Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-20
Total Damage Done to Mauufactur-
ing Establishments Placed at
Nearly Half a Million.
W0RKINGMEN MAKE FULL TINE.
They We're Kept Busy Yesterday Getting
the Machinery Ready for 0p-
erations Again.
ALL WHEELS WILL TURN ON MONDAY.
Some Of the Losses Among Liberty Street Commission
Merchants

A complete investigation of the damage
done in the mills by the flood proved that
the losses estimated in yesterdays DIS
PATCH were none too high. On the con-
trary, some of the figures did not fully rep
resent the loss, and the aggregate damage to
furnaces, machinery, and the works in gen.
eral, will not fall far short OF $500, 900.
The employees were peculiarly fortunate
While the mills were compelled to lay idle,
the majority of the men were kept busy
cleaning up around the works and getting
things in shape to resume operations, thus
putting in their time. OF course this made
the financial loss all the greater to the firms.
but it was easier on the workmen, many of
whom had been flooded out of a home, and
could i'll afford to lose the time besides.
Every effort will be made to have all the
plants in operation again on Monday next.
Some few started up last night and others
will resume to-day. The work of repairing
and cleaning machinery was pushed with
wonderful rapidity yesterday.
Expect to Start Up Again To-Day.
In the majority of the mills the only thing
that will delay resumption beyond to-day
will be the water in the fywheel pits and the
repairing of furnaces that were cracked.
1t was reported yesterday that the new No. 8
furnace of the Isabella plant at Etna had been
totally destroyed, but this proved erroneous.
as the whole plant was but little damaged, and
part of it was put in operation last night.
The loss to machinery in the mills of Car
negie, Phipps & Co., will run close to $40 OO0
All the employees were engaged getting the
mud removed yesterday morning, and by II
o'clock the pudding department was nearly
ready to operate. Several of them were fired
last evening, and it is thought both plants will
be in operation to-day. Four hammers were at
work in the lower mills in the afternoon.
The loss to the Keystone Bridge Works will
probably not exceed 5000, and they will be
running TO-DAY.
1t now looks as If Shoenberger q Co.'S loss
will reach $4,000. The pudding departments
were still under water last night and the nail
machines were rusty and covered with mud 1t
is feared some of these will have to be replaced.
Armstrong Bros. & Co.. cork manufacturers,
will sustain loss OF S. 600, confined chiefly to
boilers and machinery. They will not resume
until Monday.
Furnaces Damaged by the Water.
A number of furnaces In the Malleable Iron
Works of McConway. Torley & Co., were dam
aged. Loss about 81 900.
The loss TO Zug & Co.'s plant is between
$1,000 and Sl0,GCU and the Crescent Steel Works
stated yesterday. these damages are confined
principally to the furnaces, which cracked by
the water coming in contact with them while
they were yet in a heated condition. Where
furnaces are to be replaced the delay in getting
started up again will extend over the remainder
of the week, and in some cases until Monday.
The Oliver Iron and Steel Company's works
are running full time, very little damage hav-
ing been done by the water. A portion OF A.
NJ. Byers & Co.'s pipe mill is running; the bal
ance will go on on Monday.
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receded entirely. They will be in shape for
work Tuesday. The report that some of their
heating furnaces were destroyed by water get
ting in before they had cooled off is denied.
They were expecting the high water, and had
the fires drawn in time for the furnaces to cool
of before the water reached them.
The South Pittsburg Planning Mill was not
damaged except by the Inconvenience and
few piles Of lumber being overturned After
bury & Co. suffered less than from any pre-
vious food. They had men working night and
day removing their goods to place of safety.
Diluted and Spoiled the Chemicals.
Abel, Smith & Co. suffered some loss by their
chemical room being flooded before the goods
could be removed.
Singer, Nimick & Co. and J. Painters Sons &
Co.. while each sustaining loss Of $1,000 to
IS 600 each were able to resume yesterday.
Benz Bros, the lumber dealers suffered a
heavy loss. Their yard at the foot of South
Thirteenth street was flooded before the lum-
Der could be secured, and Several piles of their
best stock fioated away.
Three lumber firms in the lower part of
Sharpsburg lost large amount of material.
All day yesterday a force of employees was
kept busy trying to recover and identify part of
the lost stock which had fioated several squares
away from the yards.
The mills of Lindsay & McCutcheon and the
La Bell Steel Works in Allegheny, were
to resume to-day. Neither of the mills in
Woods Run will get started before Monday.
The water is still in the furnaces of these cstab-
lishments, and the loss cannot yet be placed
definitely.