Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-01-29
HEAVY FLOODS.
They Cause Great Losses at
Many Points.
Hundreds of Factories and Mills are
Forced 10 Shut Down-Rivers Out
OF Their Banks - Buildings
Submerged-Brldge Car-
rIed Away.

beuS Oh DnOuSHnUS.
Above the city the Cuyahoga is
half mile out of its banks on either
side. The A., b. & c. traction line is
compelled to transfer it's passengers
in boats.
Fremont, o., Jan. 22.-The lower
| portions of Fremont are under water,
the result of a freshet in the San
dusky river and the forming of an
ice gorge below the city. Many
houses are surrounded by water and
the occupants are moving out. The
Wheeling & Lake Erie tracks are sub
merged. At Green Springs, Lottie
Perrin, q school girl, was drowned
while crossing a creek.
Coshocton, o., Jan. 22.-The ice
gorge in the Walhonding river at Wal
honding swept away the steel railway
bridge and the village of Warsaw is
half under water. Stock is being
!. driven to the hills and intense excite
ment reigns.
Columbus, o., Jan. 22.-An almost
continuous fall of rain for the last 38
hours. carrying off the snow, has
caused freshets in practically all Ohio
streams. The Scioto river is out of
it's banks at many points north of Co.
lumbus. 1t was necessary to break
the ice gorges in the river here Thurs
day with dynamite.
Defiance, o., Jan. 23.-The Auglaize
and Maumee rivers have overtiown u
4O-foot embankment here. Five
blocks of residences in East Defiance
are partly submerged and many fami-
lies have been driven from their
homes. The Findlay, Fort Wayne &5
Western bridge over the Auglaize
river and an iron bridge above here
have been carried away.
Pittsburg, Jan. 25.-The food has
in great measure passed this point,
but portions of the two cities are
still submerged.
In Allegheny the gas supply was err
ratio and the distribution of fuel by
the city authorities in the poorer
neighborhoods brought about riot
Gus condition. When the fuel was
dumped in the streets men, women
and children fought for its posses.
sion, requiring a strong guard of po'
| lice to restore order.
Desolation exists in all part OF the
two cities from which the waters re-
ceded yesterday. Wreckage and huge
cakes of ice strew the streets.
Lafayette, Ind, Jan. 22.-Consid-
cradle damage already has been re-
ported throughout the country by
heavy floods in creeks and the Wa
bash river.
Peru, Ind, Jan. 22.-Amboy and
Denver report large flooded sections
from which the residents have had to
move. The suburbs of Elwood and
Peru are in immediate danger.
The gravity of the situation is at
tributed to the construction of the
new five-span bridge, the girders of
which are seven feet below high
water line.
New Cumberland, w. Va, Jan. 25.-
Fully half of this town is under ~
feet of water and blizzard is raging.
Dozens of factories are submerged
and the big Chelsea China Co. plant is
greatly damaged. At Empire, two
miles above, on the other side of the
Ohio river, the town is under 10 to Is
feet of water and practically the en-
tire population are camped out in box
! cars.
Wheeling, w. Va, Jan. 25.-The
crest of the flood swell was reached
| at o'clock Sunday afternoon when
the stage was A feet 2 inches. The
forecast was the most accurate in
| years, and there was never more
time for preparation. AS n result the
damage here was kept down to the
minimum. Nevertheless fully one
third of the homes in the city were
wholly or partially inundated, and
the fall in temperature, with result
ant formation of ice, accompanied by
shutting off of natural gas in the
flood districts, caused great deal
of suffering.
= Wilkesbarre, Pa, Jan. 25.-Tele.
phone advices received here state
that an ice gorge has FORMED in the
Susquehanna river and that from
Sunbury to Greasy, distance of &c
miles, the river is entirely blocked.
and that the water is backed up as
far as Nescopeck. The ice is piled up
against the bridge at Catawissa and
the Philadelphia & Reading Co. has
coal cars. Nearly the whole town is
submerged, and on Water street the
water comes up to the second story
The village of Espy, two miles
month of Bloomsbury, is partially
| submerged ana unc water mas prokeH
through on the lowlauds to the north
so that the town is entirely sur
rounded by vast sheet of water
The Columbia e. Montour trolley
tracks between Catawissa and Ber'
wick are entirely under water. The
trouble is caused by the ice from the
upper reaches of the river being
stopped by ice gorges that blocked
the river between Danville and Sun
bury for siM weeks. Many families
have been driven from their homes by
the rush of waters and many had mar
row escapes. Farmers in many in
stances had all their horses, COWS and
live stock drowned
The Situation at NHeadviIIc.
Meadville, Pa, Jan. 25.-The water
has fallen eight inches in the Vallonia
ward and over two feet below the
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