Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-22

and It required fourteen hours work
to clear one track Through cast
bound trains were loaded at Thirty.
third street passengers being trans
ferred by street cars.
IN THE OHIO VALLEY.
Cincinnati, O.. April 2l.--There has
been more alarm throughout the ONO
valley today on account of the Hoods
than at any period since February
1854, when the Ohio river reached It's
highest stage Of seyenty-One feet ana
nine inches at that city. Most of the
inhabitants Of the valley spent the
night in anticipation of the worst flood
ever known in the valley ana they VIII
not know until tomorrow that the wa
ter has begun falling at Pittsburg un-
Ill this news reached river men here
tonight II was feared that the record
of 1884 might be broken, but now 1t Is
generally believed that the river wiz
not exceed the floods of February, l69r
and of March, 1898, when II reached
sixty-one feet at Cincinnati.
The present food is the worst that
has ever been known so late In the
sprlng. The first week in April 1856
the river reached hfty-tive feet ana
nine inches in this city and that was
the highGsr water ever known so late
in the spring. There has been no Hood
in the Ohio valley since March, lS9S'
The Hood will do much more damage
now than II would have done one or
two months ago,
While the water has begun To ran at
Pittsburg both rain and snow have
been falling heavily all last night anu
today, and tonight all along the ONO
valley. The danger line has already
been reached at points above Clnclh-
natl. and IL will be reached here 10
morrow morning. The merchants ana
manufacturers In the lower part OF the
city have been working all DAY ana
night preparing for the worst.
Early this evening the weather bu-
reau here announced heavy SHOWS and
rains along the Ohio valley. The uni
form rise during the day was four
tenths Of a foot per hour but the aver
age is higher tonight The weather
bureau announced that the danger line
had been reached at all upper sub-sta-
lions tonight
Al Wheeling, Va, at 9 o'clock
tonight the river IL forty-one feet four
inches and rising two inches an hour.
The city Is entirely cut off from out
side communication by rail and only
the big liners are able TO run now.
Irate residents along the river banks
are firing frequently at the boats be-
cause the swell from them Is washing
the foundations away from their
houses Tonight a Wheeling island man
fred at the packet Keystone state
and at a passing town boat but without
effect
In Wheeling, Bellaire. Bridgeport,
Benwood and Martins Ferry about 500
houses have been entered by the wa
ter Nearly every manufacturing es-
Enlistment In the Wheeling district is
shut down The aggregate loss In that
district is at least 100000,
At Huntington, w. Va, the Ohio
river has passed the danger line Of
fifty feet and is still rising Fully ten
feet more Of water Is expected there,
Carter SlatIngton was drowned In the
Tug river and John Sawnson drowned
in the Guyandotte while endeavoring
TO save property Gattlesburg. CereGo,
Central city, Dingeness. Dunlow, Bar
louisville and many smaller towns are
suffering heavily
FLOODS IN CONNECTICUT.
New Haven, Conn, April 2l.--Reports
from around the state tonight show
that the damage done by the floods
resulting from the rain Of the last
thirty-siX hours is very serious
The worst situation is AZ Winsted
where Highland lake threatens an
overflow almost any hour. II such oc-
ours It Is feared a terrible loss Of life
and property viii ensue.
GREAT DAM GIVES WAY.
Chester, Mass, April 2l.-The Flood
Hollow dam in Mddlefeld gave way
about O'clock tonight, letting loose
the water in the big reservoir, which
rushed with terrific force into the west
branch Of the Westiield river, sweep
ing everything before IL, and submerg-
ing the greater part OF this town No
lives were lost but great damage has
been done, the extent Of which Ii Is
impossible now TO estimate.
Chester presents desolate sight.
The electric light station is submerged
and the town Is in total darkness
Houses ate flooded and streets filed
with timbers from the dam