Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-22
FLOOD AT JVHNSTeNN.
NOrEE OF TIE STORMS.

ELMIRA, N. u For IS hours ram na-
not ceased except for brief intervals
All the streams are greatly swollen.
Traffic Is seriously inteFfefed vita.
DUNKIRK, n. Y.-A 6-year-old son OF
Henry Tilley, living three miles east
af Dunkirk, was caught by.high water
last night and drowned, The body has
not been recovered. The -Duakirk. AL
legheny Valley and Pittsburg bridge at
Laanoa has been weakened. and settled
IS inches. Erie trains are running oy
way Of Dayton and Buffalo.
ANNAPOLIS, MD.-The schooner John
T. Marshall has been capsized az the
mouth of South riverer aud it is feared
the crew have been drowned.
REAING, PA, May e1.-The railroad
bridges at Stony Creek and Dauphin.
were carried away this morning by the
1ocd. Many collieries are reported
flooded in the Schuylkill regions. The
SchuylkiIl river is II feet above low
water mark.
WARREN, Pa, May 21.-Row boats
took the place of street cars here to-
day. All the streets, in the lower dis
tricts are under water, but the rise was
so gradual that no serious damage was
done. No trains are running except be-
tween here and Erie.
ANoKE, MINI, May 21.-The river
has reached the danger line. At noon
about million feet Of logs broke loose,
carrying booms, piers and several out
buildings of Paget Bros. Lumber Com
pany down stream.
CLEAN, n. Y, May 21.-The Allie
gheny river has risen about Is feet and
spread over many miles OF bordering
lowlands. No lives are reported lost.
All trains are laid out, many miles OF
track are submerged and bridges car
rled away.
HARRISBURG, PA, May 21,-Fears Of
q food in this city as destructive as
that OF Jane, 1889, are over. At noon
the high waters were subsiding. Low
lands in the city are inundated.
LoCKPoRT, n. Y, May 21.-The rain
which has been falling since Thursday
night continues undated. Traffic out
side the city is almost impossible.
BUFFALO, n. Y, May 21.-Reports
from Western New York show that the
food Of the last three days has not been
equaled by anythinn in recent years.
CORNING, n. Y, May 21.-The heavy
rains have since Friday inundated all
the lowands. Great damage has been
done to property, but no life has been
reported lost.
EAsToN, PA, May 21.-The Lehigh
and Delaware rivers are rising rapidly.
The Lehigh is higher than at any time
since 1889. People have been COM
PEELED to move to places Of safety.
NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y, May 2l.-It
has rained for four days and the creeks
are OVERLOOKING. A portion Of Honne-
pin Point In Prospect Park fell away.
Another piece OF the bank went down
near the point. Some three hundred
feet Of bank slid into the river on the
Canadian side down near the whirlpool,
PHiLoX, Wis, May 21.-The dam at
this place has gone out, carrying large
quantities of logs and several barns
down stream. Much live stock was lost
in the rush Of the waters. No human
lives have been lost so far as known.
BRADFORD. Pa, May 21.-The food
at Oleau and Salamanca is the largest In
many years and much damage is re-
ported from those places.
WnKEsBARRE, PA, May 21.-Two
children OF John Knoskoky, Nantlcoke,
aged respectively ten and eight, fell
into swollen creek this afternoon and
were drowned.
SUNBURY, PA, May 1.-The West
ern Union Company's OPERATOR at Mil
ton was driven out by the flood at 3
o'clock this afternoon. since which time
there has been no telegraph communi-
cation north OF this place. Both the
north and west branches are still rising
at midnight, and the food is as high as
it was during the high water Of 1889.