Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — ANGRY FLOODS ARE SUBSIDING [ARTICLE]

ANGRY FLOODS ARE SUBSIDING

Ohio Talley Relieved —Damage at Pittabore: About 93.000,000. The floods in the rivers at Pittsburg are receding after inflicting damage estimated at between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000, and throwing out of employment 50,000 workingmen. While there have been greater floods at Pittsburg there was never one that caused so much financial loss and discomfort. On the Fort Wayne road the worst trouble was a snow blockade between Salem and Massillon, Ohio. This began Saturday morning and tied up the road In twenty-four hours. At 9 o’clock Sunday morning the track was cleared and trains began moving. The same trouble kept the Cleveland trains of the Pittsburg and Lake Brie late, five trains having been blockaded at Windom, near Leavittsburg, for twentyfive hours. This snowfall did not extend east of Newcastle, but at Youngstown, Ohio, it was two feet deep, and the drifting in the cuts north of that city were up to locomotive headlights. The submerged districts in Pittsburg and Allegheny were Sunday a scene of abject misery. Cellars and in home instances the first floors of stores and dwellings are covered with water. Where the flood has subsided it has left behind a greasy, yellow scum two tq three inches deep. The damage to furniture and buildings in Allegheny is estimated at about SIOO,OOO. It will take two months of hot summer weather thoroughly to dry out these houses. In Pittsburg the loss to residences and stores and goods and the cost of cleaning up will amount to amont $250,000.