Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-27
PROSPECT Is GOOD FOR A MOST DIS
AsTROUs FLOOD.
FAR ABOVE THE DANGER LINE.
HEAVY RAIN LAST NIGHT MAKING
MATTERS WORSE.
Grand Central Depot at Cincinnati
Under Water-FlOod Likely to
Exceed the Record of 1854
-wabnsh River Also
Very High.

Cincinnati, O., March 26.-To-n1ght the
outlook for a great flood in the Ohio river
is almost disheartening. AS predicted last
Tuesday in these dispatches and reported
on Wednesday, when it reached that point,
the floor here touched the LANCER line of
forty-fve feet on Wednesday forenoon. The
total absence of definite news of the ter
rible extent of cloud bursts in the interior
of Ohio and Indiana demoralized all fore
casts. River men, who habitually under
estimate great floods. set the maximum of
the present one at ifty-one feet No one
was more surprised than they when the
river, at noon to-day, passed the ffty-five
foot mark here. ten feet above the danger
line and rising rapidly.
What with the appearance Of light rain
this afternoon, transformed tonight into a
heavy rain, they are filled with apprehen-
sion of a food record above the disastrous
one of 1854.
Ali depends upon the extent and severity
of this rain storm now coming from the
southwest.
Here in Cincinnati, merchants from Sec
ond street, and from West Plant street to
the river, are moving goods from inundated
cellars as rapidly as possible. with the
prospect of having to r-move them to the
second story. Street railroads are flooded
between Newport and Dayton, and between
Covingtcn and Ludlow, KY. River naviga-
ton is embarrassed here because of a food
ed landing. The only place for landing
goods is at the river and railway transfer
station in the West end. AS predicted in
these dispatches last night, the Grand Cen
trail depot has been flooded. so that no
trains can enter it since noon. trains en-
tering that depot all have emergency sta
tons outside which they are using.
Sixty feet of water here will not cut of
any railroad in Cincinnati from using its
own line. Sixty-one feet would cut the
Pennsylvania off. but it can make a detour
by the Cincinnati Northern and the Bal
timore G. Ohio Southwestern. The present
outlook is for fifty-nine and possibly sixty
feet on the present rise, without aid from
I the rainfall of tonight.
The railroad situation is much the same
as reported last night, allowing for some
| Improvement. All the embarrassed roads
| suffered all their damage from deluged
streams in the interior of Ohio and In
| diana. Repairs are going on with all posi-
BILE dispatch. Batting the gloom this rain
storm brings, the condition Of the homeless
in stricken interior cities Is improving. FRO
| vision for their relief has been generally
| and speedily made by neishbors..
The damage this far at Cincinnati has
the city are accustomed to annually. To
Rat row and Sausage row a flood is a
blessing, as it gives these low dens about
eH ~ get o's Gardeners on Mn creek sui
fer seriously, but they always recuperate
rapidly.
At 6 o'clock tonight the Ohio river was
Cairo. At 10 o'clock it was stationary ct
Gallipolis.. but rising rapidly at all points
from Catlettsburg to Cairo: At Cincin.
natl at 10 o'clock tonight it was IS 6-1O
feet and still rising one-tenth of a foot
hourly. This looks very much like sixty
feet will be reached by Monday, with a
contingency of an alarmingly greater rise,
conditioned upon the extent and duration
the Ohio river above Gallipolis report a
receding river.
Portsmouth. o., March 2s:.The Ohio river
inches and is rising one inch an hour. Near
ly 200 families have been driven out, and
the school buildings have been opened to
peake & Ohio On the south side Of the
Ohio. rave suspended all operations. Many
manufacturing plants are In the water:
and two rb feet ,amnsosrse viii n slSss DOWN ,n, all sIin Of
Clifford and Wakefield were broken by the
Scioto last night and 5000 acres of wheat
were destroyed.
locality promises to be the most disastrous
known for years. Medora Is entirely sub
merged. Traffic has been abandoned be-
s. W. mail and passenger trains from St.
Louis are transferred here to the Monon
road and go by way of Louisville to Gin
%cinnati. The water is about fourteen inches
higher than it was at any time last spring
and the worst is not yet.
Vincennes, Ind, March 2.-The flood sit
uation here has assumed an alarming
shape. The Wabash river is higher than
Indiana side. and BELGRADE levee, On the
Illinois side. have broken. flooding all low
a iand' pe aSeo Worked d ali ahff last aI nigh ha0 MOVING
stock and families to high land