Hemingray Glass Company - Covington, Kentucky

CINCINNATI HAS A FLOOD.

The Streets Along the Water Front Submerged

and the Property Damaged.

CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 28 — Most of the basements on Water, Front, and Second streets are flooded, and the sidewalks are most entirely covered with wares that have heretofore been stored in the cellars.

More than a thousand merchants are moving. In the bottoms all cellars are flooded as far as Pearl street. Tobacco merchants have lost heavily.

The streets of Maysville, Ripley, and Catlettsburg are full of water. At the latter place scores of merchants have been compelled to move.

The Mill Creek bottoms are filling up rapidly, and the water is only ten feet from the level of Eighth street and the railroad tracks.

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. At Ripley the river is rising two inches per hour, and the bottom lands are under water. Many families have been compelled to leave their homes. There is much distress and privation among the poorer classes.

At Huntington, W. Va., the river is rising three inches an hour.

At Maysville, Ky., the lowlands are flooded and the water is rising two inches an hour.