Show llELEGRAPHIC THE DELUGE Booming 01 the Ohio River and Tributaries G real Destruction of Properly Cincinnati HThe city is in consternation I conster-nation on account of the great rise In the river and what is expected to come It reached sixtyone feet two and a half inches at 330 pm and was rising two inches an hour There desperate efforts ef-forts to save merchandise in the lower part of the city Advices from above indi eate a heavy rite is still coming Good business men here who are not sensational say tongt the damage from the present overflow of the Ohio River in Cincinnati Newport and Ooviogton will amount to millions The stage at 7 tonight was si tyone feet eight inches and rising nearly two inches hourly Thousands ot people crowd all the bridges Batching the floods Three feet more of water is expected ex-pected All transfer wagons in tao city are employed removing goods from danger The suspension bridge is lined with wagons taking leaf tobacco over to Oovington Thn water through which they pass going to the suspension bridge is over the axles of wagons Passengers between Covington and Cincinnati ap pioach suspension bridge in boats or vehicles At the present rate of rise the passage to the bridge by vehiciesiwiil be impossible Steam ferry and street railway rail-way companies between here and the Keatucky side of the river is cut off entirely en-tirely the Cincinnati approach to Newport New-port bridge was free at 8 oclock but in danger Newport military barracks are 11 n 1 e il J ail uuuueu i ueanjr bnu eijuaru luueo ui the city is under water People wer > taking coal and provisions in boats all day to Inhabitants and delivering through second and third story windows All houses and factories on the entire river front of Covington are badly flooded the water being in tho second story of some of them Nearly ten miles of the river front of Cincinnati is more or less under water The flood extends from Vine to Second street end Pearl street cellars are filling Along the landing the flood is up to the second and third stories of many buildings build-ings The roof of the big wharf boat as viewed from the suspension bridge looks nearly os high as the roofs of five story houses on the public landing All railway freight business and nearly nil express business west and north is now stoDDcd The Ohio and Mississinoi rail way transfers pasiengera by omnibus four miles down the river thence by steamer makes cornection with the Aurora Au-rora Indiana Cincinnati and Indianapolis Indian-apolis The St Louis and Chicago use the Cincinnati Hamilton sod Dayton lines to reach its own lines in Indiana The Cincinnati Washington and Baltimore Balti-more goes out from the Cincinnati Hamilton Ham-ilton and Dayton depot If the present rate of rise continue all these lines will have to transfer at Jommunisville tomorrow to-morrow morning The Little Miami division of tho Pitts burg Cincinnati and I St Louisand all roads south of the Ohio river remain intact and ore likely to continue con-tinue so In tho west end people ate trying to save cattle from inundated peiif The difficulty is very great as boats have to ba employed V and cattle must bo led oui uua uy UIJB aaey ouun gei ingni cued beak away and go back into the pens All Mill Creek valley for miles north from the Ohio is a broad sea In the city from Pearl street down to the river front the greatest activity and excitement ex-citement prevails The fire department is out pumping out Pearl street cellars trying to enable merchants to Eave goods The river this morning invaded a house adjacent to thc suspension bridge where unslacked lime was stored along with quantities of rosin The heat from the lime set the rosin on fire The fire department has been working at this fire all day continues obstinate but not violent On Walnut street up to Fourth stree tthe entire end of the sidewalks is covered with package of sugar and groceries gro-ceries which have been hastily removed from cellars and the work of removal continues tonght as fast as men can accomplish it Damage to goods in collars col-lars on Pearl street is much feared The Cincinnati stock yards are Jloodod and stock trains cannot move in any direction direc-tion All business will be suspended until after this danger is past At 830 oclock tonight it was expected every minute that the gaslight would be extinguished ex-tinguished Only a few inches more of arise a-rise will bring that result The belief now is that it will not stop under sixty three feet which will make the rise the greatest on renord Louisville lJThe flood isabsorbing all interest on the river front The river id now rising 11 oclock ltwo inches an hour It is thirtysix feet The canal is something less on the falls The ground floors of all houses are Ml of water the streets inundated and occupants occu-pants removed to upper stories or gone out entirelv In the eastern part of the city a large sewer has broken and the water is flowing rapidly It promises to do much damage to manufat > rieft Much 01 Portland is under water The condition condi-tion of distilleries are all under water The cattle fed there are in danger of being be-ing drowned Dispatches from Frankfort say the Kentucky River is thirtyfour feet nigh and raising a foot each hour When this reaches the Ohio River there is great danger of the result here Cincinnati 12At midnight the river is sixtytwo feet four inches and rising an inch and half hourly This is half an inch above the great flood ot 47 Since 930 the weatherlShas been clear and warm The city of Lawrenceburg Indiana twenty miles bslow here is entirely en-tirely inundated No spot of ground will beYUsible in it tomorrow They are isolated and cane be reached by rail and boats cant land there They have telephoned here tonight for broad It will have to be conveyed to them by skiffWheeling Wheeling W Va 12The river has been falling all day and is now twenty feet has rained constantly for the past two hours the rain following a heavy fall of snow Little streams were much smaller and damage to fences buildirgs and bridges Is apprehended to nigbt Wheeling Creek is higher than during the recent rise A third rise is looked for with consternation Pittburg 12It is probable this section sec-tion will be visited by another flood in the next twentyfour hours At 1030 p m there was sixteen and onehalf feet 01 water in the Monongahela River and it was rising six inches an hour Dispatches from po nts above reported the river rising eighteen to tW3nty inches an hour tCincianati nThe river 11 oclock has reached sixtythree feet and five inches It has risen two inches in the past three hours Barges are being run along Second Street to relieve tho want of the people living there The current on Front Street isi 10 rapid as to mate navigation dangerous Suspension bridge cannot be reached at all except by boats Newport bridge is also inaccisible except ex-cept by boats and wagon The suffaing among the people in the flooded part of the city is unavoidable Spocials from points above indicate the rise will cjntinuo here probably until tomorrow to-morrow The river is falling4at Marietta Mari-etta but rising ahoy a there At Maryi ville it is rising an inch lin hour Large quantities of whisky flour and other property overflowed there No change in the situation of railroads The Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Hamilton and Dayton is underwater under-water near Brightons but trams arrived ar-rived and went out this morning The Little Miami road is virtually blocked at Btavia junction a few miles out by the track being under water No news this uiorning from Lawrenceburg The rise at that point is feared as the town isolated is-olated Frankfort Ky 12 The Kentucky River had risen seven feet Sunday mop and is now rising with fortyone feet in the channel Heavy drift is running The water is within three feet of tho wooden bridge which is in greit dangar of giving away It it the highest water ever known on the Kentucky River Piltsburg 12The rise of the Monon gahela River was not sufficient to overflow over-flow the banks At noon it was twenty feet two inches with the prospects of probably a foot more before the highest will be reached No damage is done A dispatch from the head waters reports tho river falling |