The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-04-26
BREAIHES MUCH EASIER.
Cincinnati Sees Finish of the Flood,
Which Will Not Prove Dis
aStrOuS.
FEWLIVES LOST AND LITTLE SUFFERING
I,nd.Iide Cuts on Gas supply from
Many Cities and Towns Along the
River-Sanitary Measures Adopted
at Pittsburgh-The Situation In
Other States.

Cincinnati, April 24.-Although the
Ohio is still rising and the backwaters
of the Little Miami and Mill creek sur
round the city, there is no longer any
alarm here on account of the HOOD.
This is due to the fact that the wealth
er bureau and others see that the
trouble is of short duration and that
there will be no such high stages as
were expected. During the larger
floods of former years the conditions
were such that it was impossible to
see sthe finish.'' The stage of the
Ohio river showed 55.S feet of water 1T
nine o'clock in the morning, and at
the rate of increase of two inches per
hour it will reach So feet at night. But
it is also easily seen that the maxi
mum depth will be reachedin less than
PA hours, and that it will not exceed
SIS feet, or come within IA feet OF the
record. The flood is receding as far
down as Parkersburg Tuesday, and
it's crest will be here Wednesday
While several lives have been lost up
the river in gathering drift and in
ventures in boats and in accidents,
none have been lost by being caught
by the flood. All who have been driven
from their homes here and elsewhere
have been well-cared for in their re-
spective localities, and can return to
their homes.
Passenger Stations Abandoned.
The Central Union passenger station
was abandoned Tuesday, not because
it is impossible to run trains through
the water, but because the injury to
cars and engines is too great. The
Eighth street station is used for most
of the trains, but the Chesapeake &
Ohio and the Louisville & Nashville's
transfer coach use the Fourth street
station of the Chesapeake 81 Ohio. The
trains of the Louisville & Nashville
using the Pennsylvania station make
no change. Freight depots reached
over the tracks now submerged are
abandoned and trains are obliged to
load and unload at points farther out.
The baseball park used by the Ma
tional league has been invaded by the
flood, so that the Chicag o-Cincinnati
games scheduled for this week will be
postponed. The stage at Cincinnati at
noon was 54.3.
At Gallup, KY, on. the Big Sandy, a
washout broke the natural gas main,
leaving the city Monday night without
fuel and in darkness and closing the
steel plant and other factories at Ash
land, KY, and elsewhere along its
line.
Man Reported Drowned.
At Middlefork, KY, Jacob Tussey
was drowned while rafting logs.
At Portsmouth the weather is
clear; river 55 feet inches and not
likely to rise much more. All home
less families have been cared for.
At Ironton, O., Tuesday morning
the river was Sc feet inches and ris-
ing one inch an hour.
Landslide Cuts Off Gas Supply.
West Ironton and all the territory
in the lowlands along the creeks are
inundated, making hundreds of fam
lilies homeless. The water stands in
the cutters on one of the principal
business streets. The natural gas
supply has been cut off from all cit
les and towns along the Ohio be-
tween Ironton and Huntington by a
landslide. Industries are suspended
and railroad and street railway traf-
fic has stopped. Destitute sufferers
are quartered in public buildings.
Child Drowned.
Ashville, O., April 24.-Mrs. Frank
Irwin and three children, while at
tempting to cross a foot log which
spans Little Walnut creek, fell into
the stream. One child was swept
away by the swift current and
drowned. The body has not been re-
covered.
Scrubbing Out at Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh, Pa, April 24.-The Off
Gals of the Allegheny bureau of
health commenced a thorough in
Every house that was inundated will
be inspected and the occupants mott
fed to thoroughly cleanse and disin-
feet it to prevent disease or a plague
If the order is not obeyed within
five days, the occupants will be
prosecuted. A similar inspection will
be made in this city by the Pitts
burgh officials.
Work was resumed Tuesday at
many mills along the river fronts
after an enforced shutdown of three
days, and within 4S hours all the
plants will be again in operation.
The rivers continue to recede here
and at the headwaters. At 1890
o'clock the stage of water in the
Monongahela river was II feet 2
inches.
In West Virginia.
Huntington, w. Va, April 24.-The
Ohio river is 55.5 feet and rising an
inch an hour. The Guyandotte river
is rising again at headwaters. One
foot more of water is expected here.
News of great suffering from the
flood comes from the interior coun-
ties. No fatalities are reported Tues
day. The rain ceased at midnight
for the first time in almost six days.
Situation Improved in Kentucky.
Frankfort KY, April 24.-The Ken