The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-03-21
FLOOD LOSSES
OYER 100000
HIGH WATERS DO GREAT DAM
AGE IN 1ITTSBURG.
RECEDING VERY RAPIDLY


At Rate Of Half Foot Per Hour. Fire
Adds to Confusion. Eleven People
Reported Dead. Win Exceed the
January Rise.
Pittsburg.-Flood losses in Alls-
ylheny county are summarized as fol-
0ws:
Les IN output Of steel mills $4,000
900.
Loss IN output of other industries,
100000.
Loss in wages on employees, ST.
$4,000.
Estimated damage to industrial
plants, $2,500,000.
Total, 1877, 900.
With the rapid receding Of the
Monongahela. Allegheny and Ohio
rivers, which is taking place, condi-
tions are fast assuming normal pro-
portions and the most destructive
food in the history of the city, result
ing i'm twenty fatalities in Allegheny
county is at an end. The approaches
Ito the bridges ARE clear of water and
street car service has resumed Thou
sands of suburbanites who have been
stranded in1 this city since are able
to reach their homes, wa1ile the down
town section, which has been crowded
with sight-seers, is almost deserted.
In Pittsburg the immensely of the
flood was amazing, TEN square miles in
the down town district being submer-
ged.
Radlroad service is being restored
but local train schedules have been
revised, allowing each train more time
This action was taken because Of the
fear THAT the road beds may have
been weakened by the waiter. In some
sections, tracks have been washed
away and number of railroad bridge
outside Of Pittsburg were damaged.
Fhe crest of the food passed Pitts
burg, 81 feet being recored at the
Market. street wharf.
To add ITO the confusion in Pitts.
burg two early morning fires broke
out. The firemen experienced difficult
ty IN fighting the flames owing to .
6houtage Of water an the mains.
Eleven Perish at Athens.
Athens. raging wabers of the
Hooking river have CLAIMED seven
lives i'm Nbhis city and four elsewhere
IN the county and for several days
Athens has been cut off from the
world, teaephone and telegraph wires
aid being down.
Those drowned IN Athens with the
exception of Berth were in shiff, the
boat being In charge of Ed Sweet,
and Beahrs when it capsized. The
others occurred ait jacksonville, where
three lost their hives, and one ait Trim.
Bile.
AT IL O'Clock Wednesday night the
road way of the B. & 0. month of the
river broke, allowing the waters 10
rush into the city. Fifty houses were
swept entirely away and fifty more
are tottering Gun their foundations. a
Thousand persons are homeless and
are being cared for in churches and
hails.
Will Exceed January Flood.
Cincinnati the fact that
the weather throughout .the Ohio val
ley Us clear and cold, and that the wa
ters an the head Of the Ohio river are
receding. Weather Forecasber Bas-
ser predicts that the food of hast
Jnauary win be expected at many
points IN the CincinnAti district.
Point Pleasant, Foutsmouuh, Mariet-
ta, Parkersburg and other pohts are
now &bsve the flood stage and win Goa
tinue TO rise. In Cfnciunash the local
rise has about Disappeared, but the
rise from above disappeared, but the
rise above will soon begin to be felt
here According ITO the weather off,
cials taris water from above will bring
about q 1O-fodt rise here by Saturday
night. SIXTY feet is assumed and the
chances are that THE limit will exceed
uhH january food, when THE stage was
65.1.
Marieitta, Parkerburg, Point Pleas
anti and Portsmouth were feeling the
effects Of the food ParkerSburg and
Mariehta appeared TO be the worst
sufferers. AIT the FORMER place The
electnic light plant was put out Of
communication and the city was IN
darkness. Added TO this dhere were
only Emibed Telephone and teie-
graph service and the city was virtu-
ally cut off from the outside world.
AT Marietta, conditions were worse
4lran IN hhe flood Of 1884. The river
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