The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-23
RIVERS AGAIN RISING.
THE OHIO BOUND TO INVADE GIN
CINNATI ONCE MORE.

Warm Rains on the snow Glad Hills
around Pittsburg Put the Streams
IN that Vicinity on a Boom-Every
Minute Fraugtt With Danger at
Johnstown.
CINCINNATI, O., March 22.-The Ohio
river is apparently about to reach a greater
hight than ct the last food, when it barely
reached 81 feet. Here il is already As fest
inches, and is rising at the rate Of two
inches an hour. At Portsmouth it IS rising
three inches an hour
The Big Sandy rose ten feet in an hour at
Louisa, KY, last night.
The Licking river at Falmouth and
Cynthiana is rising very rapidly and rain
is still falling.
There has uean no rain here scarcely since
daylight a the temperature Is growing
SLIGHTLY colder, but no fall of the tempera-
ture probable at this time OF the year can
prevent very high river here within the
next few days.
DANGER AT PITTSBURG.
PITTSBURG, Pa, March ga food of
serious proportion threatens this section.
A warm rain sat in late last night and has
continued ever since. The mountains were
covered with several feet of snow, and this
melting has swollen all the streams until
thev are out of their banks. Dispatches
from all points along the Allegheny.
Yougiogheny ard Mononghela rivers
report the water rising rapidly. The
headwaters of the MOnongahela river is
higher than ever known before and is still
fast creeping. up, Farm lands along the
streams are already under water and great
alarm is felt.
Reports from dozen points in the noun
tains of West Virginia show that all the
streams are bankful and still rising, with
rain falling everywhere.
A STARTLING OUTLOOK.
Dispatches say the indications for dis
astrous foods tonight and tomorrow were
never better and there is a good deal of ap-
prehension along the Tigart Valley river.
On the East and Cheat forks Of
is afioat At Weston, Lewis county,
West Virginia, on the West fork, the
river is twenty feet deep and still rising,
and there are reports OF great damage higher
up the stream. There is at least twelve
feet at Rowles burg on the Cheat; IS feet at
Morganton on the MonoAgahela; and at
Phillips, on the 1igar5 Valley, the river is
very high and still rising at the rate of a
foot an hour In this city the marks at IL
O'clock registered 20 feet and were rising
fast. The danger line here is % feet, and
q rise of three to five feet more
will inundate the lower portions
of Southside and Allegheny City,
and cause a suspension of work along the
river by reason of the flooding of furnace
pits. People living in the lower districts
are preparing to vacate their houses i'll the
event OF the food reaching them. Rain
still continues with no sign of abatement.
RISING AT JoHNsTowN.
4 special from Johnstown, Pa, says:
1.-THE effects of the steady rain to-day began
to be apparent in the rise of the river again
st an early hour this evening. Between 5
aud Z o'clock it rose three feet, and at this
writing is several inches higher than at the
highest point last night and is rising fast.
No particular damage has been done as yet,
but every minute is fraught with danger,
and there IS much alarm"
VERY HIGH At M'KEEsPoRT.
A McKeesport, Pa, dispatch says the
MonongaheIa and Youghiogheny rivers are
rising rapidly at that point. The water is
now higher than at any time this season,
and the indications point to higher water
than has been known in these streams for
years. Rlvermen, coal men and manufact-
urers whose plants are located
on the river banks are up
tonight protecting their property.
People living along the streams are prepar-
ing for submerged dwellings, and many are
preparing to move out. The fires in the
Devices Wood rolling mill have all been put
out, and by mornlng the plant, as well as
those of tle National rolling mill and Mo-
nongahela Furnace Company will be par
italy under wafer.
STILL GOING UP.
CINCINNATI, O., March %, II p M.-At
II O'clock tonight the river here registered
fifty feet and five inches, having risen three
incnes IN the last hour. 1t seems to be
keeping up that rise. Several hours
before 10 o'clock the rate of the
rise at this point was two inches
an hour River men are quite apprehen-
sive to. night, since reports of the condition
Of the tributaries on the west slope of the
Alleghenies has been learned. 1t look:
now as if we should have flood of ovel
sixty feet. The weather is slightly cooler
but since dark the temperature has beel
stationary at 400.