The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-21

and northern West Virginia rain or
snow has been failing almost without
taIUernission FOR three days Mountain.
streams have become torrents, creeks
! are swollen and out of their banks and
the big rivers are oceans OF turbid wa
'tter. Flood records, it is expected, will
- broker before the water subsidies.
- The financial loss cannOr be esti-
mated IA addition. 20 the hundreds Of
thousands and perhaps Of millions OF
: Ftollars IL viii cost to put large manu-
Featuring plants in commission again,
tlns OF thousands Of skilled workmen
are tEro va out Of employment and lose
their wages Just at time when all
the iron and steel nails are rushed with
orders.
Tonight thousands Of people are lying
In the upper rooms Of their water
soaked houses, without heat, light or
food. Where gas fuel is used the pipes
are flooded and cut of, and what coal
there may be is under from five to ten
feet o. water
At SchofviIe, the home Of the Pressed
Steel Car company, the little town is
completely surrounded by water. The
workers and their families constitute
a community Of several thousand per-
sons.
wheelin.; w. Va, fears the most
disastrous Hood in its history. The
weather-wise say the river wiu make
new high record at that point The
mountain streams OF the state are
gushing down the hillside with resist
less force Behind this comes the food
tide of the Ohio. fed BY the Mononga-
hela, Allegheny. Beaver and other trib-
utaries- From forty-dve 10 fifty feet
II water is feared at Wheeling, which
means an immense loss of property.
Snowstorm is Raging.
In many parts Of Pennsylvania and
Ohio, probably the heaviest suowstorEn
ever known at this season Of the year
has been raging for two days, At on
t3ty, the oil exchange went cut OF
Business temporarily because it was
possible to secure quotations from
lew York, Pittsburg and other points
- On one railroad X. Ohio, passenger
sins are stalled and engines sent TO
ltstSassistance have been buried VIII
49, and ali must wait with hope
- speedy turn of the eather. In
Meantime the passengers mus de-
& ii upon nearby farm houses for s>if-
fgnt food to keep them from starya-
religious services tomorrow,
amf0rt and health. are at the mercy
fr5f the storm. Several narrow escapes
from death have been reported, and It
us probable that when the Hood sub
sides il may reveal number OF bodies
Steam and street railroad tracks are
buried under thousands of tons OF
earth, washed down the hiilsides, and
moved. Where the snow and sieet pre-
vailed. telegraph wires and poles went
down under the burden, and costly
railroad and other bridges have been
washed away and their piers weak
ened. The big misunderstanding plants
in this city have suffered severely. The
cost Of repairs is but a small item ~
COMPARISON to the delay in filling the
orders with which all the plants are.
49, -, ,,t1le along tIta ri{,er. were
early afflicted and one by one We're
compelled to shut down, the water put
ting out the fires and submerging the
works
Ii-ing in River avenue, Allegheny, IL
the submerged district, died Of excite
n1ent this evening. -Four Hungarians
ere reported drowned near Sharpsburg,
but the report cannot ne verified at this
hour. Er ~
82s Rivers Are Rising.
PAT midnight. Frank Ridgeway local
sR2SE ciaI forecaster, issued a bulletin 70
81 effect that the Allegheny and Mo-
Ahga hela rivers would probably reach
49, twenty-ntne foot mark, while the
~ 10 would reach thirty feet, or four
- less than the disastrous food of
"a Tie marks al the NIOnOngahela
Der at midnight We're twenty-eight
u six-tenths feet and the river was
sug at the rate Of three. and one -half
rs an hour. In the Allegheny TWEEN
4Fsght ard five tenths feet was the
- on the gauge, with the water
g up about two inches an 1ours
fleK the Ohio river gauge showed
~ ty-ffve feet and was rising about
blches ar hour.
IfkItajn has been facing in and for many
s1sff7ss around. PittsSurz for sixty hours
and all precipitation records are broken
ParkeiSs Landing, up the Allegheny, re-
ports nearly four inches, and Green's
bcrO. on the MOnongahela riyeIy over
three inches. Down the Ohio ever four
inches fell at Wood Junction. and about
three ard a half inches at Beaver.
West and north Of Pittsburg -
falls OF wet snow are reported. CTSE,-
Allegheny river reports come Of two
feet Of snow CD the level at many
places. This had the effect of breaking
down telegraph wires and Gripping
railroad service. Mails are either de-
iayed for hours OF not arriving at All
Hailroad officials cannot estimate the
cost Of repairs. but say it viii be heav-
the railroads running into Pittsburg
Tracks are torn up. bridges weakened
and telegraph wires ana poles are down
81 all disectiors- SIX landsIides have
occurred on the Panhandle between
this city and SSeubenville, two Of them
very serious. The Chatres branch is
completely submerged and no trains
can reach Washington, Pa over this
line
Railroad Traffic Interrupted.
At Jones' Ferry, On the south side.
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 Steub- I
enville the Panhandle tracks are almost /
buried in snow. The Pittsburg Fort 1
Wayne & Chicago railroad is crippled /
by snow of an unprecedented depth /
west Of Orrville, where in the cuts there l
we're drifts five ana six feet deep The I
Baltimore e Ohio and Pennsylva MA
railroads are in better condition, being |
troubled only by small washouts and =
a few landslides. The Cleveland K
Pttsbury q in serious sSonditiCn oplngt
TO the loss OF a nupbeT'fof bridges. ard /
the Buffalo < Allegheny Valley is al /
most lied up bS landslidea.