The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-02-17


PTrspuRa, ! Pa. Feb. 16.--The steady
IdowutlDur OF rain since yesterday has
had the effect of more or less seriously
4 iimpeding travel on almost every rail
road 9entering the city. The largest
landslide that has occurred on the
Baltimore and Ohio railway for several
years now covers the tracks for dis.
tance of 800 feet and nearly half that In
depth near West Newton. Passengers
are being transferred at the slide, but
the tracks will not be cleared for
several days. The Youghiogheny
river is bank full and rising. A big
Hood Is feared,
| Reports from Greensburg are that
the streams in that vicinity are over
their banks, and many OF the people
living on the low lands have been
driven from their homes. The Manor
Valley and Alexandria Branch Rail.
roads are covered in many places with
water and slides. The lower end OF
Greensburg and the fair grounds are
entirely submerged. Already the
damage to property is great; the water
still rising.
| Johnstown reports the highest water
| in Stony creek and Conemaugh river
since the Hood. The Poplar street
bridge, Cambria Railroad bridge, q
temporary bridge at East Conemaugh,
Eleventh ward bridge and the partly
constructed Walnut street bridge have
all been destroyed. The cellars in the
lower part of Johnstown are filled
with water, and work at the Cambria
Iron Companys plants have been sus-
pended, owing to the water backing
up through the sewers into the mills
and furnaces.
The water is now two feet higher
than ut at any other time since the
great flood and still rising. tele.
gram from Shade Creek says the great
log boom Is liable to break up at any
time. Should this happen the de.
stru0tion OF the bridge will be com
plete. The Poplar street bridge has
left its pier tonight with loud crash.
| The snow up the Conemaugh Valley
is is inches deep, while in Somerset
county it Is several feet. The water
from the stony creek has commenced
to flow over the business part of the
city.
| Lock HAVEN, Pa, Feb. ia general
flood in the Susquehanna riveTand al
| its tributaries above here is reported
tonight resulting from rain and melt
ing snow. Cleariield reports some oi
the small streams overllowing.
PIrrsBURG, Feb. 16--A special from
Johnstown says: At 3 o'clock this
evening all the lower part OF the city
is covered and the water is raising
rapidly, owing to steady rains.
On the south side and in Cambria
hundreds of houses are flooded and tn,
people are getting away in boats, a!
all bridges but one have been swep
away.
Late tonight il Is reported that tht
Shady Creek boom, carrying 100000
feet of logs, is in danger of bursting
am the people are flying to higher
grounds. There is no communication
whatever between the different parts
of town.
Reports from points between Johns
town and Pittsburg indicate very higl
water, with several bridges and house,
washed away, as far down as Jean
nette. .-..-. -...-
There will be no sleep in JohnstowI
tonight, as all the lower town houses
are deserted and the people are hud
died in the dwellings, ON the higher
ground. The snow is melting rapidly
but at midnight the rivers are station
airy.
Reports from Eastern Ohio and Wes
Virginia indicate sudden rise il
branches, with many bridges destroyed
and houses Hooded, though no lives
have been lost thus far.