Evening star., 1899-03-07
Suburb of Richmond, Va, SUBJ
merged by the James River.
Ohio RISING FAST At CINCINNATI
Kentucky River Carries Out a
Fortune in Logs.
STU CATION AT CHARLESTON
.necin1 nisnntch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
RICHMOND, Va. March I.-Richmond
is again visited by flood and storm. The
river has invaded all the lower part of the
city. flooding Main, Cary and other streets
in that district
Newtown, a suburban negro settlement in
a valley running up from the river is COM
pleteIy inunda ted, only the chimneys of the
houses showing.
The fires have been shut out in the city
gas works by the rising tide. and Richmond
will be without gas lights tonight.
The flood is higher than the great freshet
of 1889. Owing to the advance warnings
by the Chesapeake and Ohio road whose
line parallels the river. much damage was
averted All traffic is suspended on that
line today.
1t commenced showing here at midnight
last night. and a repetition of last months
blizzard was threatened. The snow is
badly drifted and the street car lines are
being cleared with horsepower snow
plows. The flood is at its height and
the storm shows signs of abatement.
Ohio Rising Fast.
CINCINNATI Ohio March 7.-Notwith-
standing the low temperature and high
winds of last night, the Ohio river contin-
ued steadily rising at the rate of two-tenths
55.5 feet high
Newport is the earliest sufferer from high
water. and already a considerable portion
of her territory is flooded and families are
compelled to go out of their houses or flee
to the upper stories Street car traffic will
not be stopped until IS feet is reached. AT
that stage the towns of Dayton and Belle
vue up the river are cut off, 1t requires
still more TO sever connection between New
port and Cincinnati
LEXINGTON. KY, March An almost
unprecedented loss follows the breaking of
bOoms in Kentucky river. 1t is estimated
that fully 100000 worth of logs have
been lost in this way at Jackson Beatty
VILE Valley View and other points The
Lexington and Eastern railway has been a
heavy loser Above Clay City its tracks
Were submerged in some places to the depth
of five feet. while in some places the tracks
were washed away.
Gloomy Night at Charleston.
CHARLESTON. W. Va. March THE
night was one of discomfort and actual
suffering The slow falling of the water
added to the lower temperature made the
situation a gloomy one Many business
men were compelled TO use boats to seek
provisions and fuel. Even the governor
forced to use boat to go from the ex-
house.
Much drunkenness and disorder prevailed.
The loss TO timbermen up Elk river will be
heavy. That river traverses he heaviest
logging district of the state. Immense RATS
are torn loose and go rushing down into
the kanawha. sometimes doing heavy dam
age to coal docks, barges and tippies. The
Winifrede coal docks are gone, with sew
eral barges. and an expensive tipple be-
tween East Bank and Belmont has been
swept away.
Danger Point at Louisville.
LOUISVILLE. Ky, March THE Ohio
river is rising here at the rate of two inches
an hour, and reports from above are that
all the tributaries are pouring an undimin-
ished volume into it. The danger point has
been reached here, and houses on the levee
have been entered by the waters. All the
streams in the state are swelling, and most
of them are beyond their banks. Graf dam
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