Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-28
Disaster Is Threatened.

tiio CITY are uHueT WdISIs
Lowlands Are impossible.
ROCHESTER, N. Y. March 2s.-Flood
conditions prevailed in the Genesee
river valley today. The lowlands are
already impossible. although the crest
of the flood will not reach Rochester
for forty-eight hours. During the past
year this city has constructed retaining
walls, and repetition of last years
damage is believed to be improbable.
River Front Dwellers Move.
ALBANY, n. Y, March 2s.-The Hud-
son river Is rising rapidly here, and
| jewellers along the river front are NOV
Ing to places Of safety.
River Breaks Over It's Banks.
BINGHAMToN, N. Y, March ga
steady downpour of rain all night in
creased the gravity of the food situa-
ton here. Early this morning the
Chenango river broke over its banks,
flooding the residential section of the
city. The Susquehanna rose to a point
at daylight which imperiled the entire
central section of the city. A heavy
rain continued today.
Upper Allegheny in Flood.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 2s-Flood
stages were reported from the upper
Allegheny river today because Of melt
ing SHOWS and last nights heavy rain
AT Warren, Pa. it was rising rapidly
and much damage had been done. Troll
ley and railroad lines were reported in
trouble and a number of factories mad
shut down. The local weather bureau
declared that this water would likely
be taken care of in the stream farther
south. and only twenty feet was pre-
dlcted for Pittsburgh, two feet under
the flood stage.
There is no food in the Monongahela
ana no immediate prospect of one.
Ohio Rivers Rising.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March os.-With the
great Miami and Whitewater rivers rag
ing, the Scioto climbing a foot an hour
and the Muskingum and Licking rivers
out Of their banks along the lowIands,
anxiety was felt during last night of a
recurrence of the disastrous floods of
March 1928, 1913. A cessation of rain
fall followed by colder weather early to-
day has checked the rise of all the
streams mentioned. Damage so far re-
ported has been confined to the south
western section Of the state. where bridges
have been washed out, temporarily cut
ting off interurban car traffic between
| Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
Several Hundred Marooned,
CHICAGO, March 2s.-Several hundred
persons today were marooned in their
homes i'll Chicago Heights by a flood
varying from two to seven feet in depth
that submerged low part OF the suburb
| Rats were used to carry in food and
| bring out sick persons. Clogged sewers
failed to carry off excessive rainwater.
Floods in Southern Ohio.
| CINCINNATI, Ohio. March 2S.-The Big
Miami and Whitewater rivers and other
| small streams in this section went on a
rampage early today as the result OF
| heavy rains Of the last twenty-four hours
Two temporary bridges used by the Gin
cinnati. Lawrenceburg and Aurora Trac-
ton Company were washed away, cutting
| off traffic between Cincinnati and Indiana
] towns along that road These bridges
/ We're erected for temporary service fol-
! lowing the washing away of the struc-
| lures by the flood OF March a year ago
| Lower bottom farm lands between Valley
Junction and Elizabethtown, Ohio, were
| also inundated.
| The rivers have receded into their banks
and further damage Is not expected.
WilkesBarre Lowlands Covered.
PHILADELPHIA, March 2s-The
| Susquehanna and Delaware rivers
which rise in New York state. are rum
ming high today. Besides bringing down
| flood waters from the Empire state
| these rivers were greatly swollen by
the melting snow on the mountains in
| eastern Pennsylvania and by the steady
rain that set in last night.
| AT Wilkes-Barre the lowlands are
| covered with water, and street cal
] traffic with towns on the west side OF
1 the Susauehanna has been cut of.
| The Susquehanna is also reported
high at Towanda, Williamsport. Har.
| risburg and at other points between
the New York state line and Chesa.
peake bay. The state water supply com
mission has issued warning that the
river will go above the danger line a,
| several points tomorrow.