Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-11
THE FLOOD Al CINCINNATI.
The Oldest Inhabitant Never Saw So sud-
den Rise In Local Streams.

The Oldest Inhabitant Never Saw So sud-
den Rise In Local Streams.
CINCINNATI, March 5.-The Oldest in
habitant is occupying back seat to-
day, being unable, despite all cudgel-
ings of the brain, to bring out an expe-
rience equal to to-day's in rapid and
continued rise of generally quiet and
placid creeks and ripping rivulets.
Mill creek, in the six hours following 8
a. M, rose 90 feet at some points, and
the Licking river, in Kentucky, went
on boom at the same time scarcely
second to it.
At Ivorydale the great soap works
had their ground floors inundated and
the Cincinnati, Hamilton 6 Dayton,
and the Baltimore s. Ohio Southwest
ern at that station had no tracks show
ing above water. Vice-President and
General Manager Peabody of the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern railroad
said to a United Associated Presses re-
porter tonight that never before in his
35 years experience had that road been
so suddenly invaded by small streams
OVERLOOKING their banks as at this
time.
Southwestern depot and the Pennsyls
vania depot were at noon to-day two
feet under water. The former road
seems to have been the greatest suf-
ferer of all the lines entering here, but
tue Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and
the Pennsylvania also are greatly dam
aged by washouts near here. All roads
have been somewhat delayed in run
ming of trains. The Big Four, eastern
division, is cut off from connection with
the Union Central station tonight by
the food and is transferring its pass
engers to and from Ivorydale junction
by means of four-horse buses. BY to-
morrow the road expects to enter the
Central depot as usual The Chicago
division is not interfered with.
The Queen & Crescent and Louisville
& Nashville are the only roads any
ways near on time tonight. The
Chesapeake s. Ohio trains are over two
hours late.
At 6 p. m. nearly thirty mails had
been cut off and were still to be re-
ceived at the post Office. Scarcely any
mail, including newspapers, left this
city to-day. At all the roads great
stacks of mail of all descriptions is wait
ing for trains to carry them.
O'Banion creek at Loveland over
flowed that town in some places to a
depth of five feet. The Licking river
was still rising at IL o'clock tonight,
but was doing no damage in this vicin-
ity, and none so far as reported from
above.
Mill creek, the cause of the principal
trouble hereabouts, was falling at that
hour, and no further rise of that stream
is expected. During the afternoon,
however, Mill creek swamped consid-
cradle portion of Cumminsville, Ivory.
dale, Winton Place, Lindenwald and
many other towns of the valley. No
lives were lost, and the damage will
principally consist in the temporary
suspension of work in factories, the ac-
emulation of drift about these con-
Germs and the railroad track washouts.
At IL o'clock tonight the Ohio river
stage was 42 feet So inches and rising
IL inches per hour. It is expected that
before the danger line, - feet, is reached
the tide shall have begun to recede.
The damage from the Ohio so far has
been trifing in comparison to that Cd
the food of last week