Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-02-19
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From ALI Quarters.
THE WATERS RECEDING.
Damage Done by the Floods
Near Pittsburg.
PASSAGE OF the COPYRIGHT BILL.
-Four Lives Lost in a Tene-
ment House Fire.
PASSAGE OF THE COPYRIGHT BILL.
FATAL EXPLOSION OF NATURAL GAS.
Conference of Base Ball
Men i'm New York.
TINE FEBRUARY FLOOD.

TAK FEBRUARY FLOOD.
All Danger Over In and Around
Pittsburg The Water Falling -
Damage that Has Been Done-Many
Houses Flooded - Thousands Of
Workmen In Idleness.
PursBURa, Feb. 18.-An danger of the
food here is over. The Allegheny and
Monongehela rivers are receding both here
and at the headwaters. The highest stage
reached here was thirty-one feet five inches
or two and half feet short of the great
flood of seven years ago this month, which
caused SO great loss of life and suffering
in the Ohio Valley between here and Gin
cinnati.
Here the damage has been confined to
the flooding of the lower part of Allegheny
City, the stopping of iron and steel-mills
along the banks of both rivers, and three
natural gas explosions by which twelve
people were injured.
Isabella Young, aged eight, of Donegal
Township, Butler County, was drowned
while on her way from school. A ceme-
terry at East Liverpool, Ohio, was uncover
ed, and the skeletons brought to view.
One coffin was broken open and the body
of a woman precipitated down hill.
Tho weather is now cloudy and cool.
It is estimated that from fifteen to
eighteen hundred families in Allegheny
City are imprisoned in the second stories
of their houses. Their only means of travel
is by boat.
Sharpsburg, five miles up the Allegheny,
furnishes the most startling incidents.
There the fire department was compelled
to take to the hills and could render no
assistance at the destruction, early this
morning by fire, of Tbby's glass factory,
No. 8, which originated in an explosion
caused by the water coming in contact
with the molten mass. The loss is about
$4,000.
A big frame house foated down at
O'Clock this morning and struck the bridge
crossing the Allegheny from Sharpsburg
to Pittsburg. The house sank and the
shock to the bridge was terrific.
The West Pennsylvania division of the
Pennsylvania railroad is washed away at
Powers Run and Harmersville, and there
Is no communication either east or west
The big iron bridge connecting Allegheny
City with Herr's Island was turned bot
tom side up this morning and is lying on
the island The Pine Creek bridge of the
Pittsburg and Western railroad is held in
place by train loaded with ballast, on
which was piled pig iron. The water is
running over the ties at Sharpsburg
Household goods were transported to high
places on RATS. Pianos were placed on
tables in the parlors only to float about
later on.
A telegram from Freeport, thirty miles
up the Allegheny river, says that the house
previously mentioned belonged to James
Walker, and foated off with everything in
it. The entire family narrowly escaped
drowning. Two-thirds of Freeport are
under water and all business is suspended
The West Pennsylvania railroad tracks, in
some places, are five feet under water. No
mails have been received. Five hundred
cattle in the pens of the Guikenheimer
Distillery company are still standing in
three feet of water. 1t was As high as
four feet and many cattle were drowned.
There is nearly two feet of water over
the orchestra floor of the pretty new Du-
quesns theatre on Penn avenue, owned by
Henderson of Chicago and Norton of St.
Louis. The chairs and carpets had to be
removed. There is NO matinee this after
noon or performance tonight.
CATTLErFsBURG, Feb. 18.-The Big San
dy and Ohio rivers are both creating havoc
here. Two houses were washed from their
foundations this morning and a large slice
of Front street is gone. The people are
fleeing from their homes along the rivers
in terror.