The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-28
FLOODS down THB RIVER
Cincinnati and Other Points
Having Some High Water,
GREAT FRESHET PROBABLE,
II the "Dampncss" Continues In tho
Upper Ohio Vallcy-1sailr0nd Traf.
flc Cut or In Some Sections
Cincinnati Apprchcnsivc.

CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 27.-The morn.
ing dawnod with flno drizzle, which
gradually increasing, became steady
rain, which continued during the entire
day. At o'clock tonight the sky was
dark and threatening, and rain still con.
tinued to fall, though not very heavily.
1fthe rain is severe in this section II
will probably cause flood, but II 1t con.
tinues at the rate which 1t is now falling
here to.uisht, even Throughout the EN-.
tire Ohio valley, 1t will hardly do more
than to keep tho river at It's present
stage, or little higher for few days
only. Those living in the lower portions
OF the city are watching the sky with
somo anxiety tonight. The Baltimore
X Ohio, Southwestern formerly the Gin.
cinnati, Washington K Raltimore) and
the Bee Line have their tracks covered
with water to the depth Of three or four
feet near the stock yards.
Reports from various points give the
weather as cloudy and warm at Oil
City, Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Terre
Haute, Ind, while at indianapolis the
rain is pouring down and at Louisville
1t is raining. -3
A number. Of approaches to the Cen.
trail depot have been blocked by the
water, but the roads Affected by this
have erected temporary depots where
the water cannot reach and business will
not be interrupted. l.i
LATER-The clouds are becoming
lighter and the moon may be seen faint.
ly shining through the riffs, and the
rain has ceased. /.
The river has been raising at Cinciu.
natl since I o'clock at the rate OF an
inch an hour, and at 10 o'clock it was
% feet 81 inches and still rising steadily.
II the precipitation in the next twenty.
four hours should be as great in the
Ohio Valley as it has been at Memphis
and Nashville from the storm approach.
ing here from that direction, it will
doubtless cause third great flood.
!. AT LOUISVILLE. s4
The Ohio river has reached a flood
stage. One OF the elevated road stations
on the city front hes been cut oil. A
scare was started tonight and number
OF families in districts submerged in 1883
moved out. The river is still rising
about an inch nm hour.
G. A. Wooster, who has Just returned
from marlborough and intermediate
points, says the Cumberland is higher
than it has ever been, and the runaway
waters have created havoc all along. The
floods have crippled the railways to a
considerable extent.
The news from the mountain section
is that landslides and washouts have
been numerous and extraordinarily
troublesome. Telegraph wires are down
in many places.
AT MEMPHIS. F-5
A Memphis dispatch says the unusual
rain fall over the entire water shed OF
the Mississippi aud Ohio rivers and their
tributaries since Saturday last, portends
evil to the low land county protected
by levees in the Yazoo delta and the Ten.
sas bisins.
: The outlook in the section through
which the White and Arkansas rivers
pass is not encouraging. Both streams
are rising fast, and people living along
their banks have moved their stock to
places Of safety.