The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-08
NANY ARE HOMELESS
GREAT SUFFERING DUE TO FLOODS
REPORTED FROM TOWNS ON
GUAM RIVER
END THOUGHT TO BE IN SIGHT
Gold weather Throughout the Ohio
Valley May Have the Effect OF
Cutting of What Would Have
Been The Maximum Flood at Gin
cinnati-SnOw Storms In the
west Blockade Railroads.

CINCINNATI. March 1.-THE end of
the big flood here is in sight, thanks
to he cold weather prevailing through
cut the OhiJ valley. 1t has cut Off FROM
half TO two feet of what would have
been the maximum flood at Cincinnati
had the weather continued warm.
Al 9 O'Clock tonight the mark WAS
fifty-siX feet and eight inches, rising at
the rate of one inch and "a quarter
hourly At all points above Marietta
tonight the river is falling. Between
Marietta and Point Pleasant 1t is rlS-
ing. From Point Pleasant to Cincin-
natl it is falling at intermediate
points, except at Manchester sixty
miles above here, where it is rising
slowly. The swell between Marietta
and Point Pleasant is from the outpour
of the Monongahela at PittSburg. In
less the weather changes, that rise VIII
never catch the flood at this, point. On
the same condition the river here will
reach its maximum of about 571a feet.
All points heard from below Cincin-
natl report the river rising. From
Huntington, w. Va, up stream, at
nearly all points on the river, snow,
with brisk winds and low temperature,
is reported
Navigation. which was for a while
interrupted was resumed on the Mo-
ton has not at all been interrupted,
though at some points impeded by high
winds.
At Portsmouth the Cincinnati, Ports
mouth & Virginia railway trains have
been stopped by floods on the track
and washouts. Suffering by people
driven from their homes in that city
continues. Several small dwellings in
the Water-soaked districts on East
Front street have been lifted off their
foundations by the winds.
MANY MADE HOMELESS.
Huntington, w Va, reports great
suffering on CUBAN river by people liv-
Ing in the lowlands, who were driven
from their homes. A steamboat load
ed with provisions left Huntington for
the relief of those people today.
Central City, a small place above
Huntington, is a 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 pub
lie buildings or with their friends, and
should the river rise to 571a feet TWEEN
ty-five more families would be driven
out Of their homes. No business hous :
es in Newport have been affected Gov
ingtOn is more fortunate and has es-
capped almost entirely.
In Cincinnati all business affected by
flooding of cellars has been amply pro-
tected from any probable future dan
ger. Dwellings,, except the low tene-
ments in Rat row and Sausage row,
have not been touched. There is prac-
tically no interruption to railroad traf-
f1c of any sort in Cincinnati. No
trains, however. can now enter the
Grand Central depot. All these trains,
including the Big Four, the Baltimore
& Ohio and the Cincinnati Southern,
receive passengers and freight at their
Eighth street depot situated little
further west and clear above danger
A few gardens in Mill creek valley
have been flooded. but most of them
are so much further up stream than
formerly as to be clear out of danger