Flooding along the Ohio; Hemingray factory affected

WAR OF

ELEMENTS

RAGING

Flood and Storm

Devastating the East

and South.

OHIO RIVER REACHING FOR ITS

FORMER HIGH-WATER RECORD

-- CLEVELAND BURIED DEEP IN

SNOW, WITH THE MERCURY

HUNTING THE BOTTOM OF THE

TUBE — DISTRESSING CONDITION

OF AFFAIRS IN CHARLESTON.

Cincinnati, March 7. — The high water here has already begun to inconvenience the railroads, and the Grand Central depot is abandoned, the water having entered the lower end of the train shed. The river has been rising steadily since last night.

Street car traffic has not yet been stopped, though at 7 o'clock this morning one line in Newport is running through four inches of water for 400 feet and a few inches more water will stop travel on that line.

Before night it is feared 25,000 people will be homeless, as the river is expected to reach at leat the fifty-eight-foot mark by that time. It is rising steadily at the rate of about two inches an hour, and at 7 o'clock this morning registered 53.3 feet, a rise of eleven inches since 1 o'clock a.m. No serious damage has yet resulted, as everybody is prepared for high water at this time of the year. The high-water mark here is 71.1 feet.

This morning the river rose only one inch and it looks now as though the water would come to a stand in a few hours.

Street car traffic was stopped by water this afternoon on West Third street, Covington, and the Covington glass works have been closed down by high water.

No further serious trouble is anticipated as the water, it is expected, will soon begin falling. Up river reports are favorable for this belief.