The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-22
EMERGING FROM THE WATER.



murky flood. At O'Clock tonight the
rivers were receding nearly a foot an hour.
The highest point reached at Davis island
dam was 25.S feet at O'Clock in the morn
ing. which means twenty-eight feet at the
junction of the Allegheny and Mononga-
hela rivers. The water remained stationary
until about o'clock. when il began TO
rail-. Conservative estimates OF the total
damage in this district is between $1,000. O00
and $S,OOO.OOO. Fifty thousand workers are
suffering from enforced idleness.
While there have been greater floods at
this point there was never one that caused
so much financial loss and discomfort.
This was due 10 the dense population
caused by the recent rapid growth of the
two cities and TO the fact that all the man.
ufacturing plants on the river banks were
in active operation. Most of them were
working night and day until the rising
water put out the fires and drove the work
ers TO higher ground. Among the plants
flooded wholly or i'm part are the Groet-
singer tannery, Gallery tannery, Standard
Ice Company, Armstrong-Mc Com
pany. Luty Schramm picking works,
McGraws tannery, Carlin foundry and ma
chine shops. Pittsburg Provision Company,
Walkers works, Charles bit works. Baker
Manufacturing Company. Peter Ressick IL
Co, HarzOgg Manufacturing Company,
Damascus Bronze Company, Iron city
Spring Company, Eagle Paint and Narnish
Company. Morrison Brothers stone works,
Hall pump works. Sicilian Asphalt and
Paving Company, pipe cutting department
of the Pennsylvania tube works, Jones q
Laughlin, the National tube works, the
Elba Iron Company, National Supply Com
pany, keystone Smelling Company. Glen
Shaw Glass Company, Spang- Chalfant
Company, American Steel Hoop Company.
Columbus bridge works superior iron ana
steel works. American steel and wire mills,
Dilworth-Porter Company, ~ II. Biers *
Co., Oliver Steel and Wire Company, Benz
& Co.'S planning mill. McConway-Torley
Company, Shiffier bridge works, F. Porter
a lOCOmOfiVp keystone
works. Carnegie upper and lower union
mills. Black Diamond steel works. Pitts
burg bridge works, Wayne steel ana iron
works. Carnegie's Sixty-second-street fur
naces. Lucy furnaces. Crescent steel works.
Marshall Structural Company's works.
Armstrong Company. A. & {. II. Hamilton
Company, Best box factory, Shoenberger
steel works, Fort Pitt foundry and zug' 5
mill.
The loss to the railroads entering Pitts
burg from flood. landslides: wrecked
bridges, heavy snow and the interference
with traffic is estimated at $,OOO,WO. On
the Fort Wayne the worst trouble was a
snow blockade between Salem and Massil-
lon, o. This began Saturday morning and
tied up the road in twenty-four hours. At
o'clock this morning the track was cleared
and trains began moving. The same trouble
& Lake Erie late, FIVE trains having
blockaded at Window, near Leavittsburg,
for twenty-five hours. This snow fall did
not extend east of Newcastle, but at
DRIFTS in the cuts north of that city were
UP to locomotive headlights. The wreck of
an Erie train blocked the road so that
deep drifts formed. Water was two feet
deep on the Lake Erie tracks at Sawmill
Run, but trains got through.
MANY LANDSLIDES.
Big landslides occurred on the Pittsburg
& Lake Erie, the Baltimore e. Ohio at
Soho, on the Panhandle, on the South
Side, the Bessemer al several points and
the Allegheny valley. near Franklin, Pa.
The slide at the last-named point was
about $50 feet long ana it required four
teen hours work 10 clear one track.
Through eastbound trains were loaded at
Thirty-third street, passengers being
transferred by street cars.
At Skobo. between Monaco and Alequip-
pa 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 in the river. In the lines OF
the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore * Ohio
TO Wheeling great damage is reported and
both lines were tied up several hours. Five
miles of the PittSburg, Bessemer x Lake
Erie tracks are under water. The bank was
continually sliding dowr. onto the tracks
and a large force OF men could not keep
them clear.
The damage to telegraph poles and lines
along ali the roads was enormous. and 1t
will take several days to fully repair them.
Trains are now running on all roads, but no
attention is paid to keeping up schedules
The submerged districts in Pittsburg and
Allegheny are to-day a scene of abject mis-
cry Cellars and in some instances the first
floors of stores are covered with water.
Where the flood has subsidized 1t has left
behind a greasy, yellow scum two or three
inches deep. The residents spent all day
trying TO restore their homes TO some de-
gree of decency and comfort. The dam
age to furniture and buildings in Allegheny
is estimated at about 100000. 1t will take
two months of hot summer weather to thor
oughly dry out these houses. In Pittsburg
the loss TO residences and stores and goods,
and the cost of cleaning up. will amount
to about $250.000. AT Carnegie, six miles
from Pittsburg. the loss is estimated
at $40 600 The WESTINGHOUSE Electric Com
pany had two carloads of finished material
for Toronto, Canada, on the tracks near
Turtle Creek. They were caught in the flood
and water got into the cars. The loss may
reach $4,000.
The Pittsburg baseball park is in bad con-
dition. At noon to-day the first three tiers
OF chairs In the grandstand were under
water and the bleachers were floating all
over the diamond 1t will take a week %
put the grounds in shape.
The report tonight from Rochester. Pa,
is that the Ohio has overlooked its banks
and a considerable portion of the city ly-
ing south of the Fort Wayne Railroad
tracks is submerged. The river Is still ris-
tnues. The loss to the various manufac
turing plants located along the river front
will be heavy. Extra forces of men are
patrolling the railroad tracks, on the look
out for landslides.
At Beaver Falls. Pa, the damage by the
flood and storm was considerable, and sew
eral squares in the north end of the town
were converted into a lake at Ninth ave-
nue.. Twenty-second and Twenty-third
streets. and the houses stood in two and
three feet OF water. At one place the we'd
ding of Thomas Elmes and Miss Clara Car
ter was to have taken place. and the driver
of the carriage had TO wade TO the house
of Miss Carter and carry the groom, the
bride and the groomsman and bridesmaid
to the carriage I'm his arms so they could
go TO the church for the marriage cere-
mony \ couple of large landslides have
occurred on the lines of the Riverview
Street-car Company. where II ascends the
hill 10 Riverview Park, and no cars ran all
day. The water in the Beaver river has
been falling since morning, and all danger
of a flood is over
BRIDGES WASHED AWAY.
The first communication from Washing
ton Pa, tonight says: Charter creek
is a raging torrent and has overlooked its
banks in hundreds of places. All traffic
on the CHARTERS road is blocked by the
bridges being washed away and landslides.
and the Baltimore & Ohio is seriously
crippled. No trains have been running on
the Washington & Waynesburg narrow
gauge. and the indications are that none
will be able 10 get through until Monday.
Waynesburg is isolated and much incon-
venience has resulted The Baltimore &,
Ohio between this place and Wheeling is
tied up, and no trains are running. Many
houses are flooded in the lower sections of
the town and the water is still rising"
The report from Steubenville, O.. saws:
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