Rampant Rivers

Johnstown, Pa.: The awful Coneanaugh disaster of 1889, has been vividly recalled by the cloudburst and heavy rxain i'all wliich lusted in this section -for three days and caused the Conejuaugh river to flood the city and surrounding country. It is an assured fact that the daraag-e done in the city -and within five miles of it will amount to from S00,000 to Si!O,000. The Pennsylvania Railroad company is the heaviest loser. A house, ovrned by Peter uuur, was caught and swept to destruction. A three-story building of Fhillip lirown was torn from its foundation and greatly damaged. The iron bridge was badly wrecked. The store of Anthony Ueorge was submerged, and although anehored with ropes, the water swept it away with all its contents. The residences of Emanuel James and Charles Statler also went down stream. The swift water undermined an embankment, which gave way, carrying down into the river about 200 feet of track and five cars. In one of the car.s were tive tramps. Three of them succeeded in getting away. but two were drowned. About 815.OÜ0 worth of timber belonging to the Conemaugh Lumber company went uut. tearing two bridges away. Fifty feet of stone wall was washed away. Throughout this eounty and Somerset the damage to bridges and crops is reed to be very heavy. Tom McFeaters, a lad 13 years old, was drowned injthe Conemaugh river while i' injr to ride on a log. At South Fork numerous small buildings were swept away. ■IViJJiamsport: The Susquehanna reaehed a point 35 feetabovelow water mark, the highest ever known, and . flooded eveiy portion of this city to a I ti of iroin two to twenty feet. The city was cut off from the outside wurld ly.a stoppage of all railwayand uTaph communication, and only a single telephone wire was left to send the notes oí distress to neighboring places. The second night of tr e flood the water reached its highest point. There was very little sleep for the terrorized citizens, and when at midnight it was known that the water was subsiding there was a feeling of relief in : art. At midnight the big log hoorn containing 175,000.000 feet went out with a mighty crash and roar. Three bridges went down as they were strnok. llousehold goods and store ks had been moved to second and even third stories. The property loss cannot be estimated for some time but ít cannot be less thíin 91,000,000. The gas and electric light plants being submerged there was no light on the rusting waters for three uights. The ouly mode of transportación about the icity was by boat. The loss to corps and farms cannot now be told. Four miles of railroad track was swept away. Over 25,000.000 f eet of logs were swept away at Lock Haven. Bradford: Twenty streets were er water to a deptb of four feet. ]' 40 families in toe river district were taken from their homes in boats. 'j-tre number of business houses e üooded on the ground tluors. Loss over 850,000. Pitteburg: Two lives were lost in tlie flood. Adrián Weichel, agfil 35 jrears, was trying to rescue a team o) horses near Etna, about 1 o'clock, when his feet caught in the harnesí and ne was clrowned. A tew minutes later an unknown boy about 15 vears vas drowned in Allegheny while ■catching driftwood. Both bodies were Bwept down the stream. These are but a few of the many iis and cities praetically flooded drowned out. At Huntingdon the Juniata raised 25 hours and surroundIng towns suifered severely. At iverstown .Mis. Jacob Uilier was drowned while trying to save her household jroods. The Susquehanna least a hundred towns and an estímate by IVnr.svlvania railroad oHicials of tlie damage to towns along their Unes plai sses at not less than 82,000,000. Five new county bridges in Huntingdon county have beéi '!, making an aggreae (iss of aboul i - At Everett, Elmer Wagner was drowned. The two children of John Knoskoky at Nanticoke, aged respective-ly ten and eight, feil into a swollen creek and were drowned. Warren used boats ior street cars.