Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-22

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Only meagre reports were optaiha"'e
from Huntington. the telephone me
being rendered useless. Waterman
at chaplin Il Gould's mill telephohe'
At $50 that the river was RISING rap
idly. While there was danger OF '"r
mill being flooded, 1t was not tfouSh'
the water would rise high enough 10
do any serious damage there.
There are serious washouts nj Rus
sell. Huntington and Chester on the
Boston e. Albany Railroad.
Pittsburg. April :l.-Pittsburg ana
Allegheny are slowly emerging from
the murky flood. At o'clock tonight'
the rivers were receding at the rare
of a foot an hour. The highest poih'
reached at Davis island dam was zo.s
feet, 1T A. NJ. The water RENAME"
sta tiOnary until about J i. Nj. Whch IL
began to fall. Conservative cstiiha. -
of the total damage i'm TINS distri.t ="
between 50. COG. 600 and S3.OOO.oOO flity
thousand workers are suffering I'o'n
enforced idleness.
While there have been greater HOODS
at this point there was never one mat
caused so much financial loss ana us
comfort. This was due to the denSaf
population caused by the recent rapih
growth of the two cities and to tn" iact
that all the manufacturing plants on
thte river banks were in active opera
ton. most of them working night ana
day until the rising water put out the
fires and drove the workers to higher
ground.
The loss to the railroads entering
Pittsburg from flood, landslidc9.
wrecked bridges, heavy snow and the
interference with traffic is roughly cs-
limated at 81 O00. 900
on the Fort Wayne the worst trouble
was n snow blockade between Salem
and Massilon. Ohio. This began, Sat
urday morning and tied up the road in
a hours. At . O'Clock this morning. the
track was cleared and trains began
moving. The same trouble kept he
Cleveland trains Of the Iittsburg N
Lake Erie late. five trains having been
blockaded at Window. near Leavitts-
burg. for "A hours. This snow fall did
not extend east Of Newcastle. but AZ
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. il was two fe"t
deep and the drifting in the cuts north
OF that city were up to locomotiV"
headlights The wreck of an Erie train
blocked the road so that deep drifts
formed undisturbed.
Water was two feet deep on h"
Lake Erie tracks at Saw Mill Run. but
trains got through.
Big landslides occurred on the Pitts
burg ana Lake Erie: the baltimore y
ohio. At Soho: the Panhandle on the
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points. and the Alleghany Valley, near
Franklin. Pa. The slide at Soho was
$50 feet long and il required II hours
orll 10 clear the track.
At Skobo. between Monaco ana An
uuippa. the Lake Erie suffered It's most
serious landslide. one hundred icet Oh
the westbound track was carried 80
feet down the steep bank, the whoi"
face of the bank slipping down mt"
the river. on the lines of the Pennsyl-
vanin and Baltimore & ohio TO Wheel
ing. great damage IS reported anu h"th
lines We're tied up for several hours.
Five miles of the PittSburg. H"sS"mer
& Lake Erie tracks We're either unt.:
water or mud. The mud was contihu-
ally sliding down onto the tracks ana Il
large fore. of men could not Keep them
clear. The damage 10 telegraph poles
and lines along all the roads Was
enormous and il viii take several days
To fully repair them. Trains are now
running on all the roads but no at
tempt is being made to keep up To-
schedules.
: The submerged districts in PittSburG
and Allegheny are. today. scene of
"a IN i'm -
stances the first floors of stores and
dwellings are covered with water
where the flood has subsidized 1t has irft
behind n greasy, yellow scum two |"
three inches deep. The residents spent
all day trying to restore their homes 10
some degree of decency and comfort.
The damage to furniture and building
in Allegheny is estimated ut about
500 900. 1t will take two months OF not
summer weather to thoroughly dry out
these houses. In Pittsburg the loss to
/ residences and stores and goods ana
the cost of cleaning up will amount To
about $3.50. 900.
At Carnegie borough. six miles from
Pittsburg. the loss is estimated at $40
900. The Westinghouse Electric Co
had two carloads of finished material
for Toronto. Canada. on the tracks
near Turtle Creek. They were caught
=, in the flood and water got into the
cars The loss will reach $4,000.
The Pittsburg base ball park Is IN
bad condition. At noon. today, the
first three tiers of chairs in the grand
stand were under water and the
bleachers were floating all over the dia
| - 70 70 n week the
grounds in shape.
New York. April Flowing to thu
heavy storm which has been raging II
the West all traffic east of Clevelan'
has been delayed from to hours
The Grand Central depot presented :
strange appearance, this afternoon. a:
the belated Western trains Numbered
in, several hours late, with their roof:
and Steps encrusted with snow and ice
Friends of the long overdue passenger:
hung around the depot all day ant
rushed to meet the weary passenger
every time a train came in. Dis3p
pontments Were frequent, as most o
the trains were divided into severa
sections at Buffalo.
The Atlantic express, which carries
: all the mail east of Chicago and which
was due at $50 A. NJ. arrived sever
hours behind time. The New York 4