Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-23
Dangers from Floods.

Philadelphia, Jan. Z3.-Ihe ocnuyl-
kill river is seriously higher and the mills
along its banks in Philadelphia are in
danger. A large boat was carried away
this forenoon and hundreds of persons
watched the efforts of the harbor police
to recapture it.
The river is a swirling, grinding tor
rent of ice. The police tug, King, was
caught in the ice jam, below Chestnut
street, and completely wrecked. The crew
barely managed to escape. A negro en-
gagged in driving piles was killed at
Gray's Ferry, by being crushed in the
ice gorge. The Baltimore & Ohio depot
is flooded and this roads southern traf-
fc is cut off.
Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 23.--At s O'Clock
this morning the gauges in the river
showed 20 feet and rising at the rate of 2
feet an hour. The local weather bureau,
which has received late reports from
all the points above Pittsburg, on both
rivers, give assurance that the flood will
not exceed thirty feet today. Both
rivers are falling at h~eadwaters. The
Monongahela river has disgorged almost
all of its ice and water, The Allegheny
will continue at food height for a day or
two more. The fall in the MonOngahela
will counteract the rise in the Allegheny.
More than half a million dollars damage
has been sustained in the harbors in and
heal P%ittsburg.
The worst of the big food of 1904 is
oyer. 1t did not get as highas expected
and a stage of 30 feet was barely reached.
While the food was not as great as ex-
pected, yet it did a large amount ofdam-
age.
Sanbury, Pa, Jan. 23.-An ice gorge
on the Susquehanna river here, last
night, flooded the lowlands and pre-
vented through traffic on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad to the North. The ice is
eighteen inches thick, and FIVE feet of
water is running over it on the main
branch of the river. The water is
rapidly rising. 1t is still raining and a
big food is expected. The Reading and
Pennsylvania bridges are loaded with
heavy trains in order to prevent them
from being swept away when the ice
breaks.
Titusville, Pa, Jan. 23.-This city is
experiencing the worst flood since 1898,
and although no great property damage
will result, the high water has caused
much inconvenience.
Wheeling, w. Va, Jan. 23.-The
Ohio Valley is at the mercy of a raging
torrent which threatens a food of con-
siderable proportions, and the ultimate
result will be much inconvenience to the
residents on the South side and a portion
of the island, in the wholesale districts
of this city, and towns bordering on the
Ohio river, below Wheeling. Every
thing movable is being transferred from
these districts to higher planes. The
weather bureau anticipates 45 feet as
the high stage that may be reached to-
night which will submerge a large section
of the business part of Wheeling.
Newcastle, Pa, Jan. pa report
has just been received here that two
bridges have been carried away by the
flood at Sharon, Pa, and that four
men were drowned.
Cleveland, o. Jan. 23.-The food here
has subsidized and all danger for the
present is over. The damage is estimat-
ed at $500, 900.
Williamsport, Pa, Jan. 23.-During the
morning the ice between the city and Lock
haven passed safely out into the Susquehanna
river, thus removing all danger of a flood.