Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-05-21
Rain And FLOODS.
pI,.y overflow Their Banks and
Cause Destruction.
RAILROAD rnAPFIc STOPPED


vanla fhilrohu ehhs VI N'U'"'"''b 80
..u.,frsm Pl,,sbufg. The tracks are
..,hrs,eed In four feet water from
coprmaush to Bennington, IS miles,
and aneen hundred feet Of tfaol to-
.e,bef with the Couemaugh bridge
go washed away. Pending repairs,
tbs Penney lvanla treins will 70 over
IN, BalumJro and Ohio road.
The business portion Of JJhnsiown
4, undsr water. one hundred thou.
end doilafs' damage is done AMI two
iIvss are lost For three days the raiu
de.rended. There was great alarm
is.t night when II was reported that
Nm, fo srfvoir at Kitttngcn Point was
broken. The report proved cxaggef.
sied. -Four large cfevicos were Dug
down the foot Of the dam by the waves.
IL was probably caused by n cloud
uIftL
Dispatches from many points along
the Allegheny river report great dam.
age Vt Etna nnd bharpsbufg. The
sIfesla arc submerged And th0usands
o. dollarai worth Of garden truck is
ruined.
Adrian wlohol, aged s5,when trying
10 rescue his team near Etua, was
crowned. A boy was also drowned
catching driftwoOJ.
wiLLANsrORT INUNDATED.
wiLLIAMsrORr, Pa, May 2i.-The
river continued to rise during the
night and nearly tho entire business
p5Hiln OF the city Is under water.
There has been no telegraphio com.
municatlon with Lock Haven since 0
o'clock yesterday, when the telegraph
operator was driven from the oillce by
tae noOd.
p. m.-Tho water has reached
ihirty.ono feet above low water mark,
cue loot higher than tho disastrous
llod OF 1852 The entire city Il undor
waller from four 10 twenty-five feet.
The rain Ia falling In torrents. the
water Is stu riaing six inches per hour.
Al tho logs nj the boom, which broke
all O'Clock this morning, have been
,sept away. NJ we'll as many saw mills
asd houses In the lower part Of
iso city. Not a telegraph or tolu-
phone wire IL working out
Of the city with tho single exception Of
shaky long.disthnce telephone wire
which was placed at the disposal Of the
Associated PTess correspondent While
talking to Philadelphia no was driven
out Of the office by the rapid rlse of
water. The loss has already reached
more than a million dollars. Unless
gclio!toon comes II viii be- three times
ub much. No trains have arrived or
departed for twenty flour hours.
sUNnuRY, Pa, May 2l,-Thc opera
iUIH IA tie Western Union oiilcc ~
WllllumspOTt were forced 10 abandon
thyir Instruments at III O'Clock today.
hu water was four feet deep IN the
Nice. Passenger trains on the Penn
sylvHuia road are running Oniy o. iaT
Do Do War;. No trains are running
over the Northern Central railroad
between Miliamsport aud Elmira.
There IL serious washout on the
Reading road bulow WiIllAmsp0tt
No Reading trains can enter VII.
Transport, the depot being flooded and
tue tracks under i've feet OF water.
TIE JUSIATA's nooM,
NEWPORT Ky, May a. The
Juula,R river Is twenty-five feet above
low water mark. Families ON Front
ttfeet have abandoned their homes.
Ihv walea IL flooding the nrnt stories
% the houses. Two planning mills are
under ave feet OF water. The loss Ii
heavy.
ROW BOATS FOR STREET CARS.
VARIES, Pa, May 2l.-Row boats
took the place OF street cars here today.
JoHSsTowE's VISITATION.
JonNsrowE, Pa, May 2l.-Johut-
Town Is experiencing tue most disas.
irous Hood since tho big Hood Of May
alsL 1850. Tho damage will amount
10 at least $4,000. The Pennsylvania
Iailfoad II the heaviest loser.
II has been raining three days and at
hst a cloudburst occurred neLr Edens.
burg, swelling the Coneniaugh to many
i!mes it, natural size. The Hood
reached this vicinity about n. m. to-
Jay. AZ South Fork numerous small
uul!dings were swept away, Further
on the water UNDERMINED the track OF
TIE Pennsylvania road used by tue
thsibound trniua for almost two miles.
az East Conemaugh the water beat
urluusly against tho Pennsylvania
'und house anu undermined this ioun.
ualon, The vnginra were removed 10
place OF safety. Several bridges be-
low Conemaugh were badly damaged.
Ina this city the Oklahoma house,
O"Goi 10y Peter Seymour, was swept
sway A thtee'btOIy building Of H.
Browne WAS torn from its iounda-
uon. The Iron bridge III badly wrecked.
fuily SlO0,OO0 damage was DOM 10
liuprfly with the yards Of tbs Penn
tylFhhlh passenger station. Between
Lhp lielght station anu the Tiver was nu
blNucial embaukment, which gave
way carrying down the river about
NV ittt " trek aud 90 loaded Cars.
IN ono car were i've ttAnps, said 10 be
hemOtra VI Galvlu's army, Two were
Ir1WueI,
Parties went from house to house
a"akcning the occupants. whistles
VIC" aud the people fled 10 the high
kIolnd, Ia Moodhbli the streets are
covered by water six tet deep AMI
l.me email houses are swept away.
s"ank'a pottery works caught IRE AMI
WAS impossible for the fire company
20 reach the building.
JohNh1OwN, May 2l,-l p.m.-The