Hemingray Glass Company - Ohio River Flood at Cincinnati and Covington

THE OHIO RIVER BOOMING.

The River Rapidly Rising to the Danger

Point, Threatening a Repetition of the

Big Flood - The Lowlands About

Cincinnati Inundated.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 31. - The river continues to rise steadily. At eleven o'clock it had reached 54 feet 1 inch, flooding all the railroad tracks entering the Central station to a depth of twelve or fourteen inches. Two feet more will cause a suspension of traffic. The steamers Rainbow and Boston, both up-river boats, are tied up at the water-works, unable to get under the Newport bridge. The U. P. Sebenek could not get under the suspension bridge last night, and had to abandon her trip to New Orleans.

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 cellars. The Mill Creek bottoms have been filling up rapidly, and the water is near the sidewalks. 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 Addison Pipe Works and the Archer 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.

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 tow inches an hour.