Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-04-25
RIVERS RECEDING.
FLOOD DAMAGE IN PlTTSBURG DIS
TRiCT is NEARLY $4,000, 600.
City is Deluged and Scores of Factories
Are Compelled to Stop All Work--Fifty
Thousand Workingmen Forced Into
Idleness-Railroad Service Crippled.

are SOHpclleu 10 sup AL VOTk--flIty
Thousand W%orkingmen Forced Into
Idleness-Railroad Service Crippled.
Pittsburg, April 22.-Pittsburg and
Allegheny are slowly emerging from
the murky flood. The rivers are reced-
ing nearly a foot an hour. The high
est point reached at Davis Island dam
was 25.S feet at 3 a. NJ, which means
2S feet at the junction of the Allegheny
and MOnongahela rivers. The water
remained stationary until about 3 p.
m. when it began to fall. Conservative
estimates Of the total damage in this
district is between 3d. 900 and S.
100000. Fifty thousand workers are
suffering from enforced idleness.
While there have been greater floods
at this point, there was never II that
caused so much financial loss and dis
comfort. This was due to the denser
population caused by the recent rapid
growth of the two cities and to the
fact that all the manufacturing plants
on the river banks We're in active oD-
Grafton. most of them working night
and day until the rising water put out
the fires, and drove the workers to
higher ground.
The loss to the railroads entering
Pittsburg from flood, landslides.
wrecked bridges, heavy snow and the
interference with traffic is roughly es-
timated at 100000
On the Fort Wayne the worst trouble
was a snow blockade between Salem
and Massillon. The same trouble tied
up the Cleveland tracks Of the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie, five trains having
been blocked at Window for % hours.
This snowfall did not extend east of
New Castle. but at Youngstown it was
two feet deep and the drifts in the cuts
north of that city We're up to locomo-
tive headlights. The wreck of an
Erie train blocked the road so that
deep drifts formed undisturbed. Water
was two feet deep on the Lake Erie
tracks at Sawmill Run. but trains got
through.
Big landslides occurred On the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie, the Baltimore and
Ohio at Soho, on the Panhandle. on
the south side, the Bessemer at several
points and the Allegheny near Frank
lin, Pa. The slide at Soho was $50
feet long and it required IA hours
work to clear n track.
At Skobo. between Manaca and Ali
quippa, the Lake Erie received its
most serious landslide. One hundred
feet of the west bound track was car
ried SO feet down the steep bank. the
whole face Of the bank slipping down
into the river.
The damage to telegraph poles and
lines along all the roads was enor
nous and it will take several days tc
fully repair them.
Trains are now running on all roads
but no attention is paid to keeping
up to schedules.
The submerged districts in Pittsbure
and Allegheny are today a scene of alb.
iect misery. Cellars, and in some in.
stances, the first floors of stores and
dwellings are covered with water
Where the flood has subsidized. it has
left behind a greasy, yellow scum two
to three inches deep. The residents
spent Sunday trying to restore theil
homes to some degree of decency ant
comfort. The damage to furniture ant
buildings in Allegheny is estimated a
about 100000. 1t will take twt
months Of hot summer weather t
thoroughly dry out these houses. II
Pittsburg the loss t. residences ant
stores and goods and the cost Of clean
ing up will amount 70 about So 500, zoo
Situation is Still Serious Up the River
l Cincinnati, April 23.-Alarm owe
5 the flood has almost ceased in the low
er Ohio valley. The low water mari
in the Ohio below this city has allowed
the floods from up the river to flow
. rapidly towards the Mississippi. TIL
situation is still serious up the river
notably at Ripley, Maysville, Abel
+ deem, Portsmouth, Hanging Rock, Iron
ton, Ashland, Cattlettsburg, Hunting
. ton, Point Pleasant, Pomeroy, Mar
u y eta, Parkersburg and smaller place
! between Wheeling and Cincinnati. TIL
crest Of the flood is below Wheelin
and the further down stream it get
the lower is the rate of rising.
It usually takes the crest of a foo
! two days to reach Cincinnati fro1
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I structed flow is much more rapid tina
( in former floods. At Portsmouth )
= feet is reported and that means ser
! Gus conditions at points below Port
J mouth. The weather bureau indicate
8 that the flood will not exceed 5S fec
< at any time at Cincinnati and possibl
= it may not reach 81 feet. This
about ten feet less than was antic
: pated here until the river began fal
ing at P%ittsburg.
( Indians Excited Over Killing.
Wichita, Kan, April ga tel
Z phone message from White Eagle, {
r., last night says that a party
cowboys killed Buffalo Hollow, a Pay
s nee Indian, and that the Indians al
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