The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-14
ROME FEARS A FLOOD.
THE MAIN BUSINESS STREET
ALREADY UNDER WATER.

Merchants Removing Their Stocks In
Anticipation OF the Inundation-Rail-
road rref1c in North Georgia Imp1d-
ed by Washouts-A Heavy Deluge Of
Rain Also Raises the Streams in
Alabama
ROME, GA, Jan. l3.-A great food 7is
feared. Some are predicting tonight that
the water may even go higher than In the
great flood OF 1896. The water at O'clock
this afternoon is beginning to cover the
lower portion Of Broad street. By morning
all the lower portion of the street will ba
under water from two to four feet deep.
The rainfall since Sunday night has been
nearly seven inches 1t is raining steadily
tonight and has rained very hard all day.
The wind now blows from the southwest
and there is no hops that it will shift to the
north by morning. Most OF the merchants
on Lower Broad street. the main business
portion Of the city. have moved
their stock to higher quarters.
Cotton is being piled in tho streets, there be-
ing no storing room for it.
A dispatch from Cartersville to-night
says: "The Etowah river is Within
eighteen inches OF the mark Of 1886. II is
rising fast and heavy rain is falling"
The merchants of Rome have taken every
precaution against the flood. 1t is safe to-
say that there will be no loss beyond the ex-
pense of moving and the damages to build-
ings
HIGH WATER IN ALABAMA.
MONTGOMERY, ALA. Jan. 1S.-It has
been raining almost incessantly all over
Alabama since last Friday night. During
the last three days torrents have come
down. The local signal service observer,
reports over eleven inches of rainfalp
from Z a. m. Monday to n. IN. to-day. The
Alabama river is now about 85 feet above,
low water mark and still rising about IN
feet per hour. The gas works were hoodeds
yesterday and furnished no light last nignu
or tonight Many negroes are moving out
of the exposed portions of the city, fearfuh
OF the disastrous experiences of
April, 1886, being repeated. A sewer,
about twenty feet under ground beneath
the western end of the Louisville and
Nashville freight depot burst yesterday,
causing a bad washout which resulted In
about twenty. feet Of the depot room being
precipitated into the cavity. The freight
was all recovered. The Alabama Midland
road to Balnbrldge, Ga, the Louisville and
Nashville. Montgomery and Mobile division,
and Savannah Americus and Montgomery
road have washouts and have suspended
trains
DELUGE AT ATLANTA.
ATLANTA, GA, Jan. 13-Rain has fallen,
in a perfect deluge here for four days. News
has reached the city that the track of the
Marietta and North Georgia road is under
water and impossible. The Atlanta and
West Point at Meigs is also flooded. None
OF the mails from Louisiana and Texas and
points In Alabama reached here to-day on
account Of the high water.
FLOOD IN PENNSYLVANIA.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Jan. 13.-The heavy
rains of the past forty-eight hours, which
have melted the snow on the mountains,
cause apprehensions of flood in this
vicinity. The rivers are rising rapidly to-
night, with 1875 feet in the channel and %
feet Of water is looked for tonight. At alE
points at headwaters the rivers are at q
high stage and rising fast.