Article taken from The Hornellsville Tribune, Hornellsville, NY, June 10, 1858
The Buffalo Express of yesterday represents that the whole west is being flooded by the continued rains. The streams are also swelled enormously. Railroads are at sea, and locomotives are running for miles upon miles in the midst of expansive lakes, created by the overflow of the streams upon the valleys.
The Scioto river is higher than it has been for years. A steamboat went out from Portsmouth last week on a tour of inspection, and reports that she sailed over fences, roads, bridges, tree-tops with the greatest of ease--the banks on both sides being submerged from ten to twenty feet.