Morning journal and courier., 1890-02-28
THE FLOODED DISTRICTS. The Cumberland and Ohio
 Still Rising. ROUGH TREATMENT OF SAILORS. Excitement on a Western
 Railroad Train. MASTER LINCOLN MAY RECOVER. Grave Robbers Released
 on Bail.
ROUGH TREATMENT OF SAILORS.
MASTER LINCOLN MAY RECOVER.
THE SWOLLEN STREAMS.


 The Ohio River at . Flood stage-Tne
 Cumberland Higher Than Ever Be-
 fore Known-Ssreets of Towns Sub-
 msrged-Landslides and Washouts-
 A Family Reported Drowned In
 Ohio.
 LOUISVILLE, Ky., February 27.-The Ohio river has reached flood stage. One of the elevated road stations on the city front has been cut of. A scare was started tonight and a number of families in districts sub- merged in 1883 moved out, but there is little fear of such a deluge az then. The river is still rising an inch an hour. The Ohio and Mississippi railroad between here and Cincin. nati is closed.
 o. A. Wooster, who has just returned from Middleboro 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 immense bodies of earth have tumbled away and in places big tracts of country are submerged. At Dill. Ions Switch, below Livingston, nothing but the top of the extensive saw mill there is to be seen above the water. At Middlsboro the electric light plant had been rendered useless, the streets were submerged, and the canal was out of sight. The floods have crippled the railways to g considerable extent. On from eight to thirty.six hours. The news from the mountain section is that landslides and washouts have been numerous. Mails in that region have been practically discon- tinued. The telegraph wires are down in many places.
 EvANsv1L1E, Ind, Feb. 27.-The river at this point registered 40.5 at six o'clock this evening and was rising an inch an hour. It rained nearly all day. Old river men who yesterday predicted "67" rise now say that the water will go to the February rise of 1884 when the river reached the highest point ever known hers-48. 75 feet.
 HAMILTON, O., Feb. 27.-The Big Miami river reached it's highest point at 3:30 o'clock yesterday. Great damage was done to prop- erty along it's course through the city. At Seven Mile, small village north of here, ,one and it is reported that whole family was drowned while trying to cross Four Mile, . small stream north of the city. The weather has turned much colder and the rain has ceased, and the indications now are that the flood will shortly rscede.
 MEMPH1s, Tenn, Feb. 27.-The unusual rainfall over the entire watershed of the Mis- sissippi and Ohio rivers and their tributaries on Saturday portends evil to the lowlands protected by levees in the Yazoo delta and the Tensas basins.
 Along the Yazoo from below Greenville it it stated the levees will stand against three feet of additional rise, and it is probable that their strength will be tested before the pres ent flood passes there. The worst is feared for the newly constructed levees along the TensAs basin, especially those near and above Lake Providence and across the foothills of Chice county, Arkansas, all of which have been recently built,
 CINCINNATI, Feb. 27.-The rain stopped ct late hour this evening and the sky is clearing, relieving many of their fears of serious food. The Baltimore and Ohio south- west, formerly the Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore, and the Bee Line have their tracks covered with water to depth of three or four feet near the stockyards. A number of approaches to the central depot have been blocked up by the water, but the roads affected by this have erected temporary dspots where the water cannot reach and business will not be interrupted.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27.- Heavy rains continue to prevail In Arizona. Last night the floods washed out large portion of the Prescott Arizona railway. Telegraphic com munication has also been cut of from Pres colt, so that the exact nature of the damage is not known.