The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-02
SPRING FLOODS SWELL RIVERS
WEST VIRGINIA AND TEXAS IN
A BAD WAY.
Pennsylvania Streams Also Risins-Rar'
road systems I'm Texas Crippled SER.
ously-Thousands Of Homes Flooded
in West vIrginia-No Lives Lost

| ously-Thousands OF Homes Flooueu
in West vIrginia-No Lives Lost.
WHEELING. W. Va, March. 1.-The most
| serious food since 1884 is sweeping down
| the Ohio Valley. The stage OF water mere
| at 10 o'clock tonight was thirty-seven feet
| and rising, and it is expected that by day
break there will be forty-two feet in the
channel. The mills are closing and sew
| eral thousand families in lowland dis
tricts have been driven TO high ground
| 1t Is estimated that 100000 people in the
| Wcst VIRGINIA shore will be driven out OF
1 their homes.
All telegraph and telephone lines to clarks-
| burg and Parkersburg are down. Rail-
! roads IN the interior Of the State are TIED
M. Cheat River the West Fork and the
| Monongahela are swelling TO alarming
| proportions, fed by rains OF Saturday ana
| the melting of heavy SHOWS in the noun
| tains.
AUSTIN, Tex, March 1.-Despatches were
received here to-day from places on the
| Brazos River between Waco and its mouth,
showing that the river has already Hooded
many plantations near Navasota. Bryan
| and HOMESTEAD. The crest OF Hood was
reported at the Missouri. Kansas ana texas
crossing Of that river this evening.
The Southern Pacific, the San Antonio
| and Arkansas Pass, the Santa Fe and the
| Houston and Texas Central railroads each
have large forces Of men at work keeping
| the drift away from the bridges and to
guard against their destruction. The
! highest point Of flood will reach the Gull
| Tomorrow. The losses by the overflow
| are small as compared with those of former
years. ..-.....- =
| No planting had been done and tho dam
are IL confined TO washing away OF the
| fences. negro cabins and farm improve
] ments made since the overflow Of two
l years ago. The warning Of the impend-
ing high waters was given in time for the
| planters to got their live stock out OF the
bottoms.
| DALLAS. Tex, March The railroad
situation from floods is bad Every road
| in northern, central and southern Texas
has large forces at work trying to save
its tracks and bridges. Trains are unable
TO make anything approaching schedule
| time. Tie Frisco's Golden Gate Limited
which should go by the Texas Panhandle
and FL Paso has had for the last three days
| to detour around by way OF Fort worth
thence over the Texas and Pacific. because
Of floods and snowdrifts.
Houston and Texas Central trains on
the Fort Worth and Wax ahachie branch
are being run around by way OF the Texas
and Pacific and Dallas. Trains on the
! Fort Worth and Denver cannot run further
than Amarillo. on account OF snow drifts
| on the upper Panhandle division.
] SHARON. Pa, March The Shenango
Valley is being swept by flood. Hun
| dreds of houses and many mills and fac
| tories are inundated. The railroads are
submerged and traffic is practically at a
standstill The mills Of the United States
Steel Corporation at South Sharon, as well
as the steel hoop mills. are surrounded
! by water and the furnaces are closed.
SCRANTON, Pa, March Swollen by
recent rains and snow water the Spring
| Brook broke through its bank at the bor-
oueh OF Moosio this afternoon. The food
tore down upon the borough. washed away
| one foundation wall OF the Methodist Epis-
copsl church, ruined a large quantity Of
goods stored in the basement Of Whit
becl,'s store and flooded the cellars Of nearly
all the houses in town. Water to the depth
OF nearly fifteen inches flowed along the
borough streets One bridge wac washed
away. IL wac several hours before the
Hood subsidized
| SARATOGA, March Rushing surface
waters. the result OF protracted rsinstorm,
have made thsup Hudson aud sacandaga
! rivers rampan, for over twenty-four hours,
during which lime the lowiands have bssn
converted into lakes A. Glen Station,
| on the Adirondack division II the Della
ware and IA udsou Railroad, the rising waters
| Yesterday afternoon tuoh possession of
| the rosdi,ed aud prevented ~" passage
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