Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-08
GREAT FLOOD IS THREATENED
Conditions Point to Bad Season for
Mississippi Valley.
COLD WEATHER MAY HOLD IT BACH
ohio River IN out of It's Banks from
Cincinnati to PaducRh and is
SIN steadily Rising
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MEMPHIS, March "A special to the
Commercial Appeal from Cairo, ILL.,, says:
The conditions today look more favorable
for a great flood in the Mississippi valley
this year than they have at any other
period so far this season and the next few
days will determine the result. Observer
Smith of the weather bureau today said l.
There is sufficient water in sight to give
a stage on the present rise of from forty
to forty five feet The same stages at points
above previous years have caused
great deal more water than the figures
above given, but the cold weather is to be
reckoned with and may hold back the flood.
The Ohio is out of it's banks from Cincinnati
to Paducah and is steadily rising and so
are the Wabash, Cumberland and Tennessee
The river here will remain nearly stationary
for a day or two, until the big rise re-
ported at Cincinnati yesterday reaches here.
The weather indications for tomorrow are
warm with rain, which will If general be
sure to give some more water"
Cincinnati Fares We'll.
CINCINNATI, March THE end of the
big flood here is in sight, thanks to the cold
weather prevailing throughout the Ohio val
ley. 1t has cut off from one and half to
two feet of what would have been the max
imum flood at Cincinnati had the weather
prevailed warm
Suffering by people driven from their
homes in Charleston continues. Several
water soaked dwellings on East Front street
have been lifted off their foundations by the
winds. Business men in that city In the
flooded regions feel now that the worst has
passed.
Huntington, W. Va, reports great suffer-
ing the lfuyan river nyinp
in the lowlands, who were driven from their
homes.
A steamboat loaded with provisions left
Huntington for the relief of those people to-
day. Central City, a small place above
Huntington, is great sufferer from the
flood
At Newport, KY, opposite here, one street
car line has been flooded so as to stop the
running of cars. Fifty families have been
driven from their homes and have taken
refuge in public buildings or with their
friends and should the river rise to 57h
feet, 250 more families will be driven out
OF their homes. No business houses in
Newport have been affected. Covington is
more fortunate and has escaped Almost en-
tirely. In Cincinnati all business affected by
flooding Of cellars has been amply protected
from any probable future danger. Dwell
ings. except the low teuements in Rat Row,
and Sausage Row, nave not been touched
There is practically no interruption to rail-
road traffic of any sort in Cincinnati. All
,rair-, ihciuilns the big Feal, Baltimore a.
Ohio and Cincinnati Southern, receive pas
sengers and freight at the Eighth street
depot, situated little further west and
clear above danger
TOLEDO o.. March THE worst snow
blockade of the season came this morning
and it was not until noon that the city street
cars reached the ends of the lines The Toll
edo & Maumee Valley railroad is completely
blockaded. Snow is drifted three to four
feet deep.