New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-24
KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE
NAVY RIVERS AND OTHER STREAMS oVERFiO"
49,. ra,tr nss OLE LEE.

,.- murine AND OTHER STREAMS OVERFLOW
THEIR BANKs-sOME loss OF LIFE
1ou,sviIIe Ky. Feb. 23.-The Ohio River mas
risen eight and half feet mere since ''s'.r"!
Morning and IS still rising ut the rate Oh mr.
,nches an hour. The stage or water on '"e id','
&c twenty-one feet. and IT Is expecteu " .''o
,u,ontvseven feet which will food the river-iroht
rwothirds OF the town OF Corbn Is uhuer water
The damage IS estimated at s2'oU' Inc noou
damage IN Southeastern Kentucky Is estimated at
spoo 600 The Kentucky River rose forty ieet III '"o
hours in the mountain country. ana swept every
thing before It. The Cumberland River destroyed
all property in the bottom lands OF Harlan county
Near Donkeyville. Jonas i!iee "'' e "
ell River and drowned
Erankfort Ky Feb. 23.-Sreams In Kentucky
,ro c,eor ont OF their banks and doing much dam
ooo Several people have been drowned III
,or,ous norts Of the State Much stock has been
lost fencing swept away ana other properly AZ
most ruined. The streams all through 'he "'o"'
,ains are higher than for years
News comes from Pineville. ky' tha' TWO ""',e
mon while crossing raging stream. were drowned
and also "A revenue officer. VINO was Ill '"e "'o""
tains looking after moonshiners'
L. Derry Knott Hatcher and Breathitt countles
tho flood Is doing much damage Jameson lne
county seat OF the latter county Is parity u""e'
vater AT Beattyville. which Is at the junction" Vi
tho three forks of the Kentucky River the rise
10, h.on unusually rapid. ana HlucH Ndludp'c P'"P
or,v has been swept away. Among the heaviest
,osors IN the mountains are the lumbermen' VINO
hava lost thousands of dollars worth OF Iumoer'
A. Mlddlesboro yesterday cioudDurst deiuseu
,bo 1oc,Iitv James Charwell and his wife ana four
children while going home from nelghoor III
wagon were all drowned
A. Harrodsburg near Dxville the water ran
over the bridge f. Patterson and wife attempted
n Grass Mrs Patterson and the mule sne was
ri1inp were carried away. The woman cansnt tilc
i,mhs ~ a tree half A mile down stream ne nus
hand swan to her and got her up IN the IT, IL
Taipnbors made a raft and reached them. ! ne
uoter washed Patterson off the raft lie was ihdl-
Is. in an unconscious condition. ana Will ule
In this city the Kentucky River Is away out OF
lts hanks being higher than II mas Dcen since tne
eood of 1898 The entire west end or the CITY is
inundated and the water is gradually making is
wav M in the city The river Is rising at the rate
OF a foot an hour, and ii is still raining ~.
Renorts from Jackson and other places up the
,ortb fork saw there has been considerable loss or
lie and property Mrs Hutte ana her little daugh-
ter were drowned In their house, when was
washed from the mountain side In Breathitt Iouh-
~ last night. Two men, whose names couid not
he learned were drowned In one OF the streams IN
KnoxviIle Tenn Feb 23.-ilcavy rains have
s,,oien the streams enormously in this vicinity.
rwn railwav trestles near this city were washed
away last night All telegraph and telephone wires
est of Knoxville down. and trains are stand.
ing still The Clnch River al clinton. registered
forty feet and residents are leaving their houses
There il fear of great damage ard loss OF lie.