The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-03-06
PATERSON, N. j.,
IS. UNDER WATER
Hundreds of Families Taken
from Their Homes in
Boats.
FIRE-STRlCKEN CITY SUFFERS.
Houses Are Inundated and Bridges
Swept Away by Floods Mines and
Factories Are Compelled to Shut
Down and Workers Are IaIe.

Factories Are Compelled to Shut
Down and Workers Are Idlc.
Paterson, N j., March 3.-Three
weeks ago the greater part of the busi-
ness section of this city was burned
cut, and now the quarter occupied by
the poorer class is Inundated Hun
dreds of families have been made
homeless by the overflow of the Pas
sale river and the country for miles
around the city is under water The
district for a mile along the river front
is covered with water which in many
instances reached to the second story
of the dwellings. in this district are
situated the Rogers Locomotive works
and several silk mills ana dye works.
In the immediate vicinity fully 600
families have Seen driven from their
tenements. Of these unfortunates sew
cral hundred We're taken from their
houses in boats and barges amid scenes
of much excitement. The Fifth Resi
ment armory has been opened as a
temporary residence for the homeless
families. more than hundred of
whom are housed there.
Philadelphia, March 3-'rhe Schuy!-
kill river is again within It's banks and
close to it's normal condition All re-
ports from up-river points show that
great damage was done Electric light
plants. street railways and water com
panies are resuming work as best they
can.
South Harrisburg is under water,
and many OF the families in that 10
cality are living i'll the upper stories
Of their homes.
AL West Moor, Firewood and River
side nearly all residents vacated thei.
houses. The water had reached the
first stories and was gradually going
up to the second.
Two hundred families living in the
lowlands in the town of Plymouth
had to leave their houses, the water
covering the first floors and putting
out the fires.
At Nanticoke several houses We're
swept away by the rushing waters and
the people living in them had mar
TOW escape with their lives
Reports from the mines show that
many of them were flooded and it will
take some days before they can be
| pumped out Nine lives have been lost
SO far at Wilkesbarre.
Wheeling, March 3.-Wheeling is i'll
the grasp of the worst flood it has es-
perienced since that of 1884, with but
one exception.
Nbnoliro pnlloi,a poo1ro,,I
Martins Ferry and Bridgeport scores
Of factories have been entered by the
raging waters, fires eXtinguished and
10000 men placed on the list of in
voluntary idleness.
Cincinnati, March Reports from
the Upper Ohio Valley show the river
rising from Wheeling to Ripley and
above the danger line at all inter
mediate points. At Mingo Junction
fifty houses are Hooded. One man is
| reported drowned. Four thousand
| steel workers at Mingo Junction are
| idle because of high water.
Albany. N. Y, March 3.-Railroad
! traffic has been badly interfered with,
| and not wheel has turned on a streer
car llu6 DIS RESULT OIL Tie HUDSON
| River overlooking it's banks The en-
| tire southern portion of the city is
| under water.
Washington March 3.-The high
| waters in the streams tributary to the
| upper Potomac in Maryland. Virginia
| and West Virginia caused the water TO
rise here to the height of ten feet
| above normal high tide
| Asheville, N. c., March 3.--Tele-
graph and telephone communication
was restored yesterday for the first
time since Thursday with the towns
along the Southern Railway. which
were cut off by the recent heavy rains.
San Francisco. March ga heavy
southeast storm passed over this city
and vicinity. The principal damage
was sustained by telephone and tele-
graph wires. Communication with in
terror points and the East was abso-
lutely cut off for several hours. Ac-
cording to the latest reports, the Sac
ramento River is rising and threaten
ing the leyees