The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-24
RUSH OF THE RAGING RIVERS.
KENTUCKY THE SCENE OF THE
GREATEST DAMAGE.

Several Lives Lost in Various Parts
of . the State-COnsiderabIe Live
Stock Also Swept AVvay-The Ken
tucI<y River Rises Forty Feet i'm
Two Hours in the Mountain COun-
try and sweeps Everything Before
It-ThOusands of Logs Swept Away.
The Ohio Up Eight and One-Half
Feet at Louisville.
Louisville, Ky, Feb. 23.-The Ohio river
has risen eight and a half feet here since
yesterday morning and still rising at the
rate of three inches an hour. The stage
of water on the falls is twenty-five feet,
and it is expected to reach twenty-seven
feet, which will flood the river front.
Two-thirds of the town of Corbin is un-
der water. The damage is estimated at
$4,000.
The flood damage in Southeastern Ken
lucky is estimated at $4,000.
The Kentucky river rose forty feet in
two hours in the mountain country and
swept everything before it.
The Cumberland river destroyed all the
property in the bottom lands of Harlan
county. Near Donkeyyille, Jonas Tyree
was caught in Powell river and drowned.
At Jackson the Kentucky river flooded
the Arlington hotel and broke through the
log booms letting out 5000 logs. Abe Reed,
colored, was drowned while trying to
save them.
Beattyvile is reported flooded. but the
wires are down and the tracks of the
Richmond, Nicholasville, Irvine and Beat
tyville railroad are washed away for a
considerable distance, rendering commu-
nieation 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 cabins and barns of the mountaineersN
Salyersville. East Point and Abideen are
almost entirely submerged. The lower por-
ton of Maysville is under water.
At Bristol Tenn, this morning, flood
poured down the valley and but for the
blowing of alarm whistles several families
would have perished. The damage is 3d.
0Oe
Frankfort, KY, Feb. 2S.-Streams in
Kentucky are clear out of their banks
and doing immeasurable damage. Several
people have been drowned in various parts
of the state. Much stock has been lost,
fencing swept away and other property
almost ruined. The streams all through
the mountains are higher than for years,
and the greatest damage is feared.
In Perry, Knett, Letcher and Breathit
counties the flood Is doing much damage.
Jameson, the county seat of the, latter
county, Is partly under water.
Beattyville, which is at the junction of
the Three Forks of the Kentucky river,
the rise has been unusually rapid, and
much valuable property has been swept
away.
Among the heaviest losers in the noun
tains are the lumber men, who have lost
thousands of dollars worth of timber.
At Middlesboro yesterday a cloudburst
deluged the locality. drowning James
Charwell, his wife and four children.
All but two blocks OF Pineville, KY, is
covered, while a number of little towns
along the North Fork of the Kentucky
river are under water. The people have
been forced to seek shelter on the noun
tains.
Reports from Jackson and other places
up the North Fork say there has been
considerable loss of life and property. Mrs.
Hutsell and her little daughter were
drowned in their house, which was wash
ed from the mountain side in Breathitt
county last night. Two men whose names
could not be learned were drowned in one
of the streams in Belle county.