St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-13
ABAT1NG FLOODS.
The MonOngahela and Cheat Riv-
ers Are Resuming Their Natural
Channels---Property Worth Mill
ions naStrnvod

CTS arc NcSuulinS 1nclr N aCural
Channels---Property Worth MILL
ions Destroyed.
PITTsBURG, Pa, July 12.-The waters
that have been sweeping the valley of
the Monongahela and the valleys of its
tributaries for the last sixty hours are
again falling into their natural chan
hels. They leave in their tracks scenes
OF desolation and ruin that have never
had their counterpart in the same local
tiles. From Pittsburg to the mountain
Businesses of Randolph county, West
Virginia, towns have been ravaged,
manufactures have been inundated,
boats have been sunk, houses and lum-
Der foated off, field with their wheat in
shock and growing crops have been
devastated, families driven to the hills
for shelter, and in many instances the
accumulation of years Of toll and self
sacrifice have been lost in an hour. The
losses entailed by the flood will not fall
short OF S., 100000, large proportion of
which falls with crushing effect upon
the people of the thriving counties of
Mongolia, Marion, Taylor, Harrison,
Lewis, Barbour, Upshur and Randolph,
m West Virginia. In Pennsylvania the
losses are in the counties of Allegheny,
Washington, Westmoreland, Fayette
and Greene, the heaviest being in Ale
gheny, Washington and Fayette. These
losses fall most heavily upon the own
ers of coal property, railroad companies
and farmers. Notwithstanding the sud-
denneSS of the
COMING OF THE WATER
and the area of distribution, the losses
of flats, barges and small river craft
have been comparatively small, and
nearly all boat owners are congratulate
themselves on their good fortune. In
PlttSburg proper much of the loss has
fallen upon the owners of Shanty boats
and boat houses, but these are for the
most part Insignificant. The owners of
to undergo no end of inconvenience on
account of the invasion of their mills
by the water yesterday morning, putting
out the fires and ruSting and almost
running the valuable machinery. Little
lumber or other movable property has
been carried away from this city, but
from points above millions of feet of val
liable timber and lumber have come
down and have been carried off into the
Ohio, a total loss to owners.
Following is q summary of the esti-
mated losses in each locality affected:
In some instances they are probably too
high, owing to
THE PREVAILING EXCITEMENT,
but in the main they have been conser-
vatively compiled. The losses in detail
are given as follows:
Pittsburg, s25O.0OO: Braddock, Pa,
$1,000; McKeesport, Pa, 100000; Ora
versburg, Pa, $4,000; Elizabeth, Pa,
$4,000; West Elizabeth, Pa, S25, 600;
Coal Bluff, Pa, $1,000; Monongahela
City, Pa. $4,000; Coal Center, Pa.
$4,000; California. Pa, $4,000; Belle
Vernon, Pa, $1,000: West Brownsville,
Pa. $4,000; Bridgeport, Pa. $4,000;
Brownsville, Pa, 100000: New Geneva,
Pa, $1,000: Point Marion, w. Va,
$4,000; Morgantown, w. Va, $4,000;
Paramount, w. Va, s25O,O0O; Grafton,
w. Va, 100000; Clarksburg, w. Va,
500, 600; Parkersburg, w. Va, 500, 600;
Phillippi, w. Va, $4,000; Weston, W.
Va. $4,000; intervening towns in West
Virginia, 100000. Total loss, 81, 200, 600.
Not including in foregoing losses on ac-
count of damages to railroads, as fol-
lows:
P. V. & c., in Pennsylvania. SIS, 1000;
Baltimore & Ohio, in West Virginia,
Virginia, 100000; Weston & Clarks-
burg, in West Virginia, $4,000; West
Virginia Central u PittSburg, in Mary
land and West Virginia, SIS, 600; total,
S475, ZOO.
There was no rain in any part of the
flooded district yesterday and by this
evening the
TRACES OF THE FLOOD
will have been generally removed. But
the July freshet of 1883 will never be
forgotten in Western Pennsylvania and
West Virginia. This morning, the stage
of water here was seventeen feet and
Fol 10
pairing their coal fleets for shipment,
and by tomorrow all the craft loaded
with the black. diamonds will have de-
parted for the western and southern
ports. The shipment will aggregate
100000 bushels.