The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-03-07
RIVERS ARE RAGING TORRENTS
DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE THAT
CANNOT AT THIS TIME BE
ESTIMATED. Fs5
MANY CASUALTIES IN THE SOUTH
NOT IN YEARS HAVE GULF STATES
EXPERIENCED SUCH A
DISASTER.

center Of a general storm area which
covers most of the entire country.
The barometric pressure is less than
any previous record, and rain or snow
is falling practically from the Atlantic
to the Pacific coast
It is said that the interruption of tel
egraphic communication has never be-
fore been so general or so long contin
ued. In the vicinity of Philadelphia,
where the storm of last Friday was
most severe, the companies are still en-
deavoring to restore their wires, but
the damage was so extensive that the
work is not yet completed. South OF
Washington is
Practically Cut Off
and the interior of Pennsylvania is in
a similar condition. In Ohio the rain
storms have also hampered telegraphs
seriously. Torrential rains, reported
to be of almost cloudburst severity,
have occurred in the South Atlantic
states. Mississippi and Alabama and
that region is practically without COM
lilunicalion. Severe thunderstorms
have accompanied the rainfall. In many
sections of the East :nd Middle West
rivers are out IF their banks and caus-
ing not only arrangement of wires but
much interruption to railway traffic.
Floods in some portions of Kentucky,
Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
are becoming serious. ..
Entire East Catches 1t.
New York, March 1. - The storm
which ragged yesterday over the entire
eastern half of the United States gave
a generous share of it's attention to
New York city. During the afternoon
for short time the rain fell in torrents
and the wind blew a gale at the rate of
sixty-eight miles an hour. The storm
made the waters on the bay very rough
and interferad with shipping consider
ably. From New Jersey points reports
Of flood and damage are coming in.
Bridges are being washed away and
farms are under Water. eports of a
Belvidere, where tie silk mills are
flooded and many families were taken
from their homes in boats.
Worst Flood IL, Many Years.
Philadelphia, March 1.-Heavy rains
and melted ice and srow during the
past week have resulted in the Schuyl-
kill river going out Of its banks and
causing the greatest flood in that wat
erway since 1894. From it's source in
the lower anthracite coal regions to
this city, where it empties into the
Delaware river, a distance of 120 miles,
damage has been done that cannot at
this time be estimated. Swollen creeks
have ADDED to the flood and the river
is still rising. Beginning with Potts
vile, the largest town at the upper end
of the Schuylkill, every town on. its
banks tc, this city reports more or less
damage.
Terrible Flood Threatens.
Pittsburg, March l. - Pittsburg and
vicinity is threatened with q disastrous
flood. The great ice gorge in the AL
legheny happily passed out yesterday
without doing any serious damage, but
the great volume of water behind it,
which is being augmented every mo-
ment BY swollen creeks and mountain
streams, make it apparent that much
damage must result before the waters
subside. The residents of the down.
town districts have been preparing for
months for the flood which they
thought inevitable. All have moved to
second floors. eports from Johnstown,
,dcKeesport, Bedford, Connellsville,
Newcastle, Oil City and all other near
by points report like conditions with
ir dications of big floods.
Disaster In the south.
Atlanta, Ca, March mot in many
years have the Southeastern Gulf
states experienced damage so wide
spread by a storm as that which on
Thursday visited Georgia, Alabama,
Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina ana Florida. AS far as
known seven lives were lost and several
persons injured. The damage is enor-
nous, the railroads being particularly
heavy sufferers. The rains raised the
water to fool heigh. in the Chatta-
hoochee, Alabama, Comulgee and Sa-
vannah and the two Oconees, but late
last night the stage in all Of them was
stationary except at Columbus, Ga,
where the Chattahoochee was rising
slowly. Columbus suffered severely.
One bridge was washed away and an
other is expected to go out at any mo-
ment.