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The Allegheny H as full to overflowing, bringing the water from far away 

 Meadville, Oil City md western Pennsylvania, and from western New York 

 almost to the bordi. - of Lake Erie. 



The Youghiogbeny brought its tribute from near the Maryland line, 

 ('heat river swelled the Monongahela and that river submerged a portion of 

 I'ittsburg. Water falling in Maryland found its way through the Youghio- 

 gheny and helped to swell the rising rivers of the West. 



The Buckhannon of West Virginia, the Greenbriar and Kanawha emptied 

 their contents into the now overflowing Ohio. 



From Kentucky the Big Sandy, Licking and Kentucky rivers aided in the 

 general outpour of waters. The cities along the Muskingum, Hocking, Scioto 

 and the Little and Great Miami were submerged as those streams rose higher 

 and higher over the low lying districts. 



At Cincinnati the water kept creeping upward, passed the danger line, and 

 all the lower districts were under water, but it did not stop at the highest mark 

 previously recorded. The railways were covered with many feet of water, 

 trains ceased to enter the various depots, but discharged their passengers in 

 the higher outskirts of the city. The water ascended into the principal streets, 

 filling the first and second stories of hundreds of business houses. Dwellers 

 of the submerged districts who could not remove were fed from skiffs and 

 boats approaching the higher windows. The manufactories ceased to operate, 

 their plants were under water. Farms for hundreds of miles along the river 

 were flooded, houses swept away, stock drowned, and vast quantities of feed 

 and produce were ruined. Bridges were torn from their foundations and 

 borne away on the tide. Streams which are but rivulets had their banks over- 

 flowed by the back-waters a score of miles from the big river. Steamboats were 

 barred from navigation, for they could not go under any of the bridges, nor 

 rc-ach shore at many landing places. Business was paralyzed, and yet the 

 water continued to rise. 



Lawrenceburg, which had a strong, high levee about the city, and was 

 supposed to be safe, was flooded by the tremendous overflow coming in from 

 the Miami and White Water, as their waters flowed in, overtopping the Ohio. 



The several levels of the land along the rivers rise in terraces, fields quarter 

 of a mile wide occupying each terrace. One after the other of these fields were 

 submerged, until cellars upon the third terrace were filled with water. Crops 

 were washed away, and homes had to be vacated. 



Rails from fences, lumber from the yards, logs, bridges, barges torn from 

 their moorings and frame houses were constantly floating by, attracting the 

 attention of the wreckers, who reap a rich harvest at every rise in the river. 

 From some farmhouse the bank had caved away, carrying with it a brick ce- 

 mented cistern, and this also floated for miles down the stream until filling 

 with water, it sank. 



A few towns along the Ohio are built upon high bluffs, Rising Sun being 

 one of these; the highest floods cannot reach any but a small area in the 

 lower district, but most of the towns and cities are less favorably situated and 

 these suffered severely. 



The Cumberland and Tennessee from far separated sources brought their 



