New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-25
WESTERN STREAMS CHECKED
FALL IN TEMPERATURE PREVENTS
GREATER DAMAGE BY FLOODS

ENORMOUS LOSSES TO PROPERTY IN PENSSfh
WANNA INDIANA AND oHfo-MANY MEN ooi
or ruptoyNENT-A WEEK BEFORE
BUSINESS CAN De RESUMED
wAsuOl'Ts on RAILROADS.
p,,,ehurp March IA sudden ana occur" ,',,.
.,ro checked the flow In the headwaur
-. ,,ia morning and the effect OF tn'S ""'
- ,r,oront I'm the rivers here Atter
80. Zoo, tho water began to reocde, ana ~ ~"
calling RAPIDLY. At 10 o'clock II ma"
foot the gauge showing twenty-n"e 49,, ~
rho riso while not quite cqualling the MOO" y.
- "o ,,o rrost destructive known since inc
,,oroh,o ono Of February. 1885, The nhanc'"'
,o.s viii run IN well into the hundreds o' ''g'
sands II will not be confined 10 -,
stroved swept away or damaged -. an
v,orkmcn have been temporarily throw" O- .,o,,
rioyment and the aggregate OF the "as.S ~
p'oS ' No. ohobl,, will equal the direct loss on
will lose propapy VIII ''
property do- wa,or
The lowlands OF the two cities are "rue' ~. G.,
and II will be n week or more before DuS'"'S9 -
tho sections visited by the freshet mas ''S'''''N
It's normal condition ..,o, "a
,rho major mart Of the foods devastation Is
oha,o pi,,shurg on the Allegheny River. In
ch,rrsburp Nillyale and Etna there were man
h,1 woebouts All the railroads centrinS III i"'
burg and Allegheny were crippled espe''",' i
Plttsburg and Western and west io"i''' .'
roads Oporations on these two roads arc p"o
oaI,y susnepded and may not be- resumed lot
week No loss Of life has been reported nut '"e''
- ,,,,v narrow escapes from drownlns'
- pl,,shure the inundated district includes the
Iowor parts OF Fort. First. Second lHIIu' -,
and Fifth SITS. and parts OF seventh f's"'' az,
Nintb ats In fact, the lower part OF every SUI.
l., moro or less submerged. but the deepest wafer
covors that part of the city at the foitlt, WIZ
.ord ~ six hundred families live Many "a
,hsn Iaet night were hemmed in by two or three
90, ~ wafer and there was no way out OF III "a
con, nv means OF skiffs. Every celAir anu 90
mont north. of Penn-ave, from "a'e'-'O' "''N
along Water-st.. is filled with water -
- ,,os,,ion building is submerged, and the
,..,a,,o Gill he at least 5000. On the south SIDE
,ha warehouses. factories and mills along the eh'ire
,,vor-front were under several feet OF water anu
o,orations are completely suspended
ON the Allegheny side the water coEe'eu ,"e
.roo,s tuo blocks back, and extended lot h'"es
nm the river There is a total suspension oi WI"
ar all the mills along the Allegheny RIVER
r,o-, five thousand to six thousand worKingfheh
- ,h,,s thrown out of work The mills VIII not
rnsume work until the water recedes. Inc Iuuc.V"
Railroad below Twenty-ifth-st. was coiAP'''
flooded and work suspended on IT, .,,,
Aa stated before, nearly every raliroal c"'o'.e
,,1,,st,,rg e crippled by the floods There, Wero
ercentions however. in the Pennsylyad anu roods
tmore and Ohio main lines e9sl, r nj AS usual
,rains arrived and departed pIOWplE n"t ""
Tre~ht traffic west is completely PaIaISIcu ,xcoo,
coal accommodation trains Oh dii lo.'u9 ,,.,,dI
eva pit tsburg and Western are running - u t.'
6, tbe later washouts and landshdts WI M 80
Nr"nt travel for several days. Inc flItap.ts a.,
ol,c Eric is compelled TO transfer pass - t.,
Sawmill Run. where FOR one 'HouS'"' '00'
trarLs are under the Ohio foods ,,,,.. vol
" Vot for twenty-five years has the AieBir"y 49,
le, RaiIroad been hampered so ScVerey ~ =" rv,
circn TUESDAY afternoon no trains nave 10
norm Of Tmsvillo. and since Tuesday , e,5iaIs
,r'ns nave run north of Kittanning Inc o!ic,tis
exnect TO have the line opened throughout ''''
evening. -, r,i,,eh,,r, and Western
patIro,d ts one of great devastation. Inc ,ii ..S
49,. arc inpassabe for wagon raHl, Ld!.aV t go
hrideos are washed out by the dozen ana 10 fd
bave benn run since Tuesday night Inc Io"uDe t
sank I'm several places 1t will take WeehS ~ Ti
thn road i'm good shape again II Will De a,
DAYS before temporary bridges can De O' az ne
liz, trains 10 pass over The BRIDGES AT or, lie
Haven and Glenshaw were washed GOVT LII
crock and tossed about like feathers S leel az" th
pio ron and all the available materiai aoii5 hicb
loads were used weigh down the pflueeS WIN"
are still standing. - eooded and
wrecked as were other buildings In the vaey
fakes az ice are floating down the SWolleh ~
The streets Of Genshaw and Wittmer are are sue afe
merged and the families living IN the Ndiei -
in state Of terror Many fed to the mus t5e IN c0d
and on RATS taking what FURNITURE, my COr'
MI I,b hon Everybody feared that the catasto,I
nhe OF last year would be repeated "heh Se'ei''
Ito