The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-06
The Floods.

Cincinnati, 5.-With eight intermis
sioDs 1t has bsen raining hard all III,
morning. The river at 9 O'Clock wa
flfty-two feet and rising an inch an hour
The river is rising from Cairo to Pitts
burKh and serious damage will undOubt-
eddy follow.
Cincinnati, 5 The rain ceased
here about IL o'clock this morning,
but the wind is from the southwest.
The thermometer is So; still cloudy.
Very little business was done on
Change. The prospect of high
water and the disturbance of rail.
road transportation has checked
business. Many orders to stop ship
ments have been sent out. Rail
roads are taking every precaution
to prevent having freight caught
by the advancing water. The Ohio
& Mississippi railroad, which last
year was among the first to feel the
effects Of the flood at Lawrenceburg,
has since raised the track there five
feet, and will not now be disturbed
until the river reaches sixty feet,
unless the levee breaks. The river
is now rising here three inches an
hour.
Cincinnati, 5. - The river con.
tinues to rise at an alarming rate.
It now stand 81 feet 2 inches, rise
Of three and a half inches in the
last hour. At this rate the gas will
be shut off by tomorrow night and
the waterworks will be stopped by
Tuesday. A light rain fell during
the afternoon, but for the last hour
a heavy rain has been falling.
Weather quite warm. Business in
the lower part Of the city is prac-
tically suspended, and all energies
are bent to saving property. Cellars
in all parts below Second street
are filed with wafer. Railroad
tracks are beginning to be covered.
The Cincinnati Southern cannot
reach the Grand Central depot on
account of water. In Mclean
avenue no freight is coming in ex,
cept such as can be Immediately re-
Pittsourg, 6-Repor,s indicate
large volume Of water coming, but
no damage is anticipated at this
point. This afternoon the MOnon>
gahela river rose fourteen feet six
inches, and the Allegheny sixteen
six. Both rivers are rising at the
rate of elk inches an hour. It has
been raining since yesterday after
noon.
Pittsburg, ga warm rain has
been falling almost steadily since
last night, and from Indications at
IL o'clock tonight P.ttsburg and
Allegheny are on the eve Of the
greatest flood for nineteen years.
The Monongahela and Allegheny
rives are now rising ten inches an
hour. River avenue and School
and Robinson streets, Allegheny,
are already partially submers ed,
and two feet of water covers the
e Western tracks for
miles, while this city and portions
Of Duquesne are inundated. People
living in the Iowlands of the two
cities are moving out in anticipation
of a flood.
Cleveland, 5.-Floods have been
feared in this part Of the State to-
day, but thus far no great damage
Ii reported here. The river rose
nearly level with the docks and an
lie gorge was threatened, but steam
tugs cleared the chanel and to niaht
the dangers OF. a freshet are believed
to be past. at Findlay, the gas
works and streets are under water.
Arlington, in the same county, is
1eluged and great quantities of lum>
Der and ship timber are swept away.
Most of the railroad are submerged
in places, but no washouts are re-
PORTED. At Meadville, where the