Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1904-01-23
GREATEST FLOOD IN
YEARS IN The OHIO
Great Wall Of Murky Water Is
Threatening the City OF
Cincinnati.
CRISIS is NEAR AT HAND
Vesselmen Are Sleepless and City Ia
Threatened With the Worst Of
All Its Flood Disasters-A
Gloomy Outlook.

Cincinnati, JAN. ia great wall of
water, thirty miles long n more than
nine feet high, threatens Cincinnati.
IL this water comes with a rush, as
many river men fear 1t will, heavy
loss will follow.
The river situation crisis is near at
hand.
This opinion is shared unanimously
by river men. What will happen none
viii venture to say.
All thai can be CLEANED from them is
that the present condition is the worst
in the history OF navigation.
River men hope for a gentle thaw, so
the gorges can get out gradually. There
is not much chance of sue a thing in
the opinion of those who are acquainted
with the freaks Of the river and the
weather.
Newly made ice has 5orged the river
up to the Suspension bride. The power
full harbor boats, armed with BULLDOG
ers, were just able to cut a lane
through the ice yesterday, so they
could get to the lower coal harbors.
The Upper Gorge.
The upper gorge, which begins at the
intake pier of the new waterworks, has
held the water, so that last night there
was more than 20 feet at Coney Island,
Is feet at New Richmond, Is feet at
NLOSNS" oAAN iNsS 49,
sixty miles above Cincinnati.
In the local harbor last night the
gauge on the waterworks showed but
11.9 feet. This would indicate there is
a wall Of water more than thirty miles
long and nine feet high above Cincin-
natl, which will move when the break
does come.
Towboats were busy all day trying
to raise sunken bargeS at the Camp
bell Creek landing and at the Queen
City landing, at the foot of Fifth
street.
The Charles Turner and eleven new
barges have been placed behind the
milestone fleet.
Preparing for Breaking.
Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 16.-Preparations
are now being made for a breakup or
ice in the Allegheny river. Weather re-
ports today lead old river men to be-
lieve the heavy gorges will soon begin
to break.
At different places up the Allegheny
thermometers registered so degrees.
Snow along the river banks is from
twelve to fifteen inches deep all the way
down from FreepoTt, and a slight thaw
will mean enough water to move off the
gorges slowly,
Ice In the Allegheny is at many
places more than fifteen inches thick.
| Inc BOIBCo IdISC LiSI y W N"NA'N
feet high.
There has beer practically no change
in the situation of the Allegheny since
dynamite was used nearly three weeks
ago.
River Badly Gorged.
!, 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 feared for a quick
| descent of the gorges.
Captain Scott Dawson says 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 II
will AXE 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 was in Pool No. 4 this
| morning breaking ice. She used a bull
| dozer and cut through from No. 3.
But three boats succeeded in getting
ZIP the river from No. 8 all last week.