Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-13
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. DISASTROUS FLOODS. Damage by High Water in
 Several States. THE KILLING OF GEN. BARRUNDIA. Terrible Explosion Near
 WiIkesbarre. WYOMING STATE GOES REPUBLICAN. The Proceedings of House
 And Senate.
WYOMING STATE GOES REPUBLICAN.
SWOLLEN STREAMS.

Continuous Fall of Rain OverfoWA
 the Banks of Several Rivers A
 Railroad Bridge Carried Away in
 Pennsylvania - Coal Barges Sunk
 in West Virginia - A Texas Town
 Partly Submerged Damage in
 Ohio.
 ST LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. 12.-Dispatches from Texas say that the Rio Grande river is on the rampage. At Eagles 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 car ried down yesterday with the of fees of the customs and quaran- tine guards and several others to the railroad bridge, mile below, where the people who were in the trestle were rescued from the wreck. The river is still rising and the entire trestle, which is 1, 100 feet long, is in danger of being swept away. All communication with Piedras Negras, on the Mexican side of the river. is broken and the track of the Mexican International railroad is washed out and travel suspended. At Sanfenando, four miles west of Piedras Negras, the river is also at flood height aud has washed away all the houses and improvements just erected at the mines of the Piedras Coal company.
 NEW CASTLE, Pa., Sept. 12.-There is a disastrous flood raging in this vicinity The Neshanneck is higher than for years, and at three o'clock was still rising, with heavy rain falling. Several Of the thor oughfares are inundated and mills obliged to close down. A bridge on the Pennsyl- vania company's side track was swept away, together with cars loaded with steel that that been run on the bridge to hold it down. The Shenango river is also rising rapidly and will be all over the bottom land during the night. Advices from Charleston, w. Va, say sudden rise in the Gauley river yesterday carried away thirty one coal barges, all loaded, of which eleven, valued at $50,0 ,000, were lost. The barges inflicted heavy damages to the government dam at Brownstown.
 CINCINNATI, O., Sept. 12.-Dispatches from Northern Ohio show heavy rains At Bucyrus five inches of rainfall was report ed yesterday. The Sandusky river was so high as to cut off communication with North Bucyrus. At Akron the rainfall was serious. Great damage was done throughout the country, and in this city unusual destruction was wrought North Howard street, one of the principal busi- ness streets, was badly washed in some places portion of the street railway was left with ties in air, hanging by rails, the main sewer exposed and water pipes torn out. Railway travel is almost entirely suspended.
 P1TrsBuRa, Pa., Sept. 12.-The rivers here are rising steadily and though not all along the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers promise much higher water before Sunday. At the headwaters of the Ale gheny the rain has been especially heavy, and has been falling without intermission since Monday, the fall averaging six inches in the past three days, something unprece- dented in the upper counties. Compara- lively little rain has fallen up the Monon- gahela, but it is raining there now. The country fairs are suffering greatly, and damaged exhibits and ruined race tracks the fairs to close at loss. The tributaries to the Allegheny are all overfowing, and at Oil City, Pa,, the Western New York and Penn sylvania tracks are covered, while trouble is feared on the Allegheny Valley railroad. All of the lower streets in Canton, Ohio, are flooded and great damage done by flooded cellars, while the small farmers are also sufferers. At Newcastle, Penn., the Neshanneck river is higher than it has been for years and now completely covers the lower portion of that city, ..forcing families in a hundred houses to move to higher ground. A washout has stoppec freight traffic on the Newcastle branch of the Pittsburg and Western, while passen- gers must all be transferred. One mile of | the Western New York and Pennsylvania has been washed out near Newcastle. A score of mills and furnaces in Newcastle and along the Neshanneck are covered with water and shut down. The deep | Shenange is also rising and danger is feared All reports indicate great loss to mills, houses, roads and farmers. | CINCINNATI, Sept. 12.-A dispatch from New Philadelphia, Ohio, says: Incessant
 rains for the past forty eight hours have caused landslide on the Cleveland and
 Marietta road which will delay trains a
 long while. The bridge on the Cleveland,
 Lorraine and Wheeling road has been
 washed away The Tuscarawas river raised twenty and a half feet in an hour yester- day evening. The whole valley is inunda- l ted