Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-21

lower part OF the city IS uOOu-
ed. the waterN has oVerhowed the
banks in the central part OF the city
and the streets in the upper end are
under water. The Reading railroad
tracks through the city are flooded and
no more trains can be run on that road
until the water subsidies.
At midnight, with the rain still iall-
ing, the river has overfoWed its banks
in the central part of the city, and the
water is rushing up Market street
and out TO Third aud Fourth streets.
Ia the business part OF the
city, where the cellars are now
full OF water. The present height OF
the food is "a foot, and il is estimated
thatit will reach % feet from the pres
ent rainfall. But as the rain shows no
signs Of abating, it is feared that to-
morrow may bring more elements OF
dan ger.
Att O'Clock this morning the big lum-
Der boom broke and the logs are going
down the river.
WILL1AMsPoRT, PA, May 9O.-2:3o a.
m. Ii continues TO rain and the river
is rising steadily. The big log
boom did no injury TO three bridges
below the city in IT'S
passage downward, but it is asserted
shat only a comparatively small part OF
il has passed the structures. There
were It's, 200. 600 feet Of logs in the
boom instead Of 150,000,00O.
IN THE TUNA VALLEY.
BRApFoRD, PA, May 2O.-The worst
food 10 Bradford's history is rushing
through Tuna valley today. Twenty
streets contiguous TO the creek are IN
undated and hundreds Of families are
in the swim.
The east and west branches of Tuna
are both transformed into good sized
rivers.
Below Foreman street, at the eontiu-
ence Of the two streams, the Hood Is
Quarter of a mile wide and is high
enough TO ruin all the carpets in the
houses on Hilton and other streets In
the lower part OF the Sixth ward. The
Douglass dam is partly torn away.
Weaver's ice house is In ruins. The
North street bridge is gone and several
railroad and street bridges are ia dan
ger. The railroad people are
HOLDING DOWN lHER BRIDGES
with heavily loaded cars. In the Sixth
ward twenty families were taken out Of
their houses ia boats during the night
and on Clarence river aud Hilton
street rescue corps with skiffs rescued
as many more. Luckily there were no
fatalities.
The flood from East Branch covers
the territory over which run the Erie
Railway Company's tracks, the West
ern New York aud Pennsylvania tracks
and those OF the Bradford, BOrdwell
and Kinzua railway. Webster street is
navigabie by boat. Across Corridor to
Newell Avenue, 10 Main and then down
Davis street there is rushing body OF
deep water aud skiffs ply from the Rid
die house up and down the streets.
At the Henderson House on the
ground floor there is six inches OF wa
ter. Twenty business houses on Main
street between Webster aud the Erie
railway are in sti. worse condition.
Sixty feet Of the b. K. IL Z. track, just
below the city, eastern line has been
washed out, and the trains OF that road
come 10 over the Erie track FROM Lime
stone.
THE FIRE ALARM BELL
was sounded this morning at O'Clock
and the fremen were called out TO help
the people frOm their houses. They did
excellent work. A car load OF lime in a
store house near the track about Elm
street became water soaked and fired
the building while undergoing the slack
ing process and in che flood to their
waists the fremen had further work
20 do.
The rain yesterday, last night and to-
day, fell as If a cloud burst but this
evening has abated somewhat, and it is
believed that the worst is over.
AROUND JAMESTOWN.
JAMESTOWN, y. V, Nav 20.-All
trains on the ID. a. & p. railway have
been abandoned, owing to the damage
to its tracks by the storm. A portion
OF the large bridge at L0ana is washed
away. There is heavy land
slide covering the tracks for quite
distance between FalcOner and
Gerry, aud she railroad bridge at F'rewS-
burg is washed out. The waters OF the
Canadaway creek have risen until the
stream is nearly half mile wide be-
tween Loana and Fredonia. Ia Dun
kirk the lower portions OF the place are
flooded, and the cellars and Easements
filled with water. ChautauQua Lake
has risen several inches within the past
few hours, the outlet is over its banks.
No special damage has yet been report
ed in this city.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD REPORrS.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, May 2O.-Dis-
patches 10 Pennsylvania Railroad on
cials report that il has been raining for
several days, that the water OF the
Susouehanna is still rising, and that a
conservative estimate places the prooa-
Bile total rise at from twenty-five TO
thirty feet. AT RenOva the water has
risen this afternoon to % feet above
low water liue; at DriitwoOd ten feet,
and at Heating sixteen feet. Part OF
Lock Haven is under water, and the
food there is very high, and between
Bellefonte and Rising Springs two spans
of one OF th railroad bridges have been
carried away. There is 3
SEVEN FOOT FLOOD
in Lycoming creek and at Rising
Springs the water is IS inches higher
than il was Ia 1889.
At Bixler's vineyard q number OF
county bridges have been carried away.
On the Cambria aud Cleardeld railroad
the piers OF the bridges have been un-
dermined and the road obstructed by q
number Of small washouts. Seventy
five cars have been loaded with stone.
All the Quarries are being worked to
their capacity and large forces Of men