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Show FLOOD RAVAGES- Pittsburgh, 27. A moat destructive storm swept over this city l-ist niglit Tne rain poured through the stret'ts from the Btirrounding hilii. The Union dcit was iuundated with Witter from threo to four foot deep. Tho Panhandle tunnel was filled with water aud rendered impassible. Much property was destroyed on Liberty and rfmithtield streets. From all -side streets leading from the hill boulders were rolled li-oui their position and hurled to the level below, while in many other places great holes were opened up in the street. In the Sixth on Fourteenth ward the streets were terribly cut. InAlleehaoy City tho tlood wna terrible. A Bewcr on Madiscn avenue and Vista Btroet bursted, inundating the whole upper part of the city. A number of houses were swept away on Spring Garden street. The water attained a depth of ten feet, causing a large loss of life in this vicinity. It is reported that forty-five bodies have bo far been recovered. The destruction to property cannot be estimated. The damage to property on the south side ia great. A large number of stables and buildings were swept away. Several lived are reported lost. 1 Pittsburg, 27. The loss of lifo by the flood has been appalling. Thirty-eight Thirty-eight bodies have been recovered in Butcher Iiuii District, . Alleghany County, and as many more are missing miss-ing and supposed to have beon lost. The bayoo at Wood's Run was fear-lul, fear-lul, and the place was a perfect sheet pf water, (several houses were swept away. Nine bodies are recovered so far, and 500 are still missiug. Ou the south side, in Sawmill Run District, Dis-trict, eight bodies have been recovered recov-ered and thirty-ruip are still mining. A whole block ( f buildings is swept' away in this district.1 .It is thought over. 150 persons perlilied. For more than a mile out Spring CTrirdon avenue, Alleghany city, marks of 'destruction are plainly visible. Houses are washed away, and buildings build-ings thrown together in heaps. Some twenty-five or thirty slaughter houses, on this avenue were also washed away. ,JThe buildings that were not totally destroyed! were greatly dura-aged. dura-aged. The water rising to a height ot fifteen feet, Hooded the first floors of alt buildings, and in many cases second stories. Several houses were swept into the middle of the street, and many others were carried a hundred hund-red yards, anil shattered to pieces. A house "containing iwq yi thro junii-liea junii-liea at the rear centre wai 6 strayed, aud the inmates aru all suppose! to bve been drowned. In Tempera nee vi he jind Saw Mill Run (he elements rnide a Fad havoc. Tho fieroe torrents of rilin that descended de-scended swelled every little tributary to Saw Mill Run into a boiling s-tream and the accumulation of watei rushed with mad, .irreistable fury, down the va lley, sweeping eveiythingbelbre it. The track of destruction of the flood is marked by wrecks of dwellings, bridges, immense heaps of stones, Large piles of flood, wood, and torn and ragged side bill's. Seven lifeless bodies hove nl ready locn louml, and from twenty-five to thirty persons ore missing. The -iron bridge crossing Saw Mill Run, at Main street, ana five others above, were swept away at McLaughlin's about eleven miles west of the PanJUandle road; eleven persons are reported drowned; also j hundreds of cattle, horsefrand sheep. |
