The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-03-24
MANY RIVERS FLOODED.
Streams Out Of Their Banks In
Different States.
OCCURS AT ,rROY
Beaver Valley, Pa, People In Great Dan
ger From Threatened Landslides.
Railroad Tranlc Delayed-The Rivers

DAYTON, March GA cloudburst at
Troy caused damaging food at that
point and has caused the Miami valley
to be put in danger. The river is ris.
and lacked two feet of the big 1891
flood.
SIDNEY, o., March 23.-The heavy
rains have caused the Miami Over to
overflow its banks here. The river rose
over a foot and is still rising, and many
people living along its banks have com
menced to move out of their homes.
DELAWARE, o., March 23.-The rain
storm here has proved to be serious and
destructive. People residing ON the Oben-
tangy river were compelled to move out
III carts and boats because of the rising
water.
MAssILLoN, o., March 23.-The Tus.
carawas river at this point is higher
than it has been for several years and IS
rising steadily. Many residents of
Patagonia, this county, are living on
the second floor of their homes because
of the threatened overflow.
BEAVER FALLS, Pa, March 23.-The
Ohio river is high and is rising at the
rate of six inches an hour. Fallston,
which lies low, is in great danger.
Rain is coming down heavily, and it
has been raining practically without a
stop since last Saturday. There was a
tremendous landslide on the Erie and
Pittsburg railroad, across the river, and
more than dozen gangs of men have
been called out to clear away the piles
of dirt that cover tla track
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad
also had big landslide between the
city and Fa1lston and the work train
crew was summoned to clear the tracks.
People are in state of terror, and
many fear that the big hills that sur
round the towns of this whole valley
will come down upon them.
Walnut run, at the western part of
town, is over its banks.
People all through the flooded district
are moving their furniture from the
first floors of their homes to upper
stories, and the women and children
have been taken to places of safety.
BEAVER, March 23.-Blockhouse run
is ON the rampage. The water washed
away the embankment below Dave d
Mylers' place, and little more of
raise will flood the districts below.
PTTTsBURG, March 23.-Heavy and
continued rains sent Pittsburg's three
rivers to a flood stage. 1t is not an
actively destructive flood, such as river
men remember in years gone by, but
brisk 25-foot affair that troubled itself
with cellars and other under level places
i'll the downtown section.
From Oil City and Morgantown, all
the way down to Wheeling, the gauges
showed the water to be climbing from
three TO six inches an hour.
Allegheny and Southside residents
suffered the worst locally. The Pitts
burg and Lake Erie and Pittsburg and
Western railroads were busy with water
submerged tracks, but no accid nts
We're reported. Reports from up river
towns show the general damage to have
been but slight.
PORTLAND, Ind, March 23.-The ter
rifle rains have caused an unprecedented
rise in the SalamOnia river and 1t is out
of its banks, submerging hundreds of
acres of farming land.
NANDAIIA, March 23.-In consequence
of the heavy rains the Okaw river and
tributaries are spread over the entire
Okaw bottoms.
ST. LOUIS, March 23.-The steady
dOwnpour Of rain for the past five days
has not excited alarm, but there is a
strong probability that some regions of
the Mississippi valley will suffer the
disasters of Il flood,