Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-01
DANGER POINT
Reached by Flood on Lower
Atlantic Coast.
Rivers and Streams Over Banks and
Waters Still Rising.
Some Places Shut off-Some Loss of
Life Reported.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. oS.--At $50 p. NJ.
, tonight, the river reached the danger
point and is rising fast. Local fore
caster RidgeWay has sent out warnings
to all river men and people along the
river to prepare for * feet by morning
and predicting that so feet viii be
reached.
wilkins, n. T., Feb. 2S.-Mountour
Falls is suffering from most damag-
ing Hood, more than half of the village
being under water. Bridges are gone
and bedding is being washed from their
founda tions. Hundreds of families have
been driven to the upper stories of their
houses and boats are being used in the
streets. Railroad traffic is suspended.
Corning, N. Y. Feb 2S.-The Che
mung river is rising at the rate of is
inches an hour, tonight All the rivers
land creeks in this section are riSisg as
| a result of heavy rains and SHOWS arc
melting on the surrounding hills. The
Pennsylvania division of the New York
Central Railroad has practically sus-
pended traffic operations.
Mont gomcry, Ala, Feb. 2S.-The
heavy rains of the last few days have
|caused numerous washOuts. Practical
ly no trains have entered Montgomery
from the South Or EAST in "a hours. The
Coosa and Alabama rivers are rising.
At Wetumpka the rise was % feet in
"a hours.
Asheville, N. c., Feb. ga wreck is
reported near Marshall, N. c. 1t is said
one man was killed and three injured.
Mobile. Ala, Feb. 2S.-This city has
been shut off from Montgomery for "a
hours on account of washout on the
Louisville & Nashville.
Cincinnati Ohio, Feb. 2S.-AlthOugh
the river has risen rapidly here, there
is no immediate danger of a flood. AT
o'clock tonight, the gauge here
reached 81 feet. a~rise of 3.2 feet in IL
hours.
Pensacola, Fla, Feb. 2S.-The entire
wall Of the new south wing to the state
Capitol at Tallahassee was levelled last
night. by furious gale.
Saratoga, N. Y, Feb. ga heavy
rain is falling. tonight. throughout the
lower Adirondacks, and freshets are
feared.
Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 2S.-Not in many
years have the southeastern Gulf states
experienced damage so widespread by
a storm as that which, yesterday, Wis
tied Georgia. Alabama and Tennessee,
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima and Florida. So far as known seven
lives have been lost and several per-
sons injured. The damage is enormous,
the railroads being heavy sufferers.
Four lives were lost in a wreck near
Griffin, Ga, which was caused by a
washout. The other dead were negroes
whose cabins were blown away by the
storm.
The rains raised the water to a flood
height in the Chattahoochee, Alabama. |
Oculgee. Savannah and the two Oconee
rivers, but late tonight, the stage in all
of them was stationary except at Co
lumbus. Ga, where the Chattahoochee
was rising slowly. Columbus suffered
severely. The city's water supply is
shut off and many Of it's manufacturing
plants were forced to close.
Athens, Ga, is in total darkness with |
two rivers sending volumes of water
through some parts of the town. Both |
gas and electric plants were compelled |
to close down.
Washouts are reported on all rail-
roads coming into Atlanta, tonight, ex-
cepting two. No train has arrived from |
New Orleans for "a hours |
Philadelphia, Feb. 28-Heavy rains ana
melted ice and snow during the past week
has resulted in the Schuylkill river go-
ing out of it's banks and causing the
greatest flood in that waterway since 1891 |
From its source in the lower anthracite
coal regions to this city, where 1t empties !
INTO the Delaware river, n distance of 120 |
miles, damage has been done that cannot |
at this time be estimated Swollen creeks |
have added to the flood and tonight, the |
river is still rising.
Minneapolis, Mimi. Feb. 2S.--The Jour |
nal dispatches from Minnesota and tire |
Dakotas describe the worst snow storms |
of the season.
The North Dakota is suffering from A |
blizzard, the rains having turned to snow |
and being driven by high winds.
AnRIET ON ICE