The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-09
CINCINNATI AND VICINITY.
The Water Slowly Approaching the Point
Reached by Last Years Flood.

Reached by Last Years Flood.
CINCINNATI, Feb So A. M-The river is 62
feet IL inches, rise of 1-2 inches since2 A. NJ.
The weather is cloudy and cool. The cold-wave
flag which was flying from the Signal Office, yes
terday morning, has disappeared; hopes of
freeze are dissipated, and no relief is expected
now, on that account The river at Portsmouth
is 60 feet and rising fast. 1t is falling fast at
headwaters, but further rise must come before
it all runs out Marietta and Parkersburg have
been entirely cut off from all communication for
two days. Portsmouth is the only up-river point
heard from, so far.
AT noon the river was sixty-two feet six and
half inches being rise of two inches in the last
three hours. No additional losses are reported
and no loss of life on this side of the river.
In Newport, Ky, early this morning VIM
Buchert bugler of the United States troops at
Newport barracks, fell from a skiff while trying
to reach the second story of the barracks build
ing and was drowned. He was twenty-five
years old and belonged to Baltimore. Mrs.
Waddle, widow living at Newport, became
raving maniac on account of the food She
was poor woman with seven children living in
the flooded district The neighbors took charge
of her children and of her, but being unable to
see her children, she imagined them drowned
and to-day is hopelessly insane
At the meeting of the executive committee of
the relief committee appointed by the Chamber
of Commerce, this morning it, was unanimously
determined that all money received from other
places should be used for the relief of suffering
in localities outside of this city, it being the
purpose of the committee to expend for the re-
lief in Cincinnati only such funds as may be
contributed here.
The average rise during the day has been
slightly over half an inch an hour The weather
is cloudy, with occasional drizzling showers. All
eyes are turned, of course to upriver points
There the prospect is not encouraging. True. a
fall is pronounced at Pittsburg, and actual
though Slow at Wheeling. Thence downward
no news can be had until Gallipolis is reached,
two hundred miles above Cincinnati There is
no communication with Parkersburg or Mari
eta.
News from GAINESVILLE, however, states that the
Muskngum river was at an unprecedented
height and still rising, showing that the chance
for fall at Marietta would be small for the
Muskingum enters the Ohio at that point. At
Galipolis, at 1:30 p. NJ, the river had risen ten
inches above the high-water mark of last year,
and was still rising, at about four inches an
hour.
At Hinton, W. Va, the river is seven feet
and rising 1t is warm and raining. This is a
branch of the Kanawha river
Rain is reported, ALSO to-day, at Charleston,
W. Va, and the Kanawha is rising at that point
This gives another feeder to the Ohio at Point
Pleasant. Rain at Hinton indicates that gen
eral rain has fallen along the west side of the
mountains, as Chattanooga reports four inches
of rainfall in the last thirty-six hours in East
Tennessee. Coming further down the river,
Catlettsburg KY, at noon reports a heavy rain,
and says the storm is general This makes Big
Sandy another feeder of the Ohio at that point
These facts indicate that the fall cannot be
rapid, and at best the fall cannot reach Cncin-
natl before Monday or Tuesday next With the
present rate, that will bring the water above
last years flood This estimate is based on
continuance of the present weather The pros
pect of cold weather las gone, and there is
greater probability of more rain.
At Ironton at 6 P. NJ the river was still rising
two inches an hour All of West Ironton was
under water
New Richmond is cut off from all communica-
ton except by boats. The town hall is the only
place not flooded. A messenger from there re-
ports the water within two feet of last years
flood. In most places along the Ohio river the
people have left their houses and gone to the
highlands. Great distress is reported at various
points.
At Maysville, KY the river has risen four
feet in the last twenty-four hours, and is still
rising two inches an hour. at p. NJ. it was
within foot of last years food,
The river at Ironton at II o'clock, was fifty
six feet, nine inches and rising two inches an
hour
At Galfipolis it was two inches higher than
the highest previous record, and rising two
inches an hour.
AT GAINESVILLE the Muskingum river is higher
than ever known, and is still rising an inch and