Ohio River at Cincinnati and Covington - 1890 Flood

DELUGED RIVER TOWNS

Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville

Are Partially Submerged.

THE FLOOD HOURLY INCREASES

Great Damage to Merchants in the Bottoms --

The Weather Continues Unfavorable,

and a Further Rise is Inevitable --

Much Distress and Privation.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 27. - The rain fell here during the twelve hours, ending at 8 o'clock to-night, was one-sixteenth of an inch, and it was the same at Louisville. It has been rising here since 7 o'clock at the rate of an inch an hour, and at 10 o'clock to-night it was fifty-five feet and one and one-half inches and still rising steadily.

The Western railway passenger stations to-morrow will be Ohio and Mississippi, the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, and the McLeah avenue depots. At these various roads, already driven from the central depot, will receive and deliver their passengers.

The storm reported central about Nashville, Tenn., at this writing (11 o'clock) is causing grave apprehension here among men who have river interests, and among men who have property and business interests in the lowlands of the city. It the precipitation in the next twenty-four hours should be as great in the Ohio Valley as it has been at Memphis and Nashville from the storm approaching here form that direction, it will doubtless cause a third great flood. In that case the river would be at its maximum about Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. The situation at this writing has a dangerous look.

Back water from the flood has reached the League Baseball Park, washing out the fences and doing much damage.

Most of the basements of Water, Front, and Second streets are flooded, and the sidewalks are almost entirely covered with wares that have heretofore been stored in the cellars. The Mill Creek bottoms are filling up rapidly. The water is but ten feet from the level of Eighth and the railroad tracks. Below this point the tracks are submerged, although the water is not high enough to quench the fires of the locomotives. Six firms in the commission business, on Water street, moved out this morning, and many others in the bottoms are making preparations to vacate. The flood water has inundated the pits of the Addyston Pipe Works and the Anchor Iron Works at Newport, and all operations at both mills have been suspended.

In Covington the overflow has made impassable the board walk leading to Lewisburg. At the foot of Riddle street, Front street, east of the Suspension Bridge, is impassable, and the water is rapidly reaching the danger point at Walsh's distillery. A portion of Hemingray's old glass works is surrounded.