Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-22
BIG LOSS FROM FLOOD.
Pittsburg and Allegheny suffer From
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Pittsburg and Allegheny Suffer From
High Writer'S.
Pttsburg, Pa, April 22.-Pittsburg
and Allegheny are slowly emerging
from the murky flood. All s o'clock the
rivers were receding nearly a foot an
hour. The highest point reached at Da-s
Wis island dam was 25.S feet, at 3 a. M.
which means twenty-eight feet at the,
junction of the Allegheny and Monon-
gahela rivers The water remained sta
tionary until about 3 p. m. yesterday,
when it began to fall. A conservative
estimate of the total damage in this
district is between s2,o000O0 and s3,000,-
600 Fifty thousand workers are suffer-
ing from enforced idieness
While there have been greater floods
at this point. there was never one that
caused SO much financial loss and dis
comfort. This was due to the deneei
population caused by the recent rapid
growth of the two cities. and to the fact
that all the manufacturing plants on.
the river banks We're III active opera
ton, most of them working night and
day until the rising water put out the
fires and drove the workers to higher
ground.
The loss to the railroads entering
Pittsburg from flood, 1andslioes, wreck
ed bridges. heavy snow and the inter-
ference with traffic is roughly estimated
at s1.000,000
On the Fort Wayne the worst trouble
was a snow blockade between Salem
and Massillon, o. This began Saturday
morning and tied up the road in twen-
ty-four hours AT 3 o'clock yesterday
morning the track was cleared and
trains began moving. The same troubla
kept the Cleveland trains of the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie late. five trains hav-
Leavittsburg. for twenty-five bours
Newcastle. but at Youngstown, o.. it
the cuts north of that city We're up to
locomotive headlights.
The wreck of an Erie train blocked
the road 80 that deep drifts formed un-
disturbed. Water was two feet deep on
but trains got thru.
Big landsides occurred on the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie. The Baltimore & Ohio
| side. the Besaemer at several points ant
The slide at Soho was $50 feet long, and
It required fourteen hours work to cleai
one track. Thru east bound trains, were
loaded at Thirty third street passen-
gsrs being transferred by street cars.
AT Skobo, between Mungca ana Ali
quippa, the Lake Erie received its mos.
serious landslide one hundred feet of
the west bound track vas carried fifty
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face of the bankq slipping into the riy-
er
On the lines of the PENNSYLVANIA and
Baltimore 4 Ohio TO Wheeling grea,
damage is reported. and both lines were
tied up for several hours. Five miles ot
the Pittsburg. Bessemer and Lake Erie
tracks We're either under water or mud,
The bank was continually sliding onto
the tracks, and a large force of men
could not keep them clear.
The damage to telegraph poles and
lines along all the roads was enormous.
and 1t will take several days to fully re-
pair them.
Trains are now running on all the
roads but no attention is paid to keep
ing up to schedules.
The submerged districts in Pittsburg
and Allegheny are today a scene OF alb :
ject misery. Cellars and in some in
stances the first floors of stores and
dwellings are covered with water.
Where the flood has subsidized it has left
behind greasy yellow scum two or
three inches deep. The residents spent
all day trying to restore their homes to
some degree of decency ana comfort.
The damage TO furniture and buildings
in Allegheny is estimated at about $780,
600. 1t will take two months of hot
summer weather 10 thoroughly dry ou,
these houses.