The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-16
PITTSDURG ENERGIES
 FROM ITS INUNDATIOH
FLOOD IS RAPIDLY EXCEEDING AND NORMAL CONDITIONS
 APPEARING.

Most Destructive Overflow of Rivers
 in the City's History Considered at
 an End--Ten Square Miles Under
 Water at Height of Flood-Excite-
 ment Caused by Several F1res-Dy-
 namite Used to Cheek one--Tetnl
 Damage Now Placed at About so.-
 O0O,OO0.
 Pittsburg March 15.-WIth the rapid receding of the waters in the Mononga- hela, Allegheny and Ohio rivers, which is taking place here tonight conditions are fast assuming normal proportions and the greatest and most destructive flood in the history of the oity Is at an end. At night fall the approaches 10 the bridges were clear of water and several hours later street car service in the flooded district was resumed. Thousands of suburbanites who have been stranded in this city since early yesterday were able to reach their homes while the down town sections. which has been crowded with the sightseers since the sudden rise of wa ter is almost deserted. The only appar- ent indication of the flood in the down town section tonight are the many pipes across the sidewalks through which water is being pumped from submerged basements In several dis tricts power plants have been prepared and candles used for the past thirty six hours have been replaced with electric lights.
 At 9 o'clock tonight the rivers had fallen almost eight feet At that hour the stage was twenty-nine feet and dropping a half foot an hour
 Immediately following the subsiding of the water the task of computing and repairing the damage was begun. Al majority of the employees of the large manufacturing establishments who were temporarily thrown out of enl- ployment are endeavortng to put the plants in working order and 1t is said that by Sunday at least all these es- tablishments will resume operations Ten square miles were inundated The loss in actual dollars will prob- ably never be known but an estimate thus far in Allegheny county may be summarized in the following tables: Loss in output of steel mills, S3,000,- 900; loss in output of other industries, | s200oo00; loss in wages of employees, | $1,S570OO; estimated damage to indus ] trial plants, $2,500,O00. Total, $e,337, ,00O.
 Excitement was caused to-day by several fires. One which swept the Mt | ,3,,o orto fof, 1,oA AN l>a nited on account of a shortage of wa ter in the mains. The loss from both fires will not exceed $225,000. While the rivers were recedinS at rapid rate tonight 1t will be several days before they have reached their normal stake.
 Cleveland, March 15.-Flood condi- tions in the upstate section of Ohio were very much improved to-day by falling rivers an dtheir tributaries. 1 Cincinnati, March 15.-Flood 0ondi- | tions in southern Ohio to-day showed but little change and that little was for the worse Forocaster Bassler pre- diets a sixty foot stage in the Ohio at Cincinnati by Saturday night Wheeling, w. Va, March 15Fires added their horror to the stress of flood in the wheeling district tonight. causing a loss of quarter of mill Hon dollars. At Bridgeport, O., oppo- site Wheeling, lime in water set fire to the plant of the Scott Lumber com pany, which was completely destroyed, involving los of about $1O0,J00. The fire spread to a number of nearby houses, which were destroyed, and the | total loss is $150, 900.