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Great Flood

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
December
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The pnpers contain details of a very great flood on the Oliio River. We subjoin a few item?. Tiie Flood.- The Pittsburgh pnpers of the 13lh meniion a rise in the River at liiat place, and sny Alleghany is innundated and that there will be great loss of prpeily nn ili Al'eghany and Monongahela. A portion oí llie city was under w a i e r. CiNciNNATr, Dec. 15. Th? Oliio has renched tho higliest point of '32. Louer port oí the city utterfy innundated. 500 families rendercd houseless. A public meeting has been called to relieve the destitute. The stores soutli of Pearl street are fiooded, and Brondway is overflowed. - Business almost eritirely suspended. - Half' the lurnber in the city isafluat, and bnals have been carried off the stocks in the ship yards. The snow is 18 nches deep, and more is now falling. We have no luier mails, and, consequently, nothing more of the great flood at Cincinnati. Tlie i ext news is looked Tor wilh interest, as the loss of prnperty( and probably lifr, will be immense. No less than 25,000 people, in the city alone, were drivcn froin their houses by the waer, vvhich was then (on the 16th) at a stand. The dimage along the river must also beextensive. - Del. Adv. Cleveland, Dec. 18. Mr Wheeler, the genllemanly operator at this point, informsus that he learns by Telegrapli f rom Cincinnati this mornng, that the weters are slill raging- doing great damage. That at Zanesville the levee broke awaj and submerged oneihirdofthe town. The village opposite Zanesville is comp!ete!y covered. Millions ifbushels of corn have been swept ofTdüwn the Muskingum.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News