The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1901-04-27
Observation-Disclosures
FINANCIAL LOSS ENORMOUS
All Flood Records Breken-Thou-
sands Are HomeIess-Towns com-
DIeteIy submerged-Manafa
snaer-MnIs shat Down.

PittzbuIg. April 2l.--Ihis city is the cen
ter Of widespread and disastrous storm.
For a radius Of $50 miles in western Penn
sylysnia, 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, il is expected, viii
be broken before the water subsides. The
financial loss can not be estimated. In adj
IiiiOn 10 the hundreds Of Thousands and
perhaps Of millions Of dollars il will cost TO
put Large manufacturing plants in commits
sion again, tens Of thousands Of skilled
sorkmen 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
of and what edsi there may be is under
iye TO 10 feet Of water.
AT Scoyille, the home OF the Pressed Steel
Car company, the town is completely sur
rounded by water. The workers and their
families constitute a community Of several
thousand persons.
Wheeling, w. Va, fears the most disas-
trous food in its history. The weatherWise
say the river will make a neS high record
al that point The mountain streams OF
The state are gushing dOWn with resistless
lorce. Behind this comes the Hood tide OF
he Ohio, fed by the MonongahelA, Ale
Sheny, Beaver and other tributaries. From
a. TO so feet q water il feared at Wheeling
which means an immense loss of property
In many parts Of Pennsylvania and Ohio
probably the heaviest storm ever known al
this season Of the year has been raging fol
lao days. At Oil City the oil exehAng'
.ent out Of business temporarily because Il
aas impossible TO secure quotations from
New York, Pittsburg and other points On
one railroad in Ohio passenger trains arr
stalled and engines sent 10 their assistance
have been buried with snOw and all mus
wait with a hope for a speedy turn Of th'
Geather. In the mainline the passenger,
must depend on nearby farmers for sufh
Gent food 70 keep them from starvation.
The big manufacturing plants in this city
hare suffered severely. The cost of rePair
is but a small item in comparison to the de
lay in filling the orders with which all thu
plants are crowded.
The iron mills along the rivers were early
afflicted and one by one were compelled Il
shut down.
A widespread and disastrous food has in
undated all the lowlSnds in western Penn
syIvania, eastern Ohio and northern IVES
Virginia. Streams. both great and small
have passed the food line and are still ris
ing. Piitsburg is the center Of the storm
stricken district and the effects are prob
ably worst in its immediate vicinity. RaiI
mas been falling in and for many mile
around Pittsburg for 90 hours and all pre-
eipitation records are broken Parker
Landing, up the Allegheny, reports neArl!
four inches, and Greensboro, on the Monon
sahela river, over three inches Down tn
Ohio over four inches fell at Wood juno
ZION and about three and half inches q
! Beaver. West ami north of Pittsburg heav.
falls Of vet snow are reported. Up the Al
legheny> river reports come Of two feet Q
snow on the level at many places. This ha
} the effect of breaking down telegraph wire
and Gripping railroad service. Mails ar
: either delayed for hours or not arriving a
J all
Business, religious services, comfort an
health are at the mercy of the storm. Sew
eral narrow escapes from death have bee
i REPORTED and it is not improbable that whe
!. the food subsidies it may reveal a numbS
J, Of bodies.
Steam and electric railroad tracks al
/ washed down the hillsides, and in SON
E cases the tracks have been moved. Whel
2 the snow and sleet prevailed telegrap
1 wires and poles went down under the bu
e den and costly railroad and other bridg'
!. have been washed away and their pie
weakened.
At Carnegie, six miles south Of Pittsbur
v Everything is in a state of panic. To ad
: to the excitement number Of negroes q
: drunk on liquor being carried from the CO
Il lars of saloons. Chief Of Police Foster tri'
!. to arrest three Of them, when they attack
him with raEors, cutting him severely. II
4 Rrebells were ning and the citizens turn
out. They suppressed the negroes and a
rested three Of them.
Later.
Plttsburg. April 22.-The most wild
'e spread and destructive storm, from
T material point OF view. has passed.
r has left a zone Of ruin 900 miles
Ct diameter. Cities 20 miles from Pit
n burg were tied up by one Of the woi
1t storms ever seen here. While I
snow fell from Is inches to three Il
deep, which Is not extraordinary, I
snow was 50 wet that II chung
I'd weighty masses 10 shade and FRI
a. buried under thousands Of tons Of cal
er trees and poles. bearing them 10 ear
Il settled on steam and electric RI
like wet sand. stopping all trafic a
making pedestrianism almost impOs
\. BILE.
The fall was so heavy and spont
On eous In some places that the reside
declared It seemed like the burst
Of snow clouds. A few miles av
Ia are towns in Just a. dire straits n
he rain. but with speedier prospect
ys relief, as the rain win run OF swift
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