1887 Ohio River Flood

THE OHIO FLOODS.

The Waters Reported Falling and

the Danger Past.

Many Streets in Cincinnati submerged —

Damage in Ohio and Kentucky

Towns, and Along the

Indiana Shore.

THE WATERS RECEDING.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 8. — The river continues to recede gradually, having declined to fifty-four feet eleven inches at noon. The weather is cloudy but not raining, and so long as this continues there is no danger of a flood.

All the railroads entering the Central depot are now receiving freight and passengers at Eighth street. Some of the streets now having more or less water in them are Madison, Brighton, Isabella, Bellevue, Southgate, Hubbard, Central avenue, Moss, Chestnut, Front, and Taylor. In Covington, the Hemingray glass works and the . . . [illegible text] . . . rolling mills have now all suspended operations. Front street is under water and impassable. The water now covers many streets in Newport. The exodus from the low-lying ground is great and the demand for higher houses and rooms is enormous.

Gloomy advices have been received from points on the Indiana side of the Ohio. Two-thirds of the business houses and dwellings of Troy and Enterprise, villages above Evansville, are under water, and the people have abandoned Enterprise entirely, leaving most of their household goods to be ruined and their stock to perish. It is estimated . . . [illegible text] . . . pens of corn have been swept away or badly damaged by the water. At Newburg 700 bales of hay waiting shipment were carried away Sunday. The loss to persons engaged in buying saw-logs is very great, the product of the fall labor of several farms, each employing a large force of men, being swept away from the mouth of Panther's creek. The lower part of the city of Madison is flooded with water, and business there has been suspended. Many of the factories, cooper shops, and ship yards are in extreme danger.

LOUISVILE, Ky., Feb. 8. — The river is falling at the rate of half an inch an hour and the repetition of the disastrous floods of 1883 and 1884 is considered past. The weather is clear and warm. The gage shows thirty-two feet and seven inches.