The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-23
STILL RISING.
Ohio River Continues to Come
Up Slowly.
At Cincinnati All Danger Is
Considered Passed.
BELOW EXPECTATIONS
Flood Will Not Reach Stage of
Former Years.
Several Lives Have Been Lost
Up the River.

Cincinnati, o., April 23.-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 a food. This
is due to the fact that the weather bu-
reau and others see that the trouble IS
OF short duration and that there will
be no such high stage as was expect
ed During the larger floods of former
years the conditions were such that it
was impossible to see the finish" TIE
stage of the Ohio river shows 81 feet
of water this morning and at the rate
of increase of two inches per hour, 1t
will reach Sc feet tonight But it is al
so easily seen that the maximum depth
will be reached here in less than q
hours and that it will not exceed 5S
feet or come within four teen feet of the
record. The flood is receding as far
down as Parkersburg today and its
crest will be here tom orrow. While sey-
eraI lives have been lost up the river ifi
gathering drifts 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 respective
localities and taken to homes.
RESUMING BUSINESS AT PITTS
BURG
Pittsburg, April 23.-The officials of
the Allegheny bureau of health COM
menced a thorough inspection of the
inundated will be inspected and the oc-
cupants notified to thoroughly cleanse
and disinfect it to prevent disease, or
plague. If the order is not obeyed with
in five days the occupants will be pros
ecuted. A similar inspection will be
made in this city by the Pittsburg off,
cials.
Work was resumed today at many
mills along the river fronts after an en-
forced shut down of three days and
oil he r1la T1fc will hfa
again in operation.
The rivers continue to recede here and
at the headwaters- At 1870 the stage
of water in the Monongahela river was
II feet 2 inches.
HAS RAINED SIX DAYS.
Huntington, w Va, April 23.-The
Ohio river is 55.5 feet and rising an inch
an hour. One foot more of water is ex-
pected here. News of great suffering
from the flood comes from the interior
counties. The rain ceased at midnight
for the first time in almost six days.
KENTUCKY AT A STANDSTILL
Frankfort, KY, April 23.-The Ken
lucky river is about at a standstill to-
day and as bright clear weather has fol-
lowed two days of rain no danger is
now apprehended here
DEPOTS ABANDONED
The Central Union passenger station
was abandoned today, not because it is
impossible to run trains through the
water but because the injury to cars and
engines is too great Freight depots
reached over the tracks now submerged
are abandoned and trains are obliged to
unload at points farther out.
The baseball park used by the Nation
al League is flooded and the Chicago
Cincinnati games scheduled for this
week will be postponed. The stage of
the river at Cincinnati at noon is 54.3
At Gallup, on the Big Sandy, wash
out broke the natural gas main, leav-
ing the city last night without fuel and
..ll Co.. .fre- ct
and elsewhere along its line.
At Middle Fork, Ky, Jacob Tussey
was d rowned, while rafting logs
At Portsmouth, o.. the weather is
likely to rise much more. All homeless
families have been cared for.
At Ironton this morning the river was
Sc feet 9 inches and rising one inch an
hour.
West Ironton and all the territory in
the lowlands along the creeks are inun-
dated rendering hundreds of families
homeless. A landslide has cut Off the
natural gas supply from all cities and
towns along the Ohio between IrOnt0n
and Huntington.
Industries are suspended and railroad |
and street railway traffic has stopped. |
Destitute sufferers are quartered in
public buildings
SEVEN FEET OF WATER IN STORES
Gallipolis o., April 23.-The great
1eluge of water that has been sweeping
down the Ohio valley has done great
damage to POmerOy Bend. PomerOy, |
and Point Pleasant were |
The first points to be inundated. Point |
Pleasant has seven feet of water in its |
business houses on the main streets. |
Many families are homeless, but are be- |
ng cared for in school houses and by |
neighbors. The depots at Middleport |
md PomerOy are both under water.
Five thousand barrels of salt were al |
most given away at the salt mills at
Pomeroy which otherwise would have !
been washed away. All railroads have !
operation into Point Pleasant, |
Middleport and Pomeroy. Gallipolis is
-eceiving only one train a day and it is |
'eared mail communications will be cut |
)ff today. The mark at IL o'clock this |
shows So feet 8 inches and ris- |