The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-23
SITUATION SERIOU.
Several Towns Threatened with Dat
age by Flood.
RIVER ABOVE DANGER LINE
AT Several Points aud Is Likely TO
Go Higher.
AT POINTS BELOW PORTSMOUTH
Serious Conditions Are Expected TO Arise
from the Overflow.
At POINTS BELOW PORTSMOUTH
DAMAGE WAS HEAVY AT PITTSBURG
The Loss to Property In and Around
that City viii Foot Up Two
Million Dollars.

Cincinnati, April - Alarm over the lood
has at last ceased In the lower Ohio val.
ley The low water In the ohio below
this city has allowed the floods from mp the
river to flow rapidly toward the MlssIsslp'
pl The situation Is stlll serious up the
river notably at Ripley. Maysvilc Abcr-
dccn. Portsmouth Hanging Rock Ironton.
Ashland, Caurttshurg Huntington. Point
Pleasant, pomrroy, Marietta rarkersburg
and smaller places between Wheeling aud
Cincinnati. The crest ~ the 1ool IN hclcw
Wheeling tonight aud the further down the
stream It sets the lower Is the rate Of rs-
Ing The Uniform rate N three Inches per
hour this morning tou TO two inches be.
fore noon nud as low MS one aud hnlr
inches per hour al Point Pleasant at
p. m
This decrease IN the rate lid not extend
far below Point Pleasant SO that II will
be another day bcforn Il reaches Forts.
mouth Ironlon. Ashland. CattlcttsburE aud
Huntington. where there are already very
serious conditions 1t usually takes the
crest ~ Hood two days TO reach Clncin.
natl from Point Pleasant but the present
unohelructed flow Is much more rapid than
In former floods
At Portsmouth tonight Hfty-hvc feet was
reported. That mruns serious conditions at
points Mellow Portsmouth The weather hu
t"ou tonight announced fhAt the ohio ri, cr
in the Cincinnati district generally was
above the dauger line from one foot at
Cincinnati to fourteen at Point Pleasant,
and rising at an average of two inches
per hour. II Indicated that the rise would
continue az Cincinnati IN Wednesday.
when the river viii become stationary ana
soon begin falling The weather .ureau
rcports fifty -four feet here tomorrow aud
hrty.slx tomorrow evening
AZ POntcrpy. which Is located In n bend,
tho suffering tonight Is reported less than
IN former Hoods. The large furnaces OF
The salt trust are locatrl here ami they
have suffered much loss. ms well as ths
luInbcrmcn the jectrlc suburban lines ho
liEh ana gns Plant and othr corporations
rhc stage Of Ar river at Cincinnati AZ
o'clock tonight was hfty fcvt and rising at
the rate OF two Inches per boar
Ihs means hftl three feet at O'Clock
tomorrow mornlng. WHOM trains viii be
shut ont u tho Grand Cc1trlI station.
lnc Big -Four, the Baltimore aud OHIO
southwestern. tile llimols Ceutral. the
Chesapeake aud ohio the Queen nud
crescent and nthcr lines uslug that station
have already arranged 20 use the fougth
ana Eighth street stntiunS
owing To the Inability Of the steamers 10
ret ,6dcr the bridges navigation on the
river H. suspended hnt II can be resumed
on Thursday. owing 10 wushouts. thu
inclnpntl. Portsmouth aud Virginia rail-
road can not run trains.
rho residents ot thr tenement houses
along the ohio river from, were rmu ont
ot the hrst STORIES when the river reached
stage Of forty i've feet last night,
fiitp feet WAS not reached until | O'clock
today since which time the jobbers, war;
houses ana manufacturers In the lower
lar the damage here has been limited 10
the river front. The endless line of shnpty
bouts and other craft along the river trout
have been swept away, but So tar without
loss OF life.
Mayor Flclschmann chief OF Police
Deitsch and others inspected the hoooded
districts todny In pntrol wagons and boats
and arranged Tor tho relief OF all who were
IN need
AZ Newport and Dayton, Ky. many pee
pie have been driven from their BONES II
Is now settled that the Newport race track
win not he flooded.
At Huntington w Va tonight the ohin
e. J43 feet mud rising an inch per hour
steady rain fpl today throughout the
central and southern portion az the state,
Most MI ~ the trihuinriia Of the Onto
river are failing slowly.