Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-01
PREVAILS IN SOUTH
Continues TO Destroy Valuable Property
and Menace Lives.
SEVEN PERSONS ARE REPORTED KILLED
Storm Leaves Shattered Buildings,
Darkened Towns and Crippled
Tramc In Its Destruc-
tive wake.


morning thirty-two feet is confidently pre-
dicted by IL -time river men.
The water in both the Allegheny and the
Monongahela at this hour is rising so rap
idly that It is only a. question of time un-
Gil the manufacturing plants along both
streams will be forced to suspend opera
tions.
From Braddock at 3 o'clock It was an
nounced that the rod mill Of the American
Steel and Wire company, employing hum
dreds Of men, had been forced to close
down, and it is expected that by daylight
thousands of men in what is known as the
Pittsburg district will be unable to start.
Philadelphia Submerged
PHILADELPHIA, March 1.-The schuyl-
kill river has risen two feet in the last
two hours and is still rising. At this hour
the water completely covers the tracks of
the Baltimore a Ohio 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.
bridges Go Down.
wILKEsBARRE, Pa, March lat mid
night the water In the river was thirty feet
above low water mark and several bridges
on the Delaware & Hudson railroad be-
tween this city and Scranton were y. ashed
out. Three lives were lost.
EUGENE HOFFMAN, aged 10, residing
near Plymouth.
JOSEPH INQUIRE and JOHN FISHER.
two employees OF the Lehigh Valley railroad.
ATLANTA, Ca, Feb. 2s.-Not in many
years have the southeastern gulf states ex-
perienced damage so widespread by a
storm as that on which yesterday visited
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Car
DINA, South Carolina and Florida. As far
as known, seven lives were lost and sew
eral persons injured. The damage is enor-
nous. -Four lives we're lost in a wreck
near Griffin, Ca, 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 floor
height in the Chattahooche, Alabama,
ocmulge, Savannah and the two Oconees,
but late tonight the stage in all of them
was stationary, except at Columbus, Ca :,
where the Chattahooehe was rising slowly.
Columbus suffered severely. One bridge
was washed away and another is expected
to go at any moment.
The city of Athens, Ca, is in total dark
ness tonight, with the two rivers sending
volumes Of water through some parts Of
the town. The north and middle oconee
rivers passed the h~igh-water mark there
early this morning, but tonight were sta
tionary. 3
Power Plant submerged.
The power plant of the Athens
Electric Street Railway company was sub
merged 10 a depth of elk feet. At the
Princeton factory the river rushed
through the building, doing great damage
to the machinery. The water works plapa
was Inundated and the machinery
The water. supply OF the city was shut on.
Both gas and electric plants were com
PEELED to close down. All the bridges
city, county and railroad-are in danger,
but none have been carried away.
.Washouts are reported on all railroads
coming into Atlanta tonight, excepting
two. The loss to the railroads is enor-
nous and they are handling their passen-
ger trafic only with the greatest difficulty
No train on the seaboard air line had
reached this city since Tuesday morning
until 5:25 this afternoon. All trains OF
this road are turned back at Athens, Ga.
using the Southern's tracks into Atlanta
The first train over the Southern from
Washington since 10 p. m. yesterday
I pulled into the Atlanta depot at 6 p. m
tonight.
No train has arrived from New Orleans
for twenty-four hours. A washout on thu
Atlanta G West Point, near CHARLOTTESVILLE
Ala, has caused all trains to be held VI
t there.
e Few Trains on Schedule.
The Southern system to Chattanooga ant
Birmingham is maintaining its usual SEIZED
, ules and all trains on the Nashville, Chat
tanooga G. ST. Louis. the Georgia railroad
and the Central of Georgia are on time.
A negro woman was killed. another IA
tally injured and several negro men badl!
hurt by a cyclone which passed over Daw'
son, Ca, late last night. Heler's RolleI
mills and the Barnett saw mills wer'
washed away near Jackson, Miss.
PENSACOLA, Fla, Feb. 2s.-The entir'
south wan Of the new south wing to tn
new state capitol at Tallahassee was levelet
to the ground last night by a furious gale,
AsHEVILLE, n. c., Feb. 2S.-Al
railway tIah1c in the mountains 4
completely paralyzed as a result o
last nights storm. The French BroaC
river is the highest ever known and al
manufacturing plants on the banks hayI
been forced to close. A large number o
houses on the lowlands along the rive
were cut on by the water last night and tn
occupants were taken out In boats.
The river rose over the t~hirteen-foo
wall at Marshall. N, c., and flooded tn
town. Several mall freight wrecks are re
ported. The water is reported ten feet dee
in one place on the Murphy division Of tn
Southern railway. In Ashevirle street ca
trafhc was suspended last night and ha
not been resumed. III
Two Freight Trains Wrecked.
KNOXVILLE. Tenn. Feb. 2s.-Th
storm which began last night is causin
damage to railroads in this section. Tn
Tennessee river here is rising at the rat
Of thirteen inches an hour. A freigt
train was wrecked today near Redfor'
Va, on the Norfolk & Western railroad
in which Brakeman Floyd Preston. col
ored. was killed. The Virginia & South
western railroad bridges at Elizabethtoi
I Butler and Gardens Blur. Tenn, wei
e washed away.
y The East Tennessee & Western an
n North Carolina railroad suffer great dan
age. People Of Elizabethton fed from II
I, town last night, and had the water rise
I two feet more the town would have bee
completely submerged. Beaver creek
Bristol is higher than was ever know
: and Is flooding parts Of the city. II
"a Southern railway H. unable to run trail