The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-18
PENNsYLvANIA,s FLOOD.
Tho Rivers st Pittsburg Twenty-six
Feet High and Rising.

PrTTsBURG, PA, Feb. H.-At IL o'clock
this morning both rivers were twenty-six
feet high, and rising at the rate Of seven
inches per hour. The high water was very
unexpected, and all the morning families
have been moving from their houses in the
lower part Of Allegheny, as the streets ars
Hooded to the doorsteps The Pittsburg
and Western railroad is covered In the city,
and all travel at this end is stopped; while
many mills lining the river have been
forced TO close down. Reports from
the headwaters show steady rains. with
the rivers still rising, and the lower
towns flooded. Bridges are being carried
away in every direction, and the loss is
great. In this city river mon say the food
has been fully as high as In 1884, when
thirtY-two feet Of water was reached and
enormous losses inflicted I'm tho low lying
portion of the city and river towns.
STORY OF THE RISE.
PITTsBURo. Feb. II, IL p. M.-The present
unexpected food bids fair to rival that OF
1884, when enormous damage was caused to
business aud railroad interests. The great
flood came down the Allegheny river which
backed up the Monongahela for
miles. The river has rsen all day at an
average OF inches per hour, and at 10
o'clock tonight stands 80 feet inches and
Is rising slowly. Allegheny City has sut-
fered the greatest, as it stands in 10 feet of
water. Rising waters tonight cause great
deal Of apprehension on the Allegheny side,
| as two natural gas explosions there have
endangered life and ruined property, and 1t
Is feared others may follow, as the meters
and pipes are several feet under water and
| cannot be reached. All the mills eiong the
| river have shut down on account of
| flooded fires, ard many thousand men
"a 49, ~. II.
| sight Is presented along tho Pittsburg and
| Western hne in Allegheny, where box cars
are standing on the tracks with nothing but
their roofs visible. On the south side all the
great mills have been shut down,
and the tracks on the PittsburG and Lake
| Erie, and Pittsburg and McKeesport and
| Youghiogheny are covered with water,
| while the Lake Erie tracks are touched In
several places. All the street car lines be-
| twesn Pittsburg aud Allegheny City have
stopped running, owing to the fact that
the approaches are several feet under water.
Scores of drays and boats are engaged In
| hauling anxious people through water to
the bridges which they traverse, only TO be
hauled to land on tho other side in similar
way.
HEAVY RAINS.
WASHINGTON, Feb 17.-Tclegrams from
all over Pennsylvania, Central aud Vest
ern New YORK, Ohio and West Virginia
report heavy warm rains for forty-eight
hours, and all the streams at flood hight.
The Ohio has broken up in mid-stream and
serious damage has occurred from gorges
backing up the waters. The Ohio river at
Steubenvilie has sixty-one feet of water.
Another big flood is coming down the Sus>
quehanna Appearances tonight are very
: threatening for people who dwell upon the
b .nks OF the streams In tho sections named.
WHEELING WAITING.
WHEELING, w. VA, Feb. 1.-THE great
est food in many years IL expected here.
Reports from all section OF the state indi-
cate unusually heavy rains, and the streams
are rising rapidly. All the railroads en-
tering the city are blocked by landslides,
aud communication is almost entirely cut
of in every direction.
TWO OVER THEIR BANKS.
McKEEsPoRT PA. Feb. 16.-The Monon-
gahela and Youghiogheny rivers are
both over their banks, and rising at the rate
of five inches per hour. The w. B. Wood
iron works. the National rolling mill and
Sterling eel works are submerged. Much
damage has been done In the lower part of
the city, and many families have been
compeIled to abandon their holues