The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-08
RUIN WIDESPREAD.
from Eastern and Southern Floods
-Twenty-TwoPer Persons Drowned.

little relief from the distressing con-
ditions. Rivers and smaller streams
are out of bounds, destroying bridges,
tearing away roadways, inundating
houses in the lowlands, flooding great
manufacturing centers and throwing
thousands Of people into idleness.
Conditions in Pennsylvania and Ohio
are improving. That railroads have
suffered severely and are still in bad
way is shown by New York dispatches,
which announce that the Southwest
ern limited, due there at 7:55 Sunday
morning, was seven hours late, while
| the Chicago express, due at ten a. m;
the second section of the Southwest
! ern limited, the Buffalo express and
the Atlantic express, all due in the
morning, had not been heard from up
to late hour in the evening.
The Dakotas and Minnesota lie I'M
der three feet of snow. Trains are
delayed and blocked.
Drownings reported from various
localities in the eastern and south
ern flood districts bring the total of
deaths to %.
Five lives are reported to have been
lost in Marshall, N. c., during the
storm and, reports from the section
of western North Carolina say that
two other persons are known to have
persisted in the flood.
Paterson, n. j., March 3.-This city,
recently swept by fire, is now over
whelmed by food. Three weeks ago
the greater part of its business sec
ton was burned out, and to-day the
quarter occupied by the houses of the
poorer class is inundated. Hundreds
of families have been made homeless
by the overflow of the Passaic river.
and the country for miles around the
city is under water. So far but one
death has been reported. The great
| peril now is that the Spruce street
raceway may overflow, in which event
a great loss of property in the manu-
featuring districts Is sure to ensue-
The fire of three weeks ago, while
causing a damage to property to the
extent of nearly $s,000,000, did not
create such suffering and widespread
desolation as this flood. The district
for a mile along the river front, from
Spruce street hill to Straight street,
and two blocks north and five blocks
south of the river, nearly half mile
in width, is covered with water which
in many instances reached to the Sec
ond story of the dwellings. In this
district are situated the Rogers loco
motive works and several silk mills
and dye works. In the immediate Vi
entity of these hives of industry, fully
600 families have been driven from
their tenements. OF these unfortu-
mates severalhundred were taken from
their houses in boats and barges amid
scenes of much excitement.
Philadelphia, March 3.-The Schuyl-
kill river is again within it's banks
and close to it's normal condition.
The work of cleaning up was begun
during Saturday night, and Sunday
the railroads. which skirt the shores
of the river resumed operation. The
first train out of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroads city depot at Twenty
fourth and Chestnut streets left at
1880 o'clock Sunday morning for the
west The last train out of the depot
previous to the flood left on Friday
evening.
The destruction wrought by the
storm was so great that many indus
trial establishments along the rivers
banks will be unable to resume work
for several days. Quite number of
buildings used for manufacturing
purposes had their foundations weak
ened and machinery clogged with mud.
All reports from up-river points
carry the information that great dam
age was done. The various towns, now
that the water has receded, are rapid
ly recovering their normal condition.
Electric light plants, street railways
and water companies are resuming
work as best they can. The big iron
works at Pottstown, which suffered
considerably from the swollen waters,
will partially resume operations to-
day, as will also numerous other in
dustrial plants located along the up
per Schulkill.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, March "a heavy
rainfall and rush Of water from it's up
per tributaries caused the north
branch Of the Susquehanna river to
rise rapidly Sunday. At ten o'clock
Sunday evening the gauge showed 81
feet and three inches. 1t is thought
that there will be another rise of a few
inches before the water recedes. This
, high-water mark is equal to that of
, 1865, which has always been known
as a record breaker.
Pittsburg, Pa, March 3.-This city
, and Allegheny have so far recovered
from the food as to have resumed
, all ordinary traffic, and to have in a
great measure overcome the incon-
, venience brought about by the high
! waters. An estimate of the damage
done here by the food is hard to get
at, but conservative men place the
total at about $1,25O000. This in.
\ cludes the loss to the thousands OF
workmen in wages as well as the ac-
, tual property loss. Reliable mer.
chants say the loss in the Penn ave.
nue. district alone from the Lincoln
hotel to Twelfth street will probably
exceed 100000.