The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1901-04-24
PlTSBURG AND ALLEGHENY
Flooded Rivers Are Reredng But Wide
spread Damage and Much
Misery Remains.

PITTSBURG, April Pittsburg
and Allegheny are slowly emerging from
he murky food. The rivers are recedjug
learly foot an hour. The highest point
reached at Davis island dam was 2J.S
Feet at a. IN. yesterday, which means
!S feet at the junction Of the Allegheny
md Mopongahela rivers. The water re-
NAMED stationary until about 3 p. M,
when il began to fall Conservative es-
mates Of the total damage in this dis
rict is between $2,OO0,OOO and S3,0O0.-
200. Fifty thousand workers are suf-
,ering from enforced idleness.
While there have been greater floods
II this point, there was never one that
,aused so much financial loss and dis
comfort. This was due to the denserpOp
alton caused by the recent rapid growth
If the two cities and to the fact that all
The manufacturing plants on the river
banks were in active operation, most Of
hem working night and day, until the
Using water put out the fires and drove
he workers TO higher ground. The loss
70 the railroads entering Pittsburg from
Hood, landslides, wreck, bridges, heavy
snow and the interference with traiIic
S roughly estimated at 81 ,OO0OOO.
On the Fort Wayne the worst trouble
was a snow blockade between Salem and
Massilon, o. This began Saturday morn
NJ and tied up the road in "a hours. At
} o'clock yesterday morning the track
vas cleared and trains began moving.
The same trouble kept the Cleveland
racks of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
ate, i've trains having been blockaded
1t Windsor, near Leavittsburg, for
% hours. This snowfall did not extend
aast Of New Castle, but at Youngstown,
D., il was two feet deep, and the drift
ng in the cuts north Of that city were
up to locomotive headlights.
The wreck Of an Erie train blocked he
'oad so that deep drifts formed unds-
urbed. Water was two feet deep on the
Lake Erie tracks at Sawmill Run. hut
rains got through. Big andslides 0c-
cured on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie,
he Baltimore and Ohio at Soho, on the
south side, the Bessemer at several
points and the Allegheny Valley near
Franklin, Pa. This slide at Soho was
100 feet long and it required Ii hours
work to clear one track.
At Skobo. between Mcnaca and Ali
luippa, the Lake Erie suffered its most
serious landslide. One hundred feet Of
he westbound track was carried 30 feet
iown the steep bank, the whole face of
he bank slipping down into the river.
On the Pennsylvania and Baltimore aud
Ohio to Wheeling, much damage is re-
ported and both lines were tied up for
several hours. Five miles of the Pitts
Ourg, BesSemer and Lake Erie tracks
were either under water or mud. The
bank was continually sliding down on
20 the tracks and a large force of men
could not keep them clear.
The damage to telegraph poles and
ines alone all along the roads was enor-
| nous. and it will take several days 10
FULLY repair. Trains are now running on
all the roads, but no attempts is being
made to keep the schedules.
| 1ences and stores and goods and the cost
Of cleaning up will amount to about
| S2J0,00O.
At Carnegie borough, six miles from
PittsbuIg the loss is estimated at SiU.-
300. The Westinghouse Electric com.
pany had two carloads of finished mate
rial for Toronto, Canada, on the tracks
near Turtle Greek. They were caught
IN the flood and water got into the cars
The loss may reach $4,000
The Pittsburg baseball park is in bad
condition. At noon yesterday the first
three tiers of chairs in the grand stand
were under water and the bleachers were
aoating all over the diamond 1t viii
| take a week TO put the grounds in shane