The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-29
GREATEST FLOOD IN
YEARS IN tn: OHIO
Great Wall Of Murky Water Is
Threatening the City Of
Cincinnati.
CRISIS is NEAR AT HAND
Tfesscsr1en Are SIeep!ess and City Is
Threatened With The Worst of
All Its Flood Disasters-A
Gloomy Outlook.
CRISIS is NEAR At HAND

Cincinnati, Jan. ia great wall of
water, thirty miles long and more than
nine feet high, threatens Cincinnati.
If this water comes With a rush, as
many river men fear it will, heavy
loss VIII follow.
The river situation crisis is near at
hand.
This opinion is shared unanimously
by river men. What will happen mono
will venture TO say.
All that can be CLEANED from them il
that the present condition is the Worsg
in the history of navigation.
River men hope for a gentle thaw, 50
the gorges.can set out gradually. There
is not much chance OF such u thing il
the opinion of those who ara acQuained
, with the reaks of the river and thu
( weather.
Newly made ice has gorged the riveE
up to the Suspension bride. The power
fUl harbor boats, armed with BULLDOG,
ers, were just able to cut a lana
through the ice yesterday, so theJ
could get to the lower coal harbors.
The Upper Gorge.
The upper gorge, which begins at the
intake pier OF the new waterworlis, lla:
held the water, 50 that last night there
was more than 20 feet at Coney Island
Is feet at New Richmond, IS feet al
MOSCOW and 1913 feet at Maysville,
Sixty miles ABOVE Clncln1latl.
In the local harbor last night tho
gauge on the waterworlls showed but
11.9 feet This would indicate there ID
a wall Of water more than thirty milel
long and nine feet high above Cincint
natl, which viii move when the breal,
does come.
Towboats We're busy all day trying
to raise sunkeu bargeS at the Camp!
bell Creek landing and at the Queelt
sj+N 10 n or n I tho foot of IjftH
street.
The Charles Turner and eleven new
barges have been placed behind tho
Milestone fleet.
Preparing for Breaking.
PittsburS, Pa, Jan. 1G.-Preparation1
are now being mad for a breakup OH
ice in the Allegheny river. Weather re-
ports today lead old river men to be-
iieve the heavy gorges will soon Begin
to break.
AT different places up the AlleghanM
thermometers registered SO degrees.
Snow along the river banks is from
twelve to fifteen inches deep all the way
down from F'reeport, and q slight thaW1
will mean enough water to move off the
gOrgeS slowly.
Ice in the Allegheny is at many
places more than fifteen inches thick.
The gor2eS range from five to twelve
feet high.
There has been practically no change
in the situation of the Allegheny since
dynamite was used nearly three weeks
ago.
River Badly Goreed.
The gorges extend down the river as
far as Brilliant. They are scattered all
along UP the stream for almost forty
miles.
All craft has been cleared for a quick
descent of the gOrges
Captain Scott Dawson "a he does
not remember when there was so much
bad shore ice at different places down
the Ohio as at the present time. The
condition prevails generally.
In commenting on Monongahela con-
ditions Captain j. l.. McFeeters says it
will take considerable water to make a
rise sufficient for the shipment Of coal.
With him, as other rivermen, the mat
ter of prime Importance is the ice.
The Jim Brown IA in Pool No. 4 this
morning breaking ice. She used a bull
dozer and cut through from No. 8.
But three boats succeeded in getting
up the river from No. 8 all last week.