Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-08

house in the First ward of Allegheny CITY
since tuesday, was found drowned this
afternoon. 1t has been found that be-
tween 5,OOO and 5000 buildings IN the two
cues We're submerged, including the
residences of $4,000 people, 1O. 900 of whom
are not able to occupy their houses.
t1fteen thousand men are temporarily
I1roWn out OF employment by the stop
page of mills and factories.
A PANORAMA OF PITTsBURG.
PITTsBURG, Feb. Z, II P. M.-The flood
ed district presented a vivid picture all
night long. The police patroled the dis
trict in boats, and all the occupants of
sklHs VINO were unable to give good ac-
count of themselves were arrested. 1t
was feared that thieves would take ad-
vantage OF the deserted stores and dwell
ings and pillage them. No gas was burn
ing on the streets and intense darkness
ness prevailed, relieved occasionally by
an electric light. There were many dwell
lngs from which the occupants had
| ned. Those who declined to seek
safety in flight could not compose them
selves to sleep while the danger was so
imminent. Curtains were drawn back
and the occupants of the houses neryouslv
inquired from the windows as the police
patrol passed by in boats what was the
stage OF the water, and if the river was
still rising. The gratifying news that the
water was stationary at midnight was re-
| celYed on all sides with expressions of iOy
and thankfulness. The Allegheny Coun-
CHS met this morning and appointed a
| committee to receive subscriptions and to
take such other action as would be found
necessary to relieve the present wants of
Ine needy. donations are pouring in from
cltlzens, and it is thought that no diff
Guilty Will be experienced in raising the
amount needed. The public halls of both
cities are filled with women and children
VINO nave been rendered homeless, and
everything possible is being done to alle-
Vlate their sutferings. In the city hall
number of women and children are re-
ported to be very ill.
DROWNED WHILE CATCHING DRIFT
WOOD.
John Jacobs, of Sharpsburg, while
catching drift wood fell into the water
and was drowned. Hundreds of strang-
ers are unWillingly forced to remain in
the city. Heavy land slides are reported
ON all the roads. The Baltimore and Ohio
Road is running trains, but make no at
tempt to arrive and depart on schedule
time. The West Newton accommodation
traln on this road going east and the
Mckeesport accommodation going west
came together yesterday and both engines
were badly wrecked and the baggage cars
rendered useless, and several persons
were hurt but not fatally. The accident
was caused by land slide. The Pan
Handle Road is also running trains, but
they are very late. The Pittsburg. Fort
Wayne and Chicago and the West Penn
sylvania Road has not made any attempt
to send trains out.
BRIDGES WASHED AWAY.
A Beaver, Pa, dispatch saws that the
most serious disaster there has been the
total obstruction of two bridges and the
serious damaging of another. Last night
the pressure of water on the Fallston
bridge caused it to give way, and the
superstructure carried by the strong
current against the Cleveland and Pitts
burg bridge carried it away bodily, to-
gether with nearly 400 feet of its ap-
proaches. The two bridges swept down
the Ohio until they came in contact with
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad
iron bridge just below Beaver. The APP
pr0aehes at both ends were torn away,
and the bridge is in great danger of going
down. Manager Ellsler has rendered the
use OF the opera house for the benefit of the
sufferers after next Wednesday afternoon,
the 18th inst.
THE sUsQUEHANNA'S ICE GORGE BURSTS.
HARRISBURG, PA, Feb. All the ice
gorges on the Susquehanna river have
broken, and the flood is passing without
from end to end, but as the ice is now too
soft to gorge no danger is feared.
AURORA'S VERSION OF THE BURSTING
LEVEE.
AURORA, IND, Feb. 7.-Intense excite
ment was caused here at 10 O'Clock last
night when the alarm bells in Lawrence
burg, two miles away, were distinctly
heard. The levee above that town had
given away, and the place was no doubt
subjected to rushing flood. There are
no means OF obtaining particulars.
AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 1T was still
raining last night and the river was
creeping steadily up at the rate OF four
inches an hour. At 1890 O'Clock last
night the canal gauge registered 36l% feet
of water, which was within feet of the
highest mark of last year. 1t was ex-
pected that by this morning all the
houses on the river front from the point
to the shipping port would be Under
water. The people had been warned and
most OF them were moving. BY noon to-
day 1t was expected that the southeastern
portion of the city would be flooded.
IN WESTERN NEW YORK.
PORT JERvIs, N. Y, Feb. THE ice is
moving out of the Delaware river, and 1t
is thought that the annual breakup has
begun. The flood has not yet, however,
assumed dangerous proportions.