The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-22
pITTSBURG'S FLOOD
arr 10000 WORKERS OUT OF EN-
PLOYMENT.
TIE LOSSES OVER 100000.
mur FLOOD SUBsIDING, LEAVING a
SEA OF MUD.

AFR ~
=. Greatly Interfered with by
saw and Landslides-The Sub
..d DiStricts of Pittsburg and
.uoobenv city. Where the Work
,.r People Live, Present "a Pitia-
ble sight.
pi,tzburg. April 21.-The most wide
.od and destructive storm, from a ma
.sri,l point of view, has passed. 1t has
80. zone of ruin 200 miles in diameter.
=, n,.s unusual. in that it possessed so
many differing features. Cities seventy
,yes from Pittsburg we're tied up by one
.,o worst snowstorms ever known.
while the snowfall was from eighteen
;oobes to three feet deep, which is not
.v+rsordinarv, the snow was SO wet that
1. o,ung in weighty masses to shade and
f-,,it trees aud electric wires and poles,
ta.r;rs them to the earth. 1t settled on
..oam and street railroads like wet sand,
s,opping all traffic, and making pedes-
,ranisnl a feat for only the most hardy.
The fall was so heavy and spontaneous
in some places that the residents declare
it seemed like the bursting of a snow
cloud
Nearly every town on the Ohio river
between Pittsburg and Wheeling is in
darkness tonight Electric light plants
or their wires are damaged and the gas
in the mains is generally turned off. In
previous floods this precaution was not
taken, and the result was explosions with
loss Of life and property.
4 remarkable feature of the storm is
that but few fatalities attributable to
this cause have been reported. A rail
roader, caught in a wreck caused by a
landslide and the death of an old wo-
man from shock, arg the only ones known
50 far.
The money loss is just as difficult to
foot up it may reach 5000, co., The rail-
roads think they have lost 100000.
The loss OF wages to the
army OF woritefs-ift- fa4aHt4faet.4rins
plants will amount to 100000 and the re-
pairs to plants will be a large sum.
Pittsburs's story of Flood.
Pittsburg, April 21.-Pittsburg and Allie
ghaHy are slowly emerging from the
murky flood. At p. IN. the rivers were
reeeding nearly foot an hour. The
highest point reached at Davis Island dam
vas 25.S feet at a. M, which means rs
feet at the junction of the Allegheny and
Monongaheia rivers. The water remained
stationary until about p. M, when it
began to fail. Conservative estimate of
the total damage in this district is be-
tween 100000 and 100000. Fifty thous-
and workers are suffering from enforced
idleness
While there have been greater floods
at this point there was never one that
caused 50 much financial loss and discom-
loT'. This was due to the denser popula-
uon caused by the recent rapid growth
ol ine two cities, and to the fact that
al tne manufacturing plants on the river
banks were in active operation, most
o them working night and day, until
'Ae rising water put out the fires and
drove The workers to higher ground.
Damage to Manufactures.
among the plants flooded wholly or in
part are the Groetzinger tannery, Gallery
'nhtry, Standard Ice Company, Arm
sUong-NicKelvey Company. Luty and
N'hiamm Picking Works. McGraws tan
NeFE' Carlin Foundry and Machinery
DoApahy, Pittsburg Provision Company
walker Soap Works, Crawfords saw
'"''' Chdries Nut Works, Baker Manufac-
NNy Spring Company Eagle Paint and
,'iHlsn Company Morrison's Stone
N0ihs' Han Pump Works, Sioilian As
ma ana Paving Company, pipe cutting
I'ment of the Pennsylvania Tube
r"oIAs Jones & IAughlins, the National
uOe Works the E.be Iron Company, Ma
in@ supply Company, Keystone Smelt-
S s,-s company, Glen Shaw Glass Company
Ipahg' Chaifant & CO., American Steel
sioop company, Columbia Bridge Works
superior Iron and Steel Works. American
Cg ana Wire Mills, Dilworth. Porter &
M ny, A. NJ Byers &Co., Oliver Steel and
Me-. lompany, Benz e. Co, planning mill;
o., Way-Torley Company, Shiffier
1se Works, H. X. Porter & Co.'S loco
|ol'e works, Keystone Bridge Works,
p.iesle upper and lower union mills,
p5.a,H Diamond Steel Works, Pittsburg
U--so Works, Wayne Steel and Iron
f@As' Carnegie's Sixty-second street
u-..H7Ge Luy furnaces. Crescent Steel
Marshall Structural and Foun-
o., lompany's works, Armstrong Cork
po',p,Dy' A. & c. II. Hamilton Company.
~. BOX Factory, Shoenberger Steel
nm tlrt Pitt Foundry and zugs
"a" Railrond LOSSES Heavy.
ne loss TO the railroads entering Pitts
~ from flood landslides, wrecked
49, 3 neavy snow and the interference
M, M "ariic is roughly estimated at ST.,
nm me Fort Wayne the worst trouble
MI snow blockade between Salem and
irs ''IN o. This began Saturday morn
''a ued up the road twenty-four
, ~ o'clock this morning one
Irg was cleared and trains began NOV
-, '"e same trouble kept the Cleveland
I,, or the Pittsburg aud Lake Erie
H.. I'VE trains having been bIockaded at
t..."'' "'' near Leavittsburg for twenty
e.s ours This snowfall did not extend
ID Ne"castle, but at youngstown.
.7 was TWO feet deep. and the drifts
D.. Nl' north OF that city were up to
.r h'uFe headlights. The wreck OF
..., Train blocked the road SO that
.'ils formed undisturbed Water
l...t H' ie"t deep on the Lake Eric
...., sa" Mlll Run. but trains got
""n' LandsIides Occurred.
A.A slides occurred on the Pitts. !
II DNfe Erie. the Baltimore aud /
... No. on the Panhandle on the /
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