The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-23
RIVERS ON A RUlNoUS RISE.
LIVESTOCK AND FENCES SWEPT
AWAY IN KENTUCKY.

Thousands of Logs Torn From Their
MOOrings-TNvcnty Houses Under
Water and the GAS Works Threat
ened at FrnnISfOrt-The Lower
Portion of CntIettsburg Under
Wnter-A Hundred Persons Driven
From Their Homes at Richmond.
Louisville. Ky, Feb. 22.-Thirty-six
hours steady rain has caused nearly every
stream i'm the state to overflow its banks
and sweep away the live stock and fences.
The Kentucky river is carrying of
thousands of logs.
immense damage is reported from Har-
Ian, Perry, Leslie and Letcher counties.
At Pinevi,le, the Cumberland river has
| reached the doors of the court house.
At Frankfort twenty houses are under
water and the gas works threatened.
The lower portion of Catlettsburg is un-
der water.
At Richmond last night, the reservoir of
| the water works overflowed and drove 100
people from their homes.
In Gallatin county, Eagle creek rose so
rapidly that many families lost all their
! household effects.
Charles Halton was drowned and others
are reported missing.
The Big Sandy has torn away many val
liable log booms and is carrying them to
the Ohio
Railroad traffic has been suspended In
| the eastern portion of the state.
| Northeastern Tennessee and Southwes-
tern Virginia report that the timber In
terests have suffered heavily from floods
Cincinnati, o., Feb 22.-The Ohio river
is on another rise. The Licking river is
rising rapidly, and is running out of its
banks Many merchants along Water and
Front streets are already at work. NOV
ing out the goods stored in the cellars of
their establishments.
At Montgomerys coal landing, foot of
Main street, in Covington, KY, fleet
of barges broke away this morning and
fioated off.
A steady rain has fallen in Southern
West Virginia for forty-eight hours. All
streams are out Of their banks.
The booms in the Guyan river have been
washed away and 11,0O0 logs have been
washed into the Ohio river
All trains are delayed by heavy land
Slides
The Ohio river is thirty-fve feet, and
rising twelve inches an hour.
From Catlettsburg, KY the report
comes that three inches of rain have
fallen there in forty-eight hours.
The Ohio and Big Sandy rivers rose
eleven feet last night. The Ohio showed
thirty-eight feet on the gauge this morn
ing, and was rising fast.
Cincinnati O., Feb. q. 11:4O p. M
Shortly after o'clock this afternoon the
Ohio river reached the danger line, forty
five feet. Tonight al O'Clock the stage
was forty-seven feet four inches, rise
of nearly six inches in an hour. That
has been the average per hour since a.
m. River men expect fifty feet by day
light tomorrow. No very considerable
damage will result for that stage.
Residents of the streets next the river
are moving out. Front street merchants
have removed nearly all the tobacco from
the immense warehouses of that Vicin-
ity. The Licking and both Miami rivers
and Mil. Duck and CraWlish creeks are
still rising rapidly. The greatest fear OF
| a destructive rise comes from the remark
able rises I'm the southern tributary
| streams, particularly the Kanawha, New
and Big Sandy rivers. From the Gdyor
river 100000 logs have been swept into
Eight inches an hour is still the rise
there. At Maysville, KY, the rise Is moi
yet spent.
Huntingdon, w. Va, Feb. 22.-Trains
on the north end of the Kenova division
of the Norfolk and Western have been
annulled 1t is said here this morning
| that the big Norfolk ana western bridge
| across Beech fork has been washed away
At Montgomery, w. Va, the Ohio is
rising rapidly and families living neaI
the water have been compelled to move
The tracks of the Poweilton and Poca.
hontas railway are under water, and all
traffic Is suspended.
AT Point Pleasant, the river rose eight
feet Trains on the Kanawha and Michi-
gan railroad have stopped because oi
Washouts
. At Newton the heavy rainfall Is play
ing havoc Bottom farms are covered
with water and drift. Several families
have abandoned their homes. The loss tc
I farmers Is heavy.
A dispatch from Sutton, w. Va, says
the Elk river is rising rapidly. The Lit.
tie kanawha is over the tracks of the
West Virginia and Pennsylvania rail-
road.
Tonight hundreds of families are mov.
ing out of the low lands in the Guyon
Twelve Pole and Big Sandy valleys. The
loss OF property from the food has al.
ready reached alarming proportions, and
the rain continues general along these
streams.
Some lives are reported lost In Tug river
valley and much live stock drowned
Landshdes are reported along the Nor.
folk and Western railroad and business
Is temporarily suspended
NORFOLk AND WESTERNS CUT.
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