Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-21

routes in a number of cases had to be
abandoned as the roads were under wa
ter and impossible.
PITTSBURGH April 20.-One of the
most widespread and disastrous floods
has inundated all the lowlands in West
ern Pennsylvania. Eastern Ohio and
Northern West Virginia. Streams both
great and small, have passed the flood
line and are still rising. Pittsburg is
in the center of the storm-stricken dis
trict, and the effects of the flood are
probably most in its immediate vicin-
ity.
Rain has been falling necessarily in
and for many miles around Pittsburg
for sixty hours and all precipitation
records are broken.
Parker's Landing up the Allegheny
reports nearly four inches and Green's
boro IN the Monongahela river over
three inches. Down the Ohio over four
inches fell at Ellwood Junction and
about three and a half inches at Beaver.
West and north Of Pittsburg heavy
falls OF wet snow are reported.
Up the Allegheny Valley reports come
Of two feet of snow on the level and
many places. This had the effect OF
breaking down telegraph wires and
Gripping railroad service Mails are
either delayed for hours or not arriv-
ing at all.
Railroad officials cannot estimate the
cost of repairs, but say it will be heav-
Ter than ever before III the history OF
railroads running into Pittsburg.
Tracks are torn UP, bridges weakened
and telegraph wires and poles down in
all directions. Six landslides have oc-
Cured on The Panhandle between this
city and Steubenville, two of them
very serious. The CHARTERS branch is
completely submerged and no trains
can reach Washington, Pa, owe this
line.
At Jones Ferry. on the South Side,
a huge boulder fell on the Pan Handle
tracks and trains had to come into the
city over the Ohio Connecting bridge,
a detour of several miles. Beyond
Steubenville, the Pan Handle tracks
are almost buried in snow.
TLa D;ffrhurr Eyay.+ TZrouna o. Cbi-
cago railroad is crippled by snow of an
unprecedented depth west of Orrville,
where in the cuts the e were drifts five
and six feet deep. The telegraph wires
were torn down by the wet The
B.. & o. and Pennsylvania railroads
east are in better condition, being
troubled only by small wash-outs and
a few landslides. The Cleveland &
Pittsburg is in serious condition, ow-
ing to the loss of a number OF bridges
and the Buffalo and Allegheny Valley
is almost tied UP by landslides. AT
Valley Camps the tracks are entirely
under water.
The wreck trains of all the roads are
at work, but after the water subsidies,
it will take two or three days to get
the roads into their normal condi-
ton.
A special from Beaver, says RocheS-
ter, West Bridgewater, Industry and
Smiths Ferry are flooded and the res
idents are moving their household ef-
fects and supplies to higher ground.
The water is expected to be as high as
in 1884, which will result in great de-
struction OF property. All the glass
houses and other manufacturing plants
will be flooded.
The following was received tonight
from S~istersville, W. Va:
''The river is rising rapidly and
much damage will be done in the in
terror of the county. All the streams
are on a rampage. Middle Island
creek, the largest in the county. has
been out of its banks for two days and
has destroyed all property within its
reach. The Ohio River railroad has
not run a train since yesterday after
noon and will not move a wheel for a
couple of days yet. Between here and
Wheeling a half mile landslide has
covered the track with earth from sew
en- to ten feet deep. The residents are
moving from the low grounds"
New Castle reports both the Shenan-
go and Neshannock rivers threaten
great damage to property. This after
noon the Shenango overlooked near
the center of the manufacturing dis
trict and caused the Shenango tin mill,
the largest in the world, and the Bald
win and Graham stove foundry to
close. A few hours later the big steel