Connecticut western news., 1888-07-18
A RAGING RIVER.
The Monongahela Overfiows It's
 Banks, and Makes Havoc.

PITrsBURG, July 1.-The heavy rains of Monday and Monday night at the head waters of the Monongahela and Cheat rivers started last evening ono of the most sudden and per haps before 1t subsidies enc Of the most dlsas- trous floods since 1852.
 At Greensborough the river rose thlrty-two feet in twenty four hours. Early this morning tho water measured twenty-five feet ill the channel at that place and is at Q stand.
 great portion of Brownsville is six feet under water, and much damage has already been done. At four o'clock tn morning the water reached 43 feet and began slowly to re- cede. It was IS inches higher than the flood of '82.
 Cheat river reports are coming in of trench dous loss to lumbermen from breaking bOOms, to coal operators, from damaged craft and de- molition of tipples, and to private individuals whose residences and property are flooded.
 Only one life has been lost, so far as learned. George Getter was instantly killed last evening by thu parting of cable rope, with which he was checking 8 loaded coal barge at Waltons s Landing.
 Telt phone and telegraph wires along the rivers are down, and exact information is very hard to obtain. A report from Clarksburg. w.. Na., on the west fork of the Monongahela river, is to the effect that twenty dwellings, have been swept away, and damage to property is almost inestimable.
 A number of iron and wooden bridges and several large sawmills together with quantities tf iumbcr and logs, have gone down With the flood. Alarge number of people gre homeless at this place.
 At Monongahela City all the lower part of the town IS inundated and tho people driven from their homes camping in the streets on high CT ground
 Early this morning the heavy drift in the shape of broken bridges, barges, coal tipples. logs, and in some instances dwellings, and shanties. reached this city. They dashed against the bridge piers and were snapped and broken like twigs by the overwhelming force of the current.
 show 2l feet inches and rising. Every boat and steamboat the river is still ill peril from the heavy drift, and every few minutes the whistles of the advance guard of the line of boats sound new alarn>5 of approaching danger.
 A Wheeling special says that the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Wheeling and Parkersburg is unprecedentedly blocked. On the Parkershurg branch three tunnels are caved in.
 The Rowlesburg bridge over Cheat River is down, and other bridges have been swept away, while the track is covered many feet deep with earth at number of points.
 All trains from the West via Parkersburg are using the tracks of the Ohio River road, and go East via Pittsburg and Cumberland six ol eight hours late. Several bridges between Wheeling and Pittsburg are badly damaged,
 At Fairmount the new iron bridge of the New England Gas Company was destroyed, in- volving loss of S6O 900.
 later despatch from Wheeling says from reports received from the flooded district of West Virginia, it looks as if the money loss by Mondays rains would reach $2.00o,QoO. At least three lives have been lost. Not less than fifty bridges are gone in Marion, Harrison, Taylor Wetzel, Wood, Wirt, Ritchie, Lewis, and adjoining counties, and hundreds of houses have been swept away or are badly damaged. In Taylor county the loss is $25O,. GOO, in Harrison as much more, in Wood county, SI0O,000, and in like proportion else.