The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-22

PITTSBURG, Pa, April 21.-Pittsburg
and Allegheny are slowly emerging from
the murky flood. At p. m. the rivers
We're receding nearly a foot an hour.
The highest point reached at Davis ISL
and dam was 25.S feet at 8 a. M, which
means 2S feet at the junction of the Allie
gheny and Monongahela rivers. The wa
ter remained stationary until about 8
p. M, when it began to fall. Conserva-
tive estimates of the total damage in
this district are between $2,0J0,000 and
$3,O0O,0OO 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 deuse pop
ulation caused by the rapid growth of
the two cities and to the fact that all
the manufacturing plants on the river
banks were in active operation, most of
them working night and day, until the
rising water put out the fiIea and drove
the workers to higher ground.
FIRMS THAT SUFFER.
Among the plants flooded wholly or in
part are the Groetzinger tannery, Gallery
tannery, Standard Ice company, Arm
strong-McKelvay company, Luty &
Schramm Picking works, McGraw's tan
merry, Carlin foundry and machine shops,
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Soap works. Crawford's saw mill, Charles
Nut works, Baker Manufacturing COM
pany, Peter ResSick & Co., HarZogg
Manufacturing company, Damascus
Bronze company, Iron City Spring COM
pany, Eagle Paint and Varnish company,
Morrison Brothers Stone works, Hall
Pump works, Sicilian Asphalt and Paw
ing company, pipe cutting department of
the Pennsylvania Tube works, Jones &
Laughlin's, the National Tube works,
the Elba Iron company, National Supply
company, keystone Smelling company,
Glen Shaw Glass company, Spang Chal-
font company, American Steel and Hoop
company, Columbia Bridge works, Su-
perior Iron and Steel works, American
Steel and Wire mills, Dilworth Porter
company, A. II. B1ers & Co.. Oliver Steel
and Wire company, Benz & Co., planning
mill, McConway-Torley company, Shiffler
Bridge works, E. Porter & Co. LocOmo-
tive works, Keystone Bridge works, Car
negie Upper and Lower Union nils,
Black Diamond Steel works, Pittsburg
Bridge works, Wayne Steel and Iron
works, Carnegie's sixty-second street fur
naces, Lucy furnaces, Crescent Steel
works. Marshall Structural and Foundry
companys works. Armstrong company,
A. and c. II. Hamilton company, Best
box factory, Shoeburger Steel works,
Fort Pitt foundry and Zug's mill.
RAILROADS SUFFER.
The loss to the railroads entering Pitts
burg from flood, landslides, wrecked
bridges, heavy snow and the interference
with traffic is roughly estimated at ST.
100000.
On the Fort Wayne the worst trouble
was a snow blockade between Salem and
Massillon, o. This began Saturday
morning and tied up the road in twenty
four hours. At o'clock this morning
the track was cleared and trains began
moving. The same trouble kept the
Cleveland trains on the Pittsburg &
Lake Erie late, five trains having been
blockaded at Window, near Leavittsburg
for twenty-five hours. This snow fall did
not extend east Of Newcastle, but al
Youngstown, o., it was two feet deep
and the drifts in the cuts north of that
city were up to the locomotive head.
lights. The wreck of an Erie train block
ed the road, SO that deep drifts We're un.
disturbed. Water was two feet deep on
the Erie tracks at Sawmill Run, bat
trains got through.
Big landslides occurred on the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie, the Baltimore & Ohio
at Soho. on the Pan Handle, on the south
side; the Bessemer at several points, and
the Allegheny Valley, near Franklin
Pa. The slide at Soho was 120 feet long
and it required fourteen hours work to
clear one track. Through east-bound
trains were loaded at Thirty third street
passengers being transferred by street
cars.
SERIOUS LANDSLIDES.
AT Slzobo, between Monaco and Ali.
quippa, the Lake Erie received it's most
serious landslide One hundred feet oil
the west-bound track was carried fifty
feet down the steep bank, the whole face
of the bank slipping down into the river
On the lines Of the Pennsylvania an6
Baltimore & Ohio, to Wheeling great
damage is reported, and both lines were
tied up for several hours. Five miles o.
the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Fri,
tracks were either under water or mud
The bank was continually sliding dowr
onto the tracks, and a large force of mel
could not keep them clear.
The damage to telegraph poles and line:
along the roads was enormous, and i
will take several days to fully repai
them.
Trains are now running on all tn,
roads, but no attention is paid to keeping
mp to schedule.
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