Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-27
CINCINNATI FACES
DISASTROUS FLOOD
Wheeling and Other Cities on
the Ohio River Already
Under Water.
HEAVY RAIN AND SNOW
ADDING TO THE MENACE
Streams on Both Sides Pouring
Great Volumes Of Water Into
Already Flooded Stream.

CINCINNATI Ohio, March 2T-As the
result of continued rains of the lasi
twenty-four hours. Cincinnati is threat
ened with one of the worst floods in hel
history, according to experienced river
men.
With the Muskingum, Scioto and the
two Miamis pouring their millions of gal
Ions of water in the Ohio and the Lick.
ing, on the Kentucky side, doing like
wise the river during the night rose to
57.1 feet at this point and was increasing
rapidly.
The Central Union station was aban-
doned last night and all trains leaving or
entering this city are being detoured:
Business Houses Flooded.
The flood entered several business
houses In the lower section of town dur
found the entire bottoms a sea of NOV
ing vans. working up to their capacity.
At Lawrenceburg. twenty-five miles be-
low this city. fearing that the back
water from the Great Miami would food
the town, the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road track which runs along the river
was dynamited last night to give the
water egress to the Ohio river. This has
lightened the towns burden for the time
being.
-Four Reported Drowned.
.Unconf1rmed reports state that. four per-
sons were drowned there last night The
Ohio river Is rising rapidly at Ports
mouth. Ohio; Catlettsburg. KY, and Par
kersburg, w. Va. AT Huntington. w. Va,
and -MaySville KY, the river is now with
q Rnat a. --f-t-
rapidly.
= Grave Fears Entertained.
AT IL o'clock the Ohio river had reached
the forty-eight-foot mark was rising at
the rate of four-tenths of an, inch an
hour. and Wheeling feared the worst flood
in its history. +"
One more death was reported today
from Benwood, just below this city. The
police today commandeered 100 motor
and row boats and began the attempted
relief of thousands of food sufferers in
the lower sections of the city and on
the island.
The water has reached the second floor
OF many houses near the river, and the
police had hard work to rescue those en-
dangered. Word from Pittsburgh that a
th1rty-one-foot stage was expected there
early tomorrow led to the conviction that
broken before the crest of the flood
passes south.
Forced to Flee to Hills.
wELLsvILLE. Ohio. March 27-All
the low-lying land in this section is food
ed by the waters of the Ohio river at
Congo, w. Va, 200 persons were COM
PEELED to flee to the hills. so suddenly did
the flood come up on them. and at New
w. Va. nearby. the water
Is four feet deep on the Panhandle rail-
road tracks.
Yellow creek is flooded. and all traffic
ON the Ohio river division of the Cleve-
land and Pittsburgh railroad is stopped.
All the factories and mills at Steuben-
Vile, Ohio. are closed by the high wa
ter, and Follansbee, W. Va, across the
Ohio from that point. is shut of from the
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio March 81
More than 1000 families have been
driven from their homes. 5000 potters
pofariiy, and the city water works are
out of commission as the result of the
food in the Ohio river. The electric light
plant Is threatened. Railroad and trolley
lines are tied up.
Drive Live Stock to Safety.
LEXINGTON, ky, March 27.-The
Kentucky river. is rising rapidly. and
many people living along its course are
fleeing to the hills and mountains, driving
their live stock ahead Of them. Hun
dreds of horses and cattle today are
populating the hills.
Townsford, Red Horse and Shears are in
danger of being overwhelmed. as the
great reservoir at Richmond, KY, is men,
aced by eighty acres of water twenty
feet deep. Inhabitants along Otto creek
- T. IL v.xSl 70 ann
Frankfort Is Menaoed.
FRANKFORT. KY. : March 27.-The
Kentucky river is higher here today than
at any time in the last twenty years.
Flooded by the rains and snow Of the last
week, the river is now rushing to swell
the already flooded Ohio. The thirty-six-
foot stage was reached here at 10 o'clock
this morning. and the river at IL am. was
still rising at the rate of two inches
an hour.
schools have let out.
CAIRO, ILL.,. March 27.-The Ohio river
here has passed the flood stage of forty
five feet, and Is now creeping over many
acres of lowlands. The stage this morn
ing was 45.6 feet.
Cold Wave Ends Rain.
A
wave accompanied by snow has put ar
end to the downpour in middle Tennessee
At Nashville at am. the gauge in the
Cumberland river read 1913, and the dan
ger mark, 40 feet. was passed early to-
day. Last nights report from Gaines
boro. northeast of Nashville, near the
Kentucky line, showed a rise of thirty
feet in the Cumberland In twelve hours
The Tennessee river: too. Is rising rap
idly. Lake county devastated when the
leyee broke near Hickman. KY, in 1917
is expecting a duplication of that food
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March H.-The river
gauge today stood at 81 5-1O feet rise
Of eight-tenths in the past tWenty-foui
hours.
sissipni river is 375 feet high here
planters in the lowlands are making
preparations to move, anticipating rec
ord-breaking flood.
Rising at Louisville.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 27.-The Ohio
river here at O'Clock this morning wa!
$3.50 feet, a rise of IL feet in twenty
four hours. The river Is now rising a
the rate of about four inches an nour.
Rain and snow fell generally through
out the Ohio valley last night and earl,
today.
Wheeling Under Water.
WHEELING. w. Va. March 27-Th'
this morning, and fifty-five feet Is ex
pected before nightfall.
Practically the entire city is now
under water, and 1900 people are ma
rooned in their homes.
Bridgeport and Martins Ferry, Ohio, OPP
posite here, are similarly affected. Thu
greatest danger Is from fire.