Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-27
FLOOD AT ClNCINN ATT.
Sixty Feet of Water Expected from Prcseno
Indications, With a Rainstorm In fros-

Sixty Feet of Water Expecte d from Prcseho
Indications, With a Rainstorm In Eros.
pect.
Cincinnati, Ohio, March 26.-To-
night the outlook for a great hood ID
the Ohio river is almost disheartenlng.
AS predicted last Tuesday, it reacneu
that point that the flood becomes dan
gerous, 40 feet, on Wednesday after
noon. The total absence OF definite
news of the terrible extent OF cloud
bursts in the interior Of Ohio and In
diana demoralized all forecasts. River
men, who habitually underestimate
great floods, set the maximum OF the
presen tone at 81 feet. None were
more surprised than they when the
river at noon to-day passed the So
foot mark here, ten feet above the
danger line and rising rapidly. what
with the appearance of light rain this
afternoon transformed tonight into
heavy rain, they are filled with appre-
hension of flood above the disastrous
one of 1884. All depends upon the ex-
tent and severity Of the rain storm
now coming from the southwest.
Here in Cincinnati, merchants from
Second street and from West Pearl
street to the river are moving their
goods from inundated cellars as rapidly
as possible, with the prospect Of hav-
ing to remove them to the second
story. Street railroads are flooded
between Newport and Dayton, and be-
tween Covington and Ludlow, Ky. Riv-
er navigation is embarrassed here be-
cause of flooded landing. The only
place for landing goods is at the river
and railway transfer station in the
West End. AS predicted in these dis
patches last night, the Grand Central
depot has been flooded so that no
trains can enter it since noon. Trains
entering that depot all have emer-
gency stations outside which they are
using.
Sixty feet Of water will not cut off any
railroaa in Cincinnati from using its own
line, 81 feet would cut the Pennsylvania
off. The present outlook is for 50 and
possibly 60 feet ON the present rise with
out aid from the rainfall of tonight.
The railroad situation is much the same
as reported last allowing for some i'm
provement. Ali the embarrassed roads
suffered all their damage from deluged
streams in the interior Of Ohio and Indi-
ana. Repairs are going on with all pos
sible dispatch. Barring the gloom that
this rain storm brings, the condition of
the homeless in stricken interior cities is
improving. Provisions for their relief
have been generously ana speedily made
by their neighbors.
The damage thus far AT Cincinnati has
been what the people OF the flooded part
OF the city are accustomed. To Rat Row
and Sausage Row a flood is a blessing,
1t gives these places about the only house
cleaning they ever get.
At o'clock Tonight the Ohio river was
rising at all POINTS from Gallipohs to
Cairo. At 10 o'clock tonight it was sta
tionary at Gallipolis, but rising rapidly at
all points from Catlettsburg to Cairo. At
Cincinnati, at Il o'clock tonight it was
561s feet and still rising one-tenth
hourly This looks very much like 60
feet Monday with a contingency of an
alarmingly created rise conditioned upon
the extent ano duration Of the present
rain storm. All points on the Ohio river
above Gallapolis report a receding river.