Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-29
NEW FLOOD PERIL
MENAC|NC CITIES
ALONG OHIO RIVER
Parts of Cincinnati Already
Under Water, and Crest
Is Yet to Come.
MANY KENTUCKY TOWNS
FACE SERIOUS DANGER
Torrents From Three States Are
Pouring Their Waters Into
the Swollen Stream.
PEOPLE ARE TOLD TO FLEE
Ample Warning Expected to Avert
Serious Loss of Life-Property
Damage Already Runs
into Millions
MANY KENTUCKY TOWNS
FACE SERIOUS DANGER
PEOPLE ARE TOLD TO FLEE

CINCINNATI. Ohio. March 29.-With
the Ohio river covering the entire lower
section of this city and with refugees
from the stricken upstate towns coming
in by thousands, Cincinnati today faces a
situation that will require the combined
efforts Of all of its relief and civic organ:
| izations to cope with
Every hotel in this city is crowded to
its capacity and every van. auto truck
and freight street car has been pressed
into service removing families from the
flood area.
me river reached the stage of $50 fee,
at daybreak and was rising at rate OF
one and half feet an hour. More than
nifty city blocks are under water, whose
depth ranges from half a foot to ten feet
People Had Ample Warming.
Suffering, however, has been at a mini
mum. owing to warning sent out that
the stage of seventy feet probably would
be reached before the waters began to re-
cede.
The city was practically cut off from
traffc communication with Covinston.
KY, early last evening, when the ap-
proach to the suspension bridge became
covered with water to a depth that pre-
vents car or foot service.
A rise of another foot will put the South
Covinxton and Cincinnati street car COM
pany lines. which operate all street cars
entering from Kentucky, out of commits
sion. owing to the fact that the power
mouse Will become SWamped at this stage.
The central bridge leading into Newport
was abandoned early last evening.
Business Houses Flooded.
The water reached the second floors of
number Of business houses along Front
street. and was halfway up on the first
floor of several blocks of houses on Cd
street Several lines OF the Cincinnati
Traction Company, operating in the lower
district. have been abandoned
Reassuring word from the packers,
commission men and general produce
merchants came early today when it was
estimated by experts that Cincinnati had
enough food supplies to last at least ten
days without incOnveniencing any one
Sixty city blocks in Newport and Cow
ington are under water, and as almost all
of the manufacturing plants on that
side OF the Ohio are located in the low
lands, thousands have been thrown out
OF employment.
Enormous Losses Feared.
LOO1SSILLE, Ky, March 29-With
the flood situation somewhat alleviated
in the Ohio and Indiana cities and towns
which have suffered to such a marked
extent during the last week, attention
here today turned to the Ohio valley and
the threatened overflow farther south.
In Indiana, not only in the Ohio river
towns across from Kentucky but in the
valleys of the White and Wabash as well
ample warnings have been given all per-
sons living in the lowlands and it is NOT
believed that the flood will be the direct
cause Of any loss Of life between here
and the Mississippi.
The property damage, however. will
run into the millions. Tents have been
sent to several Kentucky towns along the
Ohio and Mississippi and other stems
taken to care for the refugees.
The principal anxiety i'm Louisville ia
felt over the possibility that the plants
which supply power for the urban and
fnterurban electric railways in Kentucky
and some in southern Indiana will be nut
out Of commission. The principa! plant
is safe against any flood up to a river
stage Of forty-five feet. The gauge here
this morning registered ALL with the
river rising at the rate of one-tenth of
an inch an hour.