The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-24
JOY OVER The
. FLOODS PASSING
Towns Along the Ohio River
Are Celebrating.
MANY PEOPLE ARE
DRIVEN FROM HOMES
Wrecked Gas Plants Leave
Cities in Darkness.

Cincinnati O.. April 2S.-While the
Ohio river is reported tonight as fall
ing from Pittsburg to the mouth OF
the Big KanaNsha, almost goo miles,
there is still much distress from that
point to Cincinnati, about goo miles.
The weather bureau still predicts that
the limit viii be reached tomorrow
and there will be still less trouble below
this city. While alarming reports come
from Portsmouth, Huntington. Cat
tlettsburg and intermediate points to-
day, the weather bureau says the out
look is really encouraging and the be
ginning OF the end VIII reach Cincin-
natl tomorrow, when the stage viii
not exceed nfty-eiglIt feet The Big
Sandy and other lower tributaries are
falling, as well as the headwaters-
The most. encouraging news today
came from Point Pleasant, where the
river became stationery, and later re-
ports Show that it is falling as far
down as Marietta and Parkersburg. In
some of the smaller places bells We're
rung, canons fired and Publication
meetings held when the stationery
stage was reached Preparations are
being made for demonstrations of re-
jOicing throughout the Pomeroy Bend
tomorrow POIneroy, AiiddlepOrt and
other places in that district have been
lies driven from their homes. The
railroad stations at these places were
under water and the officers moved to
higher ground.
Alarm in Smaller Towns.
Since the crest has passed there is
great alarm at Ashland. IrontOn. Hunt
ington, Portsmouth and other lower
points. where the crest Of the flood
is now passing and where false re-
fafr-f rr.rr
other rise, One OF these reports was
that there had been u cloudbUrst mp
the Big sandy, seriously affecting Cat
tlettsburg- The flood had caused the
natural gas pipe line supplying this
place, to burst, and the people We're
left Without light or fuel there. The
large rolling mills and factories at
this place were compelled TO shut down
for the same reason.
From that point TO Cincinnati the
rise fiuctuates from one-tenth of an
inch in some hours to almost three
tenthS in other hours and when il in-
creased tonight there was renewed
alarm at IrOntOn and Portsmouth and
points opposite them. The weather
bureau here. however, reports tonight
that a second rise IS not threatened.
and that the flood continues To pass
out of the Ohio valley more rapidly
At Parkersburg. ". Va. the river
gagged forty-three feet and six-tenths
inches tonight ana was rising less than
an inch per hour. Besides the loss in
the manufac turing and the wholesale
districts ia Parkersburg, many 4aborers
are Tide and about 1000 people have
been rendered homeless.
People Rendered Homeless.
Ait Charleston w. Va, over 300 peo-
pie were rendered. homeless, and the
loss of timber in Elk. Pocas Cauley and
Coal River has been Very great.
AT Huntington, ". Va the gauge
this evening was 46-4 and the river was
merged, the water IN, many instances
being in second stories. over i 900 per
sons are homeless in the district around
and many are destitute
In Harvey, near Central City, there
are not half a dozen inhabited houses,
and il is expected that these VIII be
vacated.
All the towns in the valley that are
lighted by natural gas are IN darkness
and withJCt fuel as the natural gas
main burst near Gallup, ky
At Marietta, O., about fifty families
are homeless. The Ohio became sta
tionary there at 10 a. IN. and after
wards fell slightly. It's rise tonight is
due 10 a food in the MUskingum. AT
Point Pleasant, W. Va. the water is
all over the lower part of the city, over
200 families being driven from their
homes The court house Is full Of COLI
oredf people, fed by the city. The large
brick and tile works have been greatly
damaged
At Ripley. O., the food has reached
Main street Boats are used at the
Ripley bank on Second street and at.
hall on Third street at the
have been driven out by the food.