food. In some
places 1t was found necessary to anchor
dwelling houses to trees and rocks to keep
hem from drifting Of to total destruction.
The
SCENE ALONG THE ROUTE
OF the great gorge. which extended thirty
miles up the Yong hrogheny river, beg.
CARS description. Streets and door yards
are filled full Of ice, with dreary heaps,
In many Instances fifteen and twenty feet
high, standing as silent monuments 10 the
might Of the food. So far as can be learn
ed no lives have been lost, but the total
damage will reach thousands aud thou.
sands Of dollars. Specials from Washing.
ington, Pa, says the Charters railroad
bridge at Bridgeville was washed
away, but no serious accidents
are reported. The Beaver river
rose suddenly, and carried Of
/ about tlb,0 worth Of lumber.
CINCINNATI, Feb. Q. There 10 no long.
Or doubt that the water will reach last
| years. height, on the contrary, with rain
still falling and the weather mild, the only
question now Is by how much last years.
foods will be exceeded. The most alarm.
ing feature Of the present situation Is the
rapidity Of the rise. Last year when The
river had reached this height IL was rising
| less than an inch an hour. At noon the
| gauge showed tfty mine feet. This 10 an
unprecedented rise at such high
stage Of water, and shows what
. prodigiou' rainfall there has been.
With last years experience, the merchants
and manufacturers will lose much less than
then: no time Is now wasted in pumping
water from cellars. Every available man
and team is employed where the water may
encroach 10 placing the goods on higher
floors, and 10 removing to higher ground.
Business is completely suspended through.
out oil the lower part Of the city, and the
Grand Central Railroad Depot Is abandon.
cd. The Ohio & Mississippi railroad has an
eastern terminus at Aurora, Indiana,
and will run steamers between that point
aud Storr's Station thence by omnibus. The
Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore
trains will use the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton depot. This can DO used I'm.
Ill the water reaches sixty six feet. Then
all trains will have to stop at the stockyards.
The Bee Line trains make that their ter.
minus Tomorrow. The Panhandle and
Louisville and Nashville can use their de.
pot until the water reaches sixty.two feet.
troubled In reaching its Mclean street
depot until the water gets high.
er than 1t was last year,
but 1t cannot reach Ito side tracks
to do freight business. The Cincinnati,
Indianapolis, St. Louis aud Chicaso bids
fair to be shut out altogether, unless ar.
engagements can be m ade to reach the city
via Rushville over the Cincinnati, Hamil.
ton and Dayton road. The Cincinnati
Northern Toledo, Cincinnati and st.
Louis), Is the only road that cannot be
reached by the food. The warehouse at
Duck worth's Distillery was undermined,
and fell into the water, causing q large loss.
Soon after the cattle pens, capable Of feed
ing 1000 cattle, were swept away. Mr.
Duokworth had removed the cattle. Thu
loss Il very heavy.
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