Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-04-26
STILL IN DISTRESS.
Many Points Suffer from the Ohio
- River Flood.
BELIEF THAT THE END is IN SIGHT.
Residents Rejoice at Points Where
the River Is Falling-The Situa-
ton at Cincinnati and
i. Other Points

Cincinnati, April 24.-While the
Ohio river is reported as falling from
Pittsburgh to the mouth of the Big
Kanawha, almost 800 miles, there is
still much distress from that point
to Cincinnati, about 200 miles. The
weather bureau still predicts that the
limit will be reached here to-day, and
that there will be still less trouble
below this city. While alarming in
quiries come from %Ironton, Ports
mouth, Huntington, Catlettsburg and
intermediate points, the weather
bureau says the outlook is really en-
couraging, and that the beginning of
the end will reach Cincinnati to-day,
when the stage will not exceed So
feet. The Big Sandy and other low
err tributaries are falling, as well as
the headwaters. The heavy snow in
the mountains at the headwaters of
the Kentucky. river, followed by
rains, have not checked the rapid
flow in the lower Ohio, as was
feared.
Residents Rejoice.
h most encouraging news came
from Point Pleasant, where the river
became stationary, and later reports
show that it is falling as far down as
Marietta and Parkersburg. In some
of the smaller places bells were rung
and fired and Notification
meetings were held when the station
airy stage was reached. Preparations
are being made for demonstrations
of rejoicing throughout the Pomeroy
bend to-day. Pomeroy, M%iddleport,
Point Pleasant and other places in
that district have been badly mum
dated, with hundreds of families
driven from their homes. The depots
at these places were under water and
the telegraph offices moved to higher
ground as early as last Sunday.
Still Alarmed.
Since the crest of the flood has
passed the Pomeroy bend there is
great alarm at Catlettsburg, Ashland,
Ironton, Huntington, Portsmouth
and other lower points where the
crest of the flood is now passing and
where false reports have been circu-
lated about another rise. One of
these reports was that there had
been a cloudburst up the Big Sandy,
seriously affecting Catlettsburg, Ash
land and other places. 1t turned out
that the flood had caused the natural
gas pipe line supplying these places
to burst, and they were left without
light and fuel for that reason. The
large rolling mills and factories at
down for the same reason. From
that point to Cincinnati the rise
fluctuates from one-tenth of an inch
in some hours to almost three-tenths
in other hours, and when it increased
Tuesday there was renewed alarm at
Ironton and Portsmouth and points
opposite them. The weather bureau
here, however, reports that there was
no change in the situation, and that
the flood continued to pass out of the
Ohio valley more rapidly the further
it got down stream.
In Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, April 24.-At six o'clock
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river was 55.1 feet and rising at the
rate of two-tenths of a foot per hour.
This is more than five feet above the
danger line and within three feet of
the limit expected during this flood.
The weather bureau that
the river will become stationary here
some time to-day and that it will not
exceed So feet, or eight feet above
what is. known as the danger line.
The water reached the first floor of
tenement houses along the river
front at As feet, but it does not reach
any of the business houses below Sc
feet. The water in the tenement
houses along the river front, known
as Sausage Row." "Rat Row." ETC..
is now over ten feet deep from the
first floors and will likely be over 13
feet deep from the first floors to-day.
These tenements are so densely
packed that there is no room in the
upper stories for extra dodgers. The
people were removed from the first
floors Monday and on the second
floors Tuesday. The coal and lumber
yards along the river, as we'll as the
warehouses, jobbers and manufacture.
ers in. the lower part of the city, are
submerged, but will suffer compare.
lively little loss because of the warn
ing they have constantly been receiv,
ing since last Saturday from the
weather bureau.
Almost Surrounded,
With the Ohio river on the south
the Little Miami, east of the city
and the raging Mill creek west, Gin
cinnati is bounded by water on three
sides and by hills on the north. From
these hills a sea of water is in sight
The Big Miami, west Of the city, be
anne so high Tuesday that it washed
away much of the Cincinnati, Law
renceburg and Aurora electric track
Both passenger and freight trains OF
all the steam railways are arrivin.
and departing as usual, although
most of them are using suburban
depots.
On the Kentucky Side.
At some places the conditions ar
quite bad on the Kentucky side, no
tably around Newport, Bellevue an,
Dayton. KY. These suburbs have ar
ronuad for 1ioh+ ,nd ,,o+o,. ,-l H..