Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-15

WASHINGTON March 1As-The weather
bureau tonight Issued the following flood
bulletin;
The second great Ohio river flood of the
year is now IN ,Progrsss sn1 a90ye t,9sg the the
stages will be from eight to eleven feet
higher than during the flood OF January;
s45 feet. 1928 feet above the flood stage,
and only O5 foot below the great high water
stage of February 10, 1892 AS the riveS Is
ptili rising II is probable that the stage OF
IS feet will be closely approximated ana
possibly exceeded before the river begins
At Wheeling a stage OF g feet 70 feet
above the flood stage, Is indicated by Fri
day afternoon or evening, and the same
at Parkersburg, food stage at the latter
place being at % feet Stages are indi-
MARKETS., AZ feet; Cincinnati, 90 feet, 10
feet above flood stage during Friday and
Vile IS feet on Saturday, and feet, re-
spectively, abCwe flood stages, Evansville,
90 feet Friday "T Friday night light aaa posbsPg bsny
at % feet; Wabash river at Mount Carmel
, H. 20 feet feet above flood stage.
yyeq srhTS from JefersoH Tl oHo s. b. to Sioux City
la, have also been issued, the ice gorge
above Vermiiion, s. D., being broken
Wednesday afternoon.
PITTsBURG March H.-serious flood
conditions prevail tonight in western Penn
sylvania West Virginia and eastern Ohio.
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s46 feet at Hers Island and A3 feet at
Market street and at the headwaters the
rivers are now stationary. The crest Of the
food is expected to reach here about mid
night when 95 feet will be recorded. This
stage Is thirteen feet above the danger
mark.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon the thirty
mile ice gorge at Parker. Pa, broke and is
moving toward the city The immense
,Tg 40 tod
down stream.
Conditions in Pittsburg are the worst
ever recorded. The whole lower downtown
district is under water Duuuesne way,
PENNSYLVANIA avenue and Liberty street
running parallel with the Allegheny river,
are submerged to a depth of several feet,
Hundreds of business houses located in this
/ aistrict are Hooded. In number OF in
stances the water is almost Up to the sec
! Nond fioor
The Gayety Belasco Alvin and Bijou the
aters are surrounded by water and win be
unable to open for several days.
The guests I'm the Colonial, LAncoln and
Anderson hotels are either marooned or
compelled to use skins to and from the
buildings Trolley service between Pitts
burg and Allegheny was suspended early
today and tonight at the Pennsylvania
depot are thousands OF excited people try
ing to board trains for Allegheny and other
suburbs.
Trolley. elevator and telephone service is
demoralized In different sections. Within
the last thirty-six hours fourteen fatalities
directly due to the flood have occurred.
At ConneIsvile, Pa, the damage to the
coke region is estimated at S2,OOO,OOO, and
over 100000 persons in that district are
temporarily out Of employment.
The Westinghouse works, employing
$1,000 people. are shut down and the dam
age to machinery is estimated at $4,000
All the mines along the Monongahela
river are flooded and 10000 miners are af-
fected. The steel and iron mills are at a
standstill and fully $1,000 men are idle
Hundreds of stores and business houses
IN the downtown section are partially sub
merged and have closed their doors. The
food directly affects over 100000 people
The situation in Pittsburg and the i'm
mediate vicinity is serious Telegram and
telephone service is crippled Men are
pumping water from the dynamo room OF
the Western Union Telegraph company IN
}, the center of the business section.
At midnight the Allegheny river had
reached q stage OF s51 and was rising q
foot an hour. The sudden rise was reported
by the weather bureau to be due TO the
breaking Of the ice gorges at Parker and
AZ Freeport. with this rise large portiof
of the city is flooded. Several newspaper
have been compelled to call upon theh
contemporaries to assist In getting ou
morning editions because press rooms arr
flooded and FIRE engines have been cale,
into service to pump Easements in an effor
20 save property loss.
At midnight the damage done by tn
flood is estimated at S10O00OO0 Fourteen
lives IN various Pennsylvania towns hav
l,snr ,ad md uaQW - Inst a
the water is steadily rising.
All Ohio Streams at Flood.
CLEVELAND, O., March 14.-Maa,
Ohio points are experiencing dissstrou
floods. Dispatches TO the Associates
Press from many places tell Of swollc
streams and OF death. damage and prl
vations as result OF the food.
At GAINESVILLE, where three persons wer
drowned today the Muskingum river 1
rising tonight at the rate of one and
half inches an hour and nears the hig
water mark Of 1898 when the most dis
astrous flood known in that section Oc
CURED. Mayor Deacon tonight swore IN
klarge force OF special policemen and CAV
96rders 70 conhscate the boats OF owner
found charging excessive ferry charges q
the n0oded districts.
A neavy dOwnpour OF rain continues 9
women and a man we're taken from a south
Walhounding rivers unite TO form tn
Musklngum and both are rising rapidly.
In Springfield and vicinity more tina
100000 damage has resulted to propert
and 200 families have been made homeless
by the sudden rise OF Mad river and Il
tributaries.
The AIuskingum. scloto. Great and IAtt
AIiamis from the north and the Kanawhl
Big sancy and Licking from the sout
have not only poured their surplus inl
the Ohio. but they have laid waste n
farms and villages along their bank
Breaks IN the big OH and natural gas PHI
lines were reported al a number OF poin
between the West Virginia fields and n
Ohio towns depending on them