Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-24

Allegheny were beginning to slowly SUBJ
side. The stage of the water at the dam was
then % feet 6 inches. The Allegheny had
already fallen an inch and a half. and the
marks showed a depth of less than "A feet.
All danger of a flood in this section is hap
PLY averted, and the noble streams are now
big enough to cope with tine volume of water
that has been increased by the heavy rains
and melting SHOWS
HEIGHT OF THE FLOOD.
Up to o'clock yesterday afternoon both
of the Ohio tributaries maintained a steady
advance; then the maximum was reached. The
rain stopped early Sunday morning, and the
sun coming out made the Gay beautiful and at
tractive. The rivers were the directive point,
and pedestrians turned in that direction. All
day long large crowds occupied the bridges,
watching the turbid waters beneath. In neither
river was there much rubbish, and at noon yes
terday an observer standing on the Seventh
street bridge couldn't have seen anything noat-
ing the Allegheny. The currents were
swift; but little property along the shores were
On the Morongahela wharf everything was
very quiet Occasionally 4 coaroperator would
come down from Office to inspect the marks,
but nobody was at all apprehensive. Some
rivermen lounged around ready TO go to work,
but they truly enjoyed day of rest.
COULDN'T GET AWAY.
The Adam Jacobs still lay at her landing.
This boat should have started for Morgan
town on Saturday, but it couldn't go through the
locks or pass the bridges. The boat will just Slip
under the bridge at Brownsville at depth of
% feet but the stage was 30 feet, Captain
Cox had no desire TO make the attempt. He
didn't care to part with the upper story of the
packet. He hopes TO get out tomorrow, but
this is doubtful.
Outside OF fooued cellars and some pieces of
lumber that were carried away no other dam
age done in this neghborhood. The en-
gine house at Lock No. l wa, submerged.
and a visit there yesterday revealed
the men slting on the boilers
and elevated places in the building
the Revere Rubber Company was nlled, but it
is pretty difficult thing to damage rubber
with water. Some other cellars along the
MononCahela wharf shared the same tate The
Hotel Boyer didn't escape. The water poured
into the washroom and put the guests to great
inconvenience.
OTHER CELLARS FILLED.
The water got into some of the other cellars
along Duquesne Way, but by removing goods
they could easily be saved, and, barring the
trouble, the damage to property will be imma-
terial Whenever the water reaches a feet
it gets into the lowest floor of Joseph Horne's
store. IL was reported last evening that the
flood had gotten into the cellar of the Ander-
son Hotel, but this was not true "A At I'll the Boyer
and shortly after noon the elevator could not
be worked
The Allegheny river was higher yesterday
than it has been at any time since the big food
Of February. 1884. At noon 2l feet had been
reached. and in consequence many of the eel
lars along the river front in Allegheny began
to fill up. The rise continued at the rate of
five inches an hour, an had been keeping that
rate up since o'clock on Saturday. Traffic on
the Pittsburg and Western Railroad was en-
tirely suspended, the tracks being covered the
entire distance from the Point nearly to Sharps-
burg
SOME HOUSES SURROUNDED.
In the vicinity of what is known Barefoot
square, off Robinson street, below Federal, the
water completely surrounded some of the
houses, and cut off all communication with
them, except by skiffs. The residents were be-
ginning to feel uneasy, and were moving more
or less of their household goods to the second
floors.
Down at the foot of School street there is a
PRESBYTERIAN church. Services were held there
in the morning, and Sunday school in the after
noon. The latter dismissed about 3:30
O'Clock, and at o'clock it was impossible to
get into the building on account of
tie high water. The water surrounding
the church had been backed up from the river
through a sewer at the corner Of Robinson
street and Isabella court, and had flowed down
around the square in great volume, flooding
the entire vicinity past the church one block
below and into the old Exposition ground.
Here the new ball park is in course of con-
struction, and considerable damage has been
done II. The lower ground, toward the Union
bridge was flooded early on Saturday, and the
steady rise since that time has left very little
dry land exposed to view inside the fence.
At O'Clock the Government marks the
Seventh street bridge showed % feet OF water.
The rise was then about five inches an hour.
The current was visibly greater than that of
the early morning showing that the Allegheny
river had begun to come out.
AT THE EXPOSITION BUILDING.
On the Pittsburg side the Allegheny had
already done considerable damage in reaching
out and entering the cellars of many of the stores
down town. The managers of the Exposition
were fearful of damage to the building as at
O'Clock the water in the basement of the
main building. and within four feet of the floor
The cellars all along Duquesne way were filled
with from six inches to three feet of water, all
of it being backed up by sewer connections
The Hotel Anderson at Sixth street and
Penn avenue had four inches in the
basement and it threatened to result in serious
inconvenience in running the boilers and fun
mace for heating. The cigar store and news
depot OF Thomas Carr, at l6 Sixth street. in the
basement Of the Fifth National Bank was
filled with inches of water and the stock had
TO be piled up shelves and boxes. Nearly
all the Easements of the stores in the vicinity of
Sixth and Penn contained some water and the
indications are that quite good deal OF DAM
age will be the result
In the west end of the city, over in Temper
ancevile, the people were expecting still
higher water. The Ohio river marked q feet
8 inches at 3 o'clock and rising Painters row
down on the river 'front.' was being washed out
in the lower floors by two feet of water and
the occupants had all moved to the second
stories Sawmill run was backed up for a
mile. and the cellars all along Main street were
filled.
An old man named John Sloan fell into the
Ohio at the mouth of the run yesterday but
was rescued before being drowned.
The Allegheny river was at q stand at IL
o'clock last night. The highest point reached
was % feet 6 inches at o'clock, after which it
became stationary AT that hour it was run
ming out strong, and il is expected the fall will
be rapid from now on until it subsidies to its
normal condition.
MILLS ISCoNvENIENCED.
The rise in the Allegheny river will very
seriously inconvenience several OF the mills
along the Penn avenue district. The water
did not get quite high enough to flood the
mills but the sewers had become backed up
and the water is in the fly wheel pits. This
fact will cause some of the mills to shut down
until the water can be gotten out. In the diff
1erent mills men were at work all day yester-
day trying to get things into shape.
Although the water rose high on the Allie
gheny SIDE its current close 10 the shore was
not swift enough to do any damage by carrying
things away. The nature of the flood there
was more like backing up of the water caused
by the rapid current of the Monongahela As
that river has begun to fall, the Allegheny
along the shore will now of necessity start out
and from the increased rapidity of its current,
considerable damage may ensue. The greatest
danger lies in the fact that when 1t gets fairly
started on the run it may carry things along.
IN THE SoUTHsIDE MILLS.
1t is likely that several of the mills on the
Southside will not be able to resume operations
to-day. The Oliver Iron and Steel Company's
Fifteenth street mill, Oliver & Roberts wire
mill and the Clinton mills cannet run on ac-
count of the water in the fly wheel pits
The South Twenty-second street and VIM
Thaw steam ferries had 10 suspend operations
yesterday, and cannot resume until the rivers
recede.
Tho occunanfs of the io-hoats had /. b,-5