New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24
MUCH DAnAGE BY FLOOD.
But the Waters Are NOzC Recedine
at Pittsburg.


Pittsburg Jan 23-The rivers reached tbet-
height at o'clock this evening when the gauge
at the Monongahela wharf registered 3O1 feet
The waters then began TO recede At : o'clock
the mark was 299 feet. The temperature has
fallen considerably, and a light snow is falling.
At Meadville, however. the flood situation this
evening was the worst II has been. and threat
ems TO become more serious The French Creek
gorge is fully two miles long. and entirely Ills
the channel OF the stream. vauonia. on the
west side of the creek. is still entirely inundated.
in some places 10 depth Of six feet. and the
gas and water supply is shut on. Many families
have been taken from their homes in boats and
great hardship has resulted. but thus far with
out any loss OF life.
All work has been abandoned at the Erie
freight yards and shops, the Phoenix Iron
Works. Meadvle Malleable Iron Works and sew
eral other plants. and traffic has been suspended
the Franklin branch OF the Erie and the
Leadvine and LinesviIle branch Of the Bessemer
Railway. mighty volume OF water Is being
held back by the gorge, and the manner OF
the gorges going out depends entirely tha
/ amount Of damage.
Besides the gorge at MeadviTe there are about
| six miles OF solid ice below there. and fifteen
/ miles Of unbrOken ice north Cochrantou. Cart
/ ton. Sugar Creek Saegertown. VenangO Cam
| bridge Springs and all other towns in the French
!
/ Cambridge Springs everything west OF the creek
is under water. and all country roads in that
/ section flooded. The temperature has aver
/ aged 80 to-day. and this evening it is showing
| briskly MeadvilIe.
/ Now that the waters in this city have begun
| 10 recede. the people are beginning TO foot I'D
| the losses. though not until the waters have
gone back to the normal level will it be possible
| TO make an accurate estimate 1t is believed
rha in fha
+ coed S1,0O0OO0 In addition 10 this. fully fifty
/ thousand men are out OF employment. ard may
remain for some time il the waters are slow
/ in going down.
. The property damage e., Allegheny is not def
initely known. but suffering in the lower part
Of the city has been intense among the pOo-.
/ The police are doing their utmost TO help these
people, and are rapidly removing them to high
ground.
The bridge az ShOrrsville was swept away
/ while four men were attempting to cross IT, and
the men went down with the bridge. Jacob
Hoffman, OF Salem. Ohio. aIso drowned in
Yankee Run while attempting to ford the
stream Mrs. Hoffman. who accompanied him.
was rescued by a lumberman- A passenger
train on the West Penn road this morning for
Allegheny City was caught by the rising water
of the Allegheny River at Glassmere and the
passengers had to be taken from the train BY
skies
No lives have been lost in this city. 50 far as
is known Any number OF factories have been
put out of business temporarily. however and
this viii work great hardship. The upper Union
mill OF the United States Steel Corporation was
about the first plant to shut down. throwing
about fifteen hundred men out OF work until
Monday or Tuesday The lower Union mill,
with its fourteen hundred employees. Jared like
wise. as did the Black Diamond works OF the
Crucibe Steel Company. AT the latter place
about twelve hundred men are now idle.
In fact every mill and factory between the
Allegheny Valley Railroad tracks and the river
is more or less flooded Among the larger
plants tha- are affected are those OF the Ep-
ping Carpenter Manufacturing, Company. Du-
barry Lumber Company. American Bridge Com
rany Clark's mill OF the Steel Hoop Company.
Marshall Foundry and Machine Company. Pitts
burg Gauge and Supply Company. Totten &
Hogg Foundry Company. Armstrong Cork Com
pany, Best Manufacturing Company and the
SchOenberger plant of the American Steel Wire
Company
Early to-day fleet OF forty barges loaded to
the waterline with pit posts. many OF which had
been moored TO Fourteen Mile Island, up ths
Allegheny. for several months and for the last
five weeks had been henmed in by the ice. was
swept away. and the owners have no hope for
their recovery The barges. with their cargOes.
were valued at $1,000 apiece.
A passenger train on the Plum Greek branch
Of the Buffalo and Allegheny division OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad is stranded near Camp
bells station by the washing away OF bridges
along the creek The passengers were taken
back through the country in carriages and
landed In Verona. Traffic on every railroad
entering Pittsburg is more or less affected by
the flood. but the greatest sufferers are the
Pittsburg and Western the Allegheny Valley and
the Panhandle division Of the Pennsylvania
Freight traffic is almost at standstill and ths
officials are devOting their time 10 making plans
TO operate passenger trains
The employees OF tbs Marshall foundry AZ
Twenty-eighth-st.. and the ALLEGHENY VaIlav-
Railroad had a narrow escape from hafDo-
caught in the water to-day. The mills were fT
operation Is il was thought that the river womb
find its way in before afternoon. SuddenI,-
about 10 O'Clock, the flood poured into the vvc-ls
The employees had barely time 10 seize their 53-,
pals and escape. The machinery was s.Ib-
merged. and many OF the wOrkmen dropped Their
tools IN their flight.
Hahns SAVERS. who lives N a shanfv bOat q,
the Ohio River at the foot OF WiIkins-st A.
legheny, said to-day that two barges went down
the river last evening and that there were tbrss
on board. He was watching the fOO,1 fr-,-,,
his boat, when he saw the barges come caraar
ing along IN the first a man with a Iar
tern. who was calling Tor help He was abIs n,
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