| Show UNDER WATER PITTSBURG feb 17 the present unexpected flood bids fair to rived rival that ot of 1884 the river has been rising all day and is still going up tonight alle aghany city has buffered most several streets are under water at let least 1000 cellars are flooded great apprehension is felt there as two natural gas explosions plo tonight leave endangered life and ruined property it is feared others may follow as the meters and pipes anre several feet under water arid and cannot be reached two mills along tile river have shut down because of flooded fires add thousands of men are idling about the riverbanks river banks on the pittsburg side cellars and houses on the low ground are being flooded and the people are beginning to move out any further rise will do great damage as aa the high water limit has been passed even now it is reported that the exposition and other large downtown down town buildings have been greatly damaged all the street car lines between pits burg and Alleg bany have stopped running owing to the fact that the approaches pro aches are several feet underwater under water scores of dray and boats are engaged in hauling anxious people through the water to the bridges the pennsylvania trains are behind time owing to washouts wa shouts near conemaugh and the baltimore ohio had several bad landslides AT JOHNSTOWN the dreadful stoney sioney brei creek and conemaugh rivers stood at the highest point all al day dav the rhe heavy beavy stone bridge caused tle the water to back up into the town a greater portion of which la Is from four to six feet feel under water ater every house bouse in cambria city is deserted and a swift stream flows through thea the streets ijane tonight the rivers river sat at t those 1 iose points began to fall rapidly raji illy but t the lie people will not attempt to return to their houses until awbrey the lie flood is over the mil railroads roads all about liere here are ape suffering fet ing great damage REPORTS FROM VARIOUS PLACES WHEELING ava W V a feb 17 1 ahe lie greatest flood in many years is expected here reports from all sect sections igns of the state indicate buus bally 4 eavy rains and the streams are rising lising rapidly all railroads entering the city tire are blocked by landslides pa feb 17 the streams continue to ri seand the ow people lavingon living liv ingon on the low lands are making rail king preparations to move at any 1 1 uy moment mot hent the susquehanna at west we a t lathrop is half a mile wide and much of the town is submerged the second and third stories of buildings alan along th the creek are flooded the same condition of affairs prevails at laramie lammie irwin mason harrison city crab tree ana other places bridges fences hay stacks etc iu in every have been carried away FREEPORT Pat geb IT rain has beer been falling forty hours and the town an and surrounding country Is flooded at noon the water was two and one half inches in the streets and rising WEST NEWTON pa feb 17 the river this afternoon reached the highest point since august 1884 much damage is done to railroads by landslide HUMI INGTON pa feb 17 rain IM has fallen here in torrents for thirty six hours and the JUNIATA RIVER IS 18 A MILE WIDE W the citizens of Ports Porta town and smithfield were compelled to vacate their homes and many bridges were swept away the loss is very heavy at the iron works and mills are submerged submerged much damage has been done in the lower portion of the city many fai families nilles being compelled to abandon their homes MASSILLON 0 feb 17 the streams south of this state are badly swollen by the heavy ralus rains of the past three days all dwellings in the lower part of tue tile city are surrounded by water the mil railroads roads are badly delayed by washouts was wa bouts shouts the river is rising at the rate of one foot per hour and the railroads are forced to suspend traffic in many places in the vicinity on account of the high water williamsport WILLIAM SPORT pa feb 17 ad vices from points up the river are that it t is still mini ing gand and all the streams are high the lumbermen lumber men are very uneasy many merchants have commenced to move their goods from the lower stories of their levees of the city show that a twenty six mix foot flood will bring the water up to the court house equale A flood is now reported on oil the nead head of pine creek at Gale caleton Oa leton toD on that creeks a boom broke letting between eight and ten million feet A logs jogs escape X dispatches from several points in this vicinity report the rivers rivera rapidly rising and ami l AKE AIM lAK liL at clearfield some streets are inundated and many people were compelled komove to move several dililon in ill ion feet tf gf logs loga have been bathed out Atry at tyrone rone the houses in the western lart art of the die town are half submerged at tiptoe there here Is in a root foot ol of watt r over r the railroad rail road tracts at mineral point the conemaugh river is very high and many men are i ut tit working on the tracts schenectady N ya Y feb 17 there is a gorge in III the mohawk river near here the river is rising ten inches per hour tonight to night aid naught hut but the tree tops tell where the islands are CLEVELAND 0 feb 17 A dim dia patch from zanesville says the mus bingum river is rapidly rising two hundred people were driven from their homes today railroad Js is almost entirely suspended bus the rain ceased to night and colder weather weil ther may cause a subsidence of the flood floo d |
