The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-28
RISING OF THE WATERS.
THE SKY OVERCAST AND a STIFF
WIND BLOWING.

Nearly an Inch OF Rainfall in Ken
tucky-The Storm Heading for the
Ohio Valley-Railroads Seeking New
Station Facilities Affairs Wearing
a Dangerous Look.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 27.-At 5 o'clock this
morning the Ohio river had reached IS feet.
At noon to-day the river had reached 81
feet 2 inches, and was rising at the rate of
IL inches an hour. Besides, tho thermom-
eter stood at 81. the sky was overcast, end
a southwest wind was blowing. Reports
from points above show that the river is
rising at all points from Pittsburg down.
At Portsmouth, 150 miles above Gin
cinnati, the rise was an inch an hour.
To add to the difficulty of realizing
is report of the fall of nearly an inch of
rain in Kentucky. This would check the
fall if it did not cause another rise in the
Big Sandy. Nobody ventures to say what
may be the extent, because no one can pre-
dict the course of the storm now central in
Eastern Arkansas. If it passes northeast
ward the natural result would be a rainfall
all through the Ohio valley, and still
greater rise. But on the other hand twenty
four hours without rain will cause the river
TO fall. The iron works and saw-mills of
Newport KY, stopped this morning, and
others will follow soon in Covington and
this city, where the water encroaches on
them. Railroad communication is growing
hourly moro uncertain on the more exposed
roads, aud it is possible that trains cannot
get into the Central passenger station to-
night.
STILL, RISING
CINCINNATI, Feb. %, II p. M.-The rain
fall here during the twelve hours ending at
o'clock tonight was one-sixteenth of an inch,
and it was the same at Louisville. The river
has been rising here since o'clock at the rate
of an inch an hour, and at 10 o'clock tonight
it was IS feet II inches, aud
still rising steadily. The west
ern railway passenger stations to-
morrow will bo the Ohio and Mississippi,
Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton. and
McLeah avenue depots. At these the va
rlous roads already driven from the Central
depot will receive and deliver their passen-
gers. The storm is reported central about
Nashville. Tenn, at this writing, caus-
ing grave apprehension here among
mon who have river interests and
among men who have property and
business interests in tue low lands Of the
city. If the precipitation in tho next
twenty-four hours should be as great in the
Ohio Valley as it has been at Memphis and
Nashville from the storm approaching here
from that direction it will doubtless cause
a third great flood. In that case the river
would be at its maximum about Tuesday
or Wednesday of next week. The situation
at this writing has dangerous look.
THE EFFECT IN THE SOUTH.
MEMPHIS, Feb 27.-The unusual rainfall
over the entire watershed Of the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers and their tributaries since
last Saturday portends evil to the low land
country not protected by levies, and in the
Yazoo, Delta, and Tensas basins.
Along the Yazoo from below Greenville
it is stated that the levees will stand against
three feet of additional rise, and it is prob
able that their strength will DO tested be.
fore the present flood passes there.
The worst is feared for the newly con-
structed levees along the Tensas basin, es-
pecially those near and above Lake Provi-
dence and across the foothills of Chicot
county, Arkansas, all of which have been
recently built Maj. Startling, engineer for
the lower Mississippi levee district, antici-
pates that the levees in Arkansas will give
way and relieve the pressure on the Missis-
sippi side.
IN MISSISSIPPI.
In Mississippi the Louisville, New Orleans
and Texas railroad is cooperating with the
levee board and has concentrated men at
convenient places and sent them to scenes
of danger at all hours. Maj. Startling has
instructed his assistants to increase their
force, strengthen all the weak places and
prepare for more water. The outlook
in the section through which the Ohio and
Arkansas rivers pass is not encouraging
Both streams are rising fast, and the people
along their banks have taken advantage Of
t,a firnalxy notion ont nv ba cfcrpoI
vice and moved their stock to places of
safety. The river at this point is still fall
ing, but will probably come TO stand by
tomorrow night.