The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-04-26
TERRIBLESIORAS IN THE EAST
FINANCIAL LOSS ENORMOUS
All Flood Records Brot<en-Thou-
sands Are Homeiess-Towns Com
pIeteIy submerged-Manufa
Suffer-SIiIIs shut Down.

ter OF a widespread and disastrous storm.
For radius of 100 miles in western Penn
sylvania, eastern Ohio and northern West
Virginia rain or snow has been falling al
most without intermisson for three days. |
Mountain streams have become torrents,
creeks are swollen and out of their banks,
and the big rivers are oceans of turbulent
water Flood records, it is expected, will
be broken before the water subsidies. The
financial loss can not be estimated. In adj
dition to the hundreds of thousands and
perhaps of millions of dollars it will cost to
put large manufacturing plants in commits
sion again. tens of thousands of skilled
workmen are thrown out of employment
and lose their wages just at time when all
the iron and steel mills are rushed with
orders
Thousands of people are lying in the up
per rooms of their water soaked houses,
without heat, light or food. Where gas
fuel is used the pipes are flooded and cut
off and what coal there may be Is under
five to 10 feet of water
At Scoville, the home of the Pressed Steel
Car company, the town is completely sur
rounded by water. The workers and their
families constitute community of several
thousand persons.
Wheeling, w. Va, fears the most disas-
trous flood in its history. The weatherwise
say the river will make a new high record
at that point. The mountain streams OF
the state are gushing down with resistless
force. Behind this comes the flood tide of
the Ohio, fed by the Monongahela, ALE
gheny Beaver and other tributaries. From
d. to 80 fest of water is feared at Wheeling
=, which means an immense loss of property.
I. In many parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio
.. probably the heaviest storm ever known at
this season of the year has been raging for
two days. At Oil City the oil exchange
: went out of business temporarily because it
was impossible to secure quotations from
= New York, Pittsburg and other points. On
:, one railroad in Ohio passenger trains are
: stalled and engines sent to their assistance
have been buried with snow and all must
. wait with hope for a speedy turn OF the
weather In the meantime the passengers
4 must depend on nearby farmers for suiii-
II cent food to keep them from starvation.
4 The big manufacturing plants in this city
. have suffered severely The cost of repairs
:. is but a small item in comparison to the de
q lay in filling the orders with which all the
. plants are crowded.
n The iron mills along the rivers were early
o afflicted and one by one were compelled to
n shut down
I, A widespread and disastrous flood has in
undated all the lowlands in western Penn
o. sylvania, eastern Ohio and northern Wes
!, Virginia. Streams, both great and small
% have passed the flood line and are still ris
n ing. Pittsburg is the center of the storm
h stricken district and the effects are prob
4 ably worst in its immediate vicinity Rain
o has been falling in and for many miles
ID around Pittsburg for 60 hours and all pre-
cipitation records are broken Parker
e. Landing, up the Allegheny, reports nearly
IL four inches, and Greensboro, on the Monon
r, gahela river, over three inches. Down TIN
to Ohio over four inches fell at Wood june
r, ton and about three and half inches a
b. Beaver. West and north of Pittsburg heav.
n. falls of wet snow are reported. Up the Al
&c legheny river reports come of two feet o
it snow on the level at many places This ha'
the effect of breaking down telegraph wire
ic and crippling railroad service. Mails ar
in either delayed for hours or not arriving a
es all.
re Business, religious services, comfort AM
nt health are at the mercy of the storm. Sew
le eral narrow escapes from death have bee
t. reported and it is not improbable that whel
he the flood subsidies it may reveal a humble
in OF bodies.
e. Steam and electric railroad tracks ar
10 buried under thousands of tons of cart
washed down the hillsides, and in som
I'd cases the tracks have been moved. Wher
n the snow and sleet prevailed telegrap
90 wires and poles went down under the bun
Id den and costly railroad and other bridge
ed have been washed away and their pieI
en- weakened.
a. AT Carnegie six miles south of Pittsburs
IS everything is in a state of panic. To ad
ra to the excitement a number of negroes &C
drunk on liquor being carried from the ce
or lars of saloons. Chief of Police Foster trie
of to arrest three of them, when they attacke
he him with razors, cutting him severely. tn
ed frebells were rung and the citizens turne
er- out They suppressed the negroes and al
en- rested three of them.
ID. Later.
Us Pittsburg, April 22.-The most wild
nc spread and destructive storm, from