The herald., 1897-02-24
p|TISBURG'S GREAT FLOOD
Likely to Ce Duplicated This
Season
MILLIONS OF DAMAGE DONE
Thousands Of Homeless People Camped
on the Hills
cities Of Ohio and Kentucky Nav U:der
Water and the Rivers Are S'ili
Rising
associated Press Special Wire

associated Press Special Wire
PITTS3URG, Pa, Feb. 2c-The
flood now raging here will probably
equal the great flood of 1884, which meas
ured thirty-four feet. All the low'ahus
in the vicinity of either of the rivers
have been submerged since noon, More
than 10000 men have been made idle by
the rise as many of the mills are locat-
ed on the banks of the streams. The
water has invaded the heart OF the
city and flooded cellars ana stopped
traffic in many places, notably Sl%th ana
Market streets, popular thoroughiares'
A large part of Allegheny has apparent
ly been blotted out and Exposition park
where the league ball games are played
has vanished exposing a slSht renee
line. Many people are made homeless
along the banks of the Allegheny river
and especially in River avenue ana iioo-
inson street. Beginning at Browns
vile on the Monongahela river, Califor-
MIA Monongahela City. Chareroi, east
and west of Eliza beth, Portview NC
Eeesport. Turtle Creek and many
smaller hamlets have been inundated
or partially SO, causing much oafhase
| and suffering The distress of the peo-
| pie the night before was awful, as many
| fled to the hills and remained there al
night rather than trust their homes
| Tba coal tripnle of Brown & Co. fell with
| a crash above the bridge of the Wheelins
| diyjsion of the B. & O. railroad at .
| o'clock and a fleet of coal boats anu
| barges were cut loose from ther moor
ings blockading the channel from paIlk
| 70 bank, threatening all the craft from
! there for miles below. 49,.
| Several of the traction lines IN Aile-
ild
| The Westnghouse company's motor
| n,ant and machine shops are under Wa
| Ter caused by the backing up OF Turtie
| creek Hundreds of houses are also un-
| der water from this cause. The expo,
sition building is entirely sufrouhueu u
| by water. -,
the Monongahela valley have been com
pelled to shut down. The United Coke
&. Chemical plant at Glassport has Just
| been completely hidden and propaply
ruined. involving $500 coo loss.
At a. m the river is almost station
ary and the worst is believed 10 pe
over. The damage along the Monohga-
hela valley is estimated at not less thah
rn,Ilion and a half. In McKeesport
| alone the damage will exceed aooV'poo'
AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, O.. Feb. 23.-Last night,
in the absence of news of the great
| cIoudburst at the head waters OF the
| Monongahela. no one dreamed the river
| here would reach a maximum Oh over
| fifty feet Opinions changed TO-DAY Wheh
IL wss learned that flood in the Alle-
gheny was coming down JUST ia'e
enough to pile it on that OF the Mohoh-
eahela. Tonight the signal service ob-
Server predicts that sixty feet will be
reached at Cincinnati by tomorrow "A
Q o'clock tonight it was 45 feet inches
a rise of three feet in twelve hours' oi
three inches per hour. Reports toIish'
from points above show rapid rises IRON
Pittsburg to Cincinnati
At Cincinnati and vicinity the towns o
DAYTON and Bellevue and portions O.
Newnort. KY. are already suffering
much inconvenience. The water has IN
yaded the Central depot. and compete.
the Big Four and other roads to seer
higher ground Gardeners in Mill creel
valley are already losing heavily.
the river should reach sixty feet IN
losses in all places mentioned ABOVE VIII
be greatly increased. -,
At midnight the stage of water IN IN
Ohio river was A feet and IL inches, AM
the rate of rise was nearly three incne
per hour Three mills in Newport, hy
and one in Cincinnati have been close
by the flood.
AT LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 23.-The rive
is rising at the rate of two inches an nou
and has reached "a feet. Specials 10
night report damage to farm proper'
and log booms.
Abe Reed, a negro. was drowned q
Jackson, where the Kentucky river
. flooding the lower part of the towf
Farmer, Ky, is sI~aost entirely sun
merged Jones Tyree was drowned
the Powell river near Donkeyvilie.
, special from Middleboro says: ~
loss in Southeastern Kentucky WI
| reach 5000 G0O''