Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-04-25
STORM RIOTS IN EAST.
DEATH AND RUIN FOLLOW RAIN
AND FLOOD.
Snow Falls to a Depth of Two Feet
Swollen Rivers Drive Residents TO
Places of Shclter-Mauy Railroads.
Are Tied Up.

Ohio, Pennsylvania. the Virglnlas'
kentucky and other Southern States
were rayaged by the storm KING rlua9
and Saturday. Such a disastrous sta.e
of affairs has not been experienced III
twenty years.
Business was ut standstlll, mines'
factories and streets were Hooded, WIRES
were Frustrated in every direction, hfe-
alarm and electric light service was crlp-
pied, bridges were washed away, street
cars were abandoned and railway Trains
were stalled all over the country. III
cities along the rivers the lnhabltantS
fastened to places Of safety, leaving tneli
property to appease the fury OF the
floods. Enormous damage was done by
the snow and rain, which fell continuous
ly for almost two days. High winds ada
ed to the general destruction.
The floods in the rivers at Pittsburg re-
coded after infiicting damage estimated
at between 100000 and S3'UoV,Uuo,
and throwing out of employment ou'ooo
workingmen. While there have Deen
greater floods there, there was never one
that caused so much financial loss anu
discomfort On the Fort wayne tue
worst trouble was a snow blockade De
tween Salem and Massllon, Ohio. ms
began Saturday morning and tied up the
road in twenty-four hours. At y o'clock
Sunday morning the track was cleared
and trains began moving. The same
trouble kept the Cleveland trains OF the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie late, five trains
having been blockaded at Window, near
Leavittsburg, for twenty-five hours. ms
snowfall did not extend east of NeWcas-
tie, but at Youngstown, ONO, 1t was
two feet deep, and the drifting IN the
cuts north of that city were up to loco
motive headlights.
Big landslides occurred on the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie, the Baltimore and
Ohio at Soho, on the Panhandle, on the
south side, the Bessemer at several
points, and the Allegheny Valley near
Franklin, Pa. The slide at Soho was 100
feet long, and it required fourteen hours
work to clear one track.
At Skobo, between Monaco and Ali
quppa, the Lake Erie received its most
serious landslide. One hundred feet of
the west-bound track was carried fifty
feet down the steep bank, the whole face
of the bank slipping down into the river.
On the lines of the Pennsylvania and
Baltimore and Ohio to Wheeling great
damage is reported, and both lines were
tied up for several hours. Five miles of
the Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake Erie
tracks We're either under water or mud.
The submerged districts in Pittsburg
and Allegheny are n scene of abject mis-
cry. Cellars and iii some instances the
first floors of stores and dwellings We're
covered with water. When the flood sub
sided it left behind greasy, yellow scum
two to three inches deep. The damage TO-
furniture and buildings in Allegheny is
estimated at about 100000. 1t will take
two months of hot summer weather to
thoroughly dry out these houses. In Pitts
burg the loss to residences and stores and
goods and the cost of cleaning up will
amount to about $25O,00O
a great deal of damage was caused by
the storm in Cleveland, Cincinnati and
other Ohio cities.