Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-23
People Near Alle-
 ghany Waiting.
Watching the Waters Rise and Praying for Relief Factories Flooded Many Hands Are Idle Trains Tied Up.


 the Allegheny stood 29.6 feet at Herrs Island and rising at the rate of six tenths of foot an hour. The Mononga- hela at the wharf stood at PIP, rising eight feet per hour. The Ohio at Davis Island dam at 25.1 and rising O.4 per hour.
 The worst fears of the manufactur- CTS along the Pittsburg side of the Al legheny river from Sharpsburg bridge down were realized shortly after mid- night, when the waters swept over the banks in many places and inundated the surrounding districts.
 The upper Union mill of the United States Steel corporation was about the first plant to go out of business tenn porarily throwing about 1.500 men out of work until next Monday or Tues day. The lower Union mill. with l. 400 employees, and the Black Diamond works of the Crucible Steel Go fared the same. At the latter place about l 1,2OO are now idle.
 Tn fact every mill and factory be- tween the Allegheny valley railroad tracks and the river is more or less flooded. and it is estimated that 25,OOO men will be idle until Monday or Tues day.
 At 1:25 o'clock this morning two barges loaded with 50,0OO bushels of coal, a part of the coal fleet noored close to where the ice gorge is foaming in the Monongahela, were caught by the current and the mass of ice and sunk.
 The c. Jutte Coal Go sent three coal fows down the river consigned to New Orleans ahead of the flood yesterday morning. Late last night they passed Steubenville in safety. The tows con- sisted Of twenty barges with 55O,0O0 bushels of coal.
 A fleet of forty barges loaded to the water line with pit posts, many of the boats having been moored to Fourteen Mile Island. up the Allegheny for sev- eraI months and for the past five weeks hemmed in by the ice, have been swept past the waiting crowds on the wharves and bridges in Pittsburg and the owners have no hopes for their recovery.
 The barges with their cargoes were valued at $1,20O apiece.
 A passenger train on the Plum Creek branch of the Buffalo and AL legheny division of the Pennsylvania railroad is stranded near Campbell's station by the washing away of bridges along the creek. The passen- gers were taken off in carriages.
 The steamers Tom Lysle and Delta, each manned by a crew of from 12 to 15 men, are reported missing. The boats passed Davis Island dam at l0:35, apparently in an attempt to res cue a runaway barge loaded with railroad iron, and have not yet been reported. The crest of the flood which is sweeping down the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers will be reached in Pittsburg by noon to-day and it is expected the maximum stage of water will be 30 feet.
 All the lower parts of the two cit !, les and the south side are submerged. Tn Allegheny the entire section south of South avenue and Robinson street and extending from Grant avenue to Pine street is covered with from two to six feet of water; Exposition park and the National league ball grounds are under nearly five feet of water, and portions of the fourth and eighth wards are also flooded. An extra
  trict in skiffs to protect the residents and minister to their needs. In this city, Duequesne way, Water street and many side streets as far east as Ninth street are partly submerged, while on the south side nearly all the mills and manufacturing plants on the Monongahela river have been forced to suspend operation. Traffic on exery railroad entering PittSburg is more or less affected by the flood. Freight traffic is almost at stand still and the railroad officials are de voting their time to making plans to operate passenger trains.
 The big gorge in the MonOngahela river at the Point bridge, which men, aeed the many coal fleets tied up along the river landings, began to break about s o'clock this morning. Shortly after the ice started. a pump boat owned by the River Coal combina- ton, came floating along, in the mid ale of the pack with full steam up. The boat had been tornl loose from It's moorings at Beck's Run, and no attempt could be made to save her while passing down the river.
 The tow boats Tom Lysle and Del ta reported missing last night. were located to-day. They had not been successful, however, in capturing the runaway barges, which broke from their moorings last night.
 Up to this time there have been no lives lost as far as known. The prop erty loss will probably reach $1,OOO, GOO
 X passenger train in the West Pennroad, leaving Tarentum at 745 this morning for Allegheny, was caught by the rising water of the Allegheny river at Glassmere and the passengers had to be taken from the train by means of sSiffs. More than dozen skiffs were used to carry the passengers to the dry ground and trip after trip was made for nearly an