Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-22
ICE GoRGEs AND FLOODS.

The worse Hood IN the history OF west
ern Pennsylvania since the establishment
of, the Weather Bureau at Pittsturg is
expected tonight. Never before have
the existing conditions and the outlook
been 80 serious as now. Experienced
rivermen and people who for years have
watched river and weather conditions,
do not hesitate to state that a stage OF
35 feet will be reached, which is IL
feet higher than the flood of 1884.
Heeding the warnings given out by
the weather bureau and from past ex-
periences. business men, officials and
manufacturing plants and citizens whose
homes line the banks of the MOnonga-
hela and Allegheny rivers began to meet
the impending danger, which it was
asserted at the weather bureau last night
nothing could stop. The river railroads
and river interests are also preparing,
by removing property topaces of safety.
The lower business section aud much
of the residence section of Meadvllle,
Pa. is inundated. The trouble comes
from Mill run and follows thaw and
light rain of "a hours. The run passes
under several 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
Ice began moving out of the Wabash
river Yesterday doing much damage to
property in Logansport, Ind.
The heavy rains of the last two days
baye sent all the streams in the vicinity
of Peoria, H., out of their banks. Peo-
pie residing in the lowlands near East
Peoria have been driven out by Farm
creek. Ice is gOrged against the bridge
of the Iowa Central and Burlington Rail
ways, delaying traffic on both these lines.
The Illinois river has risen two feet
since Wednesday, and is still coming up
at threatening rate.
The Wabash river has risen 16 feet
in Lafayette, Ind. All boats, including
pleasure steamer, have been destroyed
by the ice. The water has oycrAowed
all the lowlands, and is in the cellars Of
houses along the banks. Elmwood, a
suburb of Lafayette, is four feet under
water. Denver, nine miles north OF Peru,
is flooded by the Eel river, which is out
of its banks, and II feet of water is re-
ported in the south section of Amboy.
Ice coming down the Ohio has formed
a gorge at Six-Mile Island, few miles
above Louisville, KY, and boats have
been dispatched to break it. Five boats
are busy in front of the city attempting
to keep the harbor clear A barge and a
small steamer we're swept away at Madi-
son, Ind
A dispatch from Milwaukee says the
blizzard which started Wednesday even
ing and ragged all last night, has ceased.
The street railway line between Milwau-
kee Rainesiand Kenoshais alta standstill,
and drifts 10 feet high are frequent
in Racine.
An ice gorge housetop high has formed
at Steele's dam in the Miami river, north
of DAYTON, Ohio, and serious results are
threatened the people Of Riverdale and
North Dayton, who are living in dread
of a recurrence of the food in the spring
of 1898. when thousands of dollars worth
of property was destroyed and many lives
endangered. Sections Of the Miami Val
ley south of Dayton are flooded, and
Dwire station is under water, due to the
breaking of a canal bank.
A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn., says
the heaviest snowstorm of the winter be-
gan early yesterday and the twin cities
were cut off from telegraphic communi-
cation with the south and east for several
hours.