Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-20
A WOMAN'S BODY
Found Floating in a Swollen
 Creek This Morning.
TWO DAYS OF STEADY RAIN.

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 ter Mark-Carnegiea and the Chartler
 Valley Under Three or Four Feet of
 Water.
 Pittsburg, April 20.-It has been raining almost necessarily throughout western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia since 4 o'clock Thursday D. m., and as a result all the streams are beyond their banks and the greatest food since 1884 is feared. At 10 o'clock this morning the Monoga- hela river marks registered nineteen feet and rising at the rate of nine in- ches an hour. The danger line at this point is twenty-two feet and stage of thirty feet would inundate the low lands about Pittsburg and Alleghany, subuerging all the mills and factories lining the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers for miles and enforcing idlSness on thousands of workmen. besides rem dering hundreds of families temporar- fly homeless. The weather bureau has sent out q warning to all tue residents on the river fronts. to prepare for the high water. Despatches from the headwaters report a rainfall for the Inst twenty-four hours of from one to two and three-fourths inches and all streams rising rapidly. A flood swept down on Carnegie and the whole Char tiers valley, six miles southwest of Pittsburg during the night, such as is said never to have been known. The body of an unknown woman was found floating in Chartiers creek at Woodville this morning Railroads are washed out and trains are caught in the food, unable to move either way. Carnegie and the whole valley are in a panic this morning with business and traffic of all kinds suspended, while people are rushing to places of safety ard e ts save their lives with out caring a great deal for their prop erty.
 The main street of Carnegie as we'll as all the other streets are under three feet of water and people are going about in skins. Trees. boxes, parts of fences and lumber of almost every de seription foated through the main thoroughfare this morning. The flood swept into business houses and homes too fast for the people tc save much of their property and stock.
 The floods have ragged all along the Washington branch of the Pan Handle railroad and the road is practically washed out. There are wAshouts at Bower hill. Bridgeville Meadow Lands and several other places along the line. There Is no possibility of traffic on any part of the line.
 Another life was lost at Carnegie at noon. An unknown man fell from the second story of a house and was drowned in the cellar. This town is several feet under water Drunken negroes are rioting on the streets and all business has been suspended. Tn trying to Quell the disturbance, Chief of Police Foster was wounded. There are now twenty-two feet of water in the Alleghany river at this point and 1t is rising more than a foot an hour Shortly after eleven o'clock the police officials began to realize that the flood would be much greater than was at first suspected and a second warning was sent out to every resident on the river side streets The works of Spang, Galfant & company in Etna were com pelled to close down and two thousand mail are idle. All trains are blocked.
 Greenville. Penn, April 2O.-The worst blizzard in twenty-five years is raging here to-day. The snow lies two feet deep on the level. All passenger traffic has been abandoned.
 Cleveland. April 20.-Northern Ohio was visited by heavy storm of wind and snow last night and to-day and telephone and telegraph wires are broken and thrown down in all direc- tions.
 Pittsburg. Pa, April 20-One of the effects of the heavy rains here was landslide at 2 o'clock this morning just beyond Soho. which carried the houses of Michael Gull and Edward Collins down onto the Baltimore & Ohio tracks. Mir and Mrs Gull were thrown from their beds but escaped with slight injuries.
 One Baltimore & Ohio train is com pletely blocked by the wreckage and the entire hill from Lawn street to the Baltimore & Ohio tracks. distance of 300 feet Is slipping and may go down before daybreak.
 New York, April 20.-At the Western Union Telegraph company's office it was stated that owing to the heavy storm from Pittsburg to Buffalo. all points west particularly through Ohio. were cut off by the prostration of the wires Chicago, St Louis and other western points were temporarily cut of. but it was expected that communi- cation would be restored during the forenoon.
 New York. April 2O-At the Postal Telegraph company's offices 1t was as cerfained that advices from the west were that there was a fall oy about two fete of wet snow between Pitts burg and Cleveland. which practically cut off communication to the west. A few wires were working through to Chicago. but these Were totally made quate to accommodate the amount of business handed in.
 Batavia, N. Y. April 2O-Six inches of snow has fallen in this section and 1t is still showing.
 Buffalo. N. r., April 2O.-Between seven and eight inches of snow has fallen in this city since yesterday