Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-01-02
BRIDGE AT KENNEDY is DESTROYED.
Two Brick Buildings ut Philadelphia
Wreckcd-Ice jam at Allegheny
Threatens Safety Of New Railroad
Bridge and Floods Homes of Many
! PeOpIe--At Other Points.

Schulykill at Manayunk and Norris
town, near here, are flooded, and work
has been suspended.
The country bridge at Port Ken
nedy, Pa, has been wrecked by the
flood, and the tracks of the Philadel-
phia & Reading railway at Springmill,
about eight miles from here, are sub
merged Traffic, however, has not yet
been seriously handicapped.
In this city the river is out of its
banks near the Baltimore s. Ohio rail
road station, the water having backed
out to Twenty-fourth street, the first
thoroughfare east of tie station. Gel
lars Of dwellings are flooded, and many
residents alon" the river early in the
day sought safer quarters.
The Wissahickon drive, through
Paramount Park, which runs along the
Schuylkill river for miles, is under
wafer.
Brick Buildings Wrecked
/ Two new brick dwellings in Kensing-
ton, in the northeastern section of the
city, collapsed early in the day, having
been undermined by the heavy rain.
The houses were not occupied. Many
farms at Tacony, Wissinoming, Col
aegeville, Holmesburg and Torresdale,
suburbs of this city, have been seri-
onsly damaged by the storm and the
cellars of the residences are flooded.
Small creeks emptying into the Della
ware river are out of their banks, and
the fiat land between Frankfort and
Bridesburg is under several feet of
water.
Schuylkill Raging.
Reading, Pa, Dec. 31.-A 13-foot fl God
wasfraging in the Schulykill river early
heavy rainfall of the past two days.
No serious damage was done, how
ever, and the water is receding.
49, Cold Snap Averts Disaster.
Pittsburg, Pa, Dec. 31.-The threat
ened food as result of the heavy
rainfall of Saturday and Sunday has
been averted by the cold snap, and the
rivers at this point will not reach over
a 2O-fOot stake.
AT ten o'clock the marks registered
1914, and rising slowly. Dispa tches
from the headwa tiers report the waters
falling at all points.
During the night the big ice jam
formed in the Allegheny river be-
tween the Fort Wayne railroad
bridge CO, The E-idge at Sixteenth
street. an. - time threatened to
sweep IN" new railroad bridge away.
The gorge caused the rivers to over
flow and at four o'clock in the morn
ing Pine street and River avenue,
Allegheny. were flooded. The AL
!egheny department Of public safety
at once sent out men to warn peo-
pie living in the lower part of the
city to vacate their homes, but a
half hour later the jam suddenly
broke with an awful crash
The ice for forced between the
Fort Wayne bridge piers by the
immense volume of water, and some
of the false work under the new
bridge was torn away, but otherwise
the structure was not damaged.
About 25 loaded coal barges, lying
along the bridge on the Allegheny
side, were torn from their moorings
and forced up on River avenue. They
were badly damaged, as was consid-
cradle freight in cars along the Pitts
burg & Western railroad tracks. The
3oss to property will amount to sew
eral thousand dollars. The rivers
are now rapidly being cleared of ice
and no more danger is expected.
Danger at Harrisburg.
Harrisburg, Pa, Dec. 31.-The Sus-
guehanna river is again rising, and
there are indications of another flood
If the rain continues to fall as heav.
aly as it has during the last two
days.
At midnight the river stood at AZ
feet above low-water mark, and Mon
day morning it was slowly rising.
Paxton and Conologuinot creeks, il
this locality, and the Yellow Breaches
creek, below Harrisburg, are banl
full and rising. The indications are
that similar conditions exist in the
creeks above this city, as the heavy
rainfall has been general throughout
1he state.
Tennessee River Very High.
Knoxville, Tenn, Dec 31.-Th,
Tennessee river was 29.5 feet abov
low water Monday morning at tel
o'clock, with the prospect that 8
feet will be reached, when declin
is expected. Reports indicate tina
high water is prevailing Throughout
upper East Tennessee. The river ha
risen 14.7 feet since Saturday at on
p. m. Two inches of snow fel
here Sunday, and it began meltin'
Monday morning.
People Perish I'm Flood.
Atlanta, Ca, Dec. 31.--The torren
tial rains of the past two days il
Georgia, Alabama and East Tennes
see and portions Of North Carolin
caused the death Of four persons. a
far as known and inflicted seriou
damage to all kinds of property
Three people were drowned at Yves