St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-13
Pennsylvania Streams Over
flowing With the Floods
From New York.
The Allegheny at Pittsburg
Threatens to Go Up to the
Danger Point.
Many County Fairs Closed Up
by the Great Downpour
of Rain.
Low Farm Lands Around Col
umbuS, Ohio, Under Water
for Miles.

here are rising steadily, and though not
near the danger point as yet. advices
from all along the Allegheny and Mon
ongahela rivers promise much higher
water before Sunday. At the headwa-
tiers of the Allegheny the rain has been
specially heavy and has been falling
without intermiSsion since Monday, the
fall averaging six inches in the past
three days. something unprecedented
in the upper counties. Comparatively
little rain has fallen up the Mononga-
hela. but it is raining there now, and
more rain is promised for this city. The
country fairs are suffering greatly,
they being located on the low
lands, as a rule, and damaged
exhibits and ruined race tracks reported
from all sections, causing all of the fairs
to close at loss. The tributaries to the
Allegheny are all overlooking, and at
Oil City, Pa, the Western New York
and Pennsylvania tracks are covered,
while trouble is feared OH the Allegheny
Valley railroad. All of the lower streets
in Canton, o., are flooded and great
damage is being done by flooded cellars,
while the small farmers are also suffer
ers. At Newcastle, Pa, the Neshan-
mock river is higher than it has been
for years and now completely
covers the lower portion of that
city and hundred houses are
covered ON the first floor with from
one to six feet of water, and the fami-
lies have been obliged to move to high
Ell ground. A washout has stopped
freight traffic On the Newcastle branch
of the Pittsburg q Western. while pas
sengers must all be transferred. One
mile of the Western New York q Penn
sylvania has been washed out near
Newcastle, while the Nypano is washed
away in score of places. A score of
mills and furnaces in Newcastle and
along the Neshannock are covered with
water and are shut down. The deep
Shenango river is also rising and DALI
ger is feared from that stream before
morning. All reports indicate great
loss to mills, houses, roads and farmers
Nothing extraordinary in any one case,
but enormous in the aggregate.
WILKESBARRE, Pa, Sept. 12.-The
floods that have prevailed along the
Chemung river during the past few
days have swollen the SusQuehanna at
this point to an unusually abnormal
altitude. The current is sixteen feet
above the recognized summer line this
evening, and the water is still rising.
Should it rise two feet more during the
night all communications On the west
side of the river to points along the
line of the Delaware, Lackawanna q
Western railroad will be cut Off. A
large portion of the low land is already
submerged, aud farmers who have not
yet harvested their late crops will suf-
fer loss.
COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 12-The Scioto
river reached stage this morning
which, though not remarkable, was the
cause of more than ordinary damage.
All the low farm lands north and south
of the city are immersed, and the loss
to crops amounts to several thousand
dollars. The stream as it passes
through the city has had its channel
changed by levee and the result was
the overflow of several factories.
The contractors of city bridge lost
machinery valued at 1000. The levee
in several places, which protected valu-
able property in the city, only saved
from breaking by the vigilance of the
citizens. The river is now falling.
WATERFOWL, n. Y, Sept. 12.--Black
river is swollen badly. Rain has been
falling in this vicinity almost steadily
for three days. and this weeks fairs
have been failures. Five inches of rain
has fallen in week.
ROCHESTER,, n. Y, Sept. 12.-Reports
from the fertile Genesee valley are that
the damage to beans. corn and potatoes
will reach nearly 100000. 1t has rained
almost necessarily for forty-eight hours,
and the flats are covered with water
from one to three feet deep for a dis
lance of several miles. The Canaseraga
and RiSheQue creeks are out of their
banks. and should the rain continue the
damage will be much greater. Many
stacks of hay ON the flats are sur
rounded and submerged from one to
three feet. which will ruin great por-
ton of each stack.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 12.-Dispatches from
Texas say that the Rio Grande is Oh the
rampage. At Eagle Pass it is higher
than it has been for ten years. All the
lower part of the city, which is densely
populated by MeXicans, is six feet
under water, and much property was
swept away, but no lives lost. About
100 feet of the iron trestle approach to
the new bridge crossing the river was
carried down yesterday, with the offices
of the customs and quarantine guards
and several others, to the railroad bridge,
a mile below, where the people who
were on the trestle at the time. were
rescued from the wreck. The river is
still rising and the entire trestle, which
is l, 100 feet long, is in danger of being
swept away. All communication with
Piedras Negras Oh the Mexican side of
the river is broken and the track of the
Mexican international railway is
washed out and travel suspended. The
San Fernando river, four miles west of
PiedraS Negas, is also at flood height
and has washed away all the houses
and improvements just erected at the
mines of the Piedras Coal company.