The Topeka state journal., 1901-04-20
Waters Are Out in the Upper
Ohio Valley.
People Are Removing to Places
of Safety.
)NE WOMAN DROWNED.
Body Is Found Floating in the
Stream.
Carnegie Street Under Three
Feet Of Water.

Pittsburg, Pa. April zo.-It has been
raining almost necessarily through
ont western Pennsylvania, West Virgin
e. and ohio since o'clock Thursday at
temoon and as a result the streams are
bevond their banks and the greatest
aood since 1884 is feared At 10 O'Clock
this morning the Monongahela river
marked 10 feet and was rising at the
rate of nine inches an hour. Old river
men look for % to so feet at this poins,
while those not SO conservative are pre-
5ictinr from 81 to IS feet The danger
line is % feet and a stage OF 80 reee
would inundate the lowlands aboutFl1ts-
burg and Allegheny. sUbmergang all tas
mills and factories lying along tne Al
legheny andAdonongahela rivers Tor mics
ana enforcing idelness on thousands o1
workmen besides rendering hundreds OF
families temporarily homeless Inc
weather bureau has sent out a warning
to all the residents or the river fronts
to prepare for the high water. Already
great activity prevails and everytnlns
of a Derishahle nature IS being remover
to places Of safety.
Disoatches from the headwaters re-
mort a rainfall for the last "A hours CT
from one to two and three-fourth inches
ana all streams rising rapidly a nood
swept down on Carnegie and the "noie
Charters valley six miles northwest OF
Pittsburg during the night such as y
said. never to have been known before
Already one human life has been lost,
the body Of an unknown woman having
been found floating in CHARTERS creek A.
Woodville at 9.25 this morning. Inc
railroads are washed out and trains ara
caught in the flood, unable to move
either way. Carnegie and the Wnole va
lev are in panic today with traffic or
all kinds suspended while the people are
rushing to places OF safety and seeking
TO save their lives without caring
great deal for their property
The main street of Carnegie as wen
as all the other streets are under three
feet of water and people are going
about in skiffs. Trees, boxes parts OF
fences and lumber of almost every de-
scription fioated through the main thor
Oughfare this morning Ine Iooc sWSpt
into business houses and homes Tar roe
fast for the people to save muc1 OF rNeN
property and stock and the loss viii ruiz
away Up into the thousands. Nlerc1auts
could not pile up their goods quick
enough to get them out of the way ot
the flood for though every body eA pecp-
ed very nigh water. the rush of the flood
had gone beyond their greatest fears.
Carriages and wagons were hitched
no early today and Immediate steps Ia
ken to haul them away to places OF
safety. Cars of the Southern Traction
CON pany We're caught on the streets in
the flood and are standing there now,
those on Main street in three feet OF wa
ter, unable to move away.
All along the Washington branch OF
the Panhandle road the condition
could hardly be worse The road -
practically washed out. There are
Washouts at Bower Hill, Bridgeville.
AIeadOWlauds and Arden on the Wash
ington branch. which cuts off from
Brfdgevf1Ie to the mining territory,
there is no possibility Of traffic, owing
TO the Washouts and the flood that runs
over the tracks.
To save the bridges the railroad COM
pany officials ran cars loaded with heavy
stone on them this morning with the hope
Of holding them down by sheer weight.
The residents of lower Allegheny for the
1irst time in many years have become
flood. Those nearest the river bank spent
the morning in preparing and packing
moved to a place of safety at short notice
At the western pen1tenuary while the
l@A.-As -. l .
ferences are being held as to the best
steps 10 be taken for the safety and Sc
worst predictions be realized. The danger
lire at the peuitentiary bank is z7 feet.
and at II O'Clock this morning the Ohio
rising at the rate of 10 inches an hour
At noon il was still raining hard. There
were n feet of water In the Allegheny
river at that time and it was rising more
than a foot an hour. Predictions are new
confidently made that the great flood of
1854 viii be reached and possibly passed
before "a hours The volume of water
here is greater than in 1884 and is rising
four inches an hour faster than in that
year.