The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-02-08
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The Floods.

I Port Deposit, Nd, 1.-THE ice
gorge in theI Susquehanna extends
two miles. The ice below the gorge
is firm for three miles. All day
people in exposed places have been
removing valuables /; lumber dealers
have put out booms around their
yards, and warehousemen have
hoisted stocks of grain, ETC., into
upper stories. The river was rising
tall day at many points, and vast
Quantities of mush ice are passing
down. AT several points a gorge
is formed, causing a rapid rise, but
most Of the gorges wore away.
Railroad companies are removing
rolling stock every night, During
the day trains ran as usual.
Waverly, Ohio, THE Sciota
River is overlooking the bottom
lands and rising 21a inches an hour.
The town of Jasper is flooded by
the breaking of the levee. The
damages are enormous.
Marietta, Ohio, 1.-THE whole
lower part of the city is overfowed
and the river rising 8 inches an
hour. A hundred people are driven
out of their houses. A meeting
was held tonight to organize relief
measures.
Portsmouth, 1.-THE Ohio River is
II feet 4 inches, and rising inches
an hour. The water is already in
the houses in the upper part of the
city.
Bloomington, Ind, THE dam
ages in this city and Brown County
are magnifed by the later reports.
The streams were never so high,
and live stock is swept away and
hogs frozen to death in the water.
Pittsburg, Pa, From present
indications, this sections will be
visited before morning with the
greatest flood for fifty years. Ali
day yesterday and last night the
rain fell in torrents at all points
along the MOnongahela Valley, the
record showing a total rainfall of
Tx inches. This melted and car
ried off the snow on the mountains,
and soon the creeks and streams at
the headwaters were converted into
small rivers and pouring volumes
OF water into the Monongahela,
Early this morning came reports
from points above of the booming
river, but not until noon was there
any rise here in the river. It COM
menced swelling at that hour and
has since been rising rapidly.
Dispatches from MorgantOwn, W.
Va, Greensboro, Brownsville, Pa,
and other towns along the banks
report the water still rising at the
rate of six to eighteen inches ar
hour. Many places are already par
italy submerged, and great destruc
ltion of property is anticipated. Al
this point there was twenty-five
feet at 10 o'clock tonight, and from
the amount of water yet to come il
is thought there will be from thirty
two to thirty-fve feet before the
flood reaches its height. Beyond
the damage done by inundatiOn ant
possible washing away of ole
1Smithfeld Street bridge, which wa!
in bad condition, no appre
lhension is felt here as to the
Ioutcome. What ice is still il
the Monongahela and Youghrogeny
Rivers are thought to be so rotteC
by the thaW last week as to be in 8
lcondition to do no damage. A por.
ton of Allegheny City and South
Side are now under water, and by
tomorrow morning it is expected
the mills and factories along the
rivers will be compelled to suspend
Operations. Families in the lower
Ipart of the city are moving the il
goods to a place Of safety and de.
serting their houses. The ALE.
Igheny River is also rising, but nc
serious damage is anticipated from
that quarter. Reports from various
Quarters show great destruction OF
property. The flood is general
Throughout this part of the coun
TRY.
Chicago, THE city authorities
fear great damage by flooding OF
Easements in the city in case of q
sudden thaw. The entire winters
snow has accumulated in the streets
and piled up about the sidewalks
land If a gorge forms in the river
there will be no outlet for the vast
volume of water from the water
shed to the west.