Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-04-26
T[RR|BLESTORMS|NT THE EAST
FINANCIAL LOSS ENORMOUS
All Flood Records BrOken-ThOu-
sands Are HOmeIess-TOwns Com
DIeteIy Submerged-Manufa ctures
Suffer-Mills Shut Down.

Pittsburg, April 2l.-This city is the cen
ter of widespread and disastrous storm
For radius of l5O miles in western Penn
, lsylvania, eastern Ohio and northern West
Virginia rain or snow has been falling al
most without intermission for three days
, Mountain streams have become torrents
creeks are swollen and out of their banks
and the big rivers are oceans of turbulent
water. Flood records, it is expected, will
be broken before the water subsidies. The
financial loss can not be estimated. In ad-
dition to the hundreds of thousands and
perhaps of millions of dollars it will cost to
put large manufacturing plants in commits
sion again, tens of thousands of skilled
workmen are thrown out of employment
and lose their wages just at a time when all
the iron and steel mills are rushed with
orders.
Thousands of people are lying in the up
per rooms of their water soaked houses,
without heat, light or food. Where gas
fuel is used the pipes are flooded and cut
off and what coal there may be is under
five to 10 feet of water.
At Scoville, the home of the Pressed Steel
Car company, the town is completely sur
| rounded by water. The workers and their
families constitute community of several
thousand persons.
Wheeling, w. Va, fears the most disas-
trous flood in its history. The weatherwise
Gax tho tity xtill 10 o,J
at that point. The mountain streams of
the state are gushing down with resistless
force. Behind this comes the flood tide of
the Ohio, fed by the Monongahela, Ale
gheny, Beaver and other tributaries. From
d to 80 feet of water is feared at Wheeling,
which means an immense loss of property.
In many parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio
probably the heaviest storm ever known at
this season of the year has been raging for
two days. At Oil City the oil exchange
went out of business temporarily because it
was impossible to secure quotations from
New York, Pittsburg and other points. On
one railroad in Ohio passenger trains are
stalled and engines sent to their assistance
have been buried with snow and all must
wait with hope for a speedy turn of the
weather. In the meantime the passengers
must depend on nearby farmers for suffi- |
cient food to keep them from starvation.
The big manufacturing plants in this city |
have suffered severely. The cost of repairs |
Is but small item in comparison to the de-
lay in filling the orders with which all the
plants are crowded
Inc iron mills along the rivers were early
afflicted and one by one were compelled to
shut down.
A widespread and disastrous flood has in
undated all the lowlands in western Penn
sylvania, eastern Ohio and northern West
Virginia. Streams, both great and small.
nave passed the flood line and are still ris-
ng. Pittsburg is the center of the storm
stricken district and the effects are prob
IDLY worst in its immediate vicinity. Rain
has been falling in and for many miles
lround Pittsburg for 60 hours and all pre-
lpitation records are broken. Parker's
Anding, up the Allegheny, reports nearly
our inches, and Greensboro, on the Monon-
amelia river, over three inches. Down the
)hio over four inches fell at Wood juno
ion and about three and a half inches of
'eaver West and north of Pittsburg heavy
ais OF wet snow are reported. Up the AL
sgheny river reports come of two feet of
now on the level at many places. This had
ne effect OF breaking down telegraph wires
nd GRIPPING railroad service. Mails are
lther delayed for hours or not arriving at
II.
business, religious services, comfort and
ealth are at the mercy of the storm. Sew
raj narrow escapes from death have been
ported and it is not improbable that when
le Hood subsidies it may reveal number 8
bodies.
Steam and electric railroad tracks are 5
lried under thousands of tons of earth s
ashed down the hillsides, and in some i
Uses the tracks have been moved Where ]
e snow and sleet prevailed telegram
Tres and poles went down under the bur.
IN and costly railroad and other BRIDGES I
I'VE been washed away and their niers s
n
AT carnegie, six miles south of Pittsburg t.
erythlng is In state of panic. To add
the excitement number of negroes GOT "
unk on liquor being carried from the ceI. O
rs OF saloons. Chief of Police Foster tried a
arrest three of them, when they attacked b
N with razors, cutting him severely. The a
eDeils were rung and the citizens turned tt
t. They suppressed the negroes and ar. tt
sted three of them.
Later. n
Pittsburg, April 22.-The most vida d.
read and destructive storm from ~ \.
aterial point of view, has passed. II d d
IS left zone of ruin 200 miles in
ameter. Cities 70 miles from pitto. d
rg were tied up by one of the wort =
'rms ever seen here. While the " "
ow fell from Is inches to three foot a. a:
ep, which is not extraordinary The VI u:
ow was so wet that it chung in p
Nightly masses to shade and fruit 81,
es and poles. bearing them to earth D;
settled on steam and electric raiIs =
9 wet sand, stopping all traffic and 49,
king Professionalism almost imnossi W VI
The fall was so heavy and spontan. vi W
is In some places that the residents t mi
dared 1t seemed like tho hursti,, VI