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Show W.E MS TO HORROR : OP rtOOl-IN STRICKEN : PITTSSURfiHNY PERISH :". Damage from the flood, in Pittsburg, Pa., has reached thillions of dollarsrat least a score of persons in Allegheny county have lost their Jives, 100,000 are out of employment and the heart, of the city i$ submerged. The high waters began to recede this morning, but fear of further damage and suffering ara still entertained. v ' v Dampened lime caused two disastrous fires this morning. morn-ing. One of them, at Mount Washington, across the river from the city, destroyed a large number of dwellings and business houses. Guests in the leading hotels in Pittsburg Pitts-burg are marooned Damage in a score of. towns along the rivers in the Ohio valley increases! the building. Here, too, are installed the dynamos that supply the current for the Western Union Telegraph company. com-pany. For several hours si force ,of men battled with, the rising water in an effort to maintain the power necessary for the working of telegraph instruments, instru-ments, and finally two additional pumps were put in and a. fire engine was called into service. By those methods, communication with the put-side put-side world was maintained. . Circuits' Disappear. , . , Telephone conduits were under water early in the day and the service in mo6t of the downtown sections went to pieces. Among-the first . conduits to go down was that of the Associated Press. This made the gathering of news from the flooded districts about the citv more complicated. Throughout this section neighborly buildings were similarly affected. From dry goods stores and theaters, hotels and newspaper offices, pipes of all sises were run across the sidewalks, where they poured the water from the buildings build-ings in spasmodic bucketfuls into the gutter, where it was forced by the pumps. Fifth avenue, Wood street, Smithfield street and one side of Liberty Liber-ty avenue were cross-barred with these pipes, while pedestrians and the flood excursionists were kept on the jump in their promenade about the flood district, dis-trict, j A number of newsnanera in the down. Safety Frank Eidgeway, who formerly was In charge of the United States weather bureau in this city, organized a staff squad among the police force and from buildings about the center of the city 1000 persons were taken and rowed to dry land. PITTSBURG, March 15. Tie crest of the flood passed this city at 6 o'clock this morning. At 8 o'clock the rivers began to snow signs of falling. No immediate im-mediate danger was apparent at that hour. The rivers were rnanlng out at a terrific rate, and at this point fears are considerably alleviated. ' As a direct result of the flood serious seri-ous fires broke out here this morning. Many dwellings and business houses were destroyed. The plant of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company at the foot of South Fourteenth street was burned, and the bolt works of the Olive Iron and Steel Works, adjoining, slightly damaged. The loss to the tin plate company was about 125,000, and to the Oliver company com-pany $1000. The fire originated from a car of lime which was set on fire by the high water. A second fire broke out on Mount Washington, across the Monongahela river, about the same time, and at 10. o'clock four business houses and fifteen fif-teen dwellings had been destroyed. Two town district, where most of 'them are located, were seriously affected by the high water. Several of them whose pressrooms and stereotyping plants were flooded were forced to call upon their more fortunate contemporaries for service ser-vice of those departments, and others that struggled through the inconvenience inconven-ience with early editions, with intentions inten-tions of getting out extras, were obliged to- suspend further operations. Some of the afternoon papers called their forces together several hours earlier than, usual and had them out before daylight. Boats Used, on Streets. Pennsylvania avenue, Duquesne Way beneath -the elevated railroad structure of the Wabash and Pennsylvania railroads, rail-roads, are passable only in boats. The new Wabash station is unapproachable, except in a skiff, while the water still makes further inroads across the city toward the Monongahela. In Allegheny, conditions were even more serious, so far as the territory inundated in-undated was concerned. Here, however, more precautions had been taken. Probably Prob-ably the greatest damage of any one point was sustained at Exposition park, where the ball games of the National league, are played. These grounds are under ten feet of water ana much damage dam-age has been done to fences and buildings. build-ings. When the first indications of a flood were apparent, -Director of Public expected these conditions will prevail for several days. In Wheeling, W. Va., great damage has been done and train and telegraph service is shut off. The crest of the flood has not reached that point. Ice Against Bridge. Bushing down the Allegheny river on the flood torrent at a speed estimated at fifteen to twenty miles an hour, hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of tons of ice, ranging rang-ing from four to six feet thick, are pounding the piers of the bridges connecting con-necting Pittsburg with Allegheny and threatening destruction to these connecting con-necting links of -the greater Pittsburg. The ice comes from the twenty-five-mile gorge that has been forming all winter at the headquarters of the Allegheny, Alle-gheny, and which broke last night. With ten square miles of two cities under water at 4 o'clock this morning, a report of the ice was sent in at that hour from the stations at the Sixteenth and Ninth street bridges. The nearest that these points could be approached was about 500 feet. Owing to the darkness, dark-ness, however, the effect could not be observed, but the Associated Press observers ob-servers could hear the huge bergs crunch and grind against the obstacles encountered, and the cracking of the bridges and piers as they strained under un-der the added pressure was plainly audible through the darkness. At 4:30 oTclock this morning all marks by which the river stage was taken were submerged and the only reports re-ports obtainable, were at Herrs island, three miles up the Allegheny river from the Ohio. A man was sent to get the stsge who was compelled to wade through water waist deep, while companions com-panions held a rope made fast about his waist. The stage reported was 36.5 and the river was still rising at a rate that warranted the weather bureau in reporting re-porting that at 8 o'clock even the mosf conservative reports must be still further fur-ther amended and a stage of more than 37 feet would be reached and possibly 38. attempts were made to stop the flames bv dynamiting adjacent buildings, but the wreckage caught fire. No water is available and the flames are being fought with chemicals and a bucket brigade. bri-gade. Several of the residences were tenements. 100,000 Persons Idle. . Pittsburgers were amazed this morning morn-ing at the immensity of the flood in the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, . which has submerged tea square miles, in the downtown section or the city. Enormous Enor-mous damage has been caused; more than 100.000 persons have been temporarily tempo-rarily thrown out of employment; every transportation company in- the city is crippled; skiffs are carrying hundreds of persons to their placet of business and the utilization of wagons and horses as conveyances, which did valuable service yesterday, were discontinued discon-tinued owing to the strenuous protests by the humane society. Twenty fatalities, directly due ' to high water, hive occurred in Allegheny county. Frightened guests in the Lincoln, Colonial, Annex and ' Anderson hotels, in the midst of the flood zone, are marooned and are watching the high water from the windows.". Theaters Are Dark. Four theaters, the Gayety, Alvina. Belasco and Bijou, are flooded and will be dark for several days. ' Most of the fire engines in the downtown down-town district are pumping water ,f rom buildings alon Fifth avenue. , Outside of 1'ittsburg damage running into millions of dollars .had been done. Many towns are entirely cut off from this city; thousands of families have been orcedairom their home and it. is. " . i. Breaking of the Gorges. The rush and sudden rise from the Allegheny wss - first felt about 10 o'clock last night. The gorges had broken in the afternoon and early evening, and the heavy ice swept the waters before it. When the advance volume of water reached this city, the already partially inundated cities were soon under deep; water and the lower section of the city was soon covered. The line of demarcation . between streets and water moved up perceptibly percep-tibly under the gaze of .thousands of excursionists' from the higher sections of the city until affected ty the flood So serious has the additional rise' made matters in the most central part of the city that at the corner of Fifth avenue and Wood street, where is the First National bank, building, in which are the offices of the Associated Press pumps were hastily installed to keep the water from the dynamos and -engines that supply, power and .light to |