Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-08

Cincinnati, Ohio, March THE end
of the big flood here is in sight, thanks
to the cold weather prevailing through
out the Ohio valley. 1t has cut off from
one and half to two feet of what
would have been the maximum flood at
Cincinnati had the weather prevailed
warm.
At 9 o'clock tonight the stage here
was Sc feet and inches, and rising at
the rate of one inch and a quarter hour
ly. Az all points above Marietta the
river tonight is falling. Between Mari
eta and Point Pleasant it is rising.
From Point Pleasant to Cincinnati 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. Unless the weather
changes that rise will never catch the
food at this point. On the same condi-
ton the river here will reach its max
imum of about 571a feet. All points
heard from below Cincinnati report the
river rising. From Huntington, W.
Va, up stream at nearly all points on
the river snow with brisk winds and
low temperature are reported. Navi-
CATION which was for while interrupt
ed was resumed on the Monongahela
to-day. Elsewhere navigation has not
at all been interrupted, though at some
points impeded by high winds.
At Portsmouth the Cincinnati, Ports
mouth and Virginia railway trains have
cen 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.
Business men in that city in the flood
ed regions are serene now that the
worst has passed. Huntington, w. Va,
reports great suffering on the Guy4n
river from people living in the low
lands who were driven from their
homes. A steamboat loaded with pro-
visions left Huntington for the relief of
those people to-day. 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 fam
lies have been driven from their homes
and have taken refuge in public build
fngs or with their friends, and should
the river rise to 571a feet twenty-five
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 entirely. In Cincinnati
all business affected by flooding of eel
lars has been amply protected from any
probable future danger. Dwellings, ex-
cept the low tenements in rat Row and
| Sausage Row have not been touched.
There is practically no interruption to
railroad traffic of any sort in Cincin-
natl. No trains, however, can now en-
ter the Grand Central depot. All these
trains, including the Big Four, the Bal
timore and Ohio and the Cincinnati
Southern receive passengers and freight
at their Eighth street depot, situated
little further west and clear above dan
ger. A few gardens in Mill Creek val
ley have been flooded, but most of them
are so much farther up that stream
than formerly as to be clear out OF
danger.