The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-23


| the Allegheny valley reports come of
two feet of snow on the level at many
places. This had the effect Of break
ing down telegraph wires and Gripping
| railroad service. Mails are either de-
| layed for hours or not arriving at ALL
Railroad officials cannot estimate the
cost of repairs, but say it will be heav-
| ier than ever before in the history of
| railroads running into Pittsburg.
| Tracks are torn up, bridges weakened,
| telegraph wires and poles down in all
| directions.
Six landslides have occurred on the
| Panhandle between this city and Stub
enville, two of them very serious. The
Charities branch is completely sub
merged and no trains can reach Wash
ington, Pennsylvania, over this line.
NEGROES START A RIOT.
Carnegie, six miles southwest of
Pittsburg, is in a state of panic To
add to the excitement a number of ne
groes got drunk on liquor being carried
from the cellars of saloons. Chief of
Police George S. Foster tried to arrest
three of them, when they attacked him
| with razors, cutting him severely. The
! fire bells were rung and the citizens
turned out. They suppressed the ne
groes and arrested three of them
Carnegie is in the worst condition
from flood in it's history. The Superb
| or Steel Company, employing 200 men,
Dunlap Steel Platt Company, 100 men:
Columbia Bridge Company, $50 men.
and the CHARTERS Iron and Steel Com
pany, 400 men, are closed and the
plants are under water. The damage
by storm in Carnegie is estimated 1t
$S0,000. The town is in darkness and
the people are freezing. The gas and
electricity are shut off and coal is un-
der water. 1t is reported that the
bridge on the Washington branch two
and a half miles above Carnegie has
gone down
At Heidelberg, a mile from Carnegie
the two story dwelling of Peter ,Cice
was washed away. Tice and his wife,
the only occupants, escaped. Nearby
the home of Henry Swertzherger was
threatened. Swertzberger, who is sew
enty years of age, refused to leave,
but was carried out by his son, few
| minutes before the house was engulfed.
Wheeling, w. Va, 1:20-Preparation
are being made for the worst flood
since the memorable one of 1884, when
the height of the Ohio was ffty-:wo
feet, and half of Wheeling was under
water. In the wholesale district huE-
dreds of laborers are moving goods
from Easements to upper floors. To-
night the river is rising nine inches an
hour. On Wheeling island, 1000 fami-
lies are moving to upper floors and oc-
cupants of cottages are moving to this
side of the river.
District Manager CA. Robinson, Of
the American Tin Plate Company
sends an alarming report, instructing
the local plants to prepare for fifty to
f1fty-f1ve feet. Fifty-five feet is high
er than the great flood of 1884. This
estimate, however is believed to be on
the alarmist order.
The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chi
cago railroad is crippled by snow Of
an unprecedented depth west of Orr
VILE, where ir the cuts there are
drifts five and six feet deep. The tel
egraph wires were torn down by the
wet snow. The Baltimore and Ohio
and the Pennsylvania railroads east
are in better condition being troubled
only by small washouts and a few
landslides. The Cleveland and Pitts
burg is in serious condition, owing to
the loss OF a number Of bridges, and
the Buffalo and Allegheny Valley is
almost tied up by landslides. AT VAL
ley Camps, the tracks are entirely un-
der water.
A special from Beaver, Pa, says
try and Smiths Ferry are flooded and
the residents are moving their house
hold effects and supplies to higher
ground. The water is expected to be
as high as in 1854 which will result in
great destruction Of property. All the
glass houses and other manufacturing
plants will be flooded.
The Ohio river railroad has not run
train since yesterday afternoon and
will not move a wheel for a couple of
days yet. Near Wheeling a half mile
landslide has covered the track with
earth from seven to ten feet deep. The
residents are moving from the low
grounds.
TREMENDOUS FLOOD IN THE
OHIO.
Cincinnati, April 20-Peculiar wealth
er conditions during the week have
eliminated in a rain and snow storm
of almost unprecedented dimensions,
CO dirfrihn1ted thar a tremendous flood