The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-14
WORST IN IS YEARS.
Flood Which Is Sweeping Down on
Pittsburg a Record Breaker.

Pittsburg, Pa, March 14.-Pitts-
burg is on the throes of one of its
burg is in the throes of one of its
years has already been passed and the
rivers are still rising.
If the rise continues at the present
rate the record of 1884. when the
water ed the highest stage since
1885, will have been passed by night
fall The stage in 1884 was 33 feet
4 inches.
istered 80 feet with the water creeping
up-at the rate of six inches an hour
and still rising at all headwater points
Every tributary lealong the upper
river is swollen and dispatches from
all sections of western Pennsylvanfa
report the smaller streams beyond
tn cir banks and the surrounding dis
tricts submerged. 20
Weather bureau foffieials predict "a
feet or over at Pittsburg. If this stage
is reached the flood Will not only be
the greatest in IS years. but the most
disastrous in the history. of the city,
entire section for nearly AS hours,
added to by the melting snow from the
hills and mountains, caused all the
streams to rise with alarming rapidly
flood of unusual proportions was not
expected and the rushing waters
caught the people unprepared-
AS a result of this the damage Will
De InuCn HcdNlcI- IL was CSNAAAAcN
early today that the loss from the
closing down of manufacturing plants
alone would exceed half mfllion dol
Jars and the damage to property from
the high water would be as much
more.
Nine deaths are attributed to the
flood so far. This includes the three
trainmen who lost their lives by the
yesterday and the two men drowned
last night when the towboat Cruiser
capsized in the Ohio river
The other fatalities reported are:
WILLIAM BEERS. 40 years,
drowned in Laurel Hill creek. near
Somerset, while trying to ford a
S'T GEORGE JOHNSTON. aged five
years, drowned in rGirty's run. Mill
ANNIE sHUTr1. aged seven years,
drowned in Blue Baker creek, near
Three Drowned.
GAINESVILLE, o.. March 14-Three
Hungarians were drowned here as a
result of the flood this morning.
score or more Of foreigners were ny
ing in a house that was surrounded by
the Muskingum river overf1owfng DUR
ing the night. When they started 10
wade to land. three were caught In
the current and swept out into the
Flood conditions throughout Mus
kingum county are unprecedented and
growing worse hourly Inc MUS.
kingum and Licking river are OUT OF OF
bounds in this city and more than 100
homes have been invaded by the
water 1t is believed that 3Oo 1amll1es
will be homeless here by tomorrow
With the exception of the CINCINNATI
& Muskingum Valley railroad, con.
nection with the Pennsylvania at
Trinwav. 16 miles north. every railroad
entering the city is tied up
The high waters have. crossed west
Main street to a depth of four feet and
i1tarrrhan traffic from Columbus and
Newark has been abandoned:
Fifty Families Driven Out
Lima. o., March 1.-THE heavy
downpour of rain in this section has
raised the Ottawa river beyond sy,1 its
bounds, the small waterway pelng un-
able to drain the district on the crest
Of Ohio's watershed Fifty families
were forced to move out OF their
homes last night Pipe lines nave Deen
unearthed and oil plants rendered use
less bv the high waters e4s-ssa yc.Tc.