The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-11-28
FLOOD UNPRECEDENTED
DOES GREAT DAMAGE.
Loss OF Life and Property Caused
by Overflow Of Pennsy1vnnia

PITTSBURG, Nov z--After three days
OF fneessant rain flood unprecedented
for this season Of the year swept down
last night. ruined hundreds of thousands
OF dollars worth of property. caused the
loss OF at least three lives and tempo
OF workmen by the forced suspension OF
Industrial establishments and rendered
hundreds Of families homeless.
The fatalities are. Frederick koppen.
aged O. years fell and broke his neck
while removing goods from his home:
Joseph Davis and Joseph Fiocker. mill
workers. drowned.
A November Hood is quite common. but
Il rarely reaches the danger line. and for
this reason the steady rains OF the past
few days caused no alarm until late yes
terday when warning was sent out that
a dangerous flood was threatened.
The rising waters caught many wholly
unprepared. The danger line is twenty
i four feet IL, and this was passed about :
marks at Davis island dam registered
twenty-five feet seven inches.
Both rivers were stationary and It was
thought that the worst was over. The
lowlands in Pittsburr. Allegheny. South
Sharpsburs and McKeesport are inun-
dated and nearly every plant fronting the
two rivers has been forced TO shut down.
Hundreds Of families in these districts
have either been driven from their homes
or are living In the upper floors and using
sktHs There were many narrow escapes
eral men are reported as missing.
Davis and Flocker. with three COM
panons, attempted TO row across the
manageable and collided with coal boat.
The men were thrown into the river and
Davis and F'locker drowned. The others
chung to the upturned boat and were res
cued after being carried two miles down
the river
At Neville island the four-span bridge In
course q construction was swept away
t.a.lxx -
for the American Steel and Wire Com
pany and was also to be used for pas
ssenger trafiie by the Pfttsburg & Lake
The Hood was the result Of great rain
fall averaging two inches over the water
shed of the Allegheny and Mononeahela
three inches precipitation which fell last
week.
The entire Ohio Valley Railway win now
be flooded. az the resorts show that the
Ohio has risen rapidly nj many places
at midnight the marks at the dam reg
iStered 81 feet. and failing All danger
has passed. so far az pitfsburg is con-
wild Ride nj . Tank.
One OF the remarkable incidents ~ the
Hood was the Wild ride Of an empty ~ o0s-
barrel metal tank down the MoSonRaheIa
river n, s friday s;. Where 4 came from has no.
came plunging over the Dam ut lock M
az an eisht-mile gait n was in the md
Ole OF the channel and moi no obstruction
until II came 20 the Panhandle bridge
Here II struck the stone pier with a ter.
rific crash rebounded and repeated the
operation several times before Il passed
IL finally sunk In twenty-five feet AZ
water. Mt a point opposite the mouth 81
Ferry street, and Just where II Will im-
pede navigation when the river resumes
ITS normal stage. The Tenth street bridge
VIII have to be rebuilt as a result OF the
Hood II has been shaky for Some time.
and today was carried away.