Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-22
-WHEETING w. VA TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 90, 1884,
No lives are reported lost. All the
crops In the valley are ruined.
asun rATATITTFS
TWO FATALITIES,

NO lives are repOrL6u lOSts AL tHo
crops In the valley are ruined.
Two FATALITIES,
PITrsBURG, May 21.-Two lives were
lost in the flood this afternoon. Adrian
Weichel, aged 35 years, was trying TO
rescue q team OF horses near Etna ABOUT
o'clock, when his feet caught in the
harness and he was drowned. A few
minutes later an unknown boy about
fifteen years old was drowHed in A!le-
gheny while catching drift wood Both
bodies were swept down the stream.
WATER RECEDING AT BRADFORD.
BRADFORD, PA, May 21.-The water,
which covered 90 of BradfOrd's streets
to the depth of several feet, is recedng,
and it Is believed the flood has spent It's
force. The property loss is at least
SIC, 900. There was no loss Of life, but
there were numerous narrow escapes.
An lSold months BABY was rescued
from the angry waters by an intrepid
swimmer, and many acts OF herosim are
reported. A panic was caused last
night by the report that the water
works reservoir, seven miles west or
this place, had burst. Men, women and
children fed pUecipitately to the hills
for safety, and the widest excitement
prevailed until the rumOr was proven
10 be false. The Buffalo, Rochester
and PittSburg tracks have been washed
out east Of here and trains have not re-
sumed running. Much damage is re-
ported by the flood at O.ean, Dunkirk,
jamestown, Cory and other places.
The water is now falling at Oil City and
no danger is apprehended.
NO FURTHEE DANGER EXPECTED.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, May 21.-At
midnight advices from the flooded dis
tricts indicate that the storm has spent
its fury aud that the waters have be-
gun 10 fall in those localities where
the danger has seemed greatest.
Other places further down the
swollen streams are threatening
bur the worst is probabaly known. Sun
bury is threatened with complete inun-
dation, as the water there is rising very
fast. At Remove and Lock Haven, the
food Is radidly rsceding, and no furth-
er apprehension is felt.
THE sCHUYLKILL Is FALLING.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, May eat two
o'clock the Schuylkill is falling slowly
and is about a foot lower than its maxi
mum height. The city's gas works at
Twenty-fourth and Market are flooded.
THE FLOOD ABOUT DANsvILLE, n. y.
DANsvILLE, n. y, May 21.-The
food now being experienced is the
worst that has occurred in the Genesee
Valley for years. The water is two feet
above the high water mark OF the
great freshet Of five years ago. The de-
strucJiOn OF crops is complete. The
Canaseraga Valley has suffered terri
bly,. Bridges are washed away and the
main roadway is cut out.
ABOUT NoRRIsTOwN, PA.
NoRRIsTowN, PA, May 21.-Traffic
on all railroads is suspended, aud the
tracks are covered with water. All the
houses on Front street in Bridgeport
are flooded, and the inmates are moving
out. All the mills along the banks of
the river are flooded on the first food,
and the stock has been removed In
boats. a large bridge was washed away
at Port Kennedy, also the railroad
bridge over Stony creek.
ROCHESTER,, Y. Y, May 21.-A heavy
volume Of water at the upper waters is
yet TO reach theis point. Much drift
WOOD, rubbish is floating. The Cana
zega creek, Kilqua creek, south of Mt.
Morris, and Dttle Brands creek, in
Leicester, all are raging tarrents, while
the volume OF water coming through
the gorge is frightful.
BETHLEHEM, PA, May 2l.-Lehigh
and Mouocacy rivers are higher than
during the great flood Of 1889. People
are moving out of their second stories
The rivers are still rising and it contin'
| ueS TO rain.
ALLENTOWN. PA, May 21.-The riv
ers have oyerfowed, neceSsitating the
stoDpage of industries. Many homes
along the river banks were abandoned
| to-day. The rivers are still rising.
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