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Show A Pittsulrg paper describes the scene of Hie latest disaster from floods and tire thus: The whole alley, from Oil City to Titusville, is iire.l with extensive oil refineries and other manufacturing establishments, and is traversed by the Oil Creek and Allegheny river railroad. Titusville and Oil City are towns of between 11,000 and 1-',()00 inhabitants inhabi-tants each. Oil City is at the mouth of Oil creek, on the Allegheny river. The principal princi-pal residence part of the town is on the east side of the creek and the south side of the river. The principal hoteis and stores are on the north hank of the river and east of the creek. These parts of the town escaped, the part on the west side of the creek being the scene of the disaster. North of the business busi-ness houses are the large tube-works and i boiler and engine-works, employing hundreds hun-dreds of men. These are safe, but the Standard's Stand-ard's immense barrel factory and the refineries refin-eries further north were destroyed. From these points to Titusville there is comparatively compara-tively little property on the banks of the creek to suffer, but at Titusville the ruin seems complete. |