The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-04-22
BAD ST0R MS s
IN ALL PARTS

mu,Sy food. Az s p. NJ. lasl:night tho
rivers ERE RESIDING a foot an hour. Tho
highest point reached at Davis Island
Dam was 25.S feet at 3 A. NJ which means
rs feet at the junction OF The Allegheny
ana Mononganela rivers. The water 70.
NAMED stationary until about y L. NJ
when they began to fall.
Conservative estimates Of the total
damage in this district is between
81 OOJ, 900 and IS 900. coo. Fifty thousand
workers arc suffering from enforced rdlo'
ness. While thsre have boen greater
floods at this point there wa, never ono
that caused 81 much financial loss and
discomfort. All Tho manufacturing plants
on the river banks weIein active operation
working night and Gay, until tho rising
water put out the fires and drove ths
workers to higher ground. Scores Of big
plants were flooded.
The loss to the railroads entering Pitts-
burg from flood lnndslid1', wrecked
bridges, heavy snow and Interference with
traffic is l0ugbly estimated ut VI wv
On the Fort Wayne snow blockade
bulw cen Salem and Masillon, o., tod up
the road Tor twenty.fOur hours. AT y
o'cloc. thi, morning the track was clear
ed and trains began moving. The Same
trouble KEEP the Cleveland trains of the
Pittsburg Il Lake Eric late, five train
having bteu bloeksGed at Window, near
Luvittsburg, for 25 hour. Tho Stow drifts
in the cut uurth of Youngstown, o.. were
up to tho locomotive Headlights
Big landslides occurred on INC PlttsDure
& Lake Erie the Baltimore X Ohio at
soho, on The Pun Handle on tho South
Side, tho B.ssemer at several points and
the Allegheny Valley near Franhlin, ia.
The slide at soho was $50 feet long and 1t
required II hours work to clear one track
In Wheeling, Bellaire Bridgeport bel.
wood and Martins Forty, about 5oo
houses havo boon entered by water, most
of the families moving to upper floors
Nearly every manufac urin3 Establish.
mcnt in the " heeling district is shut
down and cannot resume until Tuesday.
AT Martin's Ferry tina water destroyed
500 600 brick at tho Belmont Brick
Company. entailing loss OF SEQ 600 to
$4,000 There are smaller losses at o!he'
plants, aggrCgliing probably sfo,ooo me
aggregate cost OF the flood In this district
is al ieass 500, 00o probably more'
Above Martins Ferry, james Ford, a
III nor, dscov red tho Cleveland j. Pitta.
burg track washed ont. knowing II
| nor b. bound passenger train was due IN
30 minutes be su, ceeded in stopping the
train few yards from destruction.
The Ohio, River Raiiroad mas number
Of lanaslluei and considerable washed
| track below Wheeling, Involving biz
| loss ant. suspension o: traffic for several
day.. On the Baltimore x Ohio Wheel
| Ing -pi tsburg division there Is landslide
| al ClnysvIlle, preventing through trhlnc
hetm cen the two cities..
section Director il c. Voc. Of tho Par
| korsburg signal station. last night pro-
dicted forty.eet nj Parkursbur9, and says
! the later rains ut head waters may bring
| out q second rise ON top Of tbs Pre'ent
| flood stage.
Cleveland, o., April % Tho flo CO
storm OF wind and snow that swept over
! this city and Northern Ohio subsidized yps.
| tcrday, followed by n fog SO dense that 1t
! was almost impossible to see from one
| sidc Of the street to the OTTER. Not tcie-
graph or telephone wire was working on
| any direct route between tits city and
| Buffalo o" Pittsburg Inst night though
| big gangs of men had worked all day
| rusuttinR poles and st"lr snS wires. IL
| will be several days bsfOre direct com
muncation with points east OF Cleveland
| If fully established.
Trains arrived from one to three hours
| behind the schedule, ana number %
suburban electric lines, running east and
south. are tied up. SO heavy lie tho snow
| and sush that the most powerful swGepsrs
are stalled in It.
A large section Of the city il sill cnt oil
from Communication by wire with lire
, lea qnhrtos.
Bloomsburg Pa. April 22-An I'M
usually sUveres storm passed over lhIuih-
hia county Saturday nigh and continued
untll yesterday morning. lam !e!l con
tinualy for II honrs and reports from tho
country districts show great lost iho
small alreans have all orrrilowed their
banks. ana the Susluehapna River anu
Fishing Creek are rising rapidly.
Wiliamsport. Pa april ~ There was
| Il sixteen foot food in the West Brunch
last nigh This stage Is Just right Tor
the Mmbermen to get In the twenty
million feet OF logs that are Dack. Last
year because of no spring fre5het, over
half Ct the stock was stranded along the
river TN il September
Erit Pa. April 2?-1'ho snow storm,
on Friday night and Saturday and the
sicet storm on Saturday night was the
wotst known here in sixty years. There
is something like T. inches OF snow Oh the
Lowell, and during Saturday nearly ovary
trolley line IN tho city was Knocked cut
Wires we're down AMI crossed and the
telephone companies blocked saturday
night there wsre two fires from crossed
telephone wiros carrying heavy currents
| into tho buildings.
Buffalo. N. y. April ai.-The dcluge OF
rain that followed in the waks of the big
snow storm today has left but little Of the
ZOO of snow that covered the ground yes
terday morning.
luiegrnphc communications with
points iong the Lake Shore is being slow
ly Established. Tho loss TO telegraph and
telephone companies is great, miles Of
wire being broken down.
Huntington, ". Va, April 2l.-At
o'clock this evening the rain and snov
which have been failing for rs hours has
ceased, The Ohio b as passed the danger
limo OF 80 feet and is still rising 0 inche'
nu hour, with the Guyandotte. Bi q Saddy
Tug and Twelve Pole also rising rapid J
at all points. Full 10 feet moro water
is expected here. The kauawba anl New
Rivers are ill rising.
There is much suffering among peop!,
compelled to seek quarters In the hll
along he Gnyaodotte and Twelve Pole
Many of tho small towns are suffering
heavily.
MayavIlIc, Ky. April Il. The re-idep tt
Of Front street, III This city, hegon NOV.
ing upstairs this afternoon on account o
thu hight water. The Ohio River has
risen II {, ct since yesterday evening. RIG
ing three ard one half inches per hour
The Government gauge regi tered Al Zoe
att y, m.
Raising Mushrooms.
Tho past season has been q very SUCCESS
ful one with the raisBrs IT mushrooms II
| York lyn Wny I,r1s and T. II Drnni .pi