. The street railway review . n every 5 or 6 years, the Ohio river runsover its banlcs and goes on a rampage, causing loss andinconvenience to those living along its course. After a longexperience with floods, property owners in the districts sub-ject to overflow have erected tiieir buildings above highwater mark, putting in substantial foundations, built levees^and made other provision for high water, but all the pranksof the unruly stream can not be anticipated. Heavy rainsthroughout the watershed of the Ohio caused it to reach thedanger point, 45 ft., at Cincinnati. Vast districts on bothth
. The street railway review . n every 5 or 6 years, the Ohio river runsover its banlcs and goes on a rampage, causing loss andinconvenience to those living along its course. After a longexperience with floods, property owners in the districts sub-ject to overflow have erected tiieir buildings above highwater mark, putting in substantial foundations, built levees^and made other provision for high water, but all the pranksof the unruly stream can not be anticipated. Heavy rainsthroughout the watershed of the Ohio caused it to reach thedanger point, 45 ft., at Cincinnati. Vast districts on boththe Ohio and the Kentucky sides were deluged, makingtravel in the lower parts of Cincinnati, Newport, Bellevueand Dayton uncertain and dangerous. The first illustration shows a view on Eastern avenuenear the Torrence road. The car in the foreground wasabandoned on account of the street being impassable as thewater stood from 3 to 6 ft. deep. The Cincinnati, Bellevue& Dayton road can operate only a portion of its line on the. EASTERN AVENUE—CINCINNATI. Kentucky side of the river. One of our pictures shows abroad expanse of water where is usually high, dry latest mode of transportation is very primitive, consist-ing of a barge ferry with man power for tractive effort. Acable is anchored on the street car track on either side of theinundated districts and the passengers transferred in thebarge. A car may be seen in the distance waiting to takethe water bound inhabitants of Dayton to their places ofbusiness in Cincinnati and Newport. Perhaps the most serious damage caused by the flood wasthe collapse of the 8th street viaduct, in Cincinnati, which isused for the Warsaw avenue, Elberon avenue and Sedans-ville car lines. A disaster was narrowly averted by thepresence of mind of a motorman on the Elberon avenue car, containing 31 passengers, was on the viaduct whenthe floor began to sink. The motorman turned his con-troller on to the last notch and as the car sped ov
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