The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-15
COMES IN
MIGHTY TORRENT
Western Pennsylvania, West
Virginia and Eastern Ohio
Swept by Floods.
PITTSBURG UNDER WATER
MANY LIVES LOST AND GREAT
DAMAGE DONE.
PITTSBURG UNDER WATER

Pittsburg, March 14.-SeriOus flood con-
5itions prevail tonight in western Penn
syIvania, West Virginia and eastern Ohio.
At o'clock the water reached stage
of 346 feet at Hers Island and 80 feet
at Market street. and at the headwaters
the rivers are now stationary. The crest
of the flood is expected to reach here
about midnight, when IS feet will he re-
corded. This stage is 13 feet above the
danger mark. At o'clock this afternoon
the 30-mile ice gorge at Parker, Pa, broke
and is moving toward the city. The inn
mense gorge in the Clarion river has also
started down stream.
Pittsburg Flooded.
/ Conditions in Pittsburg are the worst
ever recorded. The whole lower downtown
district is under water. Duquesne way,
! PENNSYLVANIA avenue and Liberty street.
running parallel with the Allegheny river
are submerged TO a depth of several rect.
Hundreds of business houses located IN
4 this district are flooded. In number or
I instances the water is almost up 10 the
second floor.
/ The Gayety, Belasco Alvin and Biiou
theters are surrounded by water and will
be unable to open for several says.
Hotel Guests Marooned.
The guests in the Colonial, Lincoln and
Anderson hotels are either marooned or
compelled to use skiffs TO and from the
buildings.
Trolley service between Pittsburg and
Allegheny was suspended early today and
tonight at the Pennsylvania depot are
thousands of excited people trying TO
board trains for Allegheny and other sub
urbs.
Trolley, elevated and telephone service
IS demoralized I'm different sections
Within the last thirty-siX hours four
teen fatalities directly due TO the flood
have occurred
Damage of $40, 100000 So Far.
At midnight the Allegheny river had
reached stage of 35.1 and was rising d
foot an hour. The sudden rise was re-
ported by the weather bureau to be due
TO the breaking of the ice gorges at Par
ker and FreepOrt.
With this rise large portion of the city
is flooded. Several newspapers have been
compelled TO call upon their contempOra-
ries to assist in getting out morning edi-
lions, but the press rooms are flooded and
fire engines have been called into service
to pump easements in an effort to save
property loss.
AT midnight the damage done by the
flood is estimated at SlO,00,OVO. Fourteen
lives in various Pennsylvania towns have
been sacrificed, and more may be lost, as
the water is steadily rising.
VIII Reach Millions.
property in the Pittsburg district alone
will amount TO $1.0O0.000.
At COnnellsViile, Pa, the damage to the
coke region is estimated at s2,e00,oe0. and
over 10000 persons in that district are
temporarily out of employment.
The Westinghouse works, employing 90
600 hands, are shut down and the damage
TO machinery is estimated at $4,000. Al.
the mines along the Monongahela river
are flooded and 10000 miners are affected.
The steel and iron mills are at a stand
still and fully 50,00O men are idle. Hun
dreds of stores and business houses i'm the
downtown section are partially sub
merged and have closed their doors. The
flood directly affects over 100000 peo-
pie.
The situation in Pittsburg and the i'm
mediate vicinity is serious. Telegraph 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.
In the suburbs of Aspinwall Sharps-
burg, Etna and Miilyale. over 500 fami-
lies are living in the second story OF their
homes. Many houses have been under
mined and the foundations weakened and
are I'm danger of collapse. The greater
portion of MonOngahela. Pa, is under
water.
Hundreds OF people are marooned in
Pittsburg- Restaurants and hotels have
been beSieged all evening by persons I'M
able to reach their homes.