The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-02-09

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HxAyy FLOODS.
tooeoned tho ~ Sorcres II S. 'Y; n
and Western PepiSVl11nk n
Wenso damage be- olrool1r n q
The audience 81 a. 6pcrS a : =
New Castle, Pa, bad . b 49, -
tho door In cnxxinGoo to W0@x hoc
two or three feot deep around tie door.
The OH City " Chicago, Pittsburg q
Lake Erie, Ponnsyivaxiia, Baltimore
and the Eric roads wore all suspended,
the water puttipg out the fires "A ~
locomotives Two eonnty bfidGo0 nd
the NewJCRstle3 AeilrDed bridge were
torn away and bali o. on City was in
undated, the people be1ng Eoecued from
their homes In boats and On RATS. The
Tres IN the pumping house OF the W1e0l
works were put out and Oil City's water
Upply cut on. 81 81 SSI,s .'yss 4
The bridge at Titusville was taken
ayny with three boys on it, two ii
wn0m wer9 drowned. No trains can
reach the city. At Meadville the city
was flooded aud over 100 families were
rescued In boats. :, All, the county
bridges are down. Live stock by the
hundred have been swept away. The
large French Creek bridge was destroy
ed. Timber and rafts,yalued at $50, 900
were lost in Clarion river.
The large bridge over the Allegheny
at Emlenton was carried away with a
man named Robinson on top of it. He
floated to Park City where he was saved
by ropes. "a
The destruction of life isssmall, but
that of property along the Allegheny
river will reach $500. 600. S,-gns
In Pittsburg about forty coal boats
and barges and two steamers - the
ModOc and the Cora-Were torn loose
by the ice and either broken to pieces or
carried away. Most of the mills and
manufactures along both the rivers are
partially submerged and therefore idle.
Too much space would be required to
attempt an enumeration Of the individ-
ual losses which range from 500 to ST.
600, but the aggregate will not be short
Of 5000. 900 and may reach $3.50, 900. All
the railroads centering here have suf-
fered severely in one way and another.
The Pittsburg and Western tracks in
Allegheny are four feet under water,
and operations have been entirely sus-
pended On the South side the Lake
Erie railroad track is covered at several
places, and Charters creek is backed
up clear to the Panhandle railroad
crossing. The bottom lands at McKee's
rocks are all flooded. The first train
On CQe Lake Erl6 came through all
right. but four hours behind time.
Ats O'clock Sunday morning the Ma
honing river overlooked its banks at
Youngstown, Ohio, and forced two
hundred families to leave their homes
in boats. The rolling-mills are sub
merged. The food reached its highest
point Monday morning, q rise of fifteen
feet and five inches higher than ever
known before. The fireman and vol
unteers were called out to rescue some
fifty families in the submerged part of
the city by boats and RATS. John
Hammond was drowned while attempt
ing to get his family to dry land. The
PittsburgV and Ashtabula and the
Painesville.and Youngstown roads are
arT as T sce Ss %ss ce 'sai ed a oS
the track twenty feet high in many
places. Freighttrainson other roads
have been abandoned fine rolling-mills
have been shut down and the furnaces
banked.agTb loss Of bridges, fences,
and stock througlIthe Mahoning valley
is heavy. gE55 ,rsI.s- ftssr ,r..-f -
At Bradford, Pennsylvania, the flood
swept away five bridges and inundated
five hundred houses in the lower part
of the city Eighty-five families had to
lee for their lives. ~ a 49,
Bridges on. the Lake Shore road at 7.
Huron and Frem ont have sbeen~swept
away, and those at Piqua and Ottawa,
on the Dayton road, are considered IN
safe. Thirty empty freight-cars went
down with the bridge at Fremont, kill
ing conductor and brakeman.
A dispatch from Toledo. Ohio. dated
Monday evening says:-Northwestern
Ohio is being treated to one of the cold
est baths known in its history. "a large
part of this portion Of the state is un-,
der water, and reports from all sections
are to effect that the flood is UMPIRE
cedentod. Toledo has thus Tar escaped
its rayaQes. but there are to-uiQht In
dications that this state Of things win
not long continue. ard the cry OF 1.-The
flood is cofningl,' is hourly expected.
With the memories OF the disastrous
food of 1881 still fresh in their minds.
the merchants of this city have for the
past three days been taking precautiOn.
airy measures against q repetition of
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