The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-01-23
Allegheny and MoDOngaheIa
 Are Filled With Ice
VAL LIABLE BARGES GO DOWN
Rivers Are Steadily Rising and Resi- dents Are Fleeing From the Low Iands-The Railroads Are
 Heavy Sufferers.

Pittsburg. January 22.-Tittsburg Is sleeping this morning with the belief that warnings of danger of the river have been exaggerated. The sense of security Is due to the rapid disappearance of lee and water from the upper Allegheny. But just before midnight the Monongahea river broke loose.
 Huge masses of ice. less broken than that which has been rushing down the Allegheny river. are choking the channel. Both rivers are steadily rising as a re- suit of the new storpage The Allegheny is already three feet higher than the Mo nongahela, and a dangerous ice gorge Is forming just above the confluence of the rivers.
 From all points the streams were rising at midnight
 The flood will probably net have reach ed it's height until late tomorrow. Consid- erable damage to property and the loss of several bridges has been reported.
 Business men. mill owners, residents and rivermen are included in the list of possible sufferers. The poor In some of the low quarters of the city may be hen med in their homes until Sunday night, for there is ice enough in both rivers to keep the Allegheny and the Mo- nongahela rivers well filled until Sunday
 No Hope of Subsistence.
 Forecaster Ridgeway in statement at midnight gave no hope of subsistence. All of the coal barges and steamboats yesterday were sent into the Mononga- hela to gain the better protection of stiller water.
 Already barge containing 40O00 bush els of coal has sunk, and the whole fleet with nearly 275.0O0 bushels on board is likely to go down. The ice is ramming with terrific force, and tas, steamboats and tugs are powerless now to go to tho rescue of the fleet which Is torn from it's moorings.
 Another barge containing about 25,O0O bushels of coal passed at Locke No. with the ice last evening, and is still some where in the harbor damned in the ice but the rivermen are unable to tell where the barge is to whom it be- longs. Ice eighteen inches thick is now piling up where shipping is thicket along the Monongahela and close to the head waters of the Ohio.
 Gorge Is Twenty-Five Feet Deep.
 The ice gorge is twenty-five feet deep and is resting on the bottom of the river Barges Maine Chester and Mississippi broke from their moorngs and swept out into the ice-laden Monongahela last night, all loaded with railroad iron, valued at S1S0000.
 A distress signal brought three tugs and for two miles the tugs raced down the ice-choked and raging Ohio to rescue the kr.-. ..,1 l. AI. brought under control and tied up.
 The Monongahela Coal and Coke com pany's tow boat Hornet sunk in A feet of water. The crew escaped. The boat was valued at about $l0,000
 The Volunteer sank at Browns station. The officers and crew 1eaped to the shore. The Volunteer was valued al s15.0O0.
 Rivermen say the damage wrought by ice will amount to many thousands of dol- lars. This. coupled with the losses sus- taned by railroads, business houses, man. ufacturers, steet car companies. govern ment works and residences will likely put the loss around the $1,0O0 GOO mark
 At midnight the Pittsburg and Western railroad is out of business and the Balti- more and Ohio system is sending it's trains to Youngstown over Lake Erie. The Allegheny river is over Duquense ways at Barker place. and before daylight may be over the highway at Fourtn and fltth strees.
 Rivers Far Out of Banks.
 Fort Wayne. Ind, January 22.-The three rivers that environ Fort Wayne. are far out of their banks and still rising.
 Riverside, lying or a point between the confluence of St. Mary's and St. Joseph river, Is partly submerged and the police have rescued many families from partly submerged homes.
 Railroad Bridges Carried Away.
 Defiance. O.. January z2.-The Anglaise and Maumee rivers oyerfiowed a forty-foot embankment here. Five blocks of resi- dences in East Defiance are partly sub merged. and many families have been driver from their homes. The Findiay, Ft Wayne and Western railroad bridges in the Andees river. and iron bridge above the city have been carried away.