The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-02-26
FLOOD At ITS HEIGHT.
The Monongahela Receding
and Allegheny Passive.
BIG WATER Is CERTAIN BELOW.
Cincinnati VIII Get Sixty Feet by To-
night The Flood of 1884 Almost
RivaIed About PIttsburg-Tributaries
of the Ohio Doing Damage.

syheny Is massive, which indicates that
the flood has reached its heighth IN
this section. but a mighty volume of
water will flood the Ohio river below
AS it Is, the flood IN this vicinity Is
close second to that of 1884
Houses and mills entirely surrounded
bv water are a common sight along
both rivers Skiff ferries have taken
the place of streets IN many sections;
railroad trains are Cancelled; street cars
stopped fires in furnaces and mills put
out: cellars flooded; small houses
washed away in short the old story OF
She rivers on a rampage has been re-
peated all the way from BrOwnsvllle to
the Ohio and for a considerable distance
up the Allegheny
The coal tipple at Browns station
was washed away.
AT the other end of the GlenwOod
bridge skiffs were introduced TO assist
rapid transit The water washed over
the tracks completely cutting off the
Second Avenue lines South Side
branch, McKeesport and Homestead
The Homestead passengers We're trans
ferred in skiffs the South Side line
could not reach within a mile of the
bridge. and McKeespOrt's cars were cut
off by several hundred feet The sklft
was piled incessantly.- keeping open
communications between cars on eaCh
side
The Pittsburg. McKees port and
YOughiOgheny railroad suffered more
than any railroad entering Pittsburg.
From above HAYS station TO South
Thirty-third street in the city, and
from there to the yards the tracks Were
entirely submerged except III spots.
Hays station and the valley known as
Six Mile Ferry were flooded up to the
tracks of the Pittsburg, Virginia and
Charleston railroad The river was
easily twice its regular width at this
place, and the tracks of the Pemicky
railroad and Second avenue traction
line were feet under water.
The water reached within 20 feet of
Carson street at First street and not
sign of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
freight tracks were in sight from this
point to the yards below.
The people were compelled to move
out on the lower streets of Allegheny.
Plants and dwelling houses we
flooded along the banks of both rivers.
The Allegheny Valley railroad yards
between Sixteen and Twentieth streets,
in what is called the ''lowlands, were
flooded. The rolling stock was removed
before the water reached the tracks.
Work on the Twenty-second street gov
ernment dam was suspended all day.
No damage is expected.
The water was two feet deep on Pike
street between Twelfth and Fifteenth
street, and filed the cellars of the
houses of 30 Polish residents. All
thought the houses were going sure and
moved out. Cellars in the neighbOr-
hood of Thirtieth street We're filled
with water but no damage was done.
Along the YOughiogheny river it was
reported late last night that many of the
houses were being undermined and
washed out entirely. They are threat
ened with being overturned and washed
down the river or demolished against
other houses.
At Dravosburg about 100 houses are
half submerged 1t was impossible to
get from ReynoIdton to DravOsburg
save by riding through the waters in a
wagon.
Residents of Mckeesport are unani-
nous in declaring that the flood in that
city is the greatest in its history.
1t was strange sight TO stand on the
Fifth avenue bridge. McKeesport, last
evening and watch fathers going home
In skiffs and climbing into the windows
of the second story, to see but the tops
of porches above the rivers level, and
here and there a solitary lamp post
sticking up out of the water on some
street
Braddock was in total darkness last
night, except for oil lamps and candles
Gas and electric light plants could not
be operated The town is also without
water, pumps are submerged.
East Pittsburg and BesSemer are al
most isolated through the action of
Turtle creek, which has become a wild
river. The town of Turtle Creek is un-
der three feet of water. and at Port
Perry some of the people living close to
the rivers edge Were forced TO move
upstairs. In a number of instances
the same circumstances exist in Brad
dock. The Pittsburg and Lake Erie
railroad put great trains over trestles to
keep them from being washed adrift
CHARLESTON. w. Va, Feb 24-The
river here is 40 feet and rising, and all
of the lower part of the city is under
water. Both the Kanawha and Elk
rivers are rising, and there is now evi-
dence that great suffering among the
lower classes will follow the receding of
the waters. At least 1000 people are
temporarily homeless and hungry
MONONGkHELA CITY, Pa, Feb. "a
Much damage has been done at this
place. About 100 houses on East Main
street are surrounded by water, and
many of the occupants have moved
upstairs or into other houses There
have been no trains running on either
the Pennsylvania or Lake Erie railroads.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 2f.-In the absence
of the great Cloudburst at headwaters
of the Monongahela river. no one
dreamed the river here would reach a
maximum of over % feet Opinions
changed when it was learned that q
flood in the Allegheny was coming
down just late enough to pile in on that
of the MoiOngahela. The signal service
observer here predicts so feet will be
reached at Cincinnati by tonight.
Reports from points above show
rapid rises from Pittsburg to Cincin.
natl. However, the headwater streams
are falling, stationary at New river
and at Elizabeth on the Little Ka
nawha, falling at Louisa on the Bis
Sandy and rising slowly at severa
other sources or tributaries.
At Cattlettsburg, Ky, 100 houses art
more or less submerged and few fee
more will affect every business house IL
the city. Cellars on Front and Third
streets at Portsmouth are flooded anC
many people are driven from theil
dwellings. Portions of Maysville, Ky
and much of Aberdeen, o., are sub
merged, driving families from their
homes. On the Big Sandy river the vii.
lagos of East Point and Solyerville have
been made uninhabitable. It - reported
that family of six were Crowned al
SolyervllIe. At Louisa, KY, all mails
are stopped and all telephone wires are
down.
Here at Cincinnati and vicinity the
towns OF Dayton and Bellevue and
portions of Newport, KY. are already
suffering much Inconvenience Water
in Cincinnati has invaded tie Central
depot and compelled the Big Four and
other roads to seek higher grounds
Gardeners in Mill Creek valley are
already losing heavily. If the river
should reach 90 feet the loss in all the
places mentioned above viii be greatly