The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02
WILD WATERSAREAL SCENE
IN PITTSBURG THEATRES
Patrons Go to PIayhouSeS in Boats and the River
Runs Over Floor
Fifty thousand Men Are Out of Work in the Vicinity Of the
Smoky City.

the Pittsburg & Lake Erie tracks are
under water.
Philadelphia. March during tbs
day the SchUylkiH river began 10 re-
cede, and late tonight it mad fallen
about three feet. The stream is still
out of banks. however. and viii scarce
ly reach its normal level for twenty
I four hours.
Machinery In the inundated indus
trial establishments and household
furniture in the dwellings partly sub
merged, have been damaged to an
enormous extent The loss will amount
to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Tt
is impossible 10 estimate he number
of men rendered idle by the closing Of
the mills, but in one plant alone. the
PencOyd iron works at ManayUnk.
5000 men are temporarily, out of EN-
plOyment On the Leheigh Valley rail-
road and the Central RAILROAD Of New
Jersey. traffic is suspended west of
Bethlehem. owing to wal hOuts. The
Pennsylvania railroad and the Phila-
delphia & Reading have now resumed
traffic on most of the lines
Atlanta, Ga, March 1-ktt Macon the
Ocmulgee was higher thaniever known.
and six houses were SWEPT away last
night Reports from Mac@u today are
that the water has faSen several
inches. The ChattahOOchIe is falling
at Columbus at the rate 81 six inches
an hour and the situatior1 is improved
at Athens. Ca, where thet 5wO OcOnees
did considerable damage Yesterday.
] On the western division Il the South
/ ern railway the high WATERS in upper
east Tennessee and centres and south
/ eTn Georgia have done mFch damage.
/ The French Broad river i still rising
and no trains have reacSed Chatta-
( no0ga, Tenn, from AshFille, n. G.,
/ since the rise began. Numerous wash
| outs are reported.
Knoxville. Tenn, March THE Ten
! nessee river is thirty-f1ve feet above
/ low water mark and is rising at the
/ rate of one inch an hour The Holston
/ river is rising and much farm land is
! being submerged.
Manchester. O.. March IA tornado
/ at New Vienna last night unroOfed the
Hotel FeaIy, wrecked Rice's implement
/ building and damaged other buildings.
/ Reports from rural districts Of High
lsTsiz and clinton c0URtiss show e0nsid-
I cradle damage, including the Gest set
/ Element of 200 negroes. At Lynchburg
the electric light plant was destroyed
/ by lightning. No lives are reported
lost.
Reading. Pa March Mrs. John
/ Eline. aged so years, and her grand
son, a BOY of u years. were drowned
today at FOrgedal, this county in
rush of water resulting from the
breaking Of 4 dam in a small creek,
! A bridge spanning MahCney creek, near
SprangsviHe, collapsed today, and Wal
ter SPAIN. aged u years, crossing the
structure at the time. was drowned.
/ Wilkesbarre. Pa March 1.-At g o'clock
/ tonight the SusqUehanna is twenty-nins
feet above low water mark. The river Is
! comparatively free from running ice now,
| but the volume of water seems greater
/ than ever. The death list. which last
! night numbered three. has been increased
/ to six today. Frank Pushlik was drowned
I in TOby's creek this morning. William
FrOh- while crossing a pond, was thrown
! into the water and swept away. William
/ Walters, a miner. attempted 10 cross 2
/ pond here. when he fell I'm. and the swift
current carried him into the river.
Loredo. Tex. March IA Monterey.
! Mex. special says, Thursday S storm.
/ which swept over Mexico. was unpTcc-
/ edented in Monterey and vicinity for Sc
verify. For hours the wind blew at a
( velocity of from fifty to eighty miles On
hour, doing damage to the extent of more
1 than 100000
Mayville n D. March IA collision
Of A west-bound freight occurred at
Blanchard with a local. due to the
severity Of the storm which concealed
the signal lights. Fireman Davis. on
the coast train, was instantly killed and
a passenger named Morris. who was Sc
riOusly injured. died later. One passenger
is missing and it is not known whether he
was killed or wandered away in the
storm.