Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-15
RISING TO DANGER POINT.
To Add to Melting of Snow and
Ice Heavy Rains Are
Falling.
West Virginia is Expecting High Wa
ter-Stores and Homes Arc
Already Inundated.

Pittsburg, Feb. 15.--With stage of
10 feet at O'Clock this morning and
rapidly rising at the rate of a foot an
hour. the Allegheny, Monogahela, Ohio,
Youghiogheny and Kismiminetas riv-
ers were slowly spreading over the
iowlands Of Pittsburg and western
Pennsylvania points today.
The danger mark of % feet will be
reached by noon and the local United
States weather bureau predicts stage
of 80 feet by nightfall. Rain continues
to fall today.
The damage to river craft and prop
erty located near the rivers Is already
heavy. Large ice gorges in the Allie
gheny and Youghiogheny rivers above
this city are monentarily expected TO
break, wrecking and demolishing craft
in its path, Some alarm also is felt
for number of bridges.
At Wheeling, w. Va, and Steuben-
vile, Ohio, a serious flood Is expected
to occur, but not before Sunday night
Word from Seeubenville today says
that a stage OF 40 feet will be reached
there by Monday morning or sooner
BUILDINGS ARE FLOODED.
At points here the high water has
houses and dwellings.
Throughout the night, hundreds of
people were actively engaged removing
their household goods to places of safe
~.
9 Before evening several railroads and
street car lines will be forced to aban-
don service in this city on account of
the water covering the tracks. All the
small streams In towns surrounding
Pittsburg are beyond their banks and
the water is rapidly rising. Thousands
of families at Sharpsburg Aetna, AS
pinwald, Charleroi. Oakdale and num-
erous other places have been COM
PEELED to remove their household goods
To the upper stories. In some OF the
towns skiffs are being used as means
of transportation 10 many homes.
The towboat Robert Taylor which
was wrecked last night at Coraopolis
is entirely submerged today and viii
be total loss.
HOPE FOR F'RoSTS.
The rainfall is especiaGy heavy at
the headwaters of the Allegheny ry-
en- Colder weather is expected tonight
and should Ii occur, 1t is thought the
record of last years great flood will
not be reached, The stage at this city,
however. II Is predicted. viii bring the
water up ON Penn avenue i'm the down.
town district. This will be sufficient to
cripple several theaters and cause a
Suspension In many stores and manu-
featuring plants.
Flood stages are reported from all
points above here. AT Franklin Pa.
the water is several feet above the
danger mark this morning and rising
A similar situation prevails at Johns
town, Freeport, Warren, Greensboro
and other places.
The Allegheny river is filled with
n Inc, f~a q los
miles long is slowly approaching the
city from Parker, Pa, on the Allie
gheny river and another from Yves,
Newton, Pa, on the Youghiogheny
river.
LANDSLIDES FREQUENT.
Several heavy landsides happened
along the Pittsburg. Virginia and
Charleston railroad from the rain de.
laying trains and making the run dan.
gerous. The b. & o. tracks, freight
houses and station have been aban.
doned.
A number of pavements along Penn
avenue have collapsed and cellars are
rapidly filling with water.
The Saturday afternoon concert al
the Pittsburg exposition, DuquesnC
Way. was called off and all traffic II
the vicinity OF the building halted.
At McKeesport the water is RISING
gradually anu uilltsS tHe Culu hpell pre-
| dicted for tonight materializes. II vii
| be necessary to close down the stee
and iron mills of that district Thou
| sands of worlSnen will be affected anC
great hardship will be experienced, al
the men just recently returned TO worl
after weeks of idleness. .a.
| COAL MINES FLOODED.
Many coal mines along the rive
banks are flooded and thousands OF Goa
miners compelled TO abandon thei
| work.
| In Allegheny picked squad of pa
trolmen are guarding the inundated dis
| tricts. Many plants are partially sub
merged and hundreds OF men are on
| OF work. At Beaver. Pa. the Ohio rlv
| err has risen II feet in 10 hours. an,
indications point TO a Hood stage o
dangerous proportions