The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-03-25
THn FLOODS FATALITIES
Fifteen Persons Drowned in the
Buckeye State,
HEAVY LOSSES TO RAILROADS.

Miles OF Track Submerged and Em-
bnnkments Washed Away-The sit
uatlon Now Improving. and Rail-
road Traffic Is Being Resumed.
Cincinnati. March 25-At 10 o'clock
last night the Ohio river at Cincinnati
registered 81 feet 2la inches, rising an
inch an hour. This was rise of six
inches between and 10 O'Clock The
mercury registers "A, with tendency
to rise. Reports from northern west
Virginia, at the sources If the Monon-
gahela. bring news of heavy rains
Wednesday night and Of a rapidly ris-
ing river today This is an assurance
that the Ohio viii have a protracted
high sta.e of water. It is also an
admonition that a prodlgious flood may
be expected should the tributaries re-
ceive an accession of rain within two
or three days.
Reports from all quarters of the
Ohio valley are Of drizzlng rain and
cloudy skies. All up river towns re-
port the Ohio rising rapidly except
Wheeling, where 1t is steady. Interior
towns in Ohio that have suffered in
undation and damage are finding re-
Loss Of life is reported at Hamilton.
O., where the great Miami swept away
two cottages and drowned six inmates,
namely, Mrs. Charles whitman and
her three small children and Gr. and
Mrs Charles Springman. GAINESVILLE
reports the drowning of the infant son
Of Mrs. Charles Wuest and of man
known as Deacon" Jones, also of the
Z rft.Fs l.,s fl4.. Ace
Of Mrs, James Brennan and child and
John Leach and the drowning Of Mrs.
Mary Church and Timothy Jones. At
New Hagerstown, o., Samuel Hagey
and wife were drowned while crossing
a swollen creek
The railroad situation i'm the interior
Of Ohio is improving. Cities cut off
from the world Wednesday are today
getting trains out by repaired tracks
or by detours over other roads,
In Cincinnati the following is the
railroad situation: No trains on the
Erie in or out. The Cincinnati North
ern is in the same predicament. The
Baltimore and Ohio South western suf-
feuS from a Uashoul east off Chilli.oJhe
and west at Medora. Ind. II keeps
trains moving east via Portsmouth and
the Monon. The Pennsylvania is open
to Columbus and the east. The Gin
natl, Hamilton and Dayton is cut off
from Toledo and Detroit only The
Big -Four has restored communication
with indianapolis. Chicago and ST.
Louis. All other roads from here are
unscathed.
\ dispatch from Chulcothe says:
FsYrr
a vcHtable sea and fully 600 houses
are submerged. The emhankment on
which the Baltimore and Chic Sou.h-
western crossed the city park and
river gave way, and in a trice the park
became a sea Of muddy water. The
break caused the water works power
house TO shut down ana the natural
gas mains to break so that the sup
ply Of gas is shut Cn. Soon auvrWarj
two miles Of the c. II and ~ track was
washed out \ train}oad OF ciudcrs
was sent out to repair The break, but
the trainmen had to run for their lives,
as 10 yards Of the track suddenly sunk
from view. \ Baltimore and Ohiu
Northwestern passenger train passed
over Heuick's Curve, and The water
was within six inches of the track.
the bank, and had ii not been for a
boy who tagged the train with his
handkerchief, a terrible wreck would
have occurred. A new $4,000 steel
| bridge was also washed away 1t is
estimated that the damage viii easily
foot up to s500OOO 1t is thought the
worst is over now.
An Indianapolis dispatch says Con-
/
the loss to the indianapolis line alone
because of the storm VIII not be less
than sSOO,OOO including the loss oe
| business, damage to tracks, damage to
| equipment aud personal injuries. There
are fears that the bridge at Valley
Junction win go out. Trains on that
division of the Big -Four are run from
| Indianapolis to Grinths and then over
| the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
! into Cincinnati. The Peoria and East
ern trains run rs far as Arcanum, O.
| on the east end. The west end is an
right, All trains on the indianapolis
and Vincennes division Of the Penn
! sylvania road have been abandoned
and the passenger train at Martluville
| cannot be moved by tomorrow after
noon it is thought that all trains viii
/ be running again.
| AT Wheeling the damage is very
| heavy. Outside of an aggregate loss
| Of not less than 500 600 the depreciation
| in the value of property on the Wheel
/ ing Island is fully % per cent, aggre-
eating }55oooo
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