Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-09-01
eRrAr prsrRUor1ox OF PROPERTY.
A Storm Which ia Its Disastrous Effects Is
Without Parallel.

storm which IN It's disastrous euects KlNAis
that of July 10 last, has been in progress
here since o'clock this morning, and
shows no signs OF abating. Wheeling
creek, in the narrow valley east of Wheel
ing, is foot higher at p IN. than ever
before, the roads being flooded from two
to six feet deep, and bridges destroyed.
The valley is one angry flood and the
damage can only be estimated by the
amount of wreckage that dashes through
the city aud out into the river. A $40 p
m. piece fB. & o. wooden bridge from
the Pittsburg division struck the B. & o.
bridge at Maine aud Sixteenth streets
which was destroyed in July and
rebuilt, and it was carried away with the
rapidity of cannon ball. Warned by
former experience there was no person on it.
At $50. while one thousand or more
people were massed on the substantial
stone bridge over tie Wheeling cr,e,l at
Main street, man on the creek bank 100
feet above shouted warning, aud the
panic stricken crowd rushed over and into
each other in wild effort to
reach terra tirma. After the bridge was
cleared those nearest seeing it still appar-
emily safe, turned back, laughing at their
late alarm, but before they reached the
edge, the bridge, 140 feet in length. fell
WITH ONE AWFUL CRASH
and the waters leaped sixty feet into the
air. Water gas, and natural gas mains,
sewers, telegraph and telephone wires,
electric light and street car power conduc-
tors, were carried down. The Baltimore
& Ohio depot, built over the creek, and the
Market street bridge, it is feared, will
go. The losses will reach $3.50, 600. All
trains have been ordered abandoned on the
Ohio river road. About 200 delegates to
the republican state convention at Charles
con tomorrow are stuck ON this road at
Sistersvills, Va, forty miles south on the
river.
PIrTsBURG, Pa, Aug 21.-A food Of
large proportions is looked for here 1t has
been raining necessarily since IL o'clock
last night, and at midnight there are no
indicationsTof the weather clearing. Since
o'clock this morning over 81 inches Of
rain have fallen, being the greatest rainfall
in eighteen years. The same reports are
coming in from all sections
of western Pennsylvania, eastern
Ohio and western Virginia. At
Brownville, Pa, the water in the Monon-
gahela river is rising at the rate of three
feet an hour, while at the head waters of
the Allegheny all the small streams are
swollen and the river is rising rapidly.
Great damage has already been done to
railroads leading from this city. The b. 4
o. is completely cut Oft from the
world, and is the worst sufferer.
At Uniontown, Pa, four and one-hait
inches Of rain fell since early this morning
Redstone creek is higher than ever before,
and people living in the lower portions Of
the city are moving out Of their houses to-
night. Trains on the southwest branch Of
the Pennsylvania railroad and the
| Connellsviiie branch of the Balti-
more & Ohio have stopped running.
i Numerous bridges have been swept away
| and the tracks are covered with debris for
miles. At Indiana. Pa. a number of
county and town bridges were swept off
Il
been entirely suspended. Washington, Pa,
reports similar condition of affairs. The
loss will reach many thousands of dollars.
The stage Of water at this point at 1890
O'Clock this "Wednesday morning was Is
feet and rising at the rate of Is inches an
hour. At l o'clock this morning the
lock keeper ct lock No. 1, on
the Monongahela river, was COM
PEELED to move out. The water
was crawling up the sides of the lock very
fast. The lock keeper predicted % or 30
feet OF water at this point at least and
| said he would not be surprised to see a
greater food than the memorable one of
| 1884, when two-thirds of the lower portions
of the two cities were under water. The
residents of ''Shantytown. on the Monon-
gahela, their goods, preparing to camp on
the hIllsides. After steady fall of twenty
eight hours the rain has ceased, and the
signal man is o. opinion that it is over.
New ORLEANS, La, Aug. 11.-News
from Morgan City is to the effect that doz-
ems of houses were wholly or partially I'M
rooted and fully fifty buildings are of
their foundations. The floating elevator,
George Gilchrist, valued at $4,000, was
destroyed. Among the heaviest losers Of
property along the river are the coal deal
ers When the last news was received
eighty loaded coal barges and One boat Of
cattle had sunk, and numbers were re-
ported sinking. The total loss is
! $4,000. The steamer Keokuk
was wrecked at Baton Rouge She was
valued at S20,00S partly insured. Or
the shores of Mississippi sound the surf
washed over the bay of the st. Louis
bridge. At Pass Christian trees were
uprooted and bath houses blown down,
including those of the Mexican Gulf hotel
All through the country the corn has been
blown down, but il is not estimated that
the total damage will exceed one-third Of
the crop Of that section. Last Friday Mr..
Caffrey, accompanied by his three sons and
several companions, left Belle IsIe
for Lost Ireland, on pleasure
| trip. No news has been received from
them, and grave fears for their safety are
entertained. The United States coal fleet
| is total wreck. Wood, Boldly 6 Co. lost
ffty-seven coal boats, and Coyle, Wilmot
& Co. twenty-five, entailing q loss OF
J 1920, 900.