Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-05-01
FLOODS CAUSE BUN.
Rain and Snowstorms in the East
&. Create Great Havoc. u"

q. Create Great Havoc.
Streams Overflow Their Banks and
Many Cities Inundnted-Three
! Persons Drowned at
! Marietta,
Pittsburgh, Pa, April 22.-The most
widespread and destructive storm, from
a material point of view, has passed.
1t has left zone of ruin 200 miles in
diameter. 1t was unusual in that it
possessed so many different features.
Cities 20 miles from Pittsburgh were
tied up by one of the worst snow
storms ever known. While the snow
fall was from is inches to three feet
deep, which is not extraordinary, the
snow was so wet that it chung in
weighty masses to shade and fruit
trees and electric wires and poles,
bearing them to the earth. 1t settled
on steam and street railroads like wet
sand, stopping all traffic and making
Professionalism feat for only the most
hardy. The fall was so heavy and
spontaneous in some places that the
residents declare it seemed like the
bursting of snow cloud. A few miles
away from these unfortunate towns
were municipalities in just as dire
straits from rain, but with speedier
prospect for relief, as the rain will
run off faster than the snow can melt,
yet here traffic was practically sus-
pended. Water overflowed and washed
down and buried the rails.
Losses Will Reach $2,OOO,OOO.
A look over the ground after the
| flood shows that the losses will be
| fully as great as was estimated Sun
| day. In and about Pittsburgh it will
probably take $1,0o0,ooo to pay the to-
tai cost of the injury to property by
the water and by landslips. Add to
this the great loss to the railroads and
manufacturing plants up and down
the rivers in this immediate vicinity,
with the loss in wages to the working
men, and the total will not fall far
short of the 100000 mark.
|, Three Lives Lost.
Marietta, O., April 23.-Three per-
sons were drowned here Monday aft
ernoon. A boat containing nine men
was carried under the wharfboat by
the swift current in the river, and Jo-
seph Everett, a glass worker, was
drowned. The others were rescued.
Later two boys named Hanley, aged IA
md Il lo
place.
At Steubenville, O., over $50 families
were rendered homeless by the high
waters. Manufacturing plants have
suspended and will not be able to start
for several days. Much damage is also
reported at Mingo Junction, Alikanna,
Brilliant. Warrenton and Portland.
Water Still Rising at Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, April 25.-The flood out
look in the middle Ohio valley is not
as encouraging as expected. The pre-
dicted limit of IS feet will be passed
here and the estimated limit at 9TH
er points will be more than has been
estimated. It is also evident now
that when the limit is reached in the
middle Ohio valley that it will be
stationary for some time and the
fall much slower than was anticipa-
ted, even if here is no second rise.
This is attributed to rising waters
in the Big Sandy, Muskingum and
other tributaries above Cincinnati.
All sorts of reports acme from Cat
| lettsburg about rains in the Cumber-
land mountains of northeastern Ken
lucky and from Huntington about
heavy rains in the southern and east
ern parts of West Virginia. At both
of those places, as we'll as at Ash
land, Ironton, Portsmouth and inter-
mediate points. there is much IN
easiness reported, and at some places
they are preparing for the worst.
On the Kentucky side the interrupt
ton to mills, factories and business
is not SO great, but in proportion to
driven from their homes than on the
Ohio side. In the Taylor bottoms,
between Newport and Bellevue, Ky.,
the water is up to the treetops and
the street car lines are compelled to
transfer their passengers for Belle
we and Dayton, Ky. The latter
place is very largely inundated, and
owing to swell in the Licking river
it is estimated that about a square
mile of Newport is Inundated.
The only loss of life reported so
far has been from accidents. One
man fell off a boat and was drowned
and another off of a, log raft near
the public landing. A woman jumped
from the suspension bridge, evident
ly with intentional suicide. None of
the bodies have been recovered and
their identity is not known.
Flood Causes n Murder.
Parkersburg, w. Va, April 25.-Sid-
ney Cole, of this city, Wednesday shot
and killed William T. Terry, carpen-
ter on the steamer Keystone State.
Coles house on the river bank had
seven feet of water in it. The Key
stone State was about to land near it..
Cole feared the swell would float his
house away, and warned the officers
not to land.
The steamer persisted, and Cole
fired three shots, one passing through
the heart of Terry. Cole was arrested
and held without bail
Cuban Commissioners Arrive.
Washington, April 25.-The commits
sion of five delegates to the Cuban
constitutional convention, consisting