+ i rut 11 sk 1 I t iq < f 0J1 l m PRAY FOR RAIN t I 1i 4 Itt < i + a is k IN DROUTH lONE E i Workmen Idle Heavy Damage to I Crops and Fierce Forest Fires w t Due to Lack of Water i t i tl C 1 n r Many Small Streams Dried Up and 4 03 Practically Obliterated In Western f West-ern Pennsylvania and Eastern Iltll East-ern Ohio and Wect Vlr tf glnla eta l fly 4 Is til f + 4 IJltsburgWllh losses aggregating l I ti i aggregat-ing sovoral million dollars from for cist fires and heavy damage to crops m and live stock tho reported loss of a number of liven duo to fighting timber + tim-ber fires tho cnforcpd Idleness ot i thousands of workmen owing to suspensions sus-pensions because of lack of water 1 1 + tho health authorities anticipating no rlous epidemics of contagious dls < Pr i cases and many amall streams dried fah 4 I up and practically obliterated the 44 drouth of 1903 which has held western j > west-ern Pennsylvania eastern Ohio and i West Virginia In its grasp for moro Ir than two months remains unbroken r a each day gradually Increasing tho seriousness tl q se-riousness of the unprecedented sltna irhp A tlonWhile 11 tf d While In tho IMttsburg district tho ri q l b water supply Is sufllclent to carry on i I 1tti nil business tho low stage of tIle > rivers has caused a congestion ot i kf tk i much coal In this vicinity Every available bargo and Moat ban boon loaded with coal and at present will Almost twonty million bushels In the 1 m et i rittsburg harbor tho rlvor coal miner i TT liava been compelled to shut down for lack of shipping facilities Thor i nro about 1C000 miners employed ID tho river mines along tho Mononga F I help valley This great fleet of con r is for tho supply of points In the U west and south and tho probabllltlof are that there will bo a coal famine 4 I f ly4 j especially In tho northwest shouW 15 conditions prevent tho shipment 01 ft t coal before tho cold weather sets In In West Virginia lumber plants tt t ti t glass factories and Iron and Btco I t 11 t mills located along tho rivers rare cg 1 i t closed on account of insufflclon water In eastern Ohio tho same con ti n dlllons prevail and It Is feared th a great iron and steel mills at Youngstown Youngs-town Ohio employing over 20001 men will have to suspend operation ± I i unless tho dronth Is speedily broken In all sections of tho dry zono pray era arc offered up dally and these t 1 prayers will continue until they arc t I tlLy 1 answered with rain