Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-02-25
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
Piedmont, W. Va, February "a
Thirteen trestles have been washed out
on the line of the Cumberland and
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad. and trains Will
not be running before Friday.
A big landslide to-day filled the mouth
of the Merrill coal mine, upset the en-
gines and destroyed the wheel house
A new opening will have TO be made
This evening a water main burst
under the river. 1t will cost 500 to re-
pair it.
The flood did serious damage here,
flooding many cellars, streets and gar
dens.
East Liverpool. Ohio, February 24.-
The river entered all the potteries along
the river front. In seven factories the
engines were stopped and employees
thrown idle for several days. Much
csav was destroyed in the bins, but the
machinery is only slightly damaged.
Fifty homes were flooded in the West
End and the Specially Glass Works SUI
fered a heavy loss. The tracks OF the
East Liverpool and Wellsville street
railway are under water for about two
miles and the line is completely tied
up. A long trestle at Wellsville is de-
stroved and the tracks are washed out
badly at several points. At Wellsyille
the Bowery district at the north emu
of the town is under water. The wa
ter did some damage at the Wellsville
rolling mill.
Pittsburg, Pa, February 24-The
public Safety and Charity Depart
ments are doing everything to alleviate
suffering.
The railroads are slowly recover
ing. BY tomorrow it is expected they
will be in fairly good shape again.
The Baltimore and Ohio is still bad
w crippled. but with the aid of the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad, is managing to
accommodate its travel. The Fairmont
division is in bad shape Shortly after
noon the first through train from the
east since Monday arrived at the B. &
0. station.
Cincinnati. Ohio, February 24.-At
nine o'clock tonight the river here was
5S1s feet and rising steadily an inch
and a half an hour. Everywhere the
Ohio valley above here the weather is
clear and cool Above Wheeling the
Ohio river is falling at all points. In
the region of the source of the floods
the streams have been going down for
twelve hours. and the damage IS past.
No less than a million dollars loss and
damage to mmbermen and farmers is
the rough estimate for the MOnonga-
hela valley. On the Ohio there was
more or less loss and damage to rail-
roads all the way down to Portsmouth.
More or less damage to some business
houses was Uttered in SteubenVllle'
Parkerburg. Gallipolis. Huntington,
Catlettsburg. IrOntOn, Hanging Rock,
Portsmouth. Aberdeen, Maysville and
several smaller towns. either in actual
loss or inconvenience of moving goods.
Tonight Portsmouth alone over 1000
Ders7ns have been driven from their
homes. Much the same sort OF suffering
exists in the other cities and towns
mentioned. but at Portsmouth II is
the greatest. School houses, town nall,
churches and all other available build
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and public charity feeds them. Al
Newport. Ky. opposite here, $50 Door
families are driven from their homes,
but they are well sheltered. In East
Cincinnati. about an equal number Of
families have been temporarily driven
from their dwellinfs. Coney Island,
an up-river summer resort, is under
water deep enough to feat the largest
river steamer. In Ludlow, Ky, below
Covington. the grounds are deep under
water, and it is feared that the dyke
that retains the great lake VIII be SOL
tened so as to break and dram Ine lake
when the waters go down.
The bacl,vater in Mil Creek west Of
the civ has destroyed many thousand
dollars worth of garden stuff.
At Lawrenceburg, Ky. there have
been fears for the safety Of the big gov