People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — RIVERS FALLING. [ARTICLE]

RIVERS FALLING.

Floods In Pennsylvania Are Subsiding—Estimate of the Loss. Philadelphia, May 23.—Reports from Williamsport and the territory north of there indicate that the water is falling as rapidly as it rose. It has ceased raining and the danger may now be regarded as past. The Western Union telegraph operators are back in their office, and communication with the outside world has been resumed. At Renova, Lock Haven, Bellefonte, Clearfield and Driftwood the water has receded, and the work of clearing away the debris has been started. Pittsburgh, Pa., May 23.—Another life was lost here Monday night by the flood. John Schultz, who was engaged in pumping leaking barges, fell into the river and was drowned. It is raining here again, but the rivers are still falling and no more trouble is apprehended.

Johnstown, Pa., May 23.—As near as can be estimated the loss by the flood in the Conemaugh valley will be about $125,000. A statement of individual losses is as follows: Pennsylvania railroad, $50,000; Eleventh ward, $6,000; Swank’s pottery, $3,000; Gautier and Cambria works, $10,000; Johnstown individual owners, $16,000; Penn traffic store, $10,000; damage to city bridges and walls, $10,000; John McCoughey, $6,000. Other losses wiU reach SB,OOO.