Show FLOOD IS 10 AT IT ITS ITO HEIGHT Untold Suffering Caused By High Water and Bitter C Cold ld POLICE WORK IN BOATS Destitution Reigns as Torrents Subside From Streets I and Mills Pittsburg Pa Feb lIt Damage Damage to the amount of was done b by by the Hood flood that reached Its Us crest this afternoon Untold suffering suffering- has been caused to thousands of people and workingmen who had Just started to work after weeks of idleness will lose loS In lu wages Bitter DItter cold coldIs Is causing bitter distress to families In Ill the tho submerged districts living In Inthe Inthe the tho upper floors of their houses A Al Although though the rivers rivera are falling slowly tonight the police are still moro more act- act Ivo lye than thon ever r In Jn searching for Cor forcas Corcas cas cases s soC of oC destitution The Thc patrol boats boat are arc being boltie run through alleys and streets n UJo leI and family family IB hi v. v a 2 1110 vho hO hOv v were re rel l unable tt to drag themselves i Lout out Several cases have been found t Ind hd two deaths m may result May S. S Howard age aged 59 was found at t No o.- o. Kilbuck street Sho Shu win vs loa loo sick Hick to move herself when hen the tho w water water wa wa- ter entered d the lower floor of at her hr home and reaching the second story went to bed She Sho had been without attention three c days She was sent Bent to the Allegheny hospital She may maydie die ie William Carson ag aged d 28 23 8 was found Cound I at West street and sent to a hospital Mrs James Dugan aged 65 No 1612 Forsythe street had bad been without food for three d days Ys when rescued She Sho was sent to tho the hospital Her cry cr o Is doubtful Coal Coil Hauls la in Street Boats loaded with coal aro are being propelled through the streets tonight by naphtha launches c Hun Hundreds reds of or families suffered today when their fuel of or life In supplies gave e a out after days dt's upper stories Boat loads of ot provisions pro are arc also being sent scat out The waters will not have hae receded from dwellings in iii the low lands until late tomorrow consequently the people people peo peo- pie must be taken caro care of or Half the First ward ard north side is under water The Mills and shops are inundated Buffalo Rochester Pittsburg railroad railroad rail rall- road rond tracks are aro under ten feet of water water Water wa wa- ter and the grandstands In the National National National Na Na- league baseball park are arc Hooded flooded The great gas tanks of or the Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia company compan are surrounded The flood Hood reached feet Only the sudden cold snap prevented a flood worse than that of last year ear which was the greatest In the history of tho the city All the street str et car traffic fIlc to the tho north side was stopped Every mill along the water front Is damaged to some extent Machinery Is covered with mud and It will take many mOony days to clean It Meantime fully men will be Idle Alford City the Immense plant of tho the Pittsburg P Plate te Glass company Is badly badly badly bad bad- ly damaged With the exception of last year when wl the water reached feet the flood nood Is the worst since 1891 The coal cori companies had a n difficult time keeping theIr fleet nee from being swept away today to today today to- to day by Ice Gorges poured from theM the tho Monongahela M and Allegheny rivers ers Steamers were attached to tows with witha a full head of steam const constantly on ready for tor any an emergency Before evenIng even- even evenIng evenIng Ing tho the Ice all passed and the danger was over oer U I |