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The Allegheny was full to overflowing, bringing the water from far away 
Meadville, Oil City and western Pennsylvania, and from western New York 
almost to the borders of Lake Erie. 
The Youghiogheny brought its tribute from near the Maryland line. 
Cheat river swelled the Monongahela and that river submerged a portion of 
Pittsburg. 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 
Loats approaching the higher windows. The manufactories ceased to operate, 
their plants were under water. Varms 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 
reach 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 
ofa 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 
