Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-03-06
RIVERS OVERFLOW.
Many Towns in Pennsylvania
Are Flooded.
Nearly All the Rivers I'm the State Are
Oh Rampage and Thousands
Are Homeless Worst
Floods in Half
Century.

Pittsburg, March 1.-Pittsburg and
vicinity is threatened with a disas-
trous flood. The great ice gorge in
| the Allegheny passed out Friday
without doing any serious damage,
but the great volume of water behind
it, which is being augmented every
moment by swollen creeks and noun
tain streams. make it apparent that
much damage must result before the
waters subsde. At 1O:30 p. In. Gov
ernment Forecaster Ridgeway issued
a bulletin stating that the rivers had
! reached the danger point and were
rising fast. He sent out warnings to
! all river men, railroad companies
and others interested to prepare for
at least % feet by morning, and pre-
dicted a maximum of 80 feet. This
! stage, if reached, will completely sub
merge the lower parts of Allegheny
and this city and put out the fires in
many mills and factories.
The residents of the downtown
districts have been preparing for
months for the flood which they
! thought inevitable. All have moved to
second floors. The Lincoln and Boy
.er hotels and the Y. NJ. c. A. have va
|
ton of being flooded. The mer-
chants along Penn avenue have in
stalled steam syphons in order to
keep their cellars dry. Building oper-
ations along Penn avenue will be Sc
riously interfered with. The eXposi
ton buildings will be inundated. In
Allegheny the p. & w. tracks are all
under water. People living along the
going out in boats.
Johnstown, Pa, March 1.-The high
water is playing havoc here. The
two rivers, the Little Conemaugh
and Stony Creek, which are in confu-
ence at the great stone bridge here,
are almost bank full and are still ris-
ing. Business has practically been
suspended and thousands of people
are watching events. The great Cam
bria mills are paralyzed and $4,000
men are idle. The great ice gorge at
| Hooversville, above Johnstown, in
the Conemaugh, broke and came tear
ing down stream. 1t swept away two
foot bridges here. The rivers are
still rising and hundreds of families
are rushing to the hill tops.
Tamaqua, Pa, March 1.-The worst
/ nOOu since lSOO NlSlItu JnlS place L IL
day. The business section of the
| town is under water. Broad, the
principal business street, is three feet
under water. Half the collieries in
this section have been compelled to
| shut down. The Standard Oil Co.'S
six-fnch pipe at Tamanend broke and
the stream of oil is now emptying
into the river and flowing through
rIl. ..,1 loo =,
enormous dams at GAINESVILLE, five
miles from here, are liable to break
any minute.
Philadelphia March IA thunder
storm accompanied by an unusually
heavy fall of rain burst over this
city Friday afternoon. Every sec
ton of the city suffered from floods.
The pressure of water was so great
that sewers became choked and over
| flowed. Hundreds of cellars of private
! houses and stores are flooded.
The Schuylkill river is still rising.
The water completely covers the
tracks at re Baltimore & Ohio rail
road at the city depot at Twenty
fourth and Chestnut streets and the
floor of the lower waiting room is
covered with water to the depth of
two and a half feet.
In the eastern section of the state
many streams have overflowed their
banks and considerable damage has
been wrought. The only reported
loss of life was at Doylestown, where
Isaac Radcliffe, aged 80 years, with
his team, was swept off a small
bridge by the rushing waters of a
swollen creek and drowned.
a,n
Yesterday experienced the worst
flood in its history and last night the
town was in darkness because the
electric light plant ceased operations.
The main streets are flooded and
travel is suspended. Hundreds of
families are held prisoners in their
houses and boats and horses were in
many instances used to rescue fam
mes from homes. The cellars of
many business houses and private
| dwellings, are flooded.
Bedford, Pa, March 1.-The heavy
rains have changed the snow on the
mountains into rushing torrents and
the creeks have reached the high
water mark, both Dunning creek and
the Raynstown branch of the Juniata
being higher than they were at the
time of the Johnstown flood. More
damage has been done to this divi-
sion of the Pennsylvania railroad
than at any time in it's history.
Connellsville, Pa, March 1.-The
highest stage of water known in sew
eral years has made the Youghio-
gheny a raging torrent. By noon
Friday the water began to flood the
lower portion of New Haven. Peo-
pie began to move from their houses,
which were surrounded by water.
The water rose more than Il foot an
hour. All the lower portion of New
Haven is submerged. Only the tops
of some of the houses can be seen
and the families are being sheltered
at the homes of the more fortunate.
The Storm In New York and Jersey.
New York, March 1.-The storm
which ragged Friday over the eastern