Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-22
THIS BOY WAS 4 HERO
Wildly Waving His Cap He Rode
 Like the Wind.

Up BuC None lnJureQ-LauuSIlue
 Was Caused by the Heavy Rains in
 Eastern Pennsylvania.
 Pittsburg, April 22-One of the thrilling incidents connected with the flood conditions prevailing in this state was the hairbreadth escape from destruction of the Pennsylvania lim- tied train, west-bound, near Tyrone, yesterday. A boy riding frantically at the side of the track, wildly waving his cap, gave the warning to the engineer that saved the train from going full speed into a landslide. Even with the warning the train ran into large rock, knocking off the COW catcher of the engine and a Pullman was so bad ly damaged that it had to be taken out Of the train. None of the passengers were hurt. Some of the passengers said at the Union station last night that they thought the train must have been running nearly sixty miles an hour when the passengers were sud- denly jostled in their seats by the ap- pDcation of the brakes by the engineer. Some who were looking out Of the windows at the time still saw the boy on the wheel waving his cap as the train flew by him. The engineer had difficult task to handle his train
 The train was not only running fast, but ;t was heavy and the rails slip perry, which made checking its speed
 more difficult. J. R. Francis, = former governor of Missouri, was one of the
 passengers on the train.
 Atlanta, Ga, April 22.-t is proba- ble that much of the cotton crop in the southern part of the state, particu- larly about Americus, will have to be replanted on account of the damage done by the severe weather of the past few days.
 Chicago, April 22-The great storm of wind, snow and rain which pre- vailed in the middle west Saturday, swirled around unexpectedly Sunday and swept over Lake Michigan into Chicago. It did damage to property
 blew down trees and shrubbery in the parks and boulevards, crippling cleo tric wires and whipped the lake into the heaviest sea of the season.
 Shortly after sunrise the wind began to increase in force until by noon it was racing over the city at the rate of fifty-two miles an hour. Warning signals were displayed to mariners here and all along the lakes, and a large number of schooners and grain steamers remained in the harbors through the day and night and will not move until the wind has died down. Pittsburg, April 22.-While Western Pennsylvania was fairly out of the clutches of the flood this morning, the weather conditions are not reassuring 1t is again raining in PittSburg and ad- vices from the headWaterS of the Ale ghany this morning showed a renewed rise. Warmer temperature acting on the snow was factor that also caused some apprehension. The waters at this point have been steadily receding since 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon but the retreat has been very slow. ESti- mates of the loss resulting from the high water vary from 8 ,0U0, 000 to $3,- 000, ,000
 An impression of the sketch of the situation would place in the fore ground 25,0OO idle employees, who in two days of enforced idleness will lose S200,0 in wages. aDmage to plants along Pennsylvania avenue and to the Westinghouse manuractory in Wilmer- ding, with the shut down of other big establishments at Rankin and bor- oughs in the Turtle Creek valley, cas- fly amounts to half a million more. The aggregate loss to railroads is es- timated at $100,000 Property in Al leghany has suffered to an equal ex- tent. The railroads are rapidly get ting into shape again and by evening it is expected that all lines will be run ming their trains on schedule time.
 Cincinnati, O., April 22.-The danger line was reached here in the Ohio river food. The back water along the Lick ing, on the Kentucky side, has inun- dated parts of Coy1ngton, Newport and other suburbs The mill Creek valley is full of water and doing damage in the west end of Cincinnati. A similar condition exists in the east end and along the Little Miami bottoms. Along the public landing and the lower part of this city sewers are blocked and eel lars filled with water. A stage of 45 feet causes damage in this section and that stage was reached last even ing. At B feet trains cannot enter the Grand Central station, at 5 feet the baseball park is flooded, and at 5S feet the races at the track in Newport, ky, must stop. All of these limits are in sight and most of them may come to-day. The crest of the Pitts burg FlSG IS llOL uOIc LII lO-luOlIOW but the extent of it has been closely anticipated and preparations made ac- cordingly.
 Corry, Pa, April 22.-The snow storm played havoc with the Erie rail- road The New York express, east bound, No. 12, of Saturday, was an nulled and all trains Sunday were run from six to ten hours late. In the Cor ry yards trains moved by hand signals only Saturday five buildings collapsed from weight of snow.
 Rochester, N. Y., April 22.-The Genesse river has risen three feet dur ing the last twenty-four hours and is still rising at the rate of an inch an hour Advices from up the valley say the lowlands are again submerged and that several streams have run over their banks.
 Amsterdam, N. Y., April 22.-The
 water in the Mohawk river is higher to-day than in many years. Ansabut-
 ment of the west shore bridge at rat tersonville gave way this morning and trains from that road are being run over the Central from Utica to Gen. tral Junction. east of this city. The | f. flr~