The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-03-31
OHIO RIVER FLOOD.
At Cincinnati SO Feet and 8 Inches
Was Reached Monday.
In the Lowlands of the City Nearly One
Thousand Houses are Flooded With
From One to -Four Feet of Water
Railroad Tranio Il Disturbed.

CINCINNATI, March 2s-Unless rain
should come copiously and quickly,
the present flood in the Ohio river will
very soon pour the great food into the
Mississippi. From Portsmouth up il
was falling Sunday night At Ports
mouth it is rising slowly At all
points below to Cairo it is rising.
Here at Cincinnati the current is un.
usually swift, which indicates that the
access of water from its tributaries
below has diminished greatly and given
free course TO the piled up waters
above. Reports from various points
of the Ohio valley agree in announcing
warm temperature, cloudy skies and
high winds with only one instance of
drizzling rain.
At Cincinnati the mercury registers
SO. In the lowlands OF Cincinnati
nearly 1000 houses are flooded with
from one to four feet of water. Some
have been abandoned, which is the
case with one story cottages. In two
story houses families remain in the
upper stories OF flooded houses 500
are in and about Cumminsvile from
back water in Mill creek where the in
undation is more annoying than seri-
Gus. In and about Columbia, the ex-
treme up-river limit of the city. 400
houses are soaked with from one to
four feet of water
At Riverside, the extreme down.
stream limit of the city, 100 houses are
affected about as at Columbia. Those
driven out find no difficulty in securing
shelter with their more fortunate
neighbors, though some occupy tents
on high ground. Household effects
Manageable by water have either been
saved by timely removal or by
friendly boats. Nearly all affected
are experienced food fighters and are
seldom caught mapping when great
rise comes down the Ohio On the
Kentucky side the inhabitants of low
lands near Dayton and Bellevue have
been placed in the same unpleasant
situation as their Cincinnati neigh
bors. But most of them have seen
floods before and know how to
make the best of them. No railroads
in Cincinnati have been disturbed by
the flood, except that some have been
deprived of the use of the Grand Cen
depot.
Thus far no casualties have been re-
ported. Interruption to street car
travel has been almost nothing, a, it
was either near the end OF line or ut
a point where passengers could trans.
fer by short walk. The railroads are
all in better condition. The Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton is clear on
all its line, also the Pennsylvania.
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
is still compelled TO make detours east
and west, but this will soon be over as
repairs are pushed with all possible
dispatch. The Cincinnati, George.
town and Portsmouth were compelled
to make transfers in the east end of
Cincinnati Sunday. All other roads
are practically intact. OF course there
will be some loss and damage to
people driven out of their homes, in
the way of loss of time as well as OF
but it will be reduced to the
minimum. Merchants and commission
brokers in the bottoms removed their
goods to dry spots without loss. Very
few factories of consequence have
been interrupted or stopped. Small
boats continue TO com, and
go and navigation will be
fully resumed by Monday or Tuesday.
At 10 o'clock Sunday night the stage
here was 50 4.1O feet. Between and
D o'clock it has remained stationary.
1t will probably stop at SO feet an
nine inches, and by Monday noon will
be falling.