| Show THE OHIO FLOODS the river continues to rise rapidly the 68 foot stape passed business portions of towns under water lives lost ana property destroyed st cincinnati feb 21 the ohio river is still ris ineat the rate of two inches an hour which bag been the rate for the twelve hours preceding 8 tonight at which hour fifty eight feet uve inches was the stage although the river is falling at pittsburg it will take until friday or saturday for the crest ot the rise to pass here under the most favorable circumstances the six y foot stage will be reached early tomorrow morning the chief signal service officer predicts that the sixty foot stage will be the limit other experienced men the tater will go considerably higher than that merchants on east front street who would be driven out by sixty two feet are making no attempt to move their goods the gymnasium grounds the baseball park the ladlow lagoon and coney island are all more or leas under water the expensively constructed geet street tunnel and bridge is being rapidly undermined and ie in great danger all of the railroads nave now abandoned union central station aid are using temporary depot at eighth street forty families applied at one charitable institution today for relief on account of high water driving them from home dayton and bellevue on the kentucky side have been cut off from street car connection at and travel is now by flatboat the western part of newport is suffering greatly the police reported a 8 tonight that over aco families lad been driven from their homes by the water and that the sixty foot stage expected by mornine morn inz would reach aa many more the police force at kew port is now largely occupied in patrolling the submerged districts in skiffs public halls and churches may be thrown open but eo far the sufferers have all been taken care of at riverside the town hall has been opened for flood suffered e but only a few have asked for ia shelter business portion of towns cincinnati feb 24 renorra tonight from pomeroy ironton and portsmouth are that all of the business portions por tiona ot thosa places are submerged and many families are sleeping in public halle houses and churches reports of loss of life louisville ky feb 24 Reports of loss of life in the eastern kentucky flood continue to come in jas M morgan wife and child were drowned in floyd county by the overflowing ot beaver creek which destroyed their home elder morton a mormon missionary was drowned near mount elkhorn o 0 unknown woman was drowned in leslie county and in jackson county henry holcomb lost his life while trying to ford a stream at the cumberland river has forced a third of the population to move out |
