Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-22


Cities Scenes of Affect Misery.
A Vivid Pen Picture of the Havoc
Wrought by the Big Spring
Freshet.
PITTSBURG, Pa, April 21.-Pitts-
burg and Allegheny are slowly emerg-
ing from the murky flood. At p. m.
the rivers were receding nearly foot
an hour. The highest point reached at
Davis Island dam was 25S feet at a.
M, which means % feet at the junction
of the Allegheny and Monongahela riv-
ers. The water remained stationary
until about p M, when it began to
fall, Conservative estimates Of the total
damage in this district is between ST.
100000 and 100000. Fifty thousand
workers are suffering from enforced
idleness.
While there have been greater floods
at this point, there was never one that
caused so much financial loss and dis
comfort. This was due to the denser
population caused by the recent rapid
growth of the two cities and to the fact
that all the manufacturing plants on
the river banks were in active opera
ton, most of them working night and
day, until the rising water put out the
fires and drove the workers to higher
ground.
Among the plants flooded wholly, or
in part, are the Groetzinger tannery,
Gallery tannery, Standard Ice Company
Armstrong McKelvy Company, Lutz &
merry, Carlin Foundry and Machine Com
pany Pittsburg Provision Company
Walkers soap works, Crawford's saw
mill, Charles nut works, Baker Manu-
featuring Company, Peter Resick & Co.,
Hardsogg Manufacturing Company,
Damascus Bronze Company, Iron City
Spring Company, Eagle Paint and Var
nish Company Morrison Bros. stone
works, Hall pump works, Sicilian AS
phalt and Paving Company, pipe cutting
department of the Pennsylvania tube
works, Jones & Laughlins, the National
tube works, the Elba Iron Company,
National Supply Company, Keystone
Smelling Company, Glenshaw Glass
Company, Spang, Chalfant & Coz, Amer
lean Steel Hoop Company, Columbia
bridge works, Superior iron and steel
works, American steel and wire mills,
Dilworth, Porter & Co., A. NJ. Byers &
Co., Oliver Steel and Wire Company,
Berry & Co. s planning mill, McConway-
Torley Company, Siff1er bridge works,
Keystone bridge works, Carnegie upper
and lower Union mills, Black Diamond
steel works, Pittsburg bridge works,
Wayne steel and iron work, Carnegie's
Second street furnaces, Lucy furnaces,
Crescent steel works, Marshall Struc-
tural and Foundry Company's works,
Armstrong Cork Company, A. & C. H.
Hamilton Company, Best box factory,
Schoenberger steel works, Fort Pitt
foundry and Zug's mill.
The loss to the railroads entering
Pittsburg from flood landslides, wreck
ed bridges, heavy snow and the inter-
ference with traffic is roughly estimated
at $1,000,000.
On the Fort Wayne the worst trouble
was snow blockade between Salem
and Massillon, Ohio. This began Satur-
twenty-four hours. At 8 o'clock this
morning one track was cleared, and
trains began moving. The same trouble
kept the Cleveland trains of the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie late, five trains hav-
ing been blockaded at Window, near
Leavittsburg, for twenty-five hours.
This snowfall did not extend east of
New Castle, but at Youngstown, O., it
was two feet deep and the drifts in
the cuts north of that city were up to
the locomotive headlights. The wreck
of an Arie train blocked the road so
that deep drifts formed undisturbed.
Water was two feet deep on the Lake
Erie tracks at Sawmill Run, but trains
got through.
Big landsldes occurred on the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie, the Baltimore &
Ohio, at Soho. on the Pan Handle on
the South Side, the Bessemer at sew
eral points, and the Allegheny Valley
near Franklin, Pa. The slide at Soho
was 100 feet long, and it required four
teen hours to clear the track. Through
east-bound trains were loaded at Thir-
ty-third street, passengers being trans
ferred by street
AT Skibo. between Monaco and Ali
1uippa, the Lake Erie suffered its most
serious landslide. One hundred feet Of
the west-bound track was carried down
The steep bank fifty feet, the whole face
Of the bank slipping down into the
river. On the lines of the Pennsylvania
md Baltimore & Ohio to Wheeling
great damage is reported and both lines
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