The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-23
ALL DANCER FROM THE
BIG FLOOD HAS PASSED
Property Loss Along the Ohio River Will Not Be AS
Great AS Was Feared.
Waters Are Gradually Subsiding Although Some Cities Are
Yet Submerged


/ tons exist at AIinesyillle.. but all the
points in the Pomeroy bend have es-
capped.
The reports from other up-river
points that suffered SO severely during
other floods indicate that no outside
/ help is. needed, that there has been
no loss Of life except in accidental
/ dEowniRgs from shanty boats and that
there is no distress for want of food
or shelter. ~ t
Will Abandon Depots.
The stage Of the river here at 6
o'clock tonight was fifty-one feet and
rising at the rate of two inches an
hour. This means fifty-three feet at s
o clock tomorrow morning when trains
will be shut out of the Grand Central
station, The lines using that station
have already arranged to use the
Fourth and Eighth street stations to-
morrow. All of the railways have also
made arrangements for receiving and
delivering freight at higher stations so
that there Will be no interruption here
either to passenger or freight traffic.
Owing to the inability of the steamers
to get under the bridges, navigation on
the river is suspended, but the predict
ed subsistence of the flood will prob
a ply peFmi Ia resumption of river traf-
fic by Thursday.
Owing to washouts. the Cincinnati.
Portsmouth & Virginia railroad cannot
run trains. t-tr
The residents Of the tenement houses
along the Ohio river front were run
out OF the first stories when the river
reached a stage of forty-five feet last
night. What IS known as the danger
line of fifty feet was not reached until
d o'clock today, since which time the
Jobbers, warehouse and manufacturers
In the lower part of the city have been
suffering. The flooding OF Easements
viii compel the manufactures to
smut down Tor two or three days.
But Little Back Water.
The river here was rising at the rate
OF three inches an hour this morning
The flood is unobstructed in the lower
Ohio and there is less back water than
usual, which conditions give hope that
the trouble viii be of short duration.
It is settled now that If a second rise
from the Allegheny region comes it will
not oyertake the present flow SO far
the damage here has been limited to
the luniperrren and others located along
the river front
Mayor Fleischmann. Chief of Police
Deitsch, Health Officer Davis and
others Inspected the flooded district to-
day in patrol wagons and boats, aud
arranged ior the relief of<aIl who were
IN need An extra police force was
put on in the flood districts and the
police boat patrols viii be on the river.
front tomorrow
The endless line Of shanty boats and
other crafts along the river front. have
been swept away, but. so far without
loss of life. The country along the
Little Miami river is badly flooded lust
east eof the city. -ssS 'f}
At Newport and Dayton Ky, many
people have been driven from their
homes. The waterworks of Newport
are unable to do pumping, but the res
ervoir is full and no trobule is expected
during the short duration OF the food
II is now settled that the Newport race
track viii not be flooded. The races
are proceeding under very sloppy con-
ditions. $50 st.
At Huntington, w. Va. the Ohio is
fifty-three feet and rising an inch per
hour. Nearly all of the tributaries of
the Ohio are failing slowly.