The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-04-26
THREE ARE
DROWNED
LOSSES WHEELING
Better Feeling at Cincinnati
Over the Outlook--Cleaning
UP at Pittsburg--Worst
Of Flood Over There.

Marietta, o., april 23.-Tkree per-
sons were drowned in the river here,
A boat containing nine men was car
ried under a wharf by the swift cur.
rent, and Joseph Everett, glass
worker, was drowned. The others
were rescued. Later two boys named
Hanley, aged and IA, were drowned
at the same place.
Cincinnati April 23.-At Marietta
It was reported there had been almost
a panic in the rural districts, and the
smaller towns of Washington county
along the river where there was no
telegraph service and little warning
was had OF the sudden rise. A great
portion Of Marietta was under water
and hundreds of acres in the county
were covered. Many families had
been driven from their homes to seek
shelter on higher ground. The
Muskingum river did not rise rapidly
and that saved the city. The Ohio
was almost stationary late last night.
1t was expected to be falling today.
Losses Heavy About Wheeling.
Wheeling, April 23.-Former esti-
mates of the financial loss by the
food were inadequate, and it was be-
lieved the loss would foot up at least
q quarter of a million, and probably
more. Until the waters recede more
and disclose the situation on the Ohio
River railroad the loss to that COM
pany cannot be learned, but that 1t
is very heavy is undoubted. The
Ravenswood Spencer and Glenville
hra n1, nf hn &c
reported practically wiped out and
will have to be rebuilt. The newly
constructed West Virginia Short Line
from New Martinsville to Clarksburg
has been visited by number of land
slides. The Ohio River railroad has
not moved train since Thursday
but expects to resume tomorrow. The
Baltimore and Ohio, Panhandle and
Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling rail
roads all ran trains Monday.
Reports from the Wheeling Creek
valley were that truck gardeners had
lost heavily on the freshet that swept
along that valley.
About 2,200 gas consumers were
without gas in Wheeling last night.
The trolley lines were resuming
last night.
The state G. A. r. encampment at
Parkersburg was postponed about two
weeks on account of the food.
Pittsburg, April 23.-Pittsburg and
the neighboring towns and country
were slowly but surely emerging from
Saturday night and Sunday mornings
flood. Large forces of men were at
work at the great industrial behives
which were temporarily forced to sus-
pend operations owing to high water
while property owners and occupants
of houses which suffered from the
raging waters were cleaning up the
wreckage and mud left by, the high
water.
The rains of the past two days
were not heavy enough to cause any
additional rise, according to Frank
Ridgway, of the weather bureau, and.
while the water at the headwaters of
the Monongahela and Allegheny riy-
ers was rising, 1t will not be enough
to effect the fall in the local streams
About midnight the reading on the
gauge in the Ohio at Davis Island
dam was about 1876 feet, a fall Of
about 4.9 feet since o'clock yester-
day morning. or about 9.2 feet since
sunday afternoon. In the Allegheny
the water was going down slowly,
with about 22.9 feet on the indicator,
while the marks on the gauge in the
Monongahela harbor showed about
22.6 feet. The three streams were
falling at the rate Of about two inches
an hour.
Less Alarm In Lower Ohio Valley.
Cincinnati, April 23.-Alarm over
the flood has almost ceased in the
lower Ohio valley. The low water in
the Ohio river below this city, has
allowed the floods from up the river
to flow rapidly toward the Missis.
yippi. The situation was still serious
last night, notably at Ripley, Mays
Vile, Aberdeen, Portsmouth, Hanging
Rock, Ironton, Ashland, Cattletts-
burg, Huntington, Point Pleasant,
Pomeroy, Marietta, Parkersburg and
smaller places between Wheeling and
Cincinnati. The crest of the food
was below Wheeling last night, and
the further down stream il gets the
lower is the rate of rising. The uni
form rate of about three inches an
hour Monday morning fell to about
two inches before noon, and as low
- about ohc Ohc"ldiI luCHeS III
hour at Point Pleasant about D. m
1t usually takes the crest of flood
two days to reach Cincinnati from
Point Pleasant. but the present unob
structed flow is much more rapid thar
in former floods. At Portsmouth last
night about 55 feet were reported
which may have meant serious condl
tions at points below Portsmouth
The weather bureau said the foo'
would not exceed So feet at any tim
at Cincinnati, and possibly 1t nigh
not reach 81 feet, II was above 5
feet last night, and the maximum will
not be reached before tonight or to
, morrow.
This was about 10 feet less thai
was anticipated here until the rive
+ began falling Sunday night at Pitts
4 burg. The food was much below tn
records Of 1897 and 1898 and those O
: n&Q2 and 1894 l.