St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-27
That Turbulent Stream Has
Reached the Flood Point,
and Is Rising.
A Large Portion Of the Buck
eye State Is Now Under
Water.
Southern Tennessee Swept by
a Storm Of Cyclonic
Fury.
Three Shipwrecked Crews
Picked Up in Mid-0cean
and Landed Safely.

CINCINNATI, o., Feb. 26. AT S O'Clock
this evening the water at this point is
fifty-one feet, eight and ene-haIf inches
above low water, and was rising at the
rate OF two inches an hour, a rate which
it has kept up all day. 1t may rise two
or three feet more. but the river men
predict that it will stop at fifty-two or
fifty-three feet. But river men pro-
verbally underestimate flood in the
Ohio. One noticeable circumstance
here is the sluggishness of the current
at this high stage of water. This leads
to the Inference that the great Miami
and the Kentucky rivers and other
tributaries immediately below here
are pouring unusual floods into the
Ohio which serves as sort of dam that
piles up the water here and checks the
rapidity of its flow. The rainfall was
evidently less along the Ohio tributaries
OF the Ohio river than it was in Indiana,
Kentucky. West Virginia and Western
Pennsylvania. Should there be any
immediate great rainfall in the Ohio
valley it would undoubtedly cause
great flood. AT present the situation
exriteS no apprehension, a few cellars
in the lower bottoms will have few
feet or inches of wafer in them for two
va vi -ilN0
feet of water here in the Ohio is not in
frequent, In fact, it is an almost yearly
occurrence, and it does no damage
worth mention, and never excItes alarm.
RISING ALL ALONG THE LINE.
CINCINNATI. o., Feb. 26.-At 10 o clock
tonight the Ohio river at this point was
Just fifty-tWo feet above low water and
was still keeping up its rate of rising at
two inches an hour. The sky is over
cast and threatening, but the tempera-
tnre is falling materially. and the signal
service officials here say that much
colder weather is expected before morn
ing. That, should it come. would check
the rise of the river quite materially.
Ii a heavy rain should set in along the
valley before morning and continue
during the day it would cause a danger
Gus fiOOd. Present indications under
present conditions are that the rise will
not be over fifty-fiye or fifly-six feet.
that is, if reports of the condition of
streams at the source of the Ohio are
correct. Special kilograms show the
following as to the state of
the tributaries of the OHIO at
6 this evening: AT Oil City, the stage
was feet and stationary, which river
men take to mean that at Pittsburg
the maximum rise will be 16 feet. Ii
stlS Il lGSt 1ltlSUulG
rising at tonight Huntington, w.
Va, reported d feet and rising at the
rate of inches an hour. 1r0nton, o.,
reported Is feet IL inc IS and rising
slowly. At Portsmouth,. O.. the
river is 47 feet and inches and rising
THREE INCHES AN HOUR.
All these places are at the mouth of
considerable tributaries to the Ohio. eX-
cept Oil City, and the variation in the
rate of rise reported is owing to differ
enceS In the amount of water the re-
spectiye tributaries are pouring
into the Ohio. Charleston. w. Va,
reports 81 feet inches in the
Kanawha and rising slowly. Frankfort,
KY, reports thirty-twO feet of water i'll
the Kentucky river, and rising slowly.
Points on the Ohio, between here and
Louisville, and below the mouth of the
Kentucky river. report the Ohio rising
OF the rate of three inches an hour. All
this indicates that the waters here may
be piled up to fifty-siX feet by to-mor-
row night, when downward turn may
be expected, unless prevented by rain.
Navigation is suspended because boats
cannot pass under the bridges, and also
because the landing is about covered
with water. The backwateF up Mill
creek has inundated few gardens, but
it comes too early in the season to dam
age them much. 1t will require six or
eight feet more of rise to interfere with
any of the railroads, and such all event
is entirely improbable.