The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-22

Ohio river here reached 49 feet lust a
foot from what is called the danger line.
The rise here is four inches per hour,
SO that by o'clock the Hood will reach
so feet. The Grand Central depot can,
at this rate, be used till 10 o'clock to-
night, but the roads entering it are al
ready arranging Tor stopping at and
starting from the Eighth street sta
ton. Advices from up the river indi-
cate rain at most points and the river
rising as the Pittsburg crest meets the
floods of the lower river tributaries. The
situation here and in the lower Ohio
river valley is now serious.
ON THE ..OLD KENTUCKY SHORE
Frankfort KY. April 22-The Ken
and a half inches an hour Heavy rain
which began Sunday morning is still
falling. The danger point is not yet
reached.
ALL OVER AT YOUNGSTOWN.
Youngstown, o., April 22.-Electric
lines are again in operation throughout
the city and in the Mahoning valley
Steam lines have large gangs of men at
work digging out the heavy snow drifts
and expect by tomorrow to resume nor
mai conditions. The river is rising slow
ly this morning and unless there is a
big volume of water from the headwa-
ters of the Mahoning river there will be
no flood. The telephone and telegraph
companies figure their losses at $4,000
to restore their lines and poles.
SPECIAL WEATHER BULLETIN.
Washington, April 22--The weather
bureau has issued special river bulle-
tin which says: At 8 o'clock this morn
ing the stage Of the Potomac river at
Harper's Ferry was 1915 feet, a rise of
9-5 feet since a. m. yesterday. This
will cause marked rise in the river at
Washington and cellars in the low sec
ton of the city viii be flooded to a
depth of several inches by tonight
INSPECTION IN BOATS.
Cincinnati April 22.-Mayor F1eisch-
mann and city officials today made a
tour of inspection in patrol wagons
around the flooded districts and after
wards took a boat. Relief will be pro-
vided for all the needy The Chicago
baseball club arrived today, but the wa
ter lacks only ten inches of flooding the
park and there will not likely be any
games this week. The races on the New
port track will proceed this afternoon,
although the course is very sloppy
Some of the railways may be unable to
reach their depots. None will be shut
out of the city and traffic from subur-
ban stations viii proceed as usual
POURING INTO THE OHIO.
Paducah, KY, April 22.-The river is
rising rapidly with 80 feet on the gauge.
The Tennessee and Cumberland are
pouring heavy volumes of water into the
Ohio, and river men predict the biggest
food in years.
FORTY. FEET AT MARIETTA
Marietta. O., April 22-At noon the
Ohio river was 40 feet and rising an inch
an hour. Only one foot more is expect
ed. Five glass blowers Of the Royal
works were capsized in the Ohio river
and one of their number, Joseph Ever
etts was drowned.
BUSINESS STOPPED AT POMEROY.
Pomeroy. O., April 22-The river is 50
feet and rising two inches an hour. The
business portion of the city is four to
six feet under water and business is en-
tirely suspended. The merchants have
all moved to the second story of their
In har
since Saturday night and none dispatch
ed There are six inches of snow on the
ground and a drizzIing rain has been
falling all day.
DAYTON. KY, SUBMERGED.
Cincinnati, April 22.-At Newport,
Ky. there was SO feet at noon, the
gauge there being deeper than on the
Cincinnati side. A great portion OF
Dayton, KY, is submerged.
At Lawrenceburg, Ind, the fifty foot
danger line was reached at noon and
a general inundation followed
At Parkersburg, w. Va, Ann, Julian
and Market streets are under water and
the first floors of business houses are
filed with water In the Riverside and
South Side suburbs, the water is in the
second stories and hundreds are home
less Mayor VandervOrt has appointed
relief committees and appealed to the
public for funds.
At Portsmouth, O., merchants in the
lower districts are submerged and hun
dreds of residences have been aban-
doned in that vicinity. Public schools
were dismissed so as to use the build
ings for sheltering the homeless. The
schools were dismissed at Ironton for
the same purpose.
WORST IS OVER AT PITTSBURG
Pittsburg, April 22-Forecaster Ridge
way of the local bureau says there Will
be no recurrence of the flood. All three
rivers Will continue to fall and the rise
at the headwaters is not enough to ef-
feet the fall in the lower streams. 1t
would take q steady rainfall of "a hours,
he said. to check the fall in the rivers
and from present indications that is not
likely to occur.
NEW YORK FLOOD.