Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-30

continue to rise during the next thirty
tlA nouns ana II h feared much damage
VIII result Three people were drowned
Ut west Point, Ga while attempting
70 cross the turbulent Chattahoochee
and Ihomas Russell an engineer on the
AuNGla ~ West Point railroad, was
hllIgu IN freight wreck caused by q
Washout near Notasulga, Ala Thous-
anus OF dollars worth Of property has
beeh destroyed nt West Point and
mere Us much suffering Today the
water M the streets Of West Point was
IRON one to five feet deep
MANY OF the people spent the night
m Fort Tyler No trains have been sent
through from Atlanta to Montgomery
over the Atlanta q West Point road
since saturday and the Southern rail-
ways New York and New Orleans linn
itcd Iasl night was sent around by
birmingham and Meridian A washout
II reported on the southern between
Asheyllle and Knoxville At Columbus,
GA, the Chattahoochee registered %
leel The property damage is already
heavy Nearly 1--WE inches of rain has
fallen In the city Of Rome, Ca Two
Washouts are reported on the main line
OF the Louisville n Nashville road south
OF Montgomery
THE TENNESSEE 20 FEET ABOVE
LOW WATER.
Knoxville, Tenn, Dec, SO.--The Ten
nessce river was POS feet above low
water mark at 10 o'clock today with
the prospect that 30 feet win be
reached THIS afternoon Reports indi-
cate that figh water Is prevailing
throughout Upper East Tennessee. The
river has risen AZ feet since Saturday
Two Inches of snuW fell here last night
and it began melting this morning.
HEAVY RAIN AT CHATTANOOGA.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Dec. 9O.--An
average Of three inches of rain fell all
over the Tennessee river basin since
Saturday, sent the water over the 80
foot danger line here at 10 o'clock to-
day Water Is now rising az the rate
OF four inches an hour The Tennessee
flood warning service announces that
the river win reach 3S feet here by 10
o'clock tonight and win go over forty
feet by tomorrow afternoon. Merchants
are removing goods from their base
lnents In expectation that they win be
aoodcd
FLOOD AT PITTsBuRG AVERTED.
Plttsburg, Dec 3O,--rhe threatened
flood as result Of the heavy rainfall
OF Saturday and Sunday has been
ayerted by the cold snap and the rivers
az this point will not reach over 20
foot stage Dispatches from the head
waters report the waters falling ut all
points
During the night big ice lam formed
In the Allegheny river between the Fort
Wayne railroad bridge and the bridge
at Sixteenth street and for time
threatened to sweep the new railroad
away. The gorge caused the rivers to
overflow and at 4 O'Clock this morning
Pine street and River avenue, Alleg-
heny, We're flooded, The Allegheny de-
partment OF public safety at once sent
out men to warn people living In the
lower part Of the city to vacate their
homes but a half hour later the jam
suddenly broke with an awful crash.
| Some Of the ilase work under the new
bridge was torn away but otherwise the
structure was not damaged About Is
loaded coal barges, lying along the
| bridge on the Allegheny side, were
torn from It's moorings and forced upon
| River avenue They were badly dam
| aged rs We're about twenty freight cars
l along The Pittsburg q Western tracks