Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1902 — STORM VISITS ILL SECTIONS [ARTICLE]

STORM VISITS ILL SECTIONS

Desolation Is Threatened in Pennsylvania and Upper New York. WRECKS ON ATLANTIC COAST * Riven in the South Are Breaking High Water Records—Damage to Logging Interests in Wisconsin Will root Up Many Millions of Dollars. Hardly a section of the country escaped damage Uy flood Friday. From Texas to the northwest and from New York to Chattanooga wires were down, railroads Hooded, bridges wrecked and ice gorges were threatening desolation to villages in Pennsylvania and upper New York. The gale In OJiio devastated miles of country, unroofed houses in Cleveland, carried away tops of church spires, upturned wooden houses and left a wide path of ruin. In the Cumberland valley waterspouts are reported to have done great damage, but, with wires down, nothing can be told as to the loss of life. The ice gorges in the Allegheny river wrecked muqh property. The Atlantic and gulf coasts are strewn with wrecks. Some of the rivers in Alabama have risen twenty-two feet in twenty-four hours, a record that is almost unequaled by the rise of the Tennessee river, which is up twenty-one and a half feet, and by the last report was still rising at the rate of a foot an hour. At Tallahassee, Fla., the new wing of the state capitol is laid open, the entire south wall having been leveled by the storm. A cyclone passed over Dawson, Ga.., killing several people, and for several miles near Jackson the railroad tracks are under five feet of water. Pennsylvania has experienced almost every sort of damage possible from stress of weather. The damage done by the recent rains in Wisconsin will amount to millions, ft is estimated. In the district contiguous to West Superior alone the damage is • estimated to v be in the neighborhood of 810,000,000. The loss to the great lumber interests in other parts of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan will be large In proportion.