| Show DAYS AND NIGHTS OF AWFUL HORROR Surging Streams In Pittsburg Drive Families from Their Th h lr Homes HOUSEHOLD GOODS AFLOAT To 11 j ihl diJ to In of fir Women utah Children Woollier Woo Groua Gros Cold Cohil And Gas Gua 11 Pa Feb I b 16 After reach rench reaching ing In 30 feet at noon today cud and re is remaining at thai thit th t stoKe stage for tor three hours the tho high water In III tim the river Is now slowly receding S The Tho danger mark murk In inthe th the city ia ts 22 2 feet Tho Thu damage it is IN estimated e will 11 run up to several mil mit million million lion dollars but there yes was no loss of lift life The Tue suffering enticed caused by the high highwater highWater water Is III Intense Thousands of ot persons are living In tho the upper floors doors of oC their homes home using Ising skirt as a e means ot of transportation to and tro fro Tho The lower portions of their homes are am filled with water In many instances tho the house household household hold goods were welo not removed owing to a Il I lack of or time tim end and chairs tables pianos are arc floating about the tho rooms To add to the th suffering ot of tho the victims the weather grew cold today toila and snow fell tell Tho gas connections of ot tho the houses have been disarranged and In their present damp condition life lite Is III made miserable for Cor the unfortunate occupants occupants pants Charitable Institutions Institution making use une of or skiffs and rafts have havo been busily II engaged throughout all of ot last night and today toIl nerving hot coffee carteD and food tood to the families most t of or whom are poor DRIVEN N FROM FRO r S SAs As tho the night advanced tho the waters water began hegan to recede rapidly rapid and at lit mid told midnight midnIght night tho the Hood was passing pasting away awny al ul almost most as u rapidly as ne it came at the tho rate rat of It halt half a tL root foot an Ill hour The TIm gage guge at that hour registered SO SJ fret feet Two congregations at tho the Second Presbyterian church were driven from the tho e lne today one in itt the tho morning because o water wn lied had extinguished hod the theIre tIre Ire In tho the heating plant and another In Inthe inthe the when rotor suddenly u broke through the cellar walls and flooded tho of tho the lecture room r ot of a class chI cla forced to wade to the tho street lu In 11 and Etna itna 1 suburbs services hind Imd to bo ho abandoned practically ally oily nit all churches and several hundred being partially Inundated Street car traffic wa Wt suspended and the tho Baltimore it G Ohio railroad was blocked for Cor a IL hort short time |
