Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-22
Diameter Of Storms Destruction
Two Hundred Miles,
AZ Cincinnati Flood worst Ever
Known No Late In the Spring
Danger Line Reached


widespread and destructive storm, from
a material point Of view, has passed.
II has left a zone Of ruin 200 miles In
diameter 1t was unusual in that 1t
possessed 50 many different features.
Cities seventy miles from Pittsburg
were tied up by one of the worst snow
storms ever known,
While the snowfall was from eighteen
Inches to three feet deep, which Is not
extraordinary, the snow was so wet
that II chung in welghty masses to
shade and fruit trees and electric wires
ana poles, bearing them to the earth.
II settled on steam and street railways
Ike wet sand, stopping all traffic ana
making pedestrianism almost imp0ssi-
Bile The fall was 50 heavy and spOn-
taneous In some places that the resi-
dents declare 1t seemed like the burst
ing of snow cloud.
few miles away from these unfor-
tunate towns were municipalities in
Just as dire straits from rain, but
speedier prospect for relief, as the rain
VIII run off faster than the snow can
melt, yet here traffic was practically
suspended, Water overlooked and
washed out railroad tracks and hill
sides came down and burield the rails.
In addition, nearly every town on the
ohio river between Plttsburg and
Wheeling Is In darkness tonight Elec-
trio light plants or their wires are
damaged and the gas f. the mains Is
generally turned off to prevent eXnlo-
sions. So half a million or more people
tonight are cropping in the dark
remarkable feature Of the storm Is
that but few fatalities directly at
tributable To this cause have been re-
ported, 4 railrOader caught In a wreck
caused bv a landslide and the death Of
an old woman from shock are the only
ones known so far. There may be 9TH
ers, but as communication is cut or
from many populous places II will be
the end Of the week before the total
can be counted up
The money loss is Just as difficult TO
foot up II may reach $1,000 00 The
railroads think they have lost 81 100000.
The loss OF wages 70 the army Of work.
ers In the manufacturing plants up and
down the rivers viii mount up to $780,
600. and the repairs to the plants will
be large sum, The damage 10 stores,
stocks. residences and furniture in
Pittsburg, Allegheny and towns and
cities down the Ohio will probably
reach 100000
The submerged districts in pittsburg
and Allegheny are today a scene OF
ablect misery. Cellars and I'm some in
stances the first floors Of stores and
dwellings are covered with water.
Where the food has subsidized Il has
left behind a greasy, yellow scum two
or three inches deep, The citizens
spent all day in trying to restore their
homes TO some degree Of decency and
comfort.
While there have been great floods at
Pittsburg there was never one that
caused so much financial loss and dis
comfort, This is due To the denser
population caused by the recent growth
OF the two cities. and 20 the fact that
all the manufacturing plants along the
river We're operating, most of them
working night and day, until the rising
waters put out the fires and drove the
workers to higher grounds.
The loss TO the railroads entering
Pittsburg from floods. landsides,
wrecked bridges, heavy snow and the
interference with traffic Is roughly es-
timAted at 81 900 000
on the Fort Wayne the worst trouble
was snow blockade between Salem
and Masilon, This began Saturday
morning and tied up the road for TWEEN
ty-four hours At o'clock this morn
ing the tracks were cleared and trains
began moving. The same trouble kept
the Cleveland trains Of the Pittsburg q
Lake Erie late five trains having been
bockaded at Window, near Levitts-
burg, for twenty-five hours. The snow
fan did not extend east Of Newcastle.
but at Youngstown Il was two feet
deep and the drifts north OF that city
were up to the locomotive headlights.
The wreck Of the Erie train Uttered the
road so that deep drifts formed UNI
disturbed. Water was two feet deep
on the Lake Erie tracks at Sawmall
Run, but trains got through.
Big landsides occurred on the Lake
Erie and Baltimore & Ohio al Soho on
the Panhandle on the south side OF
Bessemer AT several points, and In the
Allegheny valley near Franklin. Pa.
The slide at Soho was $50 feet long,