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Show BAD FLOOD ATTOLEDO TOLEDO, March 4. Toledo is today bottled up between two great Ice gorges. The water in the Maumee river. In the heart of the city, Is seven feet above main level and is stationary. At the mouth of the" river there Is an Ice gorge which. It Is believed, extends for miles and backed by ice three feet thick on Lake Erie. This is holding the water back in the city. There is yet a greater volume of water above the city, which is being held by a series of gorges. One is at Cottonwood Island and another at Grand Rapids. The latter extended in both directions from that place as far as the eye can see. The water there is 26 feet above noma I, and the entire town is inundated. The wagon bridge across the river at Grand Rapids went out last night and railroad officials here fear for the three railroad bridges. Flood Starts at Pittsburg. PITTSBURG, March 4. Swollen by the downpour of a night the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers started to rise about o'clock yesterday and at midnight had risen ten feet and was still rising at the rate of .3 of a foot an hour. The damage -will be heavy. A 28-foot stage is predicted at noon today. The Westinghouse Electrio and Manufacturing Manu-facturing company of East Pittsburg and i the Westinghouse Airbrake company at Wllmerding were the greatest sufferers. The two great plants were forced to sus-pend sus-pend operations, throwing more than 8000 skilled men out of employment. Neither plant will likely resume before Friday morning and probably not before Monday It is estimated that the loss to merchants here wlU reach at least S100.000. |