The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-23
PITTSBURG IS
MADE DESOLATE
Floods submerge City, Destroy
Property and Delay Traffic
on Railroads.
In the Ohio Valley a Cold Snap
Causes the Waters to
Subside, ;ys

on the West Pennsylvania railroad
pound from Tarentum to West ALE
enemy, was caught by the rising wa
ter OF the Allegheny river at Glass
more to-day, and the passengers ha,
70 pc taken from the train BY mean
~ skllIs. Inc tracks from Tarentun
10 Spr1ngdale are now under water.
Inc hood is sweeping down the AL
legheny and Monongahela rivers. A
o'clock this morning the mark
registered % feet 3 inches and risin,
three-tenths of a foot an hour. Heav,
ice was still running in both streams
Allegheny, south Of South avenue
Is covered with from two to six fee
OF water. An extra force of police i
patrolllng In skiffs to protect the resi-
dents ana minister to their needs.
IN this city, Water street and man,
SIDE streets as far east as Ninth street
are partly submerged, while on tn,
south side nearly all the mills ant
manufacturing plants on the Monon
gahela river have been forced to s,1s
pend operations.
Traffic on every railroad enterins
P1ttsburg is affected by the flood. bu
the greatest sufferers are the Pitts
burg & Western, Allegheny VALLEY anf
the Panhandle division Of the Penn
sylvanla railroad. Freight traffic Is al
most at a standstill
The gorge In the Monongahela rive1
at the point bridge, which menacet
the coal fleets tied up along the river
began to break about o'clock Thu
morning. Shortly after the ice start
ed, a pumpboat came floating alons
in the middle Of the pack, with full
steam up. The boat had been tori
from it's moorings and no attemp
could be made to save it.
The DrOpertV loss will orobo l,lx
reach $1,O0O,00O.
Near Sharon, four men and a. WON.
an, who attempted to ford a. swoller
stream to-day, were drowned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Hoffman O.
Greenville, Pa, were driving across {
bridge over the Big Yankee yesterday
when the bridge gave way. Mr.. Hoff.
man was drowned. Mrs. Hoffman
was taken out unconscious and the
horses died.
Track Washed Out.
One track of the PENNSYLVANIA a.,
Rearing Run, forty-tive miles east OF
Plttsburg, is washed out. It is also
washed out at Avonmore. The rail.
road bridge at Apollo was declared
unsafe last night and no trains are
being run over it. .rs%~ .t.
Along the line of the Baltimore &
Ohio considerable damage has al.
ready been done. At Dawson the pole
line Of the Tri-State Telephone com
pary was washed out. The sudden
thaw has caused several landslides or
both the Pittsburg and Connellsville
divisions of the Baltimore &, Ohio.
At Greensburg $4,000 damage has
Deen done to bridges. AT Penn
fifteen families have been driven out.
hemkava dam, three miles above
Punxsutawney, gave way, letting loose
thousands of feet Of logs and great
gorge Of ice.
*. ~ Ice Gorge Broke.
AT South Fork, near Jamestown, an
Ice gorge broke and carried away the
abutments Of the Pennsylvania rail-
road bridge over the Conemaugh, and
two large gondola cars. A Baltimore
q Ohio freight train of eight cars
A gorge in the Big and Little She
nangoes, which meet at Greenville,
has backed over the town.
At Sharon, Pa, the Shenango is
still rising and the lower parts of
town are under several feet of water.
Two piers were washed away from
the bridge Of the Stewart Iron COM
pany.
Both the Neshannock and She
mango rivers at Newcastle have risen
more than thirty-six inches and are
at flood stage. The tin plate and
steel mills are closed and the main
thorofares are impossible.
The county bridge at Moravia has
been carried away by the Beaver
river. 1t was 400 feet long. The new
Baltimore & Ohio bridge over the
Shenango near Newcastle junction,
Is closed to traffic. The bridge of the
Pennsylvania, west Of Mahoningtown,
will not bear traffic.
Several Drowned.
Hahns SAVERS, who resides in a
shanty boat on the Ohio, states that
two barges went down the river at II
o'clock last night. In the first was
a man with a lantern who was calling
for help. On the second barge were
two men begging for assistance. One
was stranded at Bellevue this morn
ing and it is believed the men have
been drowned.