Rivers Return to Channels After Flood in Pittsburg Vicinity
Pittsburg reports rivers back in their channels after a historic flood that left up to 20 million dollars in property and business losses. Deaths exceed twenty, with many missing, and days of paralysis across Pittsburg and Allegheny as rail, telephones, mills, and furnaces remain shut. Health officials inspect submerged areas for health risks, while aid reaches food-insecure families in Allegheny and surrounding towns.
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Hood
Allegheny
Milla
Health Department
Edwards
No Relief Seen as Ohio River Rises in Cincinnati
The Ohio River at Cincinnati continued rising at over one tenth of a foot per hour with no relief in sight. Crest expected above 65.1 feet, threatening higher flood levels than January. Upstream reports show little hope for at risk properties as factories close, businesses abandon lower floors, and river navigation ceases due to high water.
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Cincinnati
Jennecy
Water Street
Flood Breaks Over Portsmouth Levee Frightens City
Hack water flooded the north end of Portsmouth on March 18 after a weakened levee failed. Officials evacuated residents as five square blocks submerged, with east guard lines holding while the pumping station and factories faced shutdown. The Jevee areas in the north and west remain at risk as flooding spreads through Front Street.
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Portsmouth
Hackwater
Portsmouth Steel Company
CURRENT UPSETS HOUSE IN MARITTA FLOOD REPORT
A flood in Marietta Ohio causes deaths as William Matracken and his family drown after forced to upper floor. The Muskingum river rises to 50.6 feet and swamps the Masonville Cable Company with 600 workers affected. Widespread labor layoffs follow as plants suffer heavy losses.
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Ahbour
William Matracken
Wifch
Maslelts Chafr Company
Chiier Manufacturing
Railroads Prepare Protest Against Mail Weighing Change
Major mail haulers unite to challenge the postmaster general's new weighing rule. They argue computing average weekly mail weight over seven days instead of six cuts payments by about fourteen percent, risking current service levels. A committee of five railroad representatives will travel to Washington to press the case.
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Feneral
Washington
Damages for Delay Against Great Northern Railway
District Attorney Rasch files federal suit seeking 500 damages plus costs from Great Northern Railway for allegedly violating the 28 hour rule by keeping cattle in transit from Washington to Canada via Montana for 48 hours without unloading for feed and water, causing several deaths. This is the first such case in the state.
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Montana
Explosion and Fire Drown Syrians in Wheeling Pottery Plant
Panic followed a March explosion and blaze at the Warwick pottery works in a flooded district. Many residents, mostly children, leaped into floodwaters and drowned before rescue. Nine Syrians unaccounted for, eight later believed dead. Plant destroyed, Wheeling stamping works badly damaged, loss about $100000.
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W. Va
Warwick Pottery
Wheeling Stamping Works
Fixed at 314000 A Year Pay of Army Officers on Canal Commission
Washington March 18 executive order fixes compensation of Maj SiIert and Galliard of the army and Civil Engineer Rosseau of the navy as members of the Isthmian canal commission each to receive 374000 per annum including their service branches. They will have furnished dwellings on the Isthmus and actual expenses while away on business. Resignations of Harrod Hains Endicott announced. Wisconsin county officials found guilty after long inquiry of graft in town orders. Town Clerk Teagim escapes. Atlantic bound train from Chicago to Port Huron and East derailed near Ryancroft Mich injuring five, two fatally.
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Deadly firedamp blast at Kleinraseln mine near Forbach
An explosion of firedamp in Kleinraseln coal mine near Forbach Germany killed seventy five miners and injured twelve. Six miners remain missing while one hundred seventeen escaped. Rescue work slowed by wreckage as rain fell and crowds gathered at the shaft. The mine owner is the De Wendel family. the operator is Herr Wente a Reichstag member.
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Kleinrasceln
Here
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Miners Die In Shaft Cage Break at Gerhard Mine
In Saarionis, Rhenish Prussia, March 18, twenty two miners were killed when the cage cable broke as they descended a shaft at the Gerhard coal mine. They plunged several hundred feet and died instantly. The mine is owned by the Prussian government which has begun an official inquiry.
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Rhenish
Prussia
Gerhard
T Op
Fire destroys Hellion Hall home of Sinclair colony
Englewood New Jersey March 31 Hellion Hall the home of Upton Sinclair's colony was burned after an explosion in the ballroom. Fifty five colonists fled with injuries to five persons from jumping losses. Lester Briggs the community carpenter died from smoke and burns on the third floor. The Sinclair cooperative colony founded last October housed educators and writers in a common dining setup.
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Englewood
N. J
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Lester Briggs
Cmt
Sinclair Co-Operative Colony
Ten Miners Entombed and Firefighters Struggle
From Wise Courthouse reports say a serious explosion occurred in the Bond Coal company mine at Greene County Virginia. Ten men entombed, three rescued but badly burned, seven trapped with slim chance of survival as rescue work continues amid dangerous conditions.
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Wise Courthouse
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