The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-03-25
THE FLOODS FATALITIES
Fifteen Persona Drowned in the
49, Buckeye State.
HEAVY LOSSES TO RAILROADS
Nj lies of Track Submerged and En-
bankments Washed Away-The Sit
nation Now Improving, and Rail-
road Traffic Is Being Resumed.

bankments Washed Away-The Sit
nation 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 az inches <tang 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 of the Monon-
gahela, bring news of heavy rains
Wednesday night and Of rapidly ris-
ing river today. This is an assurance
thas the Ohio will have a protracted
high stage of water. 1t is also an
admonition that a prodigious flood may
be expected should the tributaries re-
ceve an accession of rain within two
or three days.
Reports from all quarters of the
Ohio valley are of drizzling rain and
cloudy skies. All up river towns re-
port the Ohio rising rapidly except
Wheeling, where It Is steady. Interior
towns In Ohio that have suffered in
undation and damage are finding re-
lief by the recession Of waters
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 Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Springman. GAINESVILLE
reports the drowning of the infant son
of Mrs. Charles Wuest and Of a man
known as Deacon" Jones, also of the
drowning by the upsetting Of a skiff
of Mrs. James Brennan and child and
John Leach and the drowning OF Mrs.
Mary Church and Timothy Jones. At
New Hagerstows. O., Samuel Hagey
and wife were drowned while crossing
swollen creek.
The railroad situation in the interior
of Ohio Is improving. Cities cut off
from the world Wednesday are today
getting trains out by repaired tracks
OF by detours over other roads
In Cincinnati the following Is the
railroad situation: No trains on the
Erie in OF out. The Cincinnati North
ern is IN the same predlcament. The
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern suf-
fers from a washout east of Chillicothe
and west at Medora, Ind. 1t keeps
trains moving east via Portsmouth and
Hamden ana west by New Albany 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.
A dispatch from Chillicothe says:
| The eastern part of the city is now
veritable sea, and fully GOO houses
are submerged The embankment on
which the Baltimore and Ohio South
western crossed the city park and
river gave way and In trice the park
became sea of muddy water The
break caused the water works power
house to shut down and the natural
gas mains to break, so that the sup
| ply Of gas Is shut eff. Soon arterward
two miles of the C. Fl. and y. track was
washed out. A trainload Of cinders
was sent out to repair the break, but
the trainmen had to run for their lives,
as 40 yards of the track suddenly sunk
from view. A Baltimore and Ohio
over Henick's Curve, and the water
was within six inches of the track.
The momentum of the train loosened
the bank. and had it 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 will easily
foot up to 100000. 1t is thought the
| worst Is over now.
An indianapolis dispatch says: Con-
servative railroad men estimate that
the loss to the Indianapolis line alone
because of the storm Will not be less
than $S00,000 including the loss OF
business, damage to tracks, damage tC
equipment and personal injuries. There
are fears that the bridge at Valley
junction will go out. Trains on that
! division of the Big Four are run from
| Indianapolis to Griffths and then over
the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
into Cincinnati. The Peoria and East
ern trains run as far as Arcanum, o.
on the east end. The west end is all
right, All trains on the Indianapolis
and Vincennes division of the Penn
sylvania road have been abandoned
and the passenger train at Martinvile
cannot be moved BY tomorrow after
noon ii 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 100000 the depreciation
in the value of property on the Wheel
ing Island is fully rs per cent, aggre,