Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1901 — WORST EVER KNOWN. [ARTICLE]

WORST EVER KNOWN.

Ne cr Before Wm the Ohio Vnl'cy Flooded So Late in the easan. For several days tlie Ohio liver has been a torrent of mud and water, an 1 it reached the height of fifty-two feet. It has never before been so high this late in the spring. Hundreds of farmers along the Ohio and the Licking will probably be left destitute ns n result of the floods. The conditions up-country are no less serious than those whi li confront the residents of the large towns. Crops have been destroyed and tjie losses will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The torrent was given added fury by rains and snow and it was* feared the record of seveuty-oue feet nnd three-fourths inch, the mark reached by the river in 1884. would lie exceeded. In tKDT and in 1898 there were serious floods. At that time the river reached a height of sixty-oue feet at Cincinnati. At Cincinnati the floods that have been sweeping down the-Ohio valley raised the river two feet above the danger kne and the town was filled with the gravest four It him known for a decade. In seventynine of the city's churches members of all denominations assembled to pray for divine aid iu the crisis that seemed to be at hand. The present flood is the worst that lias ever teen known so late in the spring. The first week in April, 18HI5, the river reached 55 feet 1) inches in Cincinnati nnd that was the highest water over known so late in the spring. There has been no flood iu the Ohio valley since March, ISDN. , The receding, waters will leave a heavy deposit of slime nnd this fact adds’a new element of danger to the situation. It is predicted by physicians that an epidemic of iufluenxa nnd kindred diseases will add its scourge to the havoc wrought toy the flood.