The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-21

widespread and disastrous, has inundat-
ed all the lowlands in Western Pennsyl-
vania, Eastern Ohio and Northern West
Virginia. Streams, both great and small
have passed the flood line and are still
rising. Pittsburg Is the center of the
storm stricken district, and the effects Of
the flood are probably the worst in its i'm
mediate vicinity. Rain has been falling
necessarily in and for many miles around
Pittsburg for sixty hours, and all precipi-
tation records are broken. Parkers Land
ing, up the Allegheny, reports nearly four
inches. Down the Ohio over four inches
at Wood Junction, and about three and
one-half inches at Beaver are reported.
West and north of Pittsburg heavy
falls of wet snow are reported Up the
Allegheny valley reports come Of two
feet of snow on the level at many places.
This had the effect Of breaking down tel
egraph wires and Gripping railroad serv-
ice. Mails are either delayed for hours
or not arriving at all. Railroad officials
cannot estimate the cost of repairs, but
say it will be the heaviest in the history
of railroads running into Pittsburg.
Track are torn up, bridges weakened and
telegraph wires and poles are down in all
directions. Six landslides have occurred
on the Panhandle. between this city and
Steubenville, two Of them very serious
The Charities branch is completely sub
merged and no trains can reach Wash
ington, Pa, over this line.
AT Jones Ferry. on the South side, a
huge boulder fell on the Panhandle
tracks and trains had to come into the
city over the Ohio connecting bridge, a
detour Of several miles. Beyond Steuben-
vile the Panhandle tracks are almost
buried in snow.
RAILROADS CRIPPLED.
The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
railroad is crippled by snow of an un-
precedented depth west of OrrvilIe,
wherein the cuts there were drifts five
and six feet deep. The telegraph wires
were torn down by the wet snow The
Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania rail-
roads east are in better condition, being
troubled only by small washouts and a
few landslides. The Cleveland St Pitts
burg is in serious condition, owing to
the loss of a number Of bridges, and
the Buffalo G Allegheny Valley is al
most tied up by landslides At Valley
Camps the tracks are entirely under
water.
The wrecking trains Of the roads are
all at work, but after the water sub
sides it will take two or three days to get
the roads into their normal condition.
A special from Beaver, Pa, says
Rochester, West Bridgewater Industry
and Smiths Ferry are flooded and the
residents are moving their household eff
fects and supplies to higher ground The
water is expected to be as high as in
1884, which will result in great destruc-
tion Of property. All the glass houses and
manufacturing plants will be flooded.
The following was received tonight
from Sistersville, w. Va:
THE river is rising rapidly and much
dow Il
the country all the streams are on a
rampage. Midisland creek. the largest
in the county, has been out of It's banks
for two days and has destroyed all prop
erty within it's reach The Ohio River
railroad has not run a train since yester-
day afternoon and will not move a whe ell
for a couple of days yet. Between here
and Wheeling a half mile landslide has
covered the track with earth from seven
TO ten feet deep. The residents are NOV
ing from the low grounds"
Old river meen look for 25 to 80 feet
at this point. The danger line is % feet
and q stage of 80 feet would inundate the
low lands about Pittsburg and Alle-
gheny, submerging all the mills and fac
tories lying along the Allegheny and
Monongahela rivers for miles and en-,
forcing idleness on thousands of work.
nen besides rendering hundreds of fam
a
80 feet would food the entire lower dis
trict i'll this city from Ninth street to
the point. The weather bureau has sent
out a warning to all the residents on the
river fronts to prepare for the high
water Already great activity prevails,
everything of perishable nature is be-
ing removed to place of safety.
Already one human life has been lost,
the body of an unknown woman having
Ecn IN NI,o o,Jtf0
at Woodville at 9:25 a. m. The railroads
are washed out and trains are caught
in the flood, unable to move either way.
Carnegie and the whole valley are in a
panic today, with traffic of all kinds
suspended, while people are rushing TO
places of safety and seek to save their
lives without caring q great deal for
their property.
The Main street of Carnegie as well as
all the other streets are under three feet
of water and people are going about in
skiffs. Trees, boxes, parts of fences and
lumber of almost every description doat-
ed through the main thoroughfare this
morning The flood swept into business
houses and homes far too fast for the
people to save much of their property
and stock and the loss will run into the
thousands. Merchants could not pile
up their goods quickly enough to get
though everybody expected high water,
the rush of the flood had gone beyond
their greatest fears. Cars of the South
ern Traction company were caught on
the streets in the flood and are standing
there now, those on Main street in three
feet of water, unable to move either way.
BRIDGES ENDANGERED.
All along the Washington branch of
the Panhandle railroad the condition
could hardly be worse. The road is prac-
tically washed out. There are washouts
at Bower Hill, Bridgeville, Meadow Lands
and Arden, on the Washington branch
and on the Bishop and Miller's Run
branch which cuts off from Rridgeville
to the mining territory. there is no pos
sibility of traffic, owing to the washouts
and the flood that runs over the tracks.
To save the bridges the railroad COM
pany officials ran cars loaded with heavy
stone on them this morning with the
hope of holding them down by sheer