| Show EASTERN RIVERS AT FLOOD STAGE Water Rises With Surprising Sud Suddenness Suddenness denness at Pittsburg And Vicinity RAILROADS MUCH DAMAGED Itel Ls Thirty nutty Ihl Ii t Toot Fool I 01 Itt for roi leasing I Ingi tit Tor lor luSi SI reels reel s Inundated 1 no thila teil bUlA Pa Ill March 19 With Sill sur surprising suddenness mes another flood 1001 o othe ot Odie the die river Is III being experienced In it PlUs burg and vicinity At 1 10 this morning the thc stage 1 the Ihl danger mark of or J foot feet und told the lie water was tta rising nut 1111 n hour According to ii tho hO weather bureau a Li possible pos stage of oC 33 feet fet IS ox ex expected early cody tomorrow morning Sh ul 31 Ii teat fe t of water alC lIe r reached reache It will lack ick bili hii II Zi feet ot of time the great grent Hood of ot March IS lr last InstAll All the tho small streams ore mire on oti Ihl rampage Streets and In III the time suburbs are elOId with water Thousands o ot of wom women en In I and children are arc prisoners Irl our In hi their homes und and schools nit are lightly attended The rhe oC of this city are Inundated ed ad and attil owing to I lie quickness s with which the thin high water collie cam few OW persons able to tn ti tike time the precaution of oe raving valuable goods METHODS The meeting of o tho thu chamber HC if t commerce Hood was Willi held to today day In A determined det effort will trill be he b made to 10 ascertain the thc cost character I and Cause enus of lie Hood An tiu adequate lI for fill ir the tile against floods will trill be bc discussed dl Early Fally today u a Hand dredge belonging to 10 the lie Class Ilass broke broko front from Its moorings at nl above aho this city elt and started down the thu Allegheny Alle hell rivet river The boat bont went lIt over the tile government data dam at lit and It in ilu 1101 not known whether tho time crow crew com cant composed posed pOled of oe live utica men succeeded In III escaping I ing In Nothing has hal since silice been hoard of oC the time themen men menThe Time The Pittsburg Virginia Charles harle harleton I ton toll railroad between this Ihl city and 1 California Ia Imm is crippled Seven landslides have occurred and the thc tracks trucks ate are hurled burled under tons of lit earth Other railroads have lla their schedules badly disarranged on account of or time the high water and amiul heavy heo landslides JI |
