The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-02-18
AT PITTSBURGH.

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A Day Of EGcitsmEnt-HlEh Water CaVol
All the LoW.IyInE Parts Of the CitJ-Ths
Flood OF 'S4 RiVhlled.
PITrsBUkoH, Feb. 1.-THE present
unexpected food bids fair to rival that
OF 1884. The greatest food came down
the Allegheny river, which backed up
the Monongahela for miles. The river
has risen all day at an average OF @
inches per hour, and at 10 o'clock to-
night stands so feet inches and rising
slowly.
Allegheny City has suffered the great.
est, as River avenue stands in ten feet Of
water. Robinson street is flooded and
the entire area between Craig street and
Allegheny avenue ia under water, while
at least 1000 cellars on that side oil the
river are flooded.
The rising waters tonight cause great
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
meters and pipes are several feet under
WhNcI huu CAuuOb gS I6hSuGhs
All mills along the river have shut
down on account Of flooded fires, and
many thousands OF men are idling about
the river banks. A queer sight is pre-
sented along the Pittsburgh & Western
line In Allegheny, where box cars are
standing on the tracks with nothing but
their roofs visible.
On tho South Side all the mills have
shut down, and the tracks Of the Pitts
burgh and Lake Erie and Pittsburgh,
McKeesport & YouRhiogheny are cov-
cred with water, while the Lake Erie
tracks are touched in several places.
On the Pittsburgh side OF the Alle-
gheny river cellars and near houses are
flooded and people are moving
out as their Allegheny neighbors
did some hours Ego. Duquesne
way is under water in several places,
and Seventh street residences have
water on the first floor. Considering its
magnitude the flood has caused very
little excitement. While the greatest
damage has been caused by flooded
cellars, 1t is estimated that 5000 families
in the two cities have been inconven.
fenced by water.
Any further rise, however, will do
great damage, as the limit has been
reached, and even now it is reported the
exposition building and other large
down town buildings have been greatly
damaged.
All car lines between Pittsburgh and
Allegheny have stopped running, owing
to the fact that the approaches are sew.
eral feet under water. Scores OF drays
and boats are engaged in hauling
anxious people through tie water ~ the
bridges which they traverse, only TO be
hauled 10 land on the other side in q
similar way.
The Pennsylvania trains are about two
hours behind time, owing to the tracks |
washed away at Conemaugh, while the
Baltimore & Ohio main line passenger
trains are nearly on time, IN spite OF sew.
eral slides, though the West Virginia
divisions are badly out OF shape.
Reports from the headwaters OF the
Allegheny river shows high water and
general distress. The railroads espe.
cially have suffered in the country dis |
triCts. No trains have passed over the
Charters division OF the Pittsburgh, |
Cincinnati & St. Louis to-day, though
B. & o. trains are running. The mar
road from Waynesburg to
Washington has been washed on the
hillsides and no trains will run for sew
eral days,
In the CleaIfield and other lumber
regions heavy losses will result from
broken booms and lumber carried away,
while great losses are reported from low
lying farming districts. At Kittanning
the Allegheny river has reached high.
er stage than since 1873. The water has |
flooded the upper portion OF the town,
in some places passing through second
stories.
Ford City is entirely under water and
reports from the coke regions say great
damage has been done to railroads and
mining districts, while land slides are
frequent at all places.
At Freeport people are moving to their
second stories. West Newton reports
that the Youghogheny river at O'Clock
this afternoon had reached the highest
point since August, 1884. The river at
Rochester Is now at higher stage than
since the flood of 1884. The whole
lower portion Of the town is threatened
with overflow.
At McKeesport the Monongahela 10
over its banks aud rising at the rate OF
five inches per hour. The W. D. Wool
iron works, the National rolling mill
and the Sterling steel works are sub
merged. Much damage has been done
In the lower parts OF the city, and many
families are compelled 10 abandon their
houses.
At Huntingdon thirty.six hours Of
constant rain has caused q rise in the
Juniata river TO eleven feet above low
water mark. Every approach by public
road to this place is cut of and many
families in the southern suburbs have
been compelled to vacate their homes.
Reports from Ohio and West Virginia
say the streams are greatly swollen. At
Massillon, Ohio, the heavy rains have
so swollen streams south ofthat city that
all trains on the Wheeling & Lake Erie
railroad east Of BoYeTston have been
abandoned. On the Cleveland, Lorain
& Wheeling railway, twenty miles south
Of Richville, the track is washed away
for u mile, and the wires are down.
Tho Tpscarawas river rose 10 inches
in an hour this morning, surrounding
all the dwellings in the northern part OF
the city.
THE LATEST.
At2 o'clock this morning the Ale
gheny river measures 90 feet 2 INCHES
and rising. Great damage is being in'
ficted hourly:
Everything High at ParkorSburE.
Special Rt,DqteA to ne ERtdItgeaeEr.
PARKERsBUGH, W. Va, Feb. 1.-THE