The record-union., 1897-02-23
The Ohio and It's Tributaries Running
at High Flood Tide.
Hore Than Twenty-Five Families
Forced to Flee From Their Homes
in GalIatin County, Kentucky, or
Account of the FloOds-Cumber-
land, naryland, in Danger of Being
Flooded.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22-A Cumber-
land, Md, special to the 'Evening
Star" says:
The heavy rain of last night has
swollen the Potomac River and Wills
Greek so that there are grave fears of
this city being flooded. The waters all
ueady have overlooked their banks and
people living i'm the vicinity are COM
peeled to move out. The railway tracks
at Hindman are covered by four feet of
water and all trains are stopped. The
trains of the West Virginia Central are
delayed, and teleguaphic coTnmunica-
tiOn is cunt off. The waters are rising
at the rate of two feet an hour.
CINCINNATI (O0, Feb. 22.-For
seventy-two hours, up to I O'Clock to-
night, steady rain has fallen over the
entire area of the immense watershed
of the Ohio Valley, with the exception
of mountainous portions of Western
New York and Western Pennsylvania,
where the telegraph reports report
rains tonight. Here it is still drizzling
from black sky that threatens heavy
rainfall before morning, in which case
conditions for a great flood would be
present.
On both sides of the Ohio. on the Big
Sandy the boundary between West
Virginia and Kentucky, the tributaries
are at high flood tide. The mountains
at the head of the Kentucky. Cumber-
land and Tennessee Rivers are deliver
ing into these great tributaries with
graf rapiduy floods of melted snow and
rain, and filling the lower Ohio. All
the tributaries on the left bank of the
Ohio in Pennsylvania rise in the noun
tains, and there, too, the delivery Of
rainfall and melted snow is very rapid.
Should the rain cease before morning
the food at this point viii probably
stop within the fifty-five-fOOt mark,
which would cause no great fnconVen-
ience. Should a heavy rainfall occur
over a considerable area of the Ohio
Valley there is 20 predicting what stage
the water would reach at Cincinnati.
Rain has been falling almost con-
stantly since Friday night, accOmpa
MED at times with thunder and light
ming. The result will be a considerable
rise in the Ohio River. Dispatches to
the "Times-Star'' show the Big Sandy
River is booming. Three inches Of
rain have fallen in the past forty-eight
hours. and thousands of logs and rail-
road ties are being carried away. A still
further rise will follow last nights
heavy rains up the Sandy. At Hunt
ington the Guyandotte River is higher
than for several years, with a still
greater rise to come. A great many
logs are washed into the Ohio River.
The streams up the Kanawha River
are also rising rapidly. bringing down
great quantities of timber and railroad
ties.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 22.-The Times"
has the following advices to-day from
the flooded districts in the State:
Sparta (Ky)-Charles HOlton, the
nineteen year-ofd son of ]. w. Holton
of this county, was drowned in the
floods following the terrific rains Of the
past two days. Others are reported
missing, and more than twenty-five
families We're compelled to fee from
their houses by the rising waters of
Eagle Creek. The water is eight feet
deep in the houses along the creek and
the loss in cattle and hogs has been
great
Richmond Ky.)-The heavy rains
have caused great damage out in the
country, the flood being the worst in
fifteen years.
Stanton CKy.)-Red River is out Of it's
banks. and the Louisville and Nashville
train from Jackson could go no farther
than this place last night, the water
completely submerging the tracks.
Charleston CIV. Va.)-The rainfall