Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-21

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men were thrown out of work for over
a week. The same work will have to
be done over again. The high waters
have caused the Hockensmith Wheel
and Mine Car Company to suspend OPP
erations. The railroad bridge over
Brush creek is in danger. The big
Penn plate glass company dam, south
OF town is in a shaky condition and
grave fear is felt, lest the immense
walls give way. The dam at present
holds about twenty million gallons OF
water. Early this morning a break
was discovered near the overflow.
Workmen are now repairing the weak
spot. But the danger is not passed yet.
The inlet into the dam is a raging tor
rent and the body of water being sent
into the basin is immense. Ihe
dam now contains about thir-
ty feet OF water, as much
as it car possibly hold and should the
rain continue to fall, the dam may give
way and do immense damage.
Carnegie, six miles southwest Of Pitts
burg, is in a state OF panic tonight.
To add to the excitement a number OF
negroes got drunk on liquor being al
ried from the cellars OF saloons. Chief
OF Police George S. Foster tried to ar
rest three OF them, when they attack
ed him with razors, cutting him severe
ly. The fire bells were rung and the
citizens turned out They suppressed
the negroes and arrested three OF them.
Carnegie is in the worst condition
from Hood in its history. Charters
creek is far over It's banks and Camp
be.l's Run, which empties into the
creek at CHARTERS, is a raging torrent.
Much of the trouble at Carnegie vas
caused by the breaking of the Pan
Handle railroad bridge over Charters
creek at heidelberg. The debris float
ed down to the Third street bridge and
blocked there. This backed the water
up into the main thoroughfares and
skiffs had to be used on all the business
streets. A number of works were COM
PEELED to shut down. The Superior Steel
Company, employing 200 men, Dunlap
Steel plate Company, 100 men; Colum-
bia Bridge Company, $50 men, and the
CHARTERS Iron and Steel Company, 400
men, are closed, and the plants are IN
der water.
The damage by storm in Carnegie is
estimated at $4,000, including loss to
mills and merchants who were taken
unawares. Every cellar in the town is
flooded and many outhouses have been
washed away. Several persons fell in
to the water, but were saved.
The town is in darkness and the peo-
PIE are freezing. The gas and electric
ity are shut Off and the coal is under
water.
1t is reported that the bridge on the
washington branch two and one-hali
miles above Carnegie, has gone down.
The flood has ruined the foundations
of the Columbia Bridge Company's
plant in course of construction and
washed away 100000 feet Of lumber,
The loss will be $4,000 to $4,000.
At Heidelberg, a mile from Carnegie,
the two story dwelling of Peter Tice
was washed away. Tice and his wife,
the only occupants, escaped.
Nearby the home OF Henry Swertz-
berger was threatened. Swertzberger,
who is seventy years old, refused to
leave, but was carried out by his son
a few minutes before the house was en-
quilted.
Oil City reports that no business was
transacted on the Oil Exchange as tele-
graphic communication was interrupted
and no ~quotatlons could be secured. AT
Cory and points north from twelve to
eighteen inches Of snow has fallen, and
snow plows had to be used on the Allie
gheny Valley railway.
Steubenville, Ohio. reports the river
81 feet and rising ten inches an hour
Forty-eight to fifty feet is expected here
or more than during the 1884 food.
People on 20 low lands here, NJ Mlngo,
Alikanna and Toronto are moving out
tonight.
Cory, Pa, reports great damage done
by wind, rain and The ware
house OF Young & Sample was crushed
by the weight OF snow. while Thomas
Sample was within. He was carried
down with the building, but crawled out
from the debris badly injured. The
Pennsylvania trains north and south
had much trouble, trains from Pittsburs
being hours late. About twenty inches
of snow overs the ground tonight. AT
one time to-day the Postal and Western
Union Offices had no wires.
CUMBERLAND, Md. April 20.--Ii
has been raining for two days here
South Branch OF the Potomac Is beyond
its banks and much damage is being
done. Snow fell to the depth OF two
feet in the West Virginia mountains last
Monday and the rain has caused the
mountain streams to become raging
torrents. The Potomac river here is
rising rapidly and before morning will
be beyond its banks unless the rain
ceases. The towns OF Nilliamsport and
Clear Spring, below here, are in immi-
nent danger of inundation.