Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-03-06

Still Raining - All the SE a IL
Streams Have Become Raging
Torrents, and They Are Doing
Enormous Damage-Trains Are
Delayed by Washouts and Flood
ed Tracks-Heavy Rains in Indi-
ana Also.
Cincinnati, O., March 5.-Fiye inches
of rainfall in eighteen hours preceding
noon to-day is the unprecedented rec
ord made to-day. 1t requires but little
computation to show what such a
downfall would do in producing sud
den freshets. The marvellous sight OF
floods on high grounds met the aston
ished gaze Of early risers this morn
ing in many places. Three-ffths Of
the rain had fallen before q. M,
and the result was a leaping OF waters
in all the little streams never before
witnessed. All the roads coming into
the city found their lines paralyzed by
washouts or overnows, except the Lou
isvile & Nashville, Queen q Crescent
and the Cincinnati, Lebanon & North
ern. At Loveland the track was four
feet under water, something never
known before BY night, however,
there was a perceptible fall and soon
all the streams will run down.
Rain here from dark last night until
noon to-day poured down depth of five
inches in round numbers. It was steady
downpour for eighteen hours. Fortunate
ly the storm turned northward at this
point. instead of going up the Ohio valley
and producing an unprecedented flood. At
Maysviue Ky. sixty miles above, it VAS
light. and beyond that city was not worth
mentioning. News from all points north
and west Of Cincinnati, reports unprece-
dented floods in small streams, causing
great destruction to fields OF wheat and
barley. Fields in Preble, Bu,le., Warren
and Hamilton counties. Ohio and iE Dear
born. Union and Franklin couuIes, Ind
have suffered incaIculable damage frcm IN
undation. Bridges. turnpikes aud rallroad
nus have been more or less damaged.
Bridges over the Little Miami are rCpor,-
ed swept away in Warren county, In the
vicinity of Morrow, South Lebanon ana
Kings Mills. At Camden Preble, county.
all railroad traffic is stopped on account OF
washouts. Near Washington Court House,
Fayette county. many bridges and cul-
verts are gone and the farms resemble
lakes Railway traffic there is suspended.
Near Newtown. Hamilton county. on the
Little Miami river. farms that no previous
flood ever touched are reported from SIX
10 ten feet under water, The Cincinnati
Portsmouth q Virginia railroad suffered
a serious washout near Batavia. At all
points above here except Pittsburg. the
Ohio is reported stationary OF falling.
Here at II o'clock it was reported A feet
9 inches and rising one inch per hour.
CINCINNATI. o.. March 5.-An unc=-
pected and unprecedented rainfall here
has given rise TO disagreeable forebodings
of another flood in the Ohio river. The
able rains the latter part of the week.
In fact. rain began TO fall at $3.50 last
night and during the early morning 1t as
sumed the form of a cloudburst, so that
at : IT, m. the rainfall registered three
inches. After o'clock the rainfall kept
up heavily, with lightning and thunder
and about a. m. the fal was about four
inches The result has been a sudden
swelling of all the little streams. and there
will certainly be a rise in the Miami and
Licking rivers. which will Immediately
swell the Ohio at this point. Already
great damage has been done TO the gar
dens along Mill creek which is a raging
torrent Both the steam railroad and cleo
tric line to College Hiu are closed on &C
count OF flooded tracks.
Reports come in of losses. The town of
LockIand. O.. is inundated At Cummins>
VILE. in the northern part of the city the
food is doing more harm than the recent
high water Of the ohio. because the latter
was still backwator while this is raging
torrent. Houses weakened by the Ohio
river flood are being moved from their
foundations by this overflow All small
streams are raging torrents and the rain
stM falls heavily. while i'm Cincinnati the
low-lying smoke produces an almost inky
blackuess. The Ohio river IS rising rapid
ly. seven inches an hour.
Cant. Bass,er. of the weather bureau.
saws the rain is general from the Missis-
sippi valley to the Allegheny range, and is
heaviest in Illinois. Indiana and Western
Ohio. II does not affect yet the southern
tributaries Of the Ohio, but all the north
ern tributaries will rise rapidly and the
river at this point viii undoubtedly reach
the danger line. o. feet. The rain is likely
TO continue an day and tonight. IL is
not possible now 20 make an accurate pre-
dicuou concerning the food hut capt.
Bass,er does not see yet amy cause for
alarm.
Great loss has been caused throughout
the country about Cincinnati from the
overflow OF small streams. Such cloud
aurst has rarely been seen and its effects
are heightened by the continual downpour
of rain.
80 trains have arrived ON the Big -Four.
on account of landslide at Tautm3u's
station. which carried away part OF the
track ana covered other parts. Many
houses ia that vicinity are threatened.
Arter,ou- Ferry is inundated from sur
fa.e Ho03 causing more loss than Tire
high water of the Ohio river. Au tie
houses Oh ,he river front are in d-r-e-.
North OF the city ,he flood is beyond p-e-
ceJent
The news. -er yrain on The Bal-fmor, 81
Ohio SoathW esteru ran into wlsrout ~
Cochran. Ind The engine and tender