Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-14
FLOODS IN THE EAST.
,rrRRIBLE DESTRUCTION IN PENN
SYLVANI4 AND WEST VIRGINI4.
manages Estimated at Not Less Than
One Million Dollars A Strange Ex-
pIosiOn, and the Fire That Followed
A Railroad Bridge in Flames.

Damages EsLiLnateu at noC Less Thai
One Million Dollars A strange Elk
pIosiOn, and the Fire That Followed
A Railroad Bridge in Flames.
PEr1sBURG, Pa, July 1.-THE ireshet !,
the MoDongahela river is almost unprece
dented, and great damage has been done
to river craft and property. alI along the
river from the headwaters to this city.
The suddenDess of the rise took the river
men entirely u awares, and they were not
prepared when the great volume of water
bucst upon them. Millions of feet OF lnm-
Der, scores OF coal CT #, fences, out houses
and oal tipples have been floating down
the swift current for the last eighteen
hours.
The
LATEST ESTIMATE OF DAMAGE
puts the total loss 4t over a million
dollars. Wheeling reports damage in the
vicinity of Grafton, West Virginia at not
less than $250,000; at Sowleburg, West
Virginia $125,OO0. In this neighborhood
it will exceed $4,000, and it is not ex.
A gerating to say that, with the above as
fair estimate, the total win exceed
SIOOO,OOO, a. the flooded district covers
an area OF fully $50 miles,
At NJ Keesport all the mills nre closod |
down, and hundreds are
HOMELESS AND DESTITUTE.
The CHARTERS natural gas main cross;,o
the river at that point, was broken during
the night, and the immense pressure of gas
forced the water high into the air. Mr.
Knght, the watchnan OF the Pittsburo
McKeespOrt & YuughioghenV Railroad
crossed the trestle at Salisbury n sbrri
time afterward, and his lantern fenited the
gas, causing
A TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION.
Knight was fatally burned, and the
Tdge caught fire, but the flames were ex-
hIgulshed before it was destroyed.
Traffic has almost been suspended on the
rlttsburg, vi. giDia q and Charleston road.
70 trains are running south of Peters !
feek, nineteen miles south of here. a
wheeling dispatch says the freshet !,
as
THE GREATEST EVER KNOWN. n
The destruction TO property is beyond a
'mputation, but enough is ascertained to fe
arrant the declaration that nearly every r,
'use and most OF the fencing on all low
nd between this point and Clarksburg on fo
e west and as far east as Grafton, in the X
.Iley, have been swept away. Ice
The water is now falling at the head. n,
lters, and the worst is perhaps over. q,
At O'Clock this evening the water was :.
ling at all points between Pittsburg and VI
e headwaters, and no more damage from Il
shet is apprehended. a.
The highest point reached here was Or liv
et and ct O'Clock it had fallen to 90 fix
et The current is still running at the m'
te OF miles an hour, but the river il da
mparatiVely clear OF debris, everything pr
wing run out. da
1 later dispatch from Wheeling saws that att
a. stG reports received from the flooded 1t
triet OF West Virginia, it looks as if the ser
ney lost by Mondays rain would reach
lrly $4,000, 900. At least col
uu.,,,, res
he water is now falling rapidly at all wit
nts, and it is becoming possible to ger 81.
allied reports from the small towns and ! pWu ~
ages in the mountains. Ao