Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1905 — CREST OF FLOOD AT PITTSBURG [ARTICLE]

CREST OF FLOOD AT PITTSBURG

Loss to Local Industries Since the High Water Began Will Exceed $1,000,000. Pittsburg, Pa., March 23.—The crest of the flood was reached at 8 o’clock in the morning and the rivers are rapidly receding. The highest point reached was in Monongabela, the stage being 29 feet. The rivers started to fall at their headwaters during the night and the flood stage lusted only a few hours as the streams will go down almost as rapidaly as they came up. While not the greatest flood Pittsburg has experienced, the results have been serious enough. Scores of mills have been forced to shut down in various parts of the Pittsburg district thousands of workmen thrown out of employment hundreds of families compelled to abandon their homes, railroad schedules disarranged and telegraph snd telephone service crippled. In fact all branches of trade have been more or less affected by the high water. It is estimated that the loss to local Industries since the flood began will exceed $1,000,000.