St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-25
A SURFE|T OF AQUA.
The Ohio River at Cincinnati
Is Rising One Inch Per
Hour.
No Apprehension Of Serious
Floods Unless the Skies
Weep.
Mississippi, Arkansas, White
and Black Rivers Are Ris-
ing Rapidly.
South Carolina Swept by a
Storm, and Kansas by
Prairie Fires.

CINCINNATI, o., March 24.-If there
was any apprehension of great food
here during to-day it has all been dissi-
pated tonight. Had the rains been as
heavy on the north side as on the south
side of the ohio. the flood would have
exceeded that of 1884. But the tribu-
taries north of Ohio have not risen so
as to occasion remark. Over and
above all this, the sky here is
clear except in the west at 10
O'Clock tonight, and the wires bring
news of stationary or falling river in
the Ohio and all its tributaries from
Portsmouth up. At the same time the
southern tributaries of the Ohio below
Cincinnati are falling, notably the Ken
lucky river, which often serves to fill
up the channel and cause the water at
Cincinnati to pile up. The Keetucky is
falling fast. At Huntington, w. Va,
just above the mouth Of the
Big Sandy, the Ohio has fall
en- foot. If there is no
heavy rain in the Ohio valley within
forty-eight hours. the river at Cincin-
natl will not 60 beyond sixty feet and
six inches, and there is a good chance
tonight for it to stop trife short of
sixty feet. Should there be very heavy
protracted rains in the Ohio valley
within the next forty-eight hours, that
would Introduce new conditions into
the situation, the outcome of which
cannot be foretold except by vague
Prophecy OF Great Disaster
and an unprecedented depth of water in
the river. As to scenes and incidents
on the river front here to-day and to-
night, there is nothing out of the Or
dinary. People learned in 1883 and 1884
that it was unWise and expensive to take
chances on rise in the OHIO; there
fore, Saturday, probably to-day, they
have been removing goods out of
danger of water, SO that, whatever
the rise may be, no goods will be
damaged or destroyed. There is nothing
out of the ordinary on Water, Front
and Second streets tonight, other than
an unusual number OF barrels of mo-
lasses on the sidewalks and of lights in
the houses. Here and there at long
intervals transfer wagons are hauling
away goods from wareho uses, probably
stored merchandise. On these streets
there is scarcely foot passenger to be
seen, and in the lighted stores there is
no buStling, hurried work. There
is more or less water in all the
cellars up to the north side of Second
street. All the lowland factories on
Water and Front streets, and some on
Second street, will be prevented from
working tomorrow on account of back
water in the cellars. From suspension
bridge the view up and down the river
presents a continuous line of lights on
boats. barges and coal fleets, as if the
guards were everywhere doubled.
The river below, only forty-two
feet from the center Of the
bridge, looks strangely near to the road
way. Big steamers moored up along
side the second story of houses on the
high as the roofs Of the four-Story
houses against which they lie, give
things in that quarter queer look.
Yet the river at 10 o'clock tonight was
tifty-eight feet one inch high, and
Rising an Inch an Hour.
This is but fourteen inches above its
stage on the first or this month, and is
thirteen inches below the highest point
it reached in February, 1884. All navi-
CATION is stopped. The railroad traffic
by all the Western roads, except the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton. is car
ried on at improvised depots. This
traffic situation is liable under most
favorable conditions to continue
the remainder of this week.
A coal fleet is laid up near Ripley, an
other near New Richmond above here,
and still another is laid up at or near
Louisville. The bridges obstruct coal
fleets. All points on the Ohio report
similar escape from damage by flood.
There is no sensation in the situation
here, and any effort to make sensation
of it will make only a miserable roor-