New-York tribune., 1901-04-22
PRICE THREE CENTS.
PlTTSBURG FLOOD LOSS.
ESTIMATED BETWEEN TWO
AND THREE MILLIONS.
FIFTY THOUSAND MEN OUT OF WORK.
RAILROAD COMPANIES HEAVY
LOSERS WATER RECEDING.

LOSERS-WATER RECEDING.
Plttsburg. April c1.-Pittsburg and Allegheny
are slowly emerging from the murky flood At
D. m the rivers were recedng nearly foot
an hour. The highest point reached at Davis
Island dam was about 25.S feet at a. m. which
means twenty-eight feet at the junction OF the
Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. The water
remained stationary until about p m. when
1t began TO fall Conservative estimates OF the
total damage in this district is between $1,000
600 and S3.OOO.0OO. Fifty thousand workers are
suffering from enforced idleness-
While there have been greater foods at this
point. there was never that caused 50 much
financial loss and discomfort. This was due to
the denser population caused by the recent rapid
growth of the two cities. and the fact that all
the manufacturing plants the river banks
were in active operation. most of them work
ing night and day, until the rising water put out
the fires and drove the workers to higher ground
Among the plants flooded wholly or in part ars
the Groetzinger Tannery. Gallery Tannery
Standard Ice Company. Armstrong McKelvay
Company. Luty & schramm Picking Works.
McGraw's Tannery. Carlin Foundry and Ma
chine Company. Pittsburg Provision Company
Walkers Soap Works Crawford's sawmill
Charles Nut Works. Baker Manufacturing Conn
pany. Peter Ressigk & Co.. Harsogg Manafact'
uring Company, Damascut Bronze Company.
Iron City Spring Company. Eagle Paint and VAR
nsh Company Morrison Brothers Stone Works
Hall Pump Works. Sicilian Asphalt and Paving
Company. pipe cutting department of the Penn
sylvania Tube Works Jones & Laughlin's. Ma
tlonal Tube Works. Eiba Iron Company. Ma
tional Supply Company. Keystone Smelling
Company, Glenshaw Glass Company. spang.
Chalfont & Co. American Steel Hoop Company
Columbia Bridge Works. Superior Iron and Stee,
Works, American Steel and Wire Mills. Dill
worth. Porter & Co.; A NJ. Biers & Co.. Oliver
Steel and Wire Company, Benz & Co.'S planning
mill. McConway-Torley Company. Shifher Bridge
Works. X Porter & Co.'S Locomotive Works
keystone Bridge Works. Carnegie's upper and
lower Union Mills. Black Diamond Steel Works.
Pittsburg Bridge Works, Wayne Steel and Iron
Works. Carnegie's Sixty-second-st- furnaces.
Lucy furnaces Crescent Steel Works Marshall
Structural and Foundry Company's Works. Arm
strong Company. A & C. H. Hamilton Company
Best Box Factory Shoeburger Steel Works, Fort
Pitt Foundry and Zug's Mill
RAILROADS LOSE S1.OOO.OOO.
The loss 70 the railroads entering Pittsburs
from flood. landslides. wrecked bridges. heavy
snow and the interference with traffic is roughly
estimated at S1.OOO,0OO.
On the Fort Wayne the worst trouble was .
snow blockade betv zen Salem and Massiilon.
Ohio This began Saturday morning. and tied
up the road twenty-four hours AT O'Clock
this morning the track was cleared and trains
began moving. The same trouble kept the Cleve-
land trains of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie late.
five of them having been blockaded at VIM
DOM near Leavittsburg. for Twenty-Five hours.
This snowfall did not extend east OF New
Castle but at Youngstown. Ohio. 1t was two feet
deep. and the drifting in the cuts north OF that
city were up TO the locomotive headlights The
wreck of an Erie train blocked the road 50
that deep drifts formed undisturbed Water
was two feet deep on the Lake Erie tracks at
Sawmil1 Run. but trains got through
Big landsIides occurred on the Pittsburs and
Lake Erie. the Baltimore and Ohio at Soho, on
the Pan Handle the South Side. the Besse-
mer at several points, and the Allegheny Valley
near Franklin. Penn. The slide at Soho was l01
feet long, and it required fourteen hours work
to clear one track Through eastbound trains
were loaded at Thirty-third-st-, passengers be-
ing transferred by street car.
TRACKS SLIDE INTO RIVER
Ar skobo. between Monaco and Alfquippa. the
aka Erie the Baltimore and Ohio at Soho,
one hundred feet of the westbound track was
carried fifty feet down the steep bank. the whole
face of the bank slipping down into the river.
ON the lines of the Pennsylvania and Baitimore
and Ohio to Wheeling great damage Is reported
and both lines were tied up Tor seVeraI hocr4
Five miles of the Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake
Erie tracks were either under water OF mud
Tba bank was continually sliding down on the
tracks and large force of men could not keep
them clear. ,. ill.,. .,,,.
The damage TO telegraph poles and lines s, a.ons
all the roads was enormous. and IL VIII take
several days 10 fully repair them trains are
now running on all the roads, put no a''enips
is being made to keep up TO scnedules. .u
The submerged districts in Pittsourg ana ~.S .,
ybeny ars to-dav a scene of abject misery Gel
lars and IN some instances the nrst Loors y.
stores and dwellings are covered Mn ,n,, hsa,rs
Where the flood has subsidized II has lelt oehinc
a greasy yellow scum. two or three inches deep
The residents spent all cay tryips 10 restore
their homes TO some degree or decencs anu coi,-
fort The damage to furniture and Dulioinss ~
Allegheny is estimated at about Slop.on IL VII
take two months of not summer weather 10 tnor-
oughly dry out these houses. In % flt.sours IN. IN,
loss to residences and stores and goods anu tht
cost of cleaning up will amount TO about
S25O,GOO. -. ,,,..
Al Carnegie Borough. six miles from Pitts
burg the loss is estimated at S4o,No. or which
the Columbia Bridge Works lose $4,000. Ths
other losses range from SO 10 $500
The Westinghouse Electric Company had two
carloads of finished material for Toronto on the
tracks near Turtle Creek They were caught tr
the flood and water filled the cars The loss may
reach $4,000.
The Pittsburg Baseball Park is in bad condi-
ton At noon to-day the first three tiers Of
chairs in the grandstand were under water. and
the "bleachers" were floating all over the dia-
mond. IT VIII take week TO put the grounds IN
shape
The report tonight from Rochester. Penn, h
that the Ohio has overhowed its banks ana
considerable portion OF the city lying south Of
the Fort Wayne Railroad tracks is submerged.
The river is still rising and steady downpour
of rain continues. The loss to the various manu-
featuring plants located along the river front
will he heavy Extra forces Of men are patrol.