The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-02-26
RAGING RIVER.
The Flood in the Ohio is Assuming
Alarming Proportions.
The Monographs at McKeesport, Pa. the
Highest Ever Known-But Little
Water Coming Out of the Allie
gheny-Rising at Louisville.

MCKEEsPoRT, Pa, Feb. 24.-Both
the Monongahela and Youghiogheny
rivers at this point have overhowed
their banks and the streets and all the
houses in the lower portion of the city
are inundated. At 2 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon the Monographs river was
90 inches higher than it ever was be-
fore and was still rising at the rate
of four inches an hour. All the mills
and factories in the flooded district
are submerged and operations sus-
pended Several houses have been
moved from their foundations and
many stables and outbuildings have
been carried away.
No lives have been reported lost,
but narrow escapes have been made
by people who have been removed from
second and third stories of their homes
The situation is serious, and the loss
in this city alone, it is now believed,
will reach 100000
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 24.-The Mo-
nongahela river was in a raging tor
rent Tuesday morning. The land
marks of the stream are completely
obliterated by the volume and rush of
the angry waters, and the locations of
the several dams are only traceable by
the eddies.
Throughout the Monongahela val
ley all river traffic has been suspended.
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 24.-At midnight
the river was 90 feet and falling slowly.
Many industrial esta blishments up the
Monongahela will be compelled to
close the balance of the week on ac-
count of the high water. Forty
barges belonging to w. 81. Browns
All the steamboats, in the vicinity went
to the rescue and the barges were
safely towed to shore without serious
damage.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 24-The Ohio river
is rapidly rising
Reports from all points on the upper
Ohio indicate that heavy rains have
fallen in the last "a hours and all the
tributaries are pouring immense vol
umes of water INTO the Ohio, and un-
less the weather shall freeze the water.
laden ground, the stage of water at
Cincinnati may reach go feet or more.
Rat Row and Sausage Row are al
ready inundated and the water is near
ly to the pavements on Front street
The large tobacco warehouses on
Front street are full of water to the
first floor, but the stock of tobacco had
been moved out on Monday. So far
there has been but little loss at these
| places.
The wharfboats at the public land
ing are anchored nearly up to the Pan
handle tracks, and rise of five feet
more will stop all packets from pass
ing under the L. & n. railroad bridge.
At 2:3O p. m. the water had over
flowed the ditch through which the B.
& o. S. w. and Big Four trains pass to
the Grand Central depot There was
about two inches covering perhaps 40
J feet of track, but the trains were still
running. A stage of little over 55
feet will shut trains out from the Cen
trail depot.
CINCINNATI Feb. "a The end of the
food is in sight. By Friday the river
at Cincinnati is expected to be falling
again, but not before it reaches stage
of from 80 to 60 feet. The highest
|
Wednesday night, when the swell now
coming down from Pittsburgh should
reach here. The stage of the river at
8 o'clock Wednesday morning was $500
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 24.-The Ohio
river has risen eight and one-half feet
here since Monday morning and is
still rising at the rate of three inches
an hour. The stage of water on the
falls is 81 feet, and it is expected to
reach 81 feet, which will flood the river
front.
under water. The damage is esti-
mated at $25, 600.
The damage from the flood in South
eastern Kentucky is estimated at $500,
600. The Kentucky river rose 40 feet
in two hours, and in the mountain
country swept everything before it.
The Cumberland river destroyed al
property in the bottom land of Harlan
county. Near Donkeyville, Jonas Ty.
rec was caught in Powell river and
drowned.
son the Kentucky river flooded the
arlington nOC61 anu OrOK6 Cnre0 log
booms, letting out 5000 logs Abe
Reed, colored, was drowned while try.
ing to save them.
Beattyville is reported flooded but
the wires are down and the tracks Of
the Richmond, Nicholasville. Irvine
and Beattyville railroad are washed
away for considerable distance, rend
ering communication impossible.
The town of Farmer is under water
Fifty thousand logs have been lost in
the Big Sandy valley. The mountain
streams are full of wrecks of cabin:
and barns of the mountainers. The
Ohio is still rising here with % feet or
the falls, but no serious danger is APP
pretended, owing to the cold wave
which arrived Tuesday.
/ Salyersville, East Point and AbideeY
are almost entirely submerged. The
lower portion of Maysville is under
water.
At Bristol, Tenn, Tuesday morning
a flood poured down the valley anC