New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-08
THE FLOODS AND STORMS.
THE MoNoNGAHELA RISING RAPIDLY

MANY PLACES SUBMERGED AND MUCH DEsTRUC-
TON OF PROPERTY ANTICIPATED.
PIrrsBURG' Penn. Feb. From present Indica-
tons this section will be visited before morning
with the greatest food for fifty years. All day
yesterday aud last night rain fell in torrents at all
points along the Monongahea Valley, the record
showing a total rainfall of p inches This meted
and carried off the on the mountains. and tho
creeks aud streams converted into small
rivers, pouring into the MonOngahela The river
at noon began swelling and has since been rising
rapidly.
Dispatches from Morgantown, w. Va, Green's
boro and Brownsville, Penn, and other towns
along the banks state that the water is still rising
at a rate of from six to eighteen inches per hour.
Many places are already partially submerged. and
great destruction of property is anticipated. At
ms polut the river was twenty-five feet
deep at 10 o'clock tonight and from the amount
yet to come it is thought that there will be from
thirty-two TO thrty-fve feet before the food
reaches It's height. Beyond the damage done by
away of the old SmithteId Street bridge.
whlch Is IN bad condition, no appre-
TSa ION 10 felt here as to the result
Rivers has been, it is thought rotted by the thaw
last week as to DO IN no condition to do damage.
Portions OF Allegheny City aud South Side are
under water. and by tomorrow morning Ii Il ex-
pected the mills and factories along the rivers will
be compelled TO suspend operations. Families in
to places of safety and deserving their homes The
Allegheny River is also rising but no serious dam.
age Is anticipated from that quarter.
THE ICE GORGE IN THE sUsQUEHANNA.
PORT DEPOSIT, Md Feb. 7.-Since last Sunday
morning, when the alarm was first given that the
ice in the Susquehanna was breaking up, it has con-
tinued TO jam aud pack opposite this pl ice, south
and north, and now extends, broken. jagged mass,
from Mount AraIat on the south to Rock Run on
the north, distance of at least two miles.
South of Mount Ararat to the railroad
bridge at Havre de Grace, distance of three miles,
the ice Is still Solid and is strong enough to resist
and hold in check the vast mass of gorged ice
above it. North Of hook Run the river is full of
broken ice, which has been passing down to-day.
AS this ice adds nothing to the head of the gorge,
1t must pass under it and out Chesapeake Bay.
/ he danger here is that the channel through which
this ice passes will become damned
up and back the water and ice
up sufficiently to inundate the town,
was the case during the memorable gOrges of
1873 and 1870, when the destruction of property
and suferlngs of the people great. All day
people who 1--WE In exposed places have Ueen buslly
PAGES of security. The lumber-dealers have
put out boOms around their yards TO
protect their S, ocks and The warehouse men have
holsied their stocks OF grain, fertilizers etc., into
tho upper stories. Nv nv possible preCauliOn has
been taken against loss damage, should the Hood
come. rrlcgrams received here by he railroad
officials show thar the river has been rising all day
al narrsOuIg, COLUMBIA, McCalPs Ferry and other
points, ana vast quantities of mush Ice are
passing down. At several pOuts gorges
have formed. causing rapid rises back OF then but
most OF hem have worn away. The railroad CON-
paDles remove their rolling stock every night to
,laceS OF safety, but during the day trains run as
usual
NILKEsBARRE. Penn, Feb. This afternoon the
Ice moved at IttStun but II IS still lOnary nere
II Is feared that the will flow over the Kingston
hI,N, 'eavIng the gorge uuOrOken. The water Is
rising rapidly this evening,