The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-17
MANY EASTERN STATES
SUFFER FROM The FLOODS
Much Property Is Destroyed While the Railroads
Are Blocked.
Damage to Shipping at Psbug is Very HeawDetaIs Of the
Freshets.

cellars west Of CHARTERS avenue the
water stood three feet deep.
Hers island was partly submerged.
but it was not necessary TO remove
the cattle from the stock yards AT
Sharpsburg cellars were flooded and in
many houses the water was on the
first floor
As a result Of the food several
plants along Penn avenue and in the
west end are closed today, throwing
thousands of employees idle
Between Twenty and Thirty
third streets an the cellars OF the
houses are flooded in most Instances
the water rising to th eheight Of three
feet.
The waters began to recede rapidly
in the Allegheny. and flooded districts
. are expected 70 be cleared by evening.
Police were placed throughout the dis
trict and In the lower end Of the First
ward coal and food were taken TO the
I inmates of the flooded houses
The loss to shipping interests was
great The MonOngaheia River Con-
solidated Coal & Coke company prob
ably Will prove the greatest loser. a
! feet of sixty empty craft. most 81 them
coal boats. valued at about $3.50 each,
were torn from their fastenings just
below the mouth of Saw Mil Run
Between ten and twenty loaded fats
Of coal were torn from their moOrings
al Duquesne and swept down the river.
Every one of them was filed with coal
The coal company reported that
number of the runaway boats had been
captured,
Trains Begin Running.
A dispatch from Scranton says conc
municatiOn with the outside world is
being gradually opened. AT $50 p
m a train started for Philadelphia and
i New York over the Delaware e. Hudson
and the Pennsylvania railroad via sun
bury and Harrisburg. carrying some or
the delegates who had attended the
American Fedora ton of Labor conven-
ton The others left tonight The
I Delaware. LackaWanna & Western got
its road clear from Binghamt0n 90 New
York at daybreak. with the exception
of the stretch at Delaware Water Gap.
where the Delaware river had flooded
the tracks to the depth of Eve fees
/ The waters had receded from the tracks
al p. M, and a train was started Tor
New York at $3.50 O'Clock. There IS st4l
two feet of water ora p I-aczaH-anHa
tracks at Avondale. All Isne comfy
The Iackawanna feFe,R4 now CO.
fined within its banks.
Susquebanna Booming.
Many industrial establishment
{ South Harrisburg have been forces
I close down on account of the freshef-
/ the water in that locality being higher
/ than at any time since the great food
/ of 1898. Many houses in that locality
/ were surrounded with water, and It was
necessary to use boats to carry food
and fuel to many residents who were
unable to leave their homes. The dam
+ age. however, VIII be very slight. 1t is
/ expected that the water VIII recede
during the next forty-eight hours and
/ that the factories VIII be able to re-
/ sumo operations.
Thousands Idle at shamokin.
/ Fourteen thousand men and bows
/ have been rendered idle because Of yes
terday's flood fin this district. There
are fourteen cOIlieries i'm this region.
and an of them were flooded be- the
( prevailing doWnpour. The property loss
in those works is estimated at 100000.