St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-28
The Ohio River Threatens to
Wipe Out Part Of Gin
cinnati.
A Portion of the City Now
Submerged and the River
Still Rising.
Louisville Is Also Partially
Inundated and Household
ers Are Moving.
Desperate Attempt to Take
the Life of a Prominent
Buckeye Medic.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 27.-The Ohio
river has reached food stage, One OF
the elevated road stations on the city
front has been cut off. A scare was
started tonight, and number of fami-
lies in districts submerged in 1888
moved out. but there is little fear Of
such deluge as then. The river is
still rising about an inch an hour. The
Ohio and Mississippi river railroad be-
tween here and Cincinnati is closed. G..
A. Wooster, who has just returned
from Middlesborough and Intermediate
points, says the Cumberland is higher
than it has ever been, and the runaway
waters have created havoc all
along There have been landslides
where great trees and i'm
mense bodies of earth have tuul-
bled away. and in places big tracts of
country are submerged. At Dillon's
Switch, below Livingston, nothing but
the top of the extensive saw mill there
is to be seen above the water, and at
Livingston, the rock castle has ell
crOached upon the town disastrously.
At MiddleSborough the electric light
plant had been rendered useless, the
streets were submerged and the canal
was out Of sight. The floods have Grip
pied the railroads to considerable eX-
tent. On the Knoxville branch the de-
lays have been from eight to thirty-six
hours. The news from the mountain
section is that the land-slides and wash
outs have been numerous and eXtraordi-
narily troublesome. Mails in that re-
gion have been practically discontinued.
The telegraph wires are down in many
places.
RAILROAD TRACKS UNDER WATER.
CINCINNATI. Ohio, Feb. %. = The
morning dawned with fine drizzle
which, gradually increasing, became
steady rain which continued the entire
day. At nine o'clock tonight the sky
was dark and threatening and rain still
continued to fall, though not very
heavy. Later the storm ceased ana the
moOnbeams came from behind the
clouds. The Baltimore & Ohio South.
western formerly the Cincinnati,
Washington d Baltimore), and the Bee
Line, have their tracks covered with
water to the depth Of three or four
feet near the stock yards. Reports faom
various points give the weather as
burg, Wheeling, W. Va, and Terra
Haute, Ind, while at indianapolis the
rain is pouring down and at Louisville
it is raining. A number of approaches
to the central depot have been blocked
by the water. but the roads affected
by this have erected temporary depots
where the water cannot reach and the
business will not be interrupted.
RISING AN INCH PER HOUR.
The rainfall here during the last
twenty-fOur hours ending at o'clock
tonight, was one-sixteenth of an inch,
and it was the same at Louisville. The
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points at the source of the Ohio report
the waters either temporary or falling,
but they also report the weather cloudy
and warm. AS far up the Ohio at
the mouth of the Kanawha lighs
rain was reported at o'clock
this evening. The Ohio river down
to Point Pleasant, at the mouth of the
Kanawha, was reported stationary or
rising very slowly. At all points below
Point Pleasant it was reported rising
from one to one and One-half inches per
hour. 1t has been rising here since z
o'clock at the rate of an inch an hour,
and at 10 o'clock tonight it was 90 feet
IL inches, and still rising stead
has not been disturbed by the
flood, and it will require several feet
more of water to cause it Inconvenience.
The western railway passenger stations
tomorrow will be the Ohio & Missis-
sippi, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton, and the Mclean Avenue depots.
AT these the various roads already
driven from the Central depot will re-
ceive and deliver their passengers. The
storm reported central about Nashville.
Tenn, at this writing, II o'clock, is
causing
GRAVE APPREHENSION.
hnr ,t,Al nrt,, {,,k&
ests and among men who have property
and business interests in the lowlands
of the city. If the precipitation in the
next twenty-four hour should be as
great in the Ohio valley as it has been
at Memphis and Nashville from the
storm approaching here from that di-.
rection, it will doubtless cause third
great flood. In that case the river
would be at its maximum about Thurs
day or Wednesday next week. The sit
uation at this writing has dangerous
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