Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-25
FLOOD REACHES EBB.
Pittsburg and Allegheny Still Partly
 SObmerSed.

Submerged.
 PITTSBURG, Jan. 25.-The flood has in a great measure passed this point, but portions of the two cities are still submerged and will not be freed from the water for some time to come.
 The Monongahela gauge at o'clock registered twenty three feet and falling at the rate of about six-tenths of foot per hour.
 The biting cold weather that has pre- vailed all day augmented the distress which exists in the flooded sections.
 In Allegheny the gas supply was er- ratio, and the distribution of coal by the city authorities in the poorer neigh borhoods brought about a riotous con- dition. When the fuel was dumped in the streets men, women and children fought for its possession. requiring a strong guard Of police to restore order. Desolation exists in all parts of the two cities from which the waters re- ceded. Wreckage and huge cakes of ice strew the streets. A thick settlement of slimy mud mingled with ice makes many districts unfit to walk through. Huge timbers, portions of doors, stair ways, barrels, boxes, cans and other debris washed upon the streets by the flood have rested where the water left them. s... ... Street car service has been resumed between pittsburg and Allegheny, but is opera ting under difficulties in some of the lower lying portions of the roads. The big coal companies have been busy all day preparing their fleets for ! coal shipments to the south. There are thirty fowboats in the harbor ready to start, and it is estimated that fully ; 10,00O,0O0 bushels of coal will have started by noon.
 Much excitement was caused by a fire which completely destroyed the packet Elizabeth, the towboat OIivette and two house boats. These craft were lnoored in the Allegheny for safety just above the Union bridge at the Point. From some unknown cause fire started In the Oliyette, and in spite of desper- i ate efforts by the crew to control the flames they soon had complete posses sion of the boat and quickly spread to the Eliza beth and the two house boats. i The Elizabeth was sent adrift and ill passing under the Union bridge set fire to that structure. This fire, however, was soon controlled. The burning hulk of the Elizabeth continued down the Ohio until she sank.
 The continued rise in the Allegheny river caused the water to force it's way into more than forty-three manufactur- ing establishments, including mills, furnaces and factories of various de- scriptions, that line the banks of this stream from the Point out to the Sharpsburg bridge at Sixty first street On account of the condition brought about by the high water most of the works will not be in shape for resump- ton for a few days. Some of the plants are better located than others for high water and will not be seriously affected.
 From the headwater points on both the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers the reports show them to be either sta- tionary or falling. At Oil City the AL legheny is thirteen feet and falling six inches an hour, and at Warren the riv- CT is stationary .-
 At Greensboro. on the Monongahela, the mark is 15 feet inches and falling Colder weather, with snow, prevails.
 A roundup of the damage done in the Pittsburg district demonstrates that owing to the timely warning given of the approaching high water the ac- tual damage done will not reach the nigh figures at first given out and will probably not exceed $5OO,OOO To this amount 'howevar muSf he added tho loss to the factories and mills through forced shutdowns and to workmen through suspended wages, which will run the total close to the $1,OOO,OOO mark.