The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-24

city, seven In number. On Wheeling ISL
and every family OF the 13eo has moved
to the upper stories. On the city side of
the river hundreds Of families have done
the same thing. as well as Martins Ferry
Beilaire. Benwood. Bridgeport and other
outlying communities.
Dayton In Darkness.
DAYTON. O., March 1.-The city is in
darkness. the electric light plant having
been flooded. Two Thousand families have
been driven from their homes and are
being cared for in private houses. the
armory and other pubic buildings. Over
60 dwellings are submerged In North
Dayton. and several cottages have been
swept down the river. Railroad business
has been entirely stopped.
Heavy Damage In Indiana.
INDIANAPOLIS. March e3.-Floods are
reported throughout the state of Indiana.
Many important towns are temporarily cut
of from communication and trains have
been entirely abandoned On some railroads.
There have been thirteen rainy days in
March with a total precipitation of 20
inches. of which 25 inches has fallen since
Sunday. White river. Big Eagle and Fail
creek are out OF the banks and many fami-
lies have been driven from their homes.
1t is reported that $4,000 damage has
been done at Greensburg. where at noon
today eight heavily laden passengers had
been stalled for sixteen hours. owing to
washouts.
Al St. Paul the big Hart mills were
washed out and other damage will bring
the total up to $l40oe. Wrecks have been
reported from different points of the state
and railroad traffic in Indiana east of this
city is demoralized.
Not passenger train reached Indianap-
oils from the East tonight. All the bot
tom land about Indianapolis is covered
with water and White river is slowly ris-
ing. but no great apprehension is felt.
Springfield Also suffers.
SPRINGFIELD, O.. March 23.-The
water in Mad river and Lagonda creek is
four inches higher today than ever be-
fore known. The damage is estimated at
sl5o.oeo in the city and county. j. s. Con-
nell was swept from his horse into the
river and drowned.
Three Great valleys Under Water.
PITTSBURG, March 23.-Three great
rivers-the Monongahela. Allegheny and
Ohio-are now In a flooded condition, and
there is every indication that the loss TO
coal operators, manufacturers and prop
erty holders in general will eclipse that
OF the freshet Of 1891. Already the river
coal operators, manufacturers and prop
eating 100000. and great Inconvenience
must necessarily follow. Reports re-
ceived from towns on either side of the
three great valleys show great damage
TO the valuable property on the lowlands.
and with the water st.ll rising grave fears,
are entertained Of even heavier losses.
Fleets swept from their moorings,
bridges washed away. mills, factories.
several feet under water for miles and
miles. and numerous washouts causing a
complete tie-up of many branch connec-
tions of railroads entering Pit.sburg, are
the results OF the unprecedented rainfall
Of the past few days.
Al midnight the gauge recorded twenty
nine feet, a rise OF four feet in fifteen
hours, and still rising at the rate of two
inches an hour. The greater loss is TO
the railroads. Mills along the three rivers
are silent, and merchants and families in
the lower part of the two cities have been
compelled to remove their goods to higher
ground. The loss cannot be estimated
tonight. but it will reach a high figure.
Passenger Train I'm the Water.
FRAZEYSBURG. O.. March 23-On ac-
count of high water on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad bs ween GAINESVILLE and
Newark. Baltimore IL Ohio passenger
train No. lo5. with four cars. was running
TO Newark over the G. NJ. & V, another
panhandle. About three miles east OF
Frazeysburg high water had undermined
the roadbed for 20 yards The train
struck the hanging track at the rate of
forty-tive miles hour. throwing the
engine, Pullman and day coach from the
track. The train was running in reverse
Pullman. No one WAS seriously injured.
but a few received cuts and bruises. The
passengers and crew were brought TO
shore in boats.