Show THY FOH N I 1 N ORTH Z NE worlden idle heavy damage to crops and fierce forest fires due to lack of water M many any small streams dr ed up and pra practically obi aerated in west ern pennsylvania and ea eastern t ern oh 0 and west virg nia pittsburg V with ith losses aggregating several million dollars from tor for est fires and heavy damage to crops und live stock the reported loss of a number of lives due to fighting tim ber fires the enforced idleness of 0 thousands of workmen owing to sis s la pensions because of lack of water the health authorities anticipating se so rious epidemics of contagious die dis eases and many man benall 11 streams dried up and practically obliterated the drouth of 1908 which has held west em ern pennsylvania eastern ohio aej 4 west virginia in its grasp tor for more than two months remains unbroken each day gradually increasing the seriousness rious ness of the unprecedented situa tion while in the pittsburg district the water supply Is sufficient to carry on all business the low stage of the rivers has caused a congestion oi 0 much coal in this vicinity every available barge and float has been loaded with coal and at present witt almost twenty million bushels in the pittsburg harbor the river coal mine have hava been compelled to shut doar for lack of shipping facilities them are about 15 miners employed Is iii the river mines along the mononia hela liela valley this great fleet of coa Is for the supply of points in the west and south and the probabilities are that there will be a coal famine especially in the northwest should conditions prevent the shipment 01 0 coal before the cold weather sets in in west virginia lumber plants glass factories and iron and stee mills located along the rivers are closed on account of insufficient water in eastern ohio the same con dillons prevail and it Is feared th great iron and steel mills at youngs town own ohio employing over 20 00 me men n will have t to 0 suspend operation LL un deurr u s ri ap aone zone pray ers are offered up dally and the these se prayers will continue until they arc answered with rain |