Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-01-12
HIGH WATER.
Great Damage from Floods In
Pennsylvania.
Rivers Arc Rising Rapidiy-Houscholders
and Merchants Removing to Places
of Safety In Many Sub
merged Towns.

PITTsBURaH, Pa, Jan. s.-Rivermen
are thoroughly alarmed over the prob.
ability of big flood at this point. The
Monongahela came out with q rush
Monday morning and with the
breaking of the ice in the upper
pools the damage to boats be-
gan. Immense coal fleets were
threatened with total destruction The
Allegheny is also full of ice and is run
ming like a torrent. A great amount
of wreckage is coming down, indicat-
ing damage at points above. Rivermen
said they expect a stage of 30 feet
with prospect of going still higher.
In the great flood of 1884 the Allegheny
rose to 33 feet, and great damage was
done.
The report of 25 feet at lock- No. 4
and % feet at Morgantown caused
general panic among the coal oper-
ators, and most of the clerks and en-
ployes were ordered ont of the offices
and stationed along the river at differ
ent points to look after the safety Of
the craft and make reports to the
general offices. There were several
million bushels of corn on flats in the
harbor here and every effort was put
forth to keep the fleets from being
wrecked. Seven coal barges, a house,
boat and swinging ferryboat broke
from their moorings and went down
with the current.
The most serious damage in the A1le-
ghany will be done to the government
work at Harris island and where the
new dam is now in course of construc-
ton. The water is now over the cof-
fer-dams and it is likely that all of the
work will be destroyed.
The residents of Etna and Sharps-
burg, suburbs on the Allegheny, ara
alarmed over the prospects of a big
flood. The low ground in both towns
is submerged and the water rising.
UNIoNTowN, Pa, Jan. s-With the
exception of the flood of August, 1889,
the present surpasses all the floods
since 1860. The situation is alarming-
Fowlerville, suburb of New Haven,
is submerged; two-th;rds of the citizens
have already moved out, and If the
water rises much higher their homes
will be swept away. Reports from
Dawson, Diclzerson's Run, Bannings
and other towns down the river say
that they are now at the mercy of the
waters, and great damage is being
done.
MoKEEsPoRT, Pa, Jan. s.-At midi
night the water is up in Market street
and all the families along Water
street have moved out. Water is in the
w. Devices Wood company's mill, and
part of the mill is shut down. The
damage to the plant so far will reach
$4,000. The Howard plate-glass works
at Duquesne had to shut down and the
Carnegie steel works are partly
knocked out by the flood. The water
is feet deep in Main street of Dravos-
burg. Little rain is falling now. The
loss in McKeesport will reach $4O,0 600.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. s.-Advices
from southern Indiana tell of disas-
trous floods resulting from the heavy
rains of the last forty-eight hours. AT
Bedford, on the Monon road the bridge
across the river has been washed away
and the trains are running via North
Vernon. At Vienna, on the main line
of the jefferson, Madison & Indianap-
oils road 800 feet of track has been
washed away and traffic is seriously de-
layed from both north and south