The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-23
CREST OF THE RISE IN THE OHIO
is DUE AT CINCINNATI
TOMORROW
NAY GO TO FIFTY-EIGHT FEET
but THE DURATION OF EXTREAIT
HIGH WATER WILL BE VERY
BRIEF
IS ALL OVER AT PITTsBURG
after Doing Two Million Dollars of
Direct and Indirect Damage in
That City and It's Imme-
diate Vicinity.

WASHINGTON, April AT 8 p. m.
the Ohio river at Pittsburg marked 21.5
feet on gauge, .05 feet below the danger
line, and fall of 1.5 foot since a. M
The Allegheny was rising slowly but not
sufficiently to check the fall in the Ohio,
Which should continue to fan unless ans
other heavy rain occurs during the next
IeW DAYS, an event not now probable. At
ParkerSburg the stage was AS feet a.
rise of s. of q foot since a. M and 5S
Ieet above the danger line. 1t is still ris-
ing slowly but the additional rise will
probably not exceed one foot. At Point
Pleasant, Va, the stage was IS fe t. Il
teet above the danger line. and at Gin
clnnau 81 feet, one foot above the dan
ger line. Between the two places the
river is still rising at the rate of 2 of a
loot an hour and the rise will probably
continue during Tuesday. There is no
occasion for serious alarm at Cincinnati
The Kentucky river is very high and the
danger line Of Is feet will probably be
reached at Louisville on Wednesday
morning, with an expected crest of about
30 feet short time later. At Evansville
the stage at I p. m. was 27.7 feet, a rise
OF "a feet since a. M. and I.5 feet below
the danger line. The danger line will
probably be reached during the next two
or three days and on the lower Tennessee
1t will also be passed during this time.
AT Harpers Ferry the stage at D. m.
was 1S.5 feet, fall of one foot since
noon The Potomac at washington will
therefore fall slowly during T,riI3ge TUESDAY.
Chief United States Weather Bureau.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. April 22.-Alarm
over the food has almost ceased in the
lower Ohio valley. The low water in
the Ohio, below this city, has allowed
the floods from up the river to flow
rapidly towards the Mississippi The
situation is still serious up the river. not
ably at Ripley, Maysville, Aberdeen.
Portsmouth, Hanging Rock, Ironton, Ash
land, Catlettsburg, Huntington, Point
Pleasant POmeroy, Marietta, PaTllers-
burg and smaller places between Wheel
ing and Cincinnati The crest of the
food is below Wheeling tonight, and the
further down the stream it gets, the
lower is the rate Of rising. The uniform
rate of three inches per hour this morn
Ing fell to two inches before noon, ana
as low as one and a half inches per hour
at Point Pleasant at p. m. [fhis de-
crease in the rate did not extend far
below Point Pleasant, so that it will be
another day before it reaches Ports
mouth, Ironton, Ashland, Catlettsburg
and Huntington, where there are already
very serious conditions 1t usually takes
the crest Of q food two days to reach
Cincinnati from Point Pleasant, but the
present unobstructed flow is much more
rapid than in former floodsa At Ports
mouth tonight ffty-five feet was report
ed and that means serious conditions at
points below Portsmouth, The weather
bureau indicates that the food will not
exceed ffty-eight feet at any time at
Cincinnati and possibly it may not reach
ffty-seven feet. 1t is over f1fty-two feet
tonight and the maximum will not be
reached before tomorrow night or We'd
nesday. This is about ten feet less
than was anticipated here until the river
began falling last night at Pittsburg.
The flood is not as bad as in a dozen
former years, and much below the re-
cords Of 1897 and 1898, and those of 1883 and
1854, The former floods were earlier,
when the weather was cold, causing
much distress among the homeless peo-
pie.
HEAVY PROPERTY LOSS.
While this food is not so hard on the
people that are driven from their homes
it is much harder on the crops and fruits
that are we'll advanced. The property
loss in the rural districts cannot be es>
timated. 1t will be very large The
homeless people will not be kept away
from their houses as long as they We're
during former floods, which in some
cases have lasted as many weeks in the
winter as this will continue days in the
spring. The highest stage will be reached
at >ParFersburg tomorrow and here the
next day, and at the mouth Of the Ohio
before the week is out.
The weather bureau here tonight gave
out the statement that the Ohio river
in the Cincinnati district generally was
above the danger line from one foot at
Cincinnati to fourteen feet at Point
Pleasnt, and rising at an average of two
inches per hour. 1t indicated that the
rise would continue at Cincinnati till
Wednesday, when the river will become
stationary and soon begin falling This
bureau predicts fifty-four feet here to-
morrow morning and ffty-six tomorrow
evening.
The most encouraging information re-
ceived by the weather bureau was from
Farkersburg, where there was a rise of
only one foot all day and a stage of
only forty-two feet was recorded where
the local rivermen had anticipated forty
eight feet. Reports from upriver 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 drownings from
stanty-Doats, and that there is no dis
tress for want of food and shelter
The stage Of the river here at 6 o'clo k
tonight was ffty-one feet and rising at
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