The age-herald., 1901-04-21
ouisviIle Reports Washouts, Landslides and Accidents
 from Snow and Rain
Bulletin.


 Pittsburg. April 21.-At 3 a. m. the Alle- gheny river registered 2S.6 feet and Is rising at the rate of two inches an hour. The Monongahela is rising three inches an hour and registers 2S4 feet.
 The Ohio shows 25.5 feet and is rising four inches an hour. Because of the crippled telegraph service nothing can be heard from up-river points. No rain has fallen here since midnight.
 Louisville, Ky, April 2O.-Rogring storms, continued high winds, and heavy precipitations of rain and snow were conditions today in many of the states of the South. Little damage was done by the winds, though it is feared that in some localities young crops have been stunted or killed by the frost or cold.
 At many points, particular in Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee and Virgin ia the temperature was lower than known in decade at this time of year. In Ken lucky today reports were received by the weather bureau from fifteen cities or towns and in most of them the minimum temperature of last night ranged be- tween 30 and 34 degrees. The maximum for the entire state was 3S degrees-at Burlington. in Western Kentucky. The coldest section was the bluegrass, in and around Lexington. the best fruit growing part of the state and here, 1t Is feared, there was damage by frost to not only fruit but to vegetable and tobacco crops, In the 8 suntafns of Kentucky the snow fall was unDroken and this afternoon dis patches were received. at London and Middlesboro, saying all the streams there are running over their banks.
 There has been much suffering among the poor mounta .neers. Around Louis vile there has been no damage of con- sequence. Frost is again predicted for tonight.
 Reports from Bristol, Va, this after noon was that a destructive flood was raging about eighty miles east of that place.
 A forty foot bridge on the Norfolk and Western road was washed away near Wytheville, Va, and for eight or ten miles the track is from three to six feet under water. Many washouts are re- ported and several trains were annulled.
 
 Bristol The Big Sandy, Twelve Pole, Guyandotte, Tug and New Rivers are at flood tide and many thousands of logs have been swept away.
 In West Virginia over foot of snow has fallen in the last thirty-six hours. Similar reports come from nearly all places heard from in the upper Ohio val ley. Near Blacksburg, s. C., a trestle on the South Carolina and Georgia road was undermined by the high water and today a combination freight and passenger train ran into the washout One trainman was badly hurt and another missing.
 The water in all the streams about Backsburg is higher than has been known in twelve years.
 Throughout the entire southeast the tel graph and telephone services were in a badly crippled condition during the fore noon. with but little, if any, improve ment by nightfall.
 Atlanta, where high winds have been prevailing for days. the maximum was reported this morning when the velocity recorded was 56 miles an hour. The mer- curry has fallen nearly 40 degrees and indi- cations are that there will be consider able suffering among small gardening