New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-25
OHIO RIVER BOOMING.
JEWELLERS ALONG IT'S BANKS DRIVEN
FROM THEIR HOMES.
HIGH WATER At crNcrNNATI-FURNACE FIRES
EXTINGUIsHED AND SCHOOLS Closed
MANY PEOPLE DROWNED IN

MANY PEOPLE DiDNNED Nv
THE FLOODS
Cincinnati Feb 24-The Ohio River is still
rising AZ the rate Of two inches an hour. which
has been the rate for the last twelve hours. AT >
o'clock tonight - feet inches was the stage
Although the river is falling at Pttsburg. 1t
will take until Friday Saturday for the crest
Of the rise to pass here under the most favor
able circumstances. The sixty-foot stage VIII
he reached early tomorrow morning. The gym
nasium grounds the baseball park the Ludlow
Lagoon and Coney Island are all more or less
under water The extensively constructed Gest-
St tunnel and bridge being rapidly under
mined and in great danger
Forty families applied at one charitable IN
stiution to-day for relief. account of high
water driving them from home. The suburbs OF
Dayton and Bellevue have been cut off from
streetcar connection al Newport, and travel Is
now by 1atboats.
The western part Of Newport is SUFFERING
greatly The police reported at o'clock to-
night that over one hundred families had been
driven from their homes by the water and that
the sixty-foot stage expected by morning. would
reach as many more. The police force Of New
port is largely occupied in patrolling the sub
merged districts in skiTs and seeing that all des-
titute are provided with food and shelter.
In Covington about twenty-five families moved
out At Riverside the Town Hall has been
opened for food sufferers. but only few have
asked for it's shelter There have been some
narrow escapes from drowning. but no fatalities
at all.
At the rolling mill of the Riverside Steel Works
the water is nearly to the furnace fires. All the
railroad companies whose trains enter the Grand
Central Station have established temporary
! quarters. and the station is abandoned.
Bellaire. Ohio. Feb. 24-The Ohio River is still
rising here about four inches an hour All low
| lands are now covered The Pittsburg, Ohio
Valley and Cincinnati; Cleveland, Lorraine and
| Wheeling; Bellaire. GAINESVILLE and Cincinnati
railroads and Bellaire. Bridgeport and Martins
Ferry Street Railway are under water Trains
will no. reach here before tomorrow on the
! above roads.
Word comes from Powhatan. Clarington. Pipe
! Creek and other places that a large number Of
houses are submerged. and the suffering among
the people is terrible. Tie Bellaire Steel Com
nanv's stock houses are flooded and the furnace
| shut down. throwing many employees out Of
| work Other manufacturers NAY have TO close
down. and the damage will be heavy 49,
! Huntington. w Va Feb. 1.-THE OHIO River
is still rising and the water is five feet deep on
! several of the avenues here. In Central city
| this evening a number Of dwellings in the west
! end were washed away by the strong current,
! and every hour brings news OF startling damage
| in all suburban towns. Electric plants are
flooded schools are closed and hundreds OF the
| poor are occupying public buildings: NO traihs
| have arrived on the Norfolk and Western for
/ four days. and over the Ohio River Rail-
| road for twenty-fOur hours.
Louisville. Ky. Feb. 24-Reports OF loss OF
| life in the Eastern Kentucky flood continue 10
come in James NJ Morgan. wife and chlldreh'
| were drowned in Floyd County by the oVernoW-
ing of Beaver Creek, which DESTROYED tnelr
home Elder Morton. Mormon missionary
was drowned near Mount Elkhorn. An unknown
woman was drowned in Leslie County. ana IN
| Jackson County Henry HOcomb lest his Ire
| while trying To ford stream
At Barboursville the Cumberland River mas
forced a third OF the population 10 move out.
! The Ohio is expected 10 come 10 stand here TO-
| night.
The river has reached the Opera House ana
Falls View hotels. Fourth-st. IN TINS city
! and the lower portion of Shipping Port Is under
water. It is thought the rise will go TO twenty
nine feet This will flood 100 ousiress houses.