The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-01-28
CORCES AND
HIGH WATER
DANGER FROM FLOODS rs I'M
MINENT.
MISSISSIPPI TO ATLANTIC
Waters Rage in Rivers. Loss of Life
Confronts Two Pennsylvania Cities.
Property Loss Runs Into the
Million.

New York. From the Mississippi
Valley to the Atlantic Ocean, in the
northern part of the United States,
the SHOWS are melting on the noun
tain sides, rivers are flooded to their
banks, ice is gorged at dams and
bridges and disastrous floods threat
en-.
A train was caught in the rising
waters near Pittsburg and scores Of
passengers had to be taken to the
shore in skiffs.
Five persons were drowned near
Sharon, Pa, three are believed to
have been drowned from barges near
Pittsburg, and one man lost his life at
Wilmington, Del.
While New York is in no danger Of be-
ing overwhelmed by floods, the city
and the outlying sections are deep in
mud and slush, sewer openings are
clogged until the cutters are ill-smell-
ing ponds and doctors are rushed to
the verge of nervous prostration.
The Mississippi and Ohio rivers
have already spread over the bottom
lands, and residents along the low
banks have taken to the hills. In
Pittsburg and Allegheny the Monon-
gahela and Allegheny rivers are on
rampage.
These rivers are thirty-fve feet
above high water mark and are pour
ing mountains of ice into the Ohio.
The lower parts Of Pitsburg and AL
.egheny are submerged, steel mills
have been shut down and the food is
rushing down the Ohio river valley
with imminent danger Of big ice
gorge and the highest water in twen-
ty-fve years. The property loss in
that section already amounts to ST.
100000. Closer to home the foods
are just as threatening. The unfort-
innate city Of Paterson, N. j., is pre-
pairing for another food as disastrous
as that OF year ago.
Up In the Adirondacks and the
Catskills the mountain streams are
torrents. The upper Hudson is rising
and ice is forming dams at bridges.
Unless there is a cold wave Of unlock
ed-for severity such floods as do not
usually occur until late in the spring
are sure to take lives and cause i'm
mense damage to property.
Ohio.
Cincinnati The sudden fall in
temperature has done much to remove
apprehension Of food. The river
here has actually fallen during the
night and is almost clear Of ice. At
Portmouth o., the river is still ten
feet lower than here, and while there
has been phenomenal rise at Pitts
burg there is no corresponding inflow
from the Kanawha and other southern
tributaries. This condition makes it
reasonably certain that there will be
no disastrous food on this part Of the
river.
Danger Considered Over.
Cleveland. 1t is believed that all
danger Of further extensive damage
by flood is over. The three big steam
ers that broke from their mornings
still lie tightly wedged together
against the Superior street viaduct.
On account Of big natural gas main
being washed away there was short
age Of fuel and heat in thousands Of
dwellings throughout the city. The
weather is much colder.
Further Rise Expected.
Bellaire, O.-The Ohio river gauge
shows 80 feet Of water in the channel
and a further rise Of five feet is ex-
pected. The lower part of the city is
submerged. The Wheeling Traction
Company's line, on the Ohio side Of
the river, is under water for nearly a
mile, and much damage has resulted.
Whereabouts of Prince.