The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21
LoWlands Along the Entire Ohio
Valley Are Threatened BY
the Flood in the Ohio.
MAY Be ONE OF WORST ON RECORD.
People of RiNer. Towns Are RenoV-.
ing TheirGoods to High Land
as Fast as Possible.

enemy TOT the DrSt time IN many years
have become anxious at the threatening
prospects Of a flood. Those nearest to
the river bank spent the morning in pre-,
pairing and packing their household ef-
fects SO they could be moved to place
Of safety at short notice. At the West
ern penitentiary while the officials pro.
fess that they are not in the slightest
perturbed consultations and conferences
are being held as TO the best steps to
be taken for the safety and security Of
the many prisoners should the worst
predictions be realized The danger line
at the penitentlary bank is 27 feet, and
at II o'clock this morning the Ohio had
reached a height Of q feet and was ris-
ing at the rate Of 10 inches an hour AT
noon it was still raining hard. There
were % feet of water in the Allegheny
river at that time and it was rising more
than a foot an hour Predictions ara
now confidently made that the great
flood of 1884 will be reached and pos
sibly passed before twenty-four hours.
The volume of water here is greater than
In 1884 and is rising four inches an hour
faster than in that year.
Another life was lost at Carnegie at
noon. An unknown man fell from
second story window into a cellar and
was drowned. The town is under sew
eral feet Of water.
Drunken negroes are rioting in the
streets and all business has been sus-
pended.
In trying to quell the disturbance,
Chief Of Police Foster was wounded.
EFFECT OF THE FLOOD.
Business, religious service, comfort and
health are at the mercy Of the storm.
Several narrow escapes from death have
been reported, and it is sadly probable
wi 10 N-c11 H.
sides it may reveal a number Of ghastly
secrets. It is Saturday night AM many
a workingman has started for home with
his brain more or less muddled. In
thousands of places in the storm stricken
! districts it is but a short step from safe
ty to death.
To estimate the financial loss at this
time is simply impossible, and with ap-
pears as a reasonable guess is appalling
in it's immensity. Steam and steel rail-
road tracks are buried under thousands
Of tons of earth, washed down the hill
sides and in some cases the tracks have
been moved. Where the snow and sleet
prevailed telegraph wires and poles went
down under the burden and costly rail-
road and other bridges have been washed
away and their piers weakened. The
manufacturing plants in this, the indus
trial center of the world, have suffered
severely The cost of repairs is but a
small item in comparison to the delay in
filling the orders with which all the
plants are crowded. The workers VIII
lose their wages for two days to a week
or more, and many Of them can ill af-
ford the loss. Many merchants in the
submerged districts are losers on stock
in cellars, and thousands have spent
money to pay for help to remove their
goods.
But the most serious item. cf it viii
follow the flood. That is little homes
that are almost ruined and the sickness
that inevitably succeeds. And this falls
upon the poorer class of people.
At midnight Frank Rtdgeway, local Of
fetal forecaster, issued a bulletin to She
effect that the Allegheny and Monong2-
hela rivers would probably reach the
twenty-nine foot mark, while the Ohio
would reach thirty feet, or four feet less
than the disastrous flood Of 1884. The
marks in the Monongahe1a river at l
o'clock this morning were 2S3 feet and
rising at the rate Of S1a inches an hour.
In the Allegheny 2S.2 feet was the read
ing on the gauge, with the water coming
up about two inches an hour, while the
Ohio river gauge showed twenty feet and
rising about six inches an hour
The iron mills along the river were
earlv afflicted and one by one they were
compelled to shut down, the water put
ting out the fires and submerging the
works Thousands of men are temper
ariIy thrown out of work, and it will be
several days before the mills can be re-
stored to working order. Traffic was
completely suspended up the Mononga-
heIa valley at 9 o'clock this morning by
a landslide of 10000 cubic yards of earth
near Bates street 1t completely covered
the Baltimore & Ohio and the tracks Of
the Second Avenue Street Car railroad.
Hundreds of men were put to work to
clear away the dirt, but it was several
hours before traffic was resumed.
At o'clock this morning the two
story dwelling Of Bernard Gull. on the
hillside above the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road, split in two and half of it slid down
to the tracks below. Gull who is seven
ty-fve years of age, is in a precar.ous
condition. His wife and son escaped IN
injured.
"A frame house adjoining is expected to
fall at any moment, and the dwellers on
the hillside are leaving their homes.
Mrs. Mary Patterson. eighty years old,
living in River avenue, in Allegheny, in
the submerged district, died of excite
ment this evening. She was in poor
health and very feeble Four Hun
garians are reported drowned near Shar-
osburg. but the report cannot be confirm
ed at this hour
OlI lily, I'd, reports IHdC no DuSueSS
was transacted on the oil exchange as
telegraph communication was interrupted
and no quotations could be secured.
At Cory and points north from twelve
to eighteen inches of snow has fallen,
and snowplows had to be used on the AL
legheny Valley railway.
SteubeAvllle, O., reports the river thir-
ty-one feet and rising ten inches an hour.
Forty eight to fifty feet is expected here,
or more than during the 1884 food Peo-
pie on the lowland here, at Mingo, Ali
kama and Toronto are moving out to-
night.
CORY, Pa, reports great damage done
by wind, rain and snow. The warehouse
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