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Show iElHWGOINfi DP. Cellars Flowed I"irst Floors In Tcn" cuient Houses Itelntf Vacated, at Cincinnati. TW0 MEN AND ONE BOY DEOWNED. Railroads Compelled to Abandon the Central Cen-tral Union Depot and Establish Temporary Depots, Cincinnati. March 24. This morning the Ohio river measured 50 feet and 10 inches and is rising two inohes an hour with no more rain. A sixty foot river goems inevitable, but with the outlook or more rain it puts a most serious aspaet on affairs. The most active work is in progress to remove goods from the river front. Cellars are already vacated and first floors in many houses will soon be invaded by the flood. In 1883 the river reached GG feet and i inches and in 1884, the highest flood ever known, measuring 71 feet. Many families in tenement houses and cottages along the river front will be compelled to go into upper stones or vacate their quarters entirely. Ivailroads have been compelled to abandon the Central union dopot and establish temporary tem-porary depots. Mill Creek valloy is again a lake and for the second time gardeners find spring work destroyed by water. Railroad freight traffic is greatly interrupted and on some roads must ceaso today within the city limits. Covington and Newport are cut off from the city, as far us streot car traffic is concerned. Ferries also nre obliged to stop because they cannot rind landing points". Yesterday two men and a boy were drowned, back of the Covington, by the capsizing of a skiff. |