The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-05-23
DEATH AND DISASTER.
One Of the Worst Storms in the
History Of Cincinnati.
The Property Loss viii Aggregate
Over o,oo0-Water at Pearl
Street and Eggleston Avenue
Was Five Feet Deep.

Cincinnati, May 21.-This city was
the center Of terrific whirlwind, &C
companied with a furious downpour
Of rain Tuesday forenoon. The wind
blew from all points at the rate of co
miles an hour, and the deluge of wa
ter lasted for 80 minutes, in which
time about two inches of water fell
Thousands of cellars in business
houses were flooded. In the whole
sale district it is estimated the loss
was $1,000 900.
The storm was stated by the expert
observers to be the most severe of it's
kind ever experienced in Cincinnati.
The water in the vicinity of Pearl
street and Eggleston avenue was
fully five feet deep in a depression.
George Becker, 80, widower, while
driving along Queen City avenue was
struck by a telegraph pole and knock
ed from his wagon. He was pinioned
under the pole close to the ground,
and drowned by the water that washed
down the avenue.
Ferdinand Rapp, peddler, was caught
in a rush Of water into the cellar at
2133 Main street. Being crippled, he
was unable to make his way out and
was drowned
Mrs. George Fleischner and the one
month-old child of Mrs. Henry Willen
were drowned at Baker and Lewis
streets, Covington.
The swollen waters Of Willow Run
undermined the foundations and the
building fell. Mrs. Willen escaped
with one Of her children, and it is sup
posed Mrs. Fleischner was attempt
ing to rescue the baby and lost her
life.
Glenn Davier, teamster for the Ram
sey Cone Co., working on the c., N
& c. extension to Erlanger, KY, was
drowned Tuesday afternoon with his
two horses on the Lexington pike,
about a mile from Covington. His
cart was overturned by a rush of wa
ter from a swollen stream and he was
caught under it.
A boss carpenter named Belleville
was working on a building on the Rap
id Run pike, near St. Joseph's GENE
terry when the storm came up. The
partly finished building was blown
down and Belleville was killed. 9th
ers at work on the structure were
hurt.
A man employed by the Mitchell fac
tory, at the corner of Harrison and
Spring Grove avenues, was last seen
floating down that thoroughfare cling
ing to a ladder It is not known
whether or not he was drowned.
The Queen City bathing beach, on
the Dayton sandbar, at Bellevue, KY,
on the Ohio river, was washed away.
The buildings were carried into the
river. The damage is over 1000.
A stream of water five feet deep.
carrying beer kegs, boxes and barrels,
rushed down Gilbert avenue. All
over the city electric wires were tan
gled and broken. Traffic was for
time stopped at Fountain square.
While watching the storm from the
window of her home, at York and Sew
enth streets, Newport, KY, Mrs. Kee-
ney, wife of DR.. c. w. Keeney, was
struck by lightning. She was rem
dered unconscious, but may survive.
Half of Newport was for a time under
from three to four feet Of water.
Water was four feet deep in the old
Whitewater canal at Sixth street, this
city, now used for railroad purposes,
and passenger traffic on the roads
using it was for some hours stopped.
A passenger train at noon attempted
to go through, but was compelled to
return to the depot