Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28
HEAVY FLOODS.
They Cause Great Losses at
Many Points.
Akron. CoShocton. Columbus. Mead
vile, Pittsburg. and Lafayette
suffer SeyereIy-RIyers out of
-. Their Banks Bridges
Are Carried Away.

feet of water. Employees III TWO Dig
plants were compelled to leave their
work on RATS to escape from the
flooded buildings.
Above the city the Cuyahoga is
half a mile out of its banks on either
side. The A., Il. d {. traction line is
compelled to transfer its passengers
in boats.
Fremont, O., Jan. 22.-The lower
portions of Fremont are under water,
the result of 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, Il 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. Grave fears are felt in
this city, the junction of the Wal
honding, Tuscarawas and Muskingum
rivers.
Meadville, Pa, Jan. 22.-The lower
business section and much of the resi-
tlence section of Meadville is inun-
dated. The trouble comes from Mill
run and follows a thaw and light rain
of "a hours. The run passes under sew
eral business blocks and streets, and
has become completely clogged with
ice, forcing the water over the banks.
A torrent is sweeping through several
stores on South Water street and
200 cellars are flooded.
Pittsburg, Jan. 22.-rhe worst
flood in the history of western Penn
Sylvania since the establishment of
the weather bureau at this point, is
expected here tonight. Never before
have the existing conditions and the
outlook been so serious as now.
Many of the mills have their fly
pits below food level and were com
PEELED to shut down, throwing hun
Clreds of men and boys out of en-
Ployment. Among the plants affected
are the Bailey-Brown works, which
employs 1.5OO men and boys; Segus
mill. employing 500 hands, and the
Shoenberg plant, employing about L.
DOC men and boys.
Damage from the flood at Sharon,
Pa, will reach several thousand dol
lars. The Shenango river is still ris-
ing and the lower parts of town are
under several feet of water. Two
piers were washed away from the
railroad bridge of the Stewart Iron
Co, putting it out of commission.
Both the Neshannock and Shenan-
go rivers at New Castle have risen
more than 36 inches since Friday
morning and are AT food stage. The
damage inflicted already will run in
10 the tens of thousands. The tin
plate and steel mills are closed and
the main thoroughfares are impass-
able The DOstoffce is surrounded by
water. The paper mill bridge was
swept away. The county bridge at
Moravia, one of the longest in this
vicinity, was carried away.
Columbus. O., Jan. 22.-An almost
continuous fall of rain for the last 36
hours. carrying off the snow, has
caused freshets in practically all Ohio
streams The Scioto river is out of
its banks at many points north of CO.
lumbus. IT was necessary to break
the ice gorges in the river here Thurs
day with dynamite.
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. The river has risen 22 feet
in the last IS houTs. All bottom lands
are inundated. causing great loss in
fences. outbuildings and small stock
Connorsyille, a suburb of this city, is
covered with the flood.
Peru, Ind, Jan. 22.-AmbOy and
Denver report large flooded sections
from which the residents have had tC
move. The suburbs of Elwood anG
Peru are in immediate danger
The gravity of the situation is at
tributed to the construction of the
new fivc-span bridge, the girders o.
which are seven feet below higl
water line. Workmcn have succeeded
in raising the girders two feet Will
lacks. but the water continues to risC
and may soon sweep the girders, pre-
.cipitating the water into South Peru
Defiance, o., Jan. 23.-The Auglaiz'
and Maumee rivers have overflown
4O-foot embanllment here. Fiv,
blocks of residences in East Defiance
are partly submerged and many fami
lies have been driven from thei
homes. The Findlay, Fort Wayne 4
Western bridge over the AugIaiz,
river and an iron bridge above here
have been carried away.
FIywhcei Eursted ed-Deaths Followed
Johnstown, Pa, Jan. 22.-As re
suit of the breaking of a governor
belt, allowing an immense tiywheel t.
run away and burst in the Cambria
Steel Co.'S No. rail mill, earl,
Thursday, three men are dead
three are fatally injured and six al
more or less severely wounded.
Explosion Caused Three Deaths.
Marion, Ind, Jan. 22.-In an eXplo
sion which wrecked the SeitZ hote
building yesterday three people wer
KILLED, two fatally hurt and ten SER
ously injured The dead: Charlie
Beitel, proprietor of the hotel. Mrs