[Newspaper]
Publication: The Daily Inter Ocean
Chicago, IL, United States
vol. 10, no. 293, p. 5, col. 3
WATERY WASTES.
Inundation by the Breaking of
Levees Assuming Larger
Proportions.
Plantations in the Vicinity of Austin,
Miss., Deluged by the
Overflow.
Parts of the Cities of Helena, Ark.,
and Louisville Rendered
Uninhabitable.
The River Rising at Cincinnati and
Madison, and Heavy Rains
Falling.
Wrecking of Two Freights on the Atlanta
and Charlotte Air Line — Minor
Accidents.
THE FLOODS.
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AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 19. — Rain began falling here at 12:05 this afternoon and up to 10:30 to-night one inch had fallen. At Louisville at that hour one inch and thirty-four hundredths had fallen, and at Pittsburg, where the rain commenced late, nearly an inch had fallen. The river at 7 p.m. was 53 feet and stationary, which is within 9 feet 10 inches of the great rise of 1832, and within 9 feet of the great rise of 1847. Business men are are on the landing, watching their cellars, some of which are flooded already. The water is over the sidewalk on the river front near the suspension bridge in Covington. This rain appears to be general, and gives apprehension of a great destructive flood, coming as it does on the Ohio, when that stream and its tributaries are at high flood.
AT COVINGTON, KY.
Walsh & Kellogg's distillery and Hemingray glass works in Covington will be endangered if the river rises two or three feet higher. At 1 o'clock this morning the river is still falling and rain is reported falling all along the river. It looks as if a great flood is coming.
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