The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-04-25
The Damage to Property in Pitts
burgh and Allegheny Will
Amount to $3, 100000.
FIFTY THOUSAND wolKnEN ARE IDLE.
The Ohio River is Falling at Head.
waters, But Is Rising Rapidly
at Points Below.
Many Houses At wheeing, Bridge
port and Benwood Are Flooded
duplicate of the Flood in
1S9S Expected at Pomeroy.

Pittsburgh, Pa. April 22.-Pitts.
burgh and Allegheny are slowly
emerging from the murky flood. At
8 p. m. the rivers were receding near
ly foot an hour. The highest point
reached at Davis Island dam was 25.S
feet at 3 a. M, which means 30 feet
at the junction of the Allegheny and
Monongahela rivers. The water re-
maincd stationary until about 3 p. M,
when it began to fall. Conservative
estimates of the total damage in this
district is between S2,OOO.O0O and S3,-
o0Oo0o Fifty Thousand workers are
suffering from enforced idleness as
a result of the food
While there has been greater floods
at this point. there never was one
that caused so much financial loss and
discomfort.
At Carnegieboro. six miles from
Pittsburgh. the loss is estimated at
$4,000. The Westinghouse Electric
Co. had two carloads of finished ma
serial for Toronto. Can. on the tracks
near Turtle creek. They were caught
in the flood and water got onto the
cars. The loss may reach $4,000.
The Pittsburgh baseball park is in
bad condition. At noon Sunday the
first three tiers of chairs in the grand
stand were under water and the
bleachers were floating all over the
diamond. 1t will take week to put
the grounds in shape.
Wheeling, w. Va, April e2.--At D
p. m. the river was Al feet inches
and rising two inches an hour. The
top notch is expected in an hour or
two with less than -. This stage
shuts Wheeling entirely out of out
side communication by rail, and only
the big Cincinnati liners are able to
run now, 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. Sunday night
Wheeling island man fired at the
packet Keystone and at passing
towboat without effect.
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 manu-
featuring establishment in the Wheel
ing district is shut down and can not
resume until Tuesday
Taking the loss of business, rail-
road landslidcs and industrial losses
the aggregate cost of the flood in
this district is at least 100000, prob
ably more.
Huntington, w. Va, April 22.--At 6
o'clock Sunday evening the rain and
snow which has been falling for rs
hours ceased. The Ohio has passed
the danger line. so feet. and is still
rising 80 inches an hour, with Guy-
sndotte. Big Sandy, Tug and Twelve
Pole rising rapidly at all points.
Charleston, w. Va, April eat
o'clock the Kanawha here was SO feet
four-tenths and stationary. Falling
at all points above. 1t rained showed
or sleeted all day. Rain fell 40 hun
dredths. Snow in the mountains pre-
vented a higher stage in lowlands in
angle between Kanawha and Elk
food and several dozen families were
driven out.
Gallipolis, O., April 22.-The river
gauge registered SO feet inches at
G O'Clock Sunday evening. and the
inches per hour. The Kanawha and
Michigan and Ohio River railroads
have annulled their trains. The
Hooking Valley tracks are still above
water, and trains are running on that
line. No serious damage is feared
in the city, as it is on higher ground
To- Pomeroy. O., April 22.-River 81
feet and rising inches an hour. Wa
ter food deep in buildings on river
front. Showing hard all day. Resi-
dents generally moved to high
ground. Business men generally pre-
pared for ten feet more. Consider
able loss will be sustained by sal,
and lumber men. Business suspend
cd. Railroad connections broken. No
mails. No loss of life as yet. A du.
plicate of flood of three years ago
expected. If no worse. Pomeroy will
come out of her triennial bath smil-
ing.
Portsmouth, o., April 22.-River
reached a stage of 40 feet here at
o'clock. Rose steadily 3H inches an
hour till 4 o'clock. when it jumped
to AZ inches. which it maintained
to the present. Rained and showed
alternately all day, and raining now.
Scioto running out heavy. Expect SO
feet here, and the city is protected
to that stage by dikes. Above that
over half the town, including many
business houses, will be under water
So far little damage was done. aside
from the inconvenience in moving.
Hundreds in the low parts of town
we're forced out Sunday and Satur-
day nights. Great uneasiness is felt,
many fearing repetition of the dis
astrous 1884 food.
Old Time Bali Player dead.
New York, April 19.-Chas. Wright,
an old-time baseball player, died in
City Island hospital Thursday night