The record-union., 1896-07-26

hand, traffic cannot be resumed until
some time next week. On the Denver
and Rio Grande Railway between Salt
Creek and San Carlos, below Pueblo, for
distance of fourteen miles, the track
has been undermined in many places,
and traffic there will not be moving un-
til Monday. On the Florence and Grip
pie Greeks it will require weeks time
to repair the DANA geS consisting of
WaShoutS and rock slides on the line.
Dynamite must be used to break some
of the powders which rolled down the
mountain sides upon the High line. Grip
pie Creek people will do their travelling
by stage for the ensuing week
The Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf,
in the vicinity of Golden, has several
days work to do before trains cam be
run The damage was confined to the
vicinity of Golden, no trouble of i'm
portance occurring along the route to
Georgetown or to Central City The
cloudburst evidently was most severe
on the mountains south of Golden and
between that city and the resort village
of Morrison.
Another heavy downpour occurred
this afternoon. In ten minutes 20 of
an inch of water fell in Denver, and
street-car traffic was suspended for half
an hour. while the flood, mixed with
hail, poured down, quite filing the
paved streets from curb to curb. The
storm was heavy also ait Golden and
along the mountains west, but no rain
fell elsewhere in the State The total
rainfall to-day was about | 80 inches
but the effect of the flood is due to the
speed of its downpour. Where confined
in canyons, as at Morrison, the water
rushes down in one mighty wave,
sweeping everything before it, and sub.
siding almost as quickly as it fell
THE STORM IN PENNSYLVANIA.
PTTTSBURG, July 25.-Reports re-
ceived tonight from towns along the
rivers are more reaSsuring, but serious
damage is reported in many places. AT
McKeesport the entire lower part of the
city is submerged, and many houses
have been deserted. The large iron
works of the w. Dewes Wood Company
suffered great damage. A part of the
National Rolling Mill is under water.
AT Braddock the Carnegie Steel Com
pany's blast furnaces were overfiowed
the men working part of the day in
four feet of water. At Rankin the
Carrie Furnaces, the Braddock Wire
Works and the Duquesne Forge were
compelled to shut down. throwing | 800
men idle. At Monongahela fifty families
We're driven from their homes, street
car and electric lights service is sus-
pended and mills and factories are sub
merged. Trains on the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie Railroad were unable to
reach Monongahela. At Homestead the
entire plant of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany was compelled to shut down and
are unable to run. 1t is believed the
amount of damage will reach $4,000.
IN OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA.
CINCINNATI, July 25.-Reports con-
tinue to come in of damage done by the
heavy rains which have fallen in this
section during the past three days. All
the smaller streams are greatly swollen.
AT Clarksburg, w. Va, many houses
are under water and the property loss
will be great. Almost every bridge in
Cpsher County has been washed away
In the northern portion of Kentucky
all railroads suffered by washouts and
the wheat crop is ruined
AT Gloucester, Ohio, the rain was the
heaviest ever known. The mine was
flooded and 800 men are out of en-
ployment. No train has reached Cald-
WELL Ohio, since Thursday night
AS an electric storm passed over
Bowling Green, KY, last night a bolt
Of lightning struck the wires running
into Potter College, demolished the tel
ephone box and shocked several that
were near by. Those that felt the
shock were Vice-President Stevenson
and family and Professor B. F. Cabell
and his family. The Vice President has
been a guest of Professor Caball for
several days.