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Show IEATH AND DESOLATION FOLLOW WIND AND FLOOD jfllfloosa, AH , Jan. 22. A dlsas- iornado swept over Moundsvllle, ttown or COO inhabitants. fifteen South of Tuscaloosa, early today, sa result thirty-seven persons llled and more than 100 'injured, y, business house with the excep-ti.i excep-ti.i small store, was completely h. tornado struck the city from the est, and mowed a, path a quarter lie wide through the town. ' 'HLTU PERSONS KILLED, lymour of Nashville, Tenn., who !uthe position as operator at the r station last evening. 'A Warren of Birmingham, em- ffby the Alabama Grocery eoin-irs eoin-irs k ,1 jj MKedinond, superintendent o the tig slution, formerly of Nashville, .fl 'ft S. Powers of Tuscaloosa. fettle Farley. J! THE NEGRO DEAD ARE: fMiles, wife and six children, ill cl Holston, wife and. three chfl- 1 1 Ce Elolston, wife and three children, pj teen other negroes, unldeutilled. bons were hurried, to Aloundsville JJJ ireensboro and Tuscaloosa, and fiS it was possible was done to al- the sufferings of the injured. :s :he force of the storm persons Town hundreds of feet from their 'Jilithc blackness of the night, h jh terror, a father, mother and vi ijiildrcn lied from their home to jl ifuge, and in their excitement left & ir-old boy In bed. Today he was 2 from beneath some timber. Thus lis impossible to find, any other ire of the family. 3t (lng, carpets and wearing ap-.'S ap-.'S ire scattered over a distance of 3jg3 through what was a forest, but which is now as clear as if cut by the woodman's ax. Freight cars were torn to splinters, the trucks from thetji being hurled hundreds hun-dreds of feet from the tracks. The depot, the hotel, Warehouses, together with their stocks, were completely destroyed. de-stroyed. Where they stood it Is impossible impos-sible to find even the pillars upon which those structures rested. Dales of cotton which were stored in warehouses were torn to atoms, the fragments of lint lodging in trees, making- it appear as though that section had been visited by a snowstorm. Heavy Iron sages, the doors of which in some Instances were torn from their hinges. , were carried away by the force of the i wind. The town of Hull,' four miles north of Moundsvllle. suffered from the tornado. The Dates Lumber company's planing department was completely wrecked and the negro firemen crushed. Four residences and one church were demolished. WORK OF MAD WATERS. Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars 1 Damage Wroug-ht Families Driven From Homes. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan 22. (Midnight) The Allegheny and Monongahcla rivers riv-ers are rising steadily. The Allegheny is three feet higher than her consort stream, and as a consequence a dangerous danger-ous ice gorge is now forming between the Wabash and Smithfield street bridges. Just above the confluence of the rivers. There is Ico enough in both rivers at this time to keep both Tornado Descends Upon Moundsville and Other Alabama Towns, Killing Thirty8 Seven and Maiming Many. In Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Other River States, Mad Flood Waters Are Sweeping Away Millions of Dollars' Worth of Property and Carrying to Death Many Human Beings Thousands of Workmen Thrown Out of Employment by the Closing of the Mills-ice Gorges Aid in Work of .Destruction. well filled until Sunday morning and perhaps later. Early in the day, owing to the warning warn-ing sent out in regard to the clanger from the Allegheny, all of tho coal bargca and steamboats were sent into the Monongahcla to gain the better protection of the pools and consequently consequent-ly stiller water. A barge containing -10,000 bushels, of coal has been sunk and the whole fleet, with nearly 275,000 bushels on board, Is in danger. MILLS FLOODED. In the Pennsylvania avenue mill district, dis-trict, many of the mills have their lly . pits below flood level and were com- ' -F -f Washington, Jan. 22. The Ren- -f -f- eral forecast Issued by tho Wca- -f ther bureau today says: -f "Nothing has occurred alnco 4- Thursday night to lessen the grav- -f 4- ky of the fiood situation In tho 4- upper Ohio. Tho weather condl- 4- lions continue favorable to a rapid 4- breaking up of the lee In the rivers 4-4- and small streams of central and 4-4- eastern Pennsylvania, southern 4-4- New York, West A'irglnia and 4-4- western Maryland. 4-' pellcd to shut down, throwing 7000 men and boys out of work. The Big and Little Shenangocs, which meet at Greenville,' arc higher than for many 3'ears. A gorge in these streams has backed the water over the town, causing caus-ing much damage. South Raco and Water streets arc under water. Many families were taken ta-ken from their homes in boats, while others have moved their household goods to the second lloors. The Bessemer Bes-semer railroad shops and Ihe Hodge Manufacturing plant, both built above the high-water mark, have been abandoned. aban-doned. Tonight these plants are under water two feet, and much machlnery has been ruined. The entire Bessemer yards are flooded and the main line Is being used as a storage for locomo- lives and coaches removed from flooded flood-ed shops. At Osgood, two miles north of here, there is sex feet of water on the Bessemer tracks. The water in Mercer is higher than it was ever known before, and continues to rise. Both the Nashanock and Shc-nango Shc-nango rivers at New Castle have Tlscn more than thirty-six inches slnco morning, and aro at. Hood-stage with the water coming up rapidly. The tin-plate tin-plate and steel mills are closed, and the main thoroughfares are impassable. BARGES SbNIC, During the afternoon Capt. McKln-ley McKln-ley of tho transportation department of the Monongahcla. Coal and Coke company, com-pany, received a telegram from Sls-tersvlllc, Sls-tersvlllc, announcing that tho Hornet No. 2 had sunk in about twenty-four fect of water and would probably be a total loss. The crew saw the Impending Im-pending danger in time to escape. The boat was valued at $10,000. About 5 o'clock this afternoon news of the sinking of the Volunteer, at Brown's station, reached tho local headquarters of tho coal combine. The ofiiccra and crew were saved. The Volunteer was valued at $15,000. One river man said tonight that the extent of the damage wrought by tho ice" tonight could not bo cstlmatod iin-tll iin-tll tomorrow, but it will amount to high into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. This, coupled with tho losses yustained by railroads, business houses, manufacturing, street car companies, Government works and residents will likely put the loss at about $1,000,000. At midnight the Pittsburg &. Western, West-ern, railroad Is out of business, and tho Baltimore Sz Ohio Is sending Its trains to Youngstown, O., over the Lake Erie. At 2 o'clock this morning tho gauges showed that the Allegheny stood at 20. Q feet at Herr's island and rising nt I Jf the rate of six-tenths of a foot an hour, IH the Monongahcla at the wharf stood at jH 27.2, rising eight-tenths of a foot per hour; the Ohio at Davis island dam at 3.1 and rising four-tenths of e. foot jH per hour. fl The first fenre of tho manufacturers jH along the Pittsburg sido of tho AJle- JH gheny river from the Sharpsburg bridge down, were realized shortly after mid- night when tho water swept over the jH banks in many places and Inundated the surrounding districts. Every mill and factory between the Allegheny Valley railroad tracks and the river in more or less flooded and It is estimated that in tho neighborhood of 25,000 men will be forced to lay idle until Monday i or Tuesday. H At 3 o'clock this morning (Saturday the steamers Tom Lisle and Delta, each-manned each-manned by a crew from twelve to flf-teen flf-teen men, are reported missing. Tho boats passed Davis Island dam at 9:3d lf o'clock apparently In an attempt to res- H cue a runaway bargo loaded with jH railroad iron. No trace of either boat jH has been secured up to this time. IH OHIO. Cleveland, O., Jan. 22. The flood" situ- ation In Cleveland and vicinity la JH brighter at midnight Friday because- of jJ a fall in the temperature which will lea- sen the probability of a. tlangerou gorge about ten miles up the Cuyahoga. river breaking and letting loose a. great jjf mass of water held in check by It. The Cuyahoga, river is flowing about fifteen 1 H miles an hour and is slightly lower than ' H during the day. IH The three Great Lake -vessels that broke loose from their moorings today jl aro still wedged tightly together and H (Continued on page 3.) 1 H DEATH AND DESOLATION (Continued from page 1.) there Is no possibility of them breaking away or belnf: moved until the Hood of water has censed running out into the lake. Thc entire loss in Cleveland is estimated es-timated at half a millioYi dollars. Columbus advices say the Scioto river has passed thc danger line and now- stands at 17V feet. The lowlands have been inundated and thc levees are being: closely watched to prevent thc entire went side from being flooded. There is much uneasiness. No damage has as yet resulted from the ice going1 out of thc river. The c'eclrlc street lamps were dark durinj; the night, the electric company having laised their dynamos so as to be in advance of the danger line in case the levee breaks. They will be out of service until the dancer is passed. At Lorain the loss to property in the flood district la tonight placed at fully half a million dollars with the probability proba-bility of the- amount being' above rather than bclcw that sum. The shipyards of the American Shipbuilding Ship-building company are under water. Many small vessels have been wrecked. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad will be a heavy loser. Immense piles of timber tim-ber arc going down the river with the rush of ice. Cinclnnait is safe, Ihe break-up of the ice gorges in Ohio rler at that point having been accomplished with comparatively com-paratively small loss. So far few barges have been crushed and a fow others torn from their moorings. This escape from heavy damage is largely due to the fortunate breaking of the gorge below the city first, and to the checking of the ice above the city. INDIANA. Peru. Ind., Jan. 22. Many families hae moved out of their homes or vacated va-cated the first floors on account of thc hlsh water and ice in the Wabash river, riv-er, which rose two feet during the night and is still rising. The record for twenty ycais is broken. The Howe factory has closed and COO employees are idle. It is feared the now $35,000 bridge of the Tndlanapolls-Northern Traction company will go out. It is now eight inches above water with a. yen of ice plunging and crashing against it. Preparations Pre-parations are belnir made to dynamite it if necessary to save other property. Railway traffic is Interrupted, tracks for many miles being under water. Logansport. Ind.. Jan. 22. The Eel and Wabash rivers have overflowed their banks as the result of thc breaking break-ing up of thc ice nnd much property has been destroyed ln this city and county. At the village of Georgetown, residents were rescued by boats. At Adnmsboro a dam way swept away and much property was destroyed. de-stroyed. .Whole sections of Logansport have been Hooded and many homea have been abandoned. The water is still rising and rain is still falling. ILLINOIS. Chicago, Jan. 22. Floods In and about Chicago, due to the thaw and ram, are causing some loss of property and much inconvenience. Waters in thc Desplalncs, Fox and Calumet rivers arc swollen, and many of thc smaller creeks flowing into these streams arc choked with Ice, resulting ln inundation of surrounding sur-rounding lowlands. Sections of Soulh Chicago. Burnsidc and Grand Crossing are under water. NEW YORK. Buffalo, Jan. 22. With a continuous fall of rain for nearly twenty-four hours thc immense quantity of snow throughout through-out the western part of New York was rapidly turned into water which toon tonight sent the rivers swirling out of bounds, flooding great areas. In northern New York and places in Canada where tho temperature was lower tho rain turned into sleet and snow, prostrating the telegraph nnd telephone tel-ephone lines and demoralizing railroad trafllc. Trains on tho Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific tonight are reported from twelve to fourteen hours late. The Chicago express on the Grand Trunk arrived at Toronto twenty-six hours late, after spending fifteen hours In a snow bank. Another train is stalled in the snow homewhere between Montreal and Toronto, and snow-ploughs have been sent out to rescue thc train. |