Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-03-31
PEOPLE HON ELESS.
Heavy Rains Cause Destruction
in lower Michigan.
LOSSES To Property, Railroads BIocIx-
AIDED and Industries Closed Are
Reported from IL Number
OfCItIes In Southern
Part OF State.

Detroit. March 6.-Conservative
estimates of the damage caused by
the Hooded rivers and creeks of lower
Michigan during the past "a hours
place the property loss at more than
$l,OO0,000. At Lansing alone the fig
ures are placed at 100000. Two lives
have been lost, those of an unknown
Armenian who was standing on a
bridge at Lansing when it collapsed
and was washed away, and a boy who
was drowned in a flooded street at
Owosso. Reports from many places
last night told of "A steady downpour
of rain with no sign of let up.
All trains were abandoned Friday
on the Michigan Central railroad be-
tween Jackson and Saginaw On the
Michigan CentrafS main line between
jackson and Niles conditions were
such at Battle Greek and Wheatfield
that this part of the line was aban-
doned and through trains are being
run from jackson to Niles over the
air line division, cutting off Marshall,
Battle Creek and Kalamazoo entirely
for the present - far as this road is
concerned. Trains between jackson
and Grand Rapids on the Michigan
Central have also been abandoned.
Officials of the road state that with
one or two exceptions there have
been no waShouts and that traffic will
be resumed aS soon as the water
subsidies.
The Pere Marquette is blocked at
Flint and was blocked for Il time
near Lansing. Passengers were trans
Al l..
and in this way traffic over the De-
troit-Grand Rapids division was main
tanned. though delayed several hours.
No trains moved west from Battle
Creek on either the Grand Trunk or
Detroit. Toledo q MuSkegon rail-
roads.
From Kalamazoo comes the report
that every bridge for 40 miles along
the Kalamazoo river has been swept
away. In Kalamazoo 5000 people
have been thrown out of work.
Houses in that city have been swept
from their founda tions and portions
of the track of the Lake Shore Mich
igan Traction Co. and Chicago, Kala-
mazoo q Saginaw railroads have
been washed away.
.\i LANSING many ilIdiihl III lilts
plants that escaped the food were
compelled to shut down by the break
ing of the feed wire connecting them
with the Piatt power plant. About
- residences at Lansing have been
flooded and the Kalamazoo and Logan
street bridges have gone out. Four
fires resulted from the flood at Lam
sing.
At Owosso the water is three feet
deep around houses where it was
never known to reach before. Much
damage was done at jackson.
Al Saginaw The river is being filled
with floating ice. \ new $4,000 foot
bridge went out and other bridges
were saved by the use of dynamite.
Grand Rapids. Mich. March 26.-
The flood situation in western Michi-
gan is the worst in % years. Grand
river is rising by leaps and the valley
which il drains resembles in many
localities large lakes. while at other
points the swollen stream is quite
two miles wide. All the large nearby
towns along it are practically under
water.
Over 80 manufacturing firms along
the canals and river and in close
proximity are flooded and forced to
shut down and 5000 men are out of
employment. \ large portion of the
city is flooded and scores of families
had to abandon their dwellings.