The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-27
NATUREIN AFURY
Cyclones, Floods and Snow Storms
Let Loose
SEVERAL LIVES LOST AND MANY
BUILDINGS IN RUINS.

Cluclun6bI Aur06u0ne0 WIN AuOLu9r
Inundation-Great Damage Done TO
Business Property at Brownsville,
Tenn.-A Woman and Three Children
Drowned by a Cloud Burst in In
diana.
CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 26-An the ele-
ments of q disastrous flood in the Ohio
river seem to be now present. The contin-
uous wet weather has saturated the earth,
SO that the excessive rainfalls of the past
three or four days have all found their out
let in the tributaries OF the river. Along
the entire valley Of the Ohio the rainfall
has been enormous. From the Kentucky
side the Big Sandy river comes with boom
almost unparalleled, while Kanawa river,
further up, also pours out its swelling vol
ume. The Scioto, Hooking, Musk1ngum,
in Ohio, as well as the two Miamis, keep
the rivers bed full, while rise is coming
down from the headwaters. The rise since
9 o'clock yesterday morning for twenty-four
hours is over feet, and the gauge this
morning showed 40 feet and inches in the
channel. About feet more will begin to
interfere with railroad traffic. and every
well as endanger great quantity of goods
in all the bottom portion of the city. A
flood is inevitable, but its proportions de-
pends upon the weather of the next few
days.
STEAMER TRAFFIC. IMPEDED.
There is already disturbance of river
navigation, as steamers cannot pass under
the suspension bridge. The steamer Sher-
lock, for New Orleans, is compelled to defer
her departure until the water falls on that
account. At Hamilton, O., the Big Miami
was higher last night than it has been for
ten years. The water had entered the
Straub house, one of the principal hotels.
and many houses were submerged in part
In many places a heavy rainfall was at
tended with high wind.
BANK BUILDING WRECKED.
At Keathley, Tenn, the bank building
belonging to Winslow, Fisher & Baird was
blown to pieces. Thirty-fve persons were
IN the building at the time, of whom six
were more or less injured, but none fatally.
George Kitchiner of Lowell, Mass, had his
head and thigh bruised. o. E. Cross of
Proctorville, VT, had his right leg crushed
at the thigh. George Thatcher of Mlddles-
boro had an arm broken. DR.. Hudgings
of Knoxville Tenn. was severely injured
in the eyes, and had both legs and an arm
broken.
A COURT HOUSE WRECKED.
At Marion, KY, there was a severe wind
storm. The court house was unroofed and
partly blown down, and the records badly
damaged. The opera house was unroofed
and several big houses were more or less in
jured. Several dwellings were damaged, and
Mrs Bells was badly injured by falling
timbers.
An enormous body of earth, including
several acres of the surface of the hill
which rises abruptly from the Ohio river on
the Kentucky side opposite Lawrenceburg.
Ind, slipped into the Ohio river yesterday
with frightful sound.
STILL RISING LAST NIGHT.
CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 26, II p M.-At 10
o'clock tonight the Ohio river at this point
was Just fifty-two feet above low water, and
still rising two inches an hour. The sky is
threatening. Ii a heavy rain sets in and
continues dGring the day it would cause
dangerous flood.
A special to the Commercial Gazette
shows the tributaries of the Ohio at o'clock
this evening to be rising about three inches
per hour. AT Huntington. W. Va, it was
forty-five feet and rising. At Portsmouth,
o., it was forty-seven feet four inches.
Points on the Ohio between here and
Louisville and below the mouth of the Ken
lucky river report the Ohio rising at the
rate of three inches an hour. All this iudi-
Gates that the waters here may be piled up
to fifty-six feet by tomorrow night, when
a downward turn may be expected unless
prevented by rain. Navigationi is suspended,
because boats cannot pass under the bridges,
and also because the landing is about GOV
cred with water. 1t will require six feet
more of rise to interfere with the railroads,
and such an event is improbable
HIGH WATER AT COLUMBUS.
COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 26.-The water in
the Scloto river did not reach the point of
damage until 2 o'clock this morning, when
the river broke into the canal below the
city and the water covered vast expanse
Of lowlands. The principal damage will be
to the banks of the Columbus feeder Of the
Ohio canal. Some of the manufactures
along the river were temporarily disabled
by water pouring in on the
machinery, but no extensive damage has
been reported. Considerable embarrass-
ment was caused at an early hour by the
breaking of the natural gas pipe where it
crossed Big Walnut creek. The supply had
to be shut off until repairs were made. The
water interfered with the machinery Of the
Columbus electric plant and the lamps