Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-03-08
PROSPECT FOR 4 GREAT MISSlSSIr-
IL VALLEY OVERFLOW.
END OF OHIO FLOOD At HAND
WATER HAS ALMOST REACHED IT'S
HEIGHT AT CINCINNATI.
Trains Cannot Run Into Grand Cen.
trail DcpOt-Grcnt Suffering mt
Newport. ny, Opposite Cin-
cinnnti-Enmilics Dris-
en- From Home.

CAIRO III. March THE conditions
! to-day ooi, more favorable for 4 great
| food in the Mississippi valley this year
! than they have at any other period so far
| this season. ard the next few days VII
| determine the result. observer Smith of
| the weather bureau. said to-day:
There IS sufficient water in sight to give
! II stage on the present rise here OF II 10
| IL feet.
| The sam. stages on points above on pre-
! vious years have caused II great deal more
| water than the figures abov, given, but
| the cola weather is TO be reckoned with.
| AID may hold back the flood. The Ohio
| is out of its banks from Cincinnati TO
! Paducah. and is steadily rising. and SO are
| the Wabash. Cumberland and Tonlcssee.
| The river here will remain nearly station
AIRY for a day or two. until the big rise
reported at Cincinnati yesterday reaches
| here The weather Indications for -o-mor-
row are warm. with rain which VIII. if
general. be sure to give some more water
CINCINNATI. March The end OF the
| big food here is in sight. thanks 20 the
| cold weather prevailing throughout the
! OHIO valley. Ii has Cut off from one and
a half TO two feet CT what would have
| been the maximum food at Cincinnati had
| the weather prevailed warm. At . o'clock
| to-righ; the stage here was iifty-s'iX feet
and eight inches, and rising At the rate of
one inch and quarter hourly. At all
points above Marietta tonight the river is
| falling. Between Marietta and Point Pleas
ant 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 Mononsehela
| at Pittsburg. Unless the weather changes
| that rise will never catch the flood ut
| this point. On the same condition, the
| river here will reach its maximum of about
| iifty-seven and a half feet. All points heard
| from below Cincinnati report the river
| rising From Huntington. ". Va. up
| stream. at nearly all points the river,
! snow with brisk winds and low temperature
are reported. Navigation, which was for
| a while Interrupted. was resumed on the
| Monongehcia to-day. Elsewhere. uaviga-
! :ion has not at all been interrupted. though
| at some points inpedsd by high winds.
| At Portsmouth the Cincinnati. Ports
| mouth x Virginia railway trains have been
stopped by the floods on the track and
| washouts.
| Suffering by people driven from their
homes in that city continues. Several small
dwellings in ths water-Soaked districts on
East Front street have been lifted off their
foundations by the winds.
I Business men in the city in the flooded
regions are serene, now that the worst has
passed. Huntington. ". Va. reports great
suffering on. the Guam river from people
\ living in the lowlands, who We're driven
! from their homes \ steamboat loaded with
provisions left Huntington for the relief of
! those people to-day. Central City. q small
| place above Huntington, is II great sufferer
from the Hood.
| AT Newport. Ky. opposite here. one street
| car line has been flooded 50 as TO stop the
| running of ears. Fifty families have been
| driven from their homes aud hay" taken
| refuge in public buildings on with their
| friends and should tn. river rise to !tty-
| seven and IA half feet. twenty-five more
| families will be driven out OF their homes.
| No business houses i'll Newport have been
| affected.
| Cuvinston is more fortunate ana has
| escaped almost entirely. In cincinnati al!
| businesses affected by flooding OF cellars
| have been amply protected from any prob
! able future damage. Dwellings. except
| the low tenemen-s in Rat row and Sausage
| row. have not been touched.
| There is practically no interruption TO
| railroad traffic of any sort i'll Cincinnati.
| No trains. however. can now enter the
| Grand Central depot. All these trains. in
| Guiding the Big Four. the Baltimore X
| Ohio and the Cincinnati southern. r."eiy.
| passengers and freight at their Eighth
| street depot. situated little further west
| and clear above danger. \ few gardens III
| Mill creek valley have been flooded. hut
| most OF them ar" 50 much further mp that
| stream than formerly as to be clear out of
| danger