Article taken from The Daily Miner, Butte, MT, February 12, 1884
Columbus, O., Feb. 10 - An engineer of the Scioto Valley railway waded out at Portsmouth this morning and telegraphed from Piketon, twenty-four miles north, that the water is 5 feet higher in that city than last year. The steamer Bonanza is lying afloat on the sidewalk and people are entering the hotel through second story windows. When he left the city three houses were burning which the engines could not reach.