The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-02
FLOODS COME DOWN
UPON SEVERAL
TOWNS
Pittsburg, Allegheny and
Several Other Places in
Deep Water, All Streams
Oyerfowing Their Banks
Much Damage Done, No
Lives Lost.

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every tributary of the Allegheny ana
Monongahela rivers emptying swirling
torrents into the banks of these two
streams and rushing down to the point
Where they converge to form the Ohio,
Plttsburg was given a visitation today
which forced hundreds of families to
abandon their homes or seek esca pc
from the water in the upper stories,
While mud and water dispensed de-
struction and discomfort below
Mills in the low lying levels through
out the county, numbering between
nifty and sixty, were flooded, and 3S,-
$40 men are thrown idle for four or
five days with a loss in wages of more
than $326,743.
The flood was general throughout
western Pennsylvania, the streams ev-
erywhere overlooking their banks and
causing more or less damage to the
houses and farms that lay in their
course. Down town in Pittsburg cellars
and easements of business houses
which are in the general flood belt
were inundated, while in Allegheny
two railroads We're temporarily para
iyzed owing to the water which COW
cred their tracks. People in the First
and Third wards, Allegheny, had to
adopt Venice methods of going to and
from their homes. Gondolas of the or
binary type were commoner than
wheeled vehicles.
Ample warning had been received
by most of the residents and business
hrms threatened in time for them to
make preparations to minimize the
losses.
High Marks Reached.
The highest stage reached by the
swollen rivers at Pittsburg was 294
1eet at the government dam at Hers
Iic u Il
evening. 1t became stationary at that
mark and gradually began to subside
Three hours later the record at this
point was 29.1 feet. The Market street
gauge at o'clock showed the highest
point reached by the Monongahela river
to be 2S.6 feet. In an hour after it had
fallen little over one inch. The gov
eminent gauge at Davis island dam,
f1ve miles below the city, showed the
highest stage to be 26.5 feet at 9
O'Clock, when the waters were station
airy. From that time the flood began
to fall
The cold weather which set in last
night served to check the flood and
prevented far more serious proportions.
Soon after daylight the water took
possession of the Point district in
Plttsburg and came up almost into
Penn avenue. All of lower Allegheny
felt the severest effects Of the high
water, and practically every house be-
tween Isabella street and the river
from the Ninth street bridge to the
point have cellars and first floors flood
ed. The Pittsburg & Western railroad
and the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
tracks are under water, necessitating
their abandonment temporarily.
River men took early precautions to
place shipping under. safe control, and
as result property of this character
suffered comparatively little damage
.... Many Towns AfIoat.
From the territory up the Monon-
gahela and Allegheny rivers comes re-
ports that much damage was done by
the hooding of the lower floors of
houses, mills and factories. From all
points above on both rivers the waters
are reported as either falling or sta
uonary and danger Is averted.
Towns below here on the Ohio how
ever, are still to have their worst ex-
periences during the present high wa
ter tomorrow or later.
at Mckee's Rock and Corapolis, a
few miles below Pittsburg, the water
tonight is so high that the business
sections of both places are under wa
ter and several street car lines were
forced to suspend operations East Liv-
erpool, Ohio, reports 80 feet of water.
seventy-five houses flooded and several
OF the pottery plants damaged, of
which the Thompson Pottery company
will suffer most. Street car service to
Smiths Ferry has been abandoned.
AT Wellsville, four miles below East
Liverpool, the mill of the American
Iln Plate company is partially inun-
dated and scores of families are suf-
fering.
Steubenville, Ohio, reports 80 feet of
water and rising five inches an hour.
Five more feet are expected, which will
cause the Wheeling & Lake Erie and
the Cleveland q Pittsburg railroads
and mills on the low ground to sus-
pend