Show THOUSANDS HOMfS flOODfD LARGE PART OF CINCINNATI UNDER WATER Families Are Lucky In the Western Porkopolis Who Live In a Two story HouseCottages Deserted Cincinnati 0 March 27Unless rain should come copiously and quickly the present freshet of the Ohio river will very soon pour the great flood into the I Mississippi river From Portsmouth up it is falling tonight At Portsmouth 1 I it is rising slowly At all points below i airo it is rising Here at Cincinnati i the current is unusually swift which Indicates that the volume of water from tributaries below has diminished greatly and given free course to the piledup waters above Reports from various parts of the Ohio valley agree in announcing warm temperature I cloudy skies and high winds with only I one instance of drizzling rain At Cincinnati the mercury registered I 6S In the lowlands of Cincinnati nearly I near-ly 1000 houses are flooded with from one to four feet of water Some have I been abandoned which is the case with I onestory cottages In twostory houses families remain in the upper J stories Of the flooded houses 500 are in and about Cumminsville from Backwater j I Back-water In Mill creek where the inundation inunda-tion i is more annoying than serious In j ht i i and about Columbia the extreme river I limit of the city 400 houses are soaked j with from one to four feet of water At Riverside the extreme down stream I limit of the city 100 houses are affected af-fected about as those at Columbia Those driven out find no difficulty in j securing shelter with their more fortunate I tunate neighbors though some occupy tents on high land Household effects damagable by water have either been saved by timely removal or by friendly > boats Nearly all affected are experienced ex-perienced flood fighters and are seldom i caught napping when a great rise comes down the Ohio I On the Kentucky side the inhabitants of the lowlands near Dayton and Belle t vue have been placed in the same unpleasant un-pleasant situation as their Cincinnati < neighbors But most of them have seen floods before now and know how j to make the best of them Thus far no casualties have been reported The eftrg litTo railroads are all in better condition i The Baltimore Ohio Southwestern Is i i compelled to make tours east and west but this will soon be over as repairs are pushed with all possible dispatch The Cincinnati Georgetown Portsmouth Ports-mouth railroad was compelled to make I transfers in the east end of Cincinnati I today All other roads are practically intact Merchants and commission brokers in the bottoms removed their goods to dry I spots without loss Very few factories j of consequence have been interrupted I or stopped Small boats continue to come and go and navigation will be < fully resumed by tomorrow or Tuesday i i At 10 oclock tonight the stage here was 33 feet and fourtenths Between I 1 8 and 0 oclock it had remained stationary I sta-tionary This fluctuation is the precursor I precur-sor of a fall It will probably stop at 53 feet and 9 inches and by tomorrow i noon will be falling I |