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Show I . LOOKS LIKE A FLOOD. I t : I , 7 he Ohio Biver it Still Eising and Vs Fears of a Disastrous Overflow I Art Expressed, BAISINQ ALL ALONG THE EIVEB. A 8eries of Overflows Visiting the Towns , Along the Ohio The Gila Eiver Out of its Banks. Cincinnati. Feb. 24. Tho Ohio river 1 bas been rising today at the rate of half an inch an hour and at 1 o'clock had - reached 57 feet. News from Ripley, ' forty miles above, is that it is rising there at the same rate, while other points indicate a falling. Uainisfalliug at nearly all points from here to bead-waters. bead-waters. Thore is no material change in tho situation here. In Covington, Ky., rolling mills have stopped and many families were compelled to move to higher grounds. Gila Bend, Ariz., Feb. 24. Sait ; river, near Phwnix, rose ten feet in an j , hour, sweeping away many adobe j houses. A thousand people in tho val-i' val-i' . ley of Salt river are houseless, liail-i liail-i f roads in the vicinity are badly washed 1 out. Colorado river at Yuma threat-' threat-' ens that place. A large force of men j is engaged in building dikes to save i i them. A special dispatch from Yuma, :j ' ' Ariz., says Yuma is entirely under water. The levee broke last evening. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars damage has already been dono. (ins Lee is drownod, and a largo amount of livo stock perished. The river is still . rising and if ii continues will entirely destiny the town. - Yv.ua, Ariz., Feb. 24. Lossof lifere-snlting lifere-snlting from the Hoods is reported from (iila valley, but no particulars can be learned. The Southern pacific tracks ' ' tire washed out for twenty-four miles ' east of Yuma. Scores of adobe houses have gnuo down, and several hundred people are homeless. Great distress prevails for want of food and shelter. Nearly every house in Yuma is flooded. PiiKTLAsii, Ore., Feb. 24. Reports from all parts of Oregon and Washington Washing-ton show that a snow storm has prevailed pre-vailed for forty-eight hours. The fall west of the Cascade mountains is gen-i' gen-i' erally light, but. in the eastern portion , of the twq states from five to six inches has fallen. Railroads have experienced tio trouble thus far. Pixknix, Ariz., Feb. 1)4. Late advices ad-vices this afternoon said: Yuma is .- threatened with inundation by the Gila 4 river changing its bed from where it ... ; empties into the Colorado. All wires ' are down now and it is supposed part t of the town has been swepl.away. . San Cahi.os, Ariz., Feb. U4. By a cloudburst ycslerday two and one-half (inches of- rain fell in six hours. Six inches have fallen since Thursday. The (iila river is higher than ever known. ' . Indian farm ditches and Hour mills are San FANClRf'O, Feb. 24.In the. dis-"Vii- rjct 1)t'twen"Lancasfer and Saugers, "V' on tho Southern Pacific, Bud between ' --sMoJave and Los Angeles, several washed." wash-ed." puis have occurred and trains are de-- de-- layed. T j' San Francisco, Feb. 24. Heavy j rains havo prevailed throughout the 11 state for the past two days, causing many washouts on railroads and serious interruption to telegraphic communication. communica-tion. Clifton, Ariz , Feb. 24. Advices from Solomonville state that the Gila valley Hood is unprecedented. Great destruction of property is reported and travel is suspended. Sisson, Cal.. Feb. 24. It is snowing , hard. All trains are blocked by slides and washouts north and sooth. There is eight feet of snow at Summit. |