Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-04-27
ENORMOUS DAMAGE.
Floods in Pennsylvania and West
Virginia from Great Storms.
Millions OF Dollars Loss from the Overflow
of the Ohio River-Fifty Thousand Work.
ers Out OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
OF Misery and Desolat;on.

Pittsburg, Pa, April 22.-Pittsburg
and Allegheny are slowly emerging
from the murky aaod. Conservative
estimates of the total damage in this
district is between 100000 and 3d.
100000. Fifty thousand workers are
suffering from enforced idleness.
The loss to the railroads entering
Pittsburg from flood, landslides,
wrecked ridges, heavy snow and the
interference with traffic is roughly
estimated at $1,OOO,OOO. On the Fort
Wayne the worst was snow block
ade between Salem and Massillon.
Big landslides occurred on the Pitts
burg G. Lake Erie, the Baltimore &
Ohio at Soho, on the Panhandle, on
the south side, the Bessemer at sew
eral points and the Allegheny Valley
near Franklin, Pa. The slide ut Soho
was $50 feet long and it required IA
hours work to clear one track. At
Skobo, between Monaco and Iliquippa,
the Lake Erie received its most serious
landslide. One hundred feet of the
westbound track was carried so feet
down the steep bank, the whole face
of the bank slipping down into the
river. Five miles of the Pittsburg,
Bessemer & Lake Erie tracks were
either under water or mud. The dam
age to telegraph poles and lines along
all the roads was enormous and it
will take several days to fully repair
them.
The submerged districts in Pitts
burg and Allegheny are to-day a scene
of abject misery. Cellars, and in some
instances the first floors of stores and
dwellings are covered with water
where the flood has subsidized, it has
left behind greasy, yellow scum
two or three inches deep. 1t will take
two months of hot summer weather
to thoroughly dry out these houses.
Wheeling Suffering from Floods.
Wheeling, W. Va, April 22.-The
river is rising two inches an hour and
Wheeling is shut entirely out of out
side communication by rail and only
the big Cincinnati liners are able to
run and irate residents along the
river banks are firing frequently at
the boats because the swell from
them is washing the foundations away
from their houses. In Wheeling,
Bellaire, Bridgeport, Benwood and
Martins Ferry about 500 houses have
been entered by the water, most of
the families moving to upper floors.
Nearly every manufacturing estab-
lishment in the Wheeling district is
shut down. At Martins Ferry the
water destroyed 100000 brick at the
Belmont Brick company, entailing a
loss of $4,000 to $4,000. The Ohio
River railroad has several landslides
and considerable washed out track be-
low Wheeling, involving big loss.
Trolley Lines Knocked Out in Erie. Pa.
Erie, Pa, April 22.-The snowstorm
of Friday night and Saturday and
the sleetstorm of Saturday night was
the worst known here in go years and
surpassed the famous blizzard of
March, 1883. There is 12 inches of
snow on the level and during Satur-
day nearly every trolley line in the
city was knocked out. Saturday
night there were two fires from
crossed telephone wires carrying
heavy currents into the buildings.
Fruit Crop in Ohio Valley Gone.
Cincinnati, April 22.-The mer.
chants and manufacturers in the Lowell
part of the city have been working
all day and night preparing for the
worst. Early yesterday evening the
weather bureau here announced heavy
SHOWS and rains along the Ohio val
ley. Trains were late on all railroads.
1t is generally conceded that the fruit
crop throughout the Ohio valley is
gone and the damage to crops is very
great.
Damage by Snowstorm ut Buffalo, n. Y.
Buffalo, N. Y, April 22.-Reports
from points along the southern shore
of Lake Erie say that the damage to
fruit trees by the snowstorm and
deluge of rain will be great. The
wet snow chung to the branches I'M
til they gave way under its weight,
The loss to telegraph and telephone
companies is great, miles of wire be-
ing roken down.