Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-06
THE FLOODS.
UNAI5ATED kUsA OF WATERS.

High ;Fa1er In Pfttsbursh - Railroads
Washed out and FaIalities Resulting
The Rivers on the Rise.
Ia the vicinity of Pittsburgh, yesterday,
| the bridge connecting Allegheny City with
Heirs island vas swept away and came in
contact with Mechanic street bridge,
doing considerable damage aud resulting
| in closing the bridge to travel. The Pitts
| burgh 6 Western railroad company suf
fered severely, every bridge and cUlyert
from Gallery junction to the city having
! been washed away. The road was able to
run out trains by using the West Penn
svlvania tracks. The Allegheny Valley s.
| Fort Wayne roads have also suffered
greatly, and travel has been nearly sus
| pended. TIE lower portions Of Allegheny
City and the south side are under water
and many workshops and foundries have
been compelled to suspend operations until
the food subsidies. The damage
there will exceed $lGO, coo, while tie loss
above cannot at present be approximaed'
The Monongahela river did not put out
much water, but is now rising. The ice
in the Youghiogheny remains intact aud
no damage has resulted to coal barges
moored at different points along the river.
Dispatches from Kittarning say the water
is falling. Between seventy-tive and one
) hundred families are living in secoud
; stories or have moved out. There IS
great suffering among them on account OF
the cold weather. Trains are all delayed.
at New Castle, Pa, number OF bridges
crossing the Neshannock were swept
away. All manufactures are shut down
and hundreds of families are washed out.
Dispatches from Rochester, Bridgewater
i prs1 IN ft,oe
2 is rising rapidly aud threatening the towns
with inundation. At Steubenviile, Ohio,
, the water is over the Cleveland and Pitts
, burgh railroad tracks, aud trAve! is sns.
pended East Liverpool, Ohio ispa' TALLY
l submerged, and a large number OF fami-
t lies were compelled to for,ake thei,
A houses. All the principal manufactures
e. in tho lower part of the town are under
water and have closed down.
At MahOning town one pier oi the Pitts
l burg & Western railroad was swept away
o At Newcastle junction the Ashtabula 81
t Pittsburgh railway is three feet under
water. Trains from Sharon could not
=; reach the city. At Niles peoDle living OF
. the flats escaped from second story win
dows on RATS and boats. Bcowen, Benne
S & Co.'S iron mill. at Youngstown, is il
Y great danger OF having to shut down il
:, consequence of being flooded The iior
bridge at HilltOwn was carried away.
y At Excelsior the wax works owned by
e the Standard oil company and two foo
d bridges We're carried away, five tank
4 were emrted Of oil, fifty barrels of wa,
:, destroyed, the fires put out and the ma
chinery injured. Beck 81 Co.'s provision
/ house and numerous other establishments
II in tine valley sustained damage which viii
| l,a in tba
:, land & Columbus railroad bridge wa
saved by running the railway trains on i
Il and by energetic work in fencing Off tht
floating ice and driftwOod.
h Bellefonte was flooded yesterday by tn
: rise in Spring creek Meadville's poor ar
drowned ont and suffering the loss b.
water in VenangO county alone will not b
less than $l75 600. Not less than twelF
o bridges were carried away or damage
= almost beyond repair.
At wheeling WA.
- The river is now 81 feet s inches hig
Il and is rising at the rate Of inches pc
e hour Its surface is 2 mass of ice and sluSl
4; with large quantity Of drift wood, barrels
10 fences and small bridges. About noon
-, barge with two wagons passed and shortl
II after flat with a new buggy, ono en-
IL being sunk. The fair grounds Of the stat
II exposition association ard other low part
" of Wheeling island are under water 4
we'll as n few Of the low portions OF th
main part OF the city. Some of the res
dents of the island, the streets CT -Thic
N are usually submerged by high water, Al
+, moving out.
Earthquake Follows the Flood.
:, An earthquake, which ratified window:
u croakaIy and furniture, WAS felt at We'll
Is borough, New Hamphshire, at tive nil
1f utts past three o'clock on Sunday after
! noon. The movement was from west
:, east. tho duration five seconds. Ten mir
~ f!tcs larer another slishter shock Was fell
Sd Previous to the G.st shock there was
st calm, "but instantaneous,y with th
T. earthquake the air was set in rapid nc
20 ton, continuing So during tho after
noon"
'' An earthquake shook Bloomington, I
< linois, yesterday morning at Ave O'Clock
1t was preceded by a rumbling SCUM
which lasted several seconds.
t. News Ectes and HtisceIisny.
Of One hundred infantry and artillery has
q will preserve order during the tlial of til
g alleged nurderers, Neal and Gait. ait,
u gether, 400 militiamen will be in attend
auce, under command OF Colonel job
IA Allen. The trial beg ms to-day. OWN
4. to the force of troops no trouble is e.
- pectcd.
There arc further reports OF q panic
the southwestern counties OF Nngini;
is owing to the prevalence OF small pox. III
re disease has a5ated at Salem, but is repor
n ed to have appeared at Bristol, and oths
towns along the Norfolk s. Western raj
~ road and in the interior.
q An unknown young woman threw h
I'd infant from Car window between MaCo
and Atlanta, near Frankvilie, while tt
train was at full speed. She got On :
as Macon, bound for Atlanta. The chill
rt was picked up by road hand. It was badI
bruised, but it may 1iva.
The carnival at New Orleans was in
OF augurated yesterday, Rex " enterin
Of the city in tho afternoon. The 'secon
Of pageant Of the Krewe Of froteus" too
y, place at night, the history Of France ooin
~ illustrated by the tabeaux.
III Jacob Hess Of 1rvington, was sentence
IT. at Newark, New Jersey, to three month
% imprisonment in the penitentiary for sci
1. ing COW from @ herd which had bee
:, quarantined for p'euro pneumonia.
y r. S. Eshler, Joseph Griffin and Jam,
1e Mckee, were killed by cave-in at I'll
I'D Esmeraida mine. at Deadwood, Dakota.
OF Mrs. John Stenman, Of Salt5bur;
\. Indiana county, WAS run over and kille
-. by cars.
~ Some Recent FIRES.
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