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Show TEN MILLIONS LOSTJY FLOOD High Waters in Pennsylvania Causes Much Damage to Property. Ten Square Miles Inundated and Thirty Blast Furnaces Put Out of Commission Suspension of Furnaces Fur-naces Will Cause Scarcity of Iron. Pittsburg. With tho rapid receding of tho waters In tho Monongahela, Allegheny nnd Ohio rlvors, conditions arc resuming normal proportions. Tho approaches to the bridges aro now clear of water and streot car service ser-vice In the flooded district has been resumed. Ten square miles were Inundated. Tho loss Is summarized ns follows: Loss In output of steels mills, $.1,000,-000. $.1,000,-000. Loss In output of other Industries, Indus-tries, $2,000,000. losses- In wages of employes, $1,8117,000. Kstlmnted damage dam-age to Industrial plants, $2,500,000. Totnl, $9,:i37,000. Various other estimates aro being mado ranging from ton to twenty millions mil-lions of dollars. Reports from numerous num-erous western Pennsylvania points aro to the effect thnt the flood has subsided. Thirty large blast furnaces In this city nro out of commission. It Is said hero that the suspension will cause a scarcity of Iron. |
