The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-22

take two months of hot summer wealth
er TO thoroughly dry out the houses
In Pittsburg the loss to residences and
stores and goods and the cost Of clean
ing up will amount to about $3.50, 900.
At Carnegieborough, six miles from
PittsburS.- the loss is estimated st S4e,-
Gee, of which the Columbia Bridge
works lose 5000.
The Westinghouse Electric company
had two carloads of finished material
on the tracks near Turtle Greek. They
were caught in the flood and water
goI into the cars The loss may reach
$4,000.
The Pittsburg baseball park is in bad
cOrdition. AT noon today the first
three tiers of chairs in the grand stand
We're under water, and the bleachers
We're floating. 1t viii take a week to
put the grounds in shape.
The report tonight from Rochester
is that the Ohio has overfowed its
banks and a considerable portion Of
the city lying south of the Fort Wayne
railroad track is submerged. The
river is still rising and steady down
pour of rain continues The loss 70
the various manufs curing plants To-
Gated along the river front will be
heavy. Extra forces of men. are pa
trolling the railroad tracks on the look
out for landslides.
Town Converted Into Lake.
At Beaver Falls. Pa, the damage by
and several squares in the, north end
of town were converted into q lake
at Ninth avenue and Twenty-second
and Twenty streets. the houses
standing in two and three feet OF Wa
ter. At one place a wedding was to
have taken place, and the driver had
to wade TO the house of the partiCi-
pants and carry them to the carriage
in his arms, so they could so TO the
church for the ceremony
4 Two large landSli6eS have taken
place on the lines Of the River View
Street Car company and no cars ran
al. day The first direct communica-
ton from Washington, Pa, tonight,
says.
"Chartres creek is a raging torrent
and has overdOWed its banks in hun
dreds of places. All traffic on the
Chartres read is blocked by the bridges
being washed away and landslides,
and the Baltimore & Ohio is. seriously
crippled. Waynesburg is Isolated and
many houses there are Hooded
The report froTn. Steubenville O.
says: THE Ohio reached its food stage
this. evening. but at the twenty mine
foot mark began to recede. The flood
mas wrought great damage TO property
here. At AfinSO Junction the big plant
of the National Steel company is idle
because. Of high water, which flooded
the pits, etc. and about ESQ families
were rendered homeless. In this city
the paper mill, pot works and iron
u VI NJ c Slut oAl account OL
high water and fully fifty families
were compelled TO move from their
homes. At Aticanna, about twenty
houses, were wrecked"
Reports from -up=river points re-
ceived at Pittsburg UP to 10 p. m. are
meagre, but for the most part are en-
cCuTaging. Oil City is the only place
on the Allegheny where the water is
rising.
/. one. Of the thrilling incidents con
-
this section was the hair breadth es-
cape from destruction of a Pennsyi-
vania railroad limited tEain. west bound
near Tyrone today. A Coy riding
frantically at the side Of the track
wildly waving his. cap, gave the warn
ing to the engineer that saved the
train from going fun speed into a
landslide. Even after the warning, the
train ran into a large rock, knocking
of the coWcatcher- Of the engine, and
a. Pullman was SO badly damaged that
it had to be taken out of the train.
I None of the passengers were hurt.
At 3 O'clOck this morning the three
rivers are recedingtat about the rate of
three inches an houp--s