The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-03-11
MORE FLOOD AT CINCINNATI.
Five Inches of Rainfall in Eighteen
Hours Caused Rise.

Cincinnati, O., March 5.-Five inches
of rainfall in eighteen hours preceding
noon today is the unprecedented record.
1t requires but little computation to show
what such downfall would do in caus.
ing sudden freshets. The marvellous sight
of floods ON high grounds met the aston.
lshed gaze of early risers this morning
in many places. Three-fifths of the rain
had fallen before a. M, and the rcsul.
was the leaping of water in all the little
streams never before witnessed. all the
roads coming into the city found their
lines paralyzed today by washouts or
oyerflows except the Louisville and Nash
vile, Queen and Crescent and the Gin
cinnati, Lebanon and Northern. At
Loveland the track was three feet under
water, something before never known.
BY noon there was perceptible fall,
and traffic was resumed.
Many small streams in the country
have overfowed, causing immense dam
age to growing crops Many counties
have suffered incalculable damage from
road tracks have been more or less dam
aged. Five bridges over the Little Miami
are reported swept away in Warren coun-
ty, in the vicinity of Morrow, South Le-
banon and Kings Mills. Near Washing
ton court house many bridges and cul-
verts are gone, and the farms resemble
lakes. Railway traffic there is suspend
ed. Near Newton, Hamilton county, on
the Little Miami river, farms that no
previous flood ever touched are reported
from six to ten feet under water. The
Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Virginia
Railway suffered a serious washout near
Batavia. AT all points above here, ex-
cept Pittsburg, the Ohio is reported sta
tionary or falling. Here at II o'clock
1t was reported forty-two feet nine inches
and rising an inch per hour
Dayton cellars are flooded and mer-
chants suffering loss from damaged goods.
Trains are four hours late in most cases
on account of washouts.
Springfield reports that all central Ohio
streams are swollen to an abnormal pro-
Kelly & Co. in that city were flooded
and had to be closed The Panhandle
has bridge at Xenia washed away.
The Big Four and Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton have their tracks covered
with four feet of wafer near Middleton.
AT SciOtO the river has oyerflowed it's
banks. The bridge on the Chicago and
Erie Railway gave way and fourteen cars
fell to the bottom of the creek. The
water is the highest there that it has been
for years. A report from st. Mary's says
caused the greatest food seen in that sec
ton for years. The lowlands are COM
pletely under water, the river and canal
flowing as one body. Many houses on
the canal and river banks, also the water
works pumps. are party submerged and
much damage has been done.
Sydney, o., reports the greatest storm
for fifteen years. The Miami river is out
of its banks and all the lower part of
that city is covered with water.
Many families have been compelled to
move out, and many are compelled to
reach their homes in boats A mile above
the city the canal is pouring over it's
banks in half a dozen places. 1t is fear
I'd that the bank will give way, in which
went thousands of dollars more damage
will be done. The water is still rising.
A portion of Lima is flooded and
number of families with their household
fleets have been obliged to move out,
While dozens of houses are moved from
heir foundation.
The Chicago and Erie and Lake Erie
md Western reports bad washouts