The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1890-03-06
FLOODS ON THE OHIO.
Farmers Flee to Evansville, Ind. and
Cairo, Ills, for Safety Mississippi
IevepS in DANGER


Cairo, Ills, for Safety Mississippi
Levees in Danger.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. March 3.-The
scene along the river front is one of the
most active imaginable Thousands Of
men and hundreds of vehicles We're in
constant motion carting away perishable
goods to places of safety. In the Mill
creek bottoms acres of gardens already
dressed in the verdure of spring are COW
cred with muddy water. Thousands Of
dollars worth of early spring vegetables
have been ruined. and many Of the small
gardeners will be impoverished by this
unexpected flood. At least $50 families
in Columbia, Pendieton and Fleatown
have been compelled to remove their
household goods into the upper stories of
their houses All communication ex-
cept by means of skitfs is cut off from
FieatOwn, Il small settlement lust above
Pendieton.
The Grand Central passenger station
has been abandoned. The Baltimore and
Ohio Southwestern trains leave from the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton depot ::
the Big -Four from the transfer station.
while the Southern trains start from the
Eighth street crossing. The Ohio aud
Mississippi has safe refuge in its old
depot: as a preca'tion of safety after the
last flood their tracks We're raised five
feet. The tloodgates have opened on
Newport. Isabella street, Que of the
main residence avenues of that city, is
inundated for four blocks. and the track;
of the Covington and Newport street
railway are swept by three feet of water
The United States barracks stands forth
upon d knoll: the steam just lappinginto
the inclosvrc which fronts the river.
The Anchor Iron works and all the other
great industries of the town closed down
at noon, and eco men stood idle and
helpless watching the rising tide. The
school houses and building on South
worth street have been thrown open for
the homeless.
At 3 D. m., when the river reached and
went beyond Sc feet inches the highest
stages since the great flood of 1884 was
reached.
Reports from up the river are more
favorable, although there were general
rains last night. The Runaway and
Sandy rivers are falling, while the Lick
ing is rising.
Evansville Full of Refugees.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. March 3-The river
guage registers 423 feet and is still ris-
ing three-quarters of an inch All hour.
The lowlands above town are completely
flooded and the city is full Of homeless
wanderers. driven from their farms.
Refugees from the lOwlanls are coming
into town every hour in wet. exhausted
and hungry condition.
Seventy Miles of Water.
CAIRO, His, March :5.-The river here
has risen one foot in twenty-four hours,
marking Alp feet on the guage, or 1.2
feet over the danger line. 1t is now
pouring over its natural banks into the
bottoms. but Cairo's levees are still fif-
teen feet above the flood line and inn
There is one continuous
sheet of water from Birds Point, Mo-,
just across the river from here, all the
way to the Arkansas state line, a dis
tance of seventy miles along the St.
Louis, Arkansas and Texas railroad.
All the small steamers and tugs in the
harbor are busy saving the corn and
stock, and people are gathered on high
spots in the bottoms around here in
Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, March AT a.
m. the river had reached Sc feet 10
inches, and at this hour 90 o'clock re- i
mains stationary. 1t is confidently pre-
licted by river men that the waters will /
begin to recede by noon.