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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1902
Page
2
An oil man disclosed the character of Windsor’s contents prompting a panic as residents scattered in all directions. Police were summoned and removed the can.
The river fell to forty one feet nine inches by 4 p m as Cleveland and Pittsburg Station buildings flooded and rail traffic on the Cleveland and Pittsburg and Wheeling railroads suspended. At Mingo Junction fifty houses flooded and one man drowned. Four thousand steel workers idle due to high water.
The Ohio River at Huntington, West Virginia stands at 49.7 feet and rising slowly, climbing over an inch per hour. In nearby towns residents seek higher ground as the danger line nears. Snow and rain persist, with the Guyandotte and Twelve Pole rivers largely stationary.
Reports from the Ohio Valley say the river is rising toward the danger line with forecasts it will pass Cincinnati’s danger mark by Monday morning. Observers note levels near 47 feet at dusk and crews move goods inland as river men forecast a crest over 54 feet, potentially matching last April’s flood.
Evansville Indiana dispatch reports the Ohio River rising rapidly toward a big stage with water around twenty five feet tonight ten feet below danger. Cold weather is expected to slow the rise and flood fears grow as gorges between this port and Cairo have broken and released floodwaters.
Heavy rainfall and river overflow push the north Susquehanna to 31 feet 3 inches, flooding half the city. West Moor West Pittston and surrounding districts see homes abandoned, with boats used for rescues. Hotels and mercantile districts inundated as water reaches first stories.
March 2 forecast for Indiana and Ohio calls for fair and warmer conditions Monday and Tuesday. Indiana sees fair days with partly cloudy skies, in Illinois partly cloudy and warmer with fair north portions, Ohio expects clearing Monday and fair Tuesday with brisk winds from west to northwest. Maximum temperatures around 20 and minimum near 22 with light precipitation noted in some entries. Data credited to W. T. Blythe, Section Director.
Shipping news lists arrivals and departures in early March. Vessels from Havre Genoa Naples Gibraltar and Liverpool arrive or depart, with ships from New York slated to sail to New York. Greenwich and Bermuda reports add Pretoria arrival.
Flooding across the river basin leaves three dead in twenty four hours. Mrs. Rowland died this afternoon and was removed by boat. Dr. Butler reached Riverside to assist a woman who later gave birth. Mines report widespread flooding with many flooded shafts and delayed coal output. William Reilly drowned when his carriage was swept away while Breckert survived after washing ashore on ice. An unknown girl and a tramp were among the missing.
Philadelphia March 2 The Schuylkill River sits within its banks and nears normal levels as cleanup begins. Rail service along the river resumes with trains out of Baltimore and Ohio depot at 7:35 am. Pottsville and Reading lines reopen, but coal mines in Schuylkill County linger flooded. upper river industry to gradually restart.
Water from gorges rose in Ithaca delaying rail service as Lehigh Valley tracks south of the city stayed underwater and DL&W trains struggled to reach the area. Passengers were ferried by bus while several trains were unloaded on West Hill amid rising floodwaters and ice. Sprakers hamlet near Fort Plain suffered severe flood and fire damage with homes inundated for two days and a bridge abnormally shifted by the surge.
Paterson New Jersey endures a major flood after a recent city fire. Passaic river waters inundate the business district and poorer quarter, with hundreds homeless and one confirmed death. Rescue work credited to Fire Chief Stagg and police. dynamite may be used to divert water away from mills.
High water washed away the second and third piers of the camel back bridge on the Harrisburg side in Harrisburg Pennsylvania. The 1816 bridge, among the oldest across the Susquehanna, is to be rebuilt by Harrisburg capitalists. South Harrisburg is flooded and residents seek upper stories.
Incessant rain raised the Lackawanna River thirty inches in five hours after receding five feet earlier. Delaware Lackawanna and Western delays ended as the line reopened. Flood-bound travelers seek routes to New York and Philadelphia. News reports list drowning of 14 year old Joseph Gallagher and a missing miner James O Malley feared dead near Keessegar Creek.
In the adjutant general s office and as state ordinance officer for years, he served as captain of the Montgomery Blues, among the oldest U S military groups. Both bodies were recovered.
The Big Sandy River near Pikeville Kentucky saw the drowning of Frank Tyree of Catlettsburg and Lewis Schmidt of Portsmouth when their boat capsized. Edward Burke of Catlettsburg managed to cling to a sawed board and floated downstream for miles before rescue. No bodies have been recovered.
A heavy Southeast storm swept San Francisco and nearby areas last night. Communications with interior towns and the East were cut off for hours as winds toppled poles and ferry service to Oakland was suspended until morning.
Five lives are reported lost in Marshall as Western North Carolina sections mention two more fatalities in the flood. Property damage is estimated between fifty thousand and seventy five thousand dollars.
Liberal forces led by General Villa engaged government troops near Barranquilla on Feb 21 and routed them after four hours. About fifty rebels were killed or wounded. A war fund of 11,500,000 pesos will be distributed to departments including Antioquia Boyaca Cauca and Magdalena with various allocations.
Victor E. Silverburn, Star and Andrews drug store proprietor and longtime Metropolitan Police Commissioner, was struck on Main and Liberty streets by a masked footpad. He shielded himself with kicks and screams, delaying the assailant until he fled, with valuables intact.
The Elwood Welsh Eisteddfod drew large crowds with special cars from Anderson Middle Town and Gas City. Adult winners included Mrs. John Gardner Gas City for soprano, Mrs. William Frazier Elwood for alto, John James and John Evans Elwood for tenor and bass duet, Tudor Jones Anderson for solo, Owen Davis Gas City and John James Elwood tied for bass, and a host of other top prizes across recitations, choruses, and impromptu speech judged by judges from Gas City Elwood and Anderson.
In Saginaw bay a party of thirty five men and one woman plus a team of horses escaped from a large floe to shore at Big Creek in Tuscola county. The woman, living in isolation and wearing male clothes, admitted her sex after the shore landing and explained she joined the ice fishery partly for excitement and partly to earn money. her home is Sebawing.
Competitive designs are to be made immediately for the tour championship. The emblem cost will match the one captured by Foss. Conditions for the event are presently under consideration.
Two snowslides hit near the Bobtail mine in Telluride Colorado, burying several workers and leaving Henry H. Martin missing while others were rescued with injuries. The first slide carried away the Smuggler Mine superintendent Van Law’s residence, but occupants had moved out. A heavier second slide followed while rescuers cleared debris, and the Pandora slide between the Bullion tunnel and Valley View mine is feared to erupt at any moment amid heavy snowfall and a severe storm.
Captain Enoch P King an elder Mississippi River pilot died at his St Louis home aged 80 after a long career on river steamers. He once piloted the Robert E Lee in a famed race to St Louis through fog before victory. Francis Warner an American Express agent died in Wilmette at 83 after pioneer Illinois life and Civil War service.
London report notes the death of J. F. Bently, the architect who designed the new Catholic cathedral near Westminster Abbey, marking the loss of a leading ecclesiastical architect of the era.
Francis B Loomis United States minister to Portugal presented the dent binoculars and gold medals to the Peninsular crew and officers for saving the captain and crew of the American schooner Western Era after the Portuguese steamer sank near Lisbon. The Peninsular from Lisbon October 28 fell November 24 with the Western Era from Calais Me bound for New Bedford, its rudder gone and leaking. The Peninsular rescued the captain and two men and brought them to New York November 10.
In Kokomo two boys aged eight and nine halted a fast passenger train by signaling with a sock cap after spotting a broken rail near Wildcat bridge. A second report from Fort Wayne details burglars drilling a safe and placing a nitroglycerin fuse at Summit City Soap Works, but they fled before ignition.
Berlin reports no official decision on sending a German squadron under Admiral Prince Henry to the United States in 193. It remains possible a German squadron may head to American waters next year, but Prince Henry is unlikely to command.
Floods along the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad halt through service from Albany to Buffalo with bridges washed out and tracks washed away. Trains to Rochester Syracuse Buffalo Detroit and Chicago are stalled or delayed as a Yonkers viaduct sways after a pillar sinks. Flooding also floods hundreds of houses with widespread reports from Rochester Binghamton Olean Elmira and other cities.
Brooklyn Eagle denounces Tillmanism criticizing Senator Tillman and Colonel Tillman for conduct in federal politics. It links a February 22 incident to praise of decency and dignity, noting public rebuke by the President and widespread public support for proper etiquette in government.
An excited morning gathering at the Labor Exchange in Paris led agitators to attempt an outdoor meeting at Place de la Republique. A fight broke out with police injuring eleven officers, with many rioters hurt and twenty jailed in the crackdown.
In Elwood Indiana on March 2 a dispute over a game of pool at the Klon dike saloon ended with Harley Orlando and Edward Smith brothers assaulting proprietor George Charlesworth when he tried to eject them. He was struck in the eye with a pool ball, windows and mirrors were broken, and furniture wrecked. The three Smith brothers fled and will be arrested.
The Delaware River reached fourteen feet above normal at Trenton with ice laden waters rushing by. Several streets flooded and twenty five families used boats to reach their homes while Golding Sons print mill ceased operations. In Montgomery Alabama Capt Charles A Allen and his brother Thomas drowned when a horse bolted a buggy into backwaters of the river. Capt Allen was a prominent state figure and former chief clerk.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Muncie Ind March 2 Arthur Keeler a young man with a family is in jail on a paternity charge filed by Miss Effie Dooley of Daleville She says she did not know he had a wife and that he promised to marry her A week ago the woman caused a scene in Muncie while searching for Keeler with a revolver accusing him of withholding her watch and a $90 check
A Cape Town dispatch reports Cecil Rhodes plans several weeks of complete rest at his country estate in the Drakenstein district due to deteriorating health. The move follows concern over his condition and prompts quiet arrangements for his absence from public duties.
Returns from all townships show that at the convention held Saturday to choose delegates to the congressional convention one Baldwin and thirty three Landis delegates were named. The Baldwin delegate was chosen in Sugar Creek township where he once resided.
In Casano, Casanno, Calabrian department, residents attacked and burned the town hall. Troops restored order. Several people were wounded in the clash.
SEYMOUR IND March 2 Abraham Branaman a well known farmer in the western part of the county dropped dead this morning while feeding his stock He was an uncle of Hon W T Branaman of this city WARREN March 2 Mrs William Mc Allister died at her home yesterday after a lingering illness of consumption She leaves a husband and several children.
Edward Caldwell ran a drug store at Fifteenth and Prentice streets in Louisville. The building burned at 1 o'clock this morning. Edward Stegner, 17, and Henry McGowan were arrested on suspicion of felonious arson. Stegner confessed the plan to burn for $300. The building carried forty dollars in insurance on the structure and stock. Three men who roomed above the store escaped unharmed.
Professor Herbert Allen Giles, chair of Chinese at Cambridge, arrived aboard the star ship Umbria in New York. He will lecture at Columbia on "China and Chinese Civilization" starting March 5 with alternating classes through March 17. Giles spent 27 years in China, speaks Chinese fluently, and formerly served as British consul at Ningpo before joining Cambridge. He will also lecture at Chicago University by invitation of President Harper.
Hon. Lyman Gage former secretary of the treasury arrived in St Augustine with a party including Mr and Mrs William Rockefeller Miss Rockefeller Miss Hawley Mrs North and James Stillman. Their Florida stay is expected to extend through several weeks.
New York March 2 The Amateur Athletic Union announces a new emblem to be awarded after the contest in which Wilson P Foss won and defended his title in amateur billiards.
A large Owen s Pottery Company plant burned today in Zanesville causing about 300000 dollars in losses with roughly half covered by insurance. Four hundred workers lost their jobs as the works will be rebuilt at once. A Kearns Gorsuch warehouse sustained about 20000 dollars in damage. In Cleveland the Glauber Brass foundry burned with unspecified loss. In Fargo the J I Case Company office and warehouse were destroyed, amounting to 75000 dollars.
Chicago Record-Herald notes with irony that Tillman’s colleagues have not punished him, letting public sentiment do the discipline. The piece laments the Senate motto allowing insult with impunity and calls for South Carolina's retirement of the senator to restore national honor.
A New York editorial notes the King Edward coronation will allot seats in Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s with limited British and foreign guest space. It contrasts the traveler’s small chance of enrollment against the modest sixteen inch breadth allotted to Marchionesses, and the appeal for Americans to weigh the cost of crossing the Atlantic for limited seating.
The dignified statesman warns that differences between two gentlemen may not be resolved. He fears ongoing interruptions to business if the senators themselves cannot reconcile.
About 1,800 painters in the Pittsburg district were ordered to strike at a mass meeting held today. The action targets the eight hour day wage advance proposal from $28 and $1.20 to $1.00, as boss painters refused to grant the boost.
The Woman's Auxiliary of Christ Church will meet in the parish rooms this afternoon at 2 30 for important business and full attendance is desired. Maennercher Ladies' Society preparing for annual Easter ball on Monday March 31. Ticket committee includes Mrs John P Frenzel Mrs Charles H Adam Mrs Paul Krauss Mrs Otto N Frenzel Mrs Julius Keller Mrs Herman Adam Mrs Julius Burckhardt Mrs Christian Weiss Mrs Theodore Weiss Miss Laura Hauss and Mrs Anna Schaefer.
Officials say counterfeiting is quiet as engravers lose ground to photography. The Bank-note Detector notes recent attempts and warns a revival may follow as criminals learn new photochemical methods.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing begins selling a new one cent postal card featuring a McKinley vignette in the upper right, replacing the Jefferson card which will be discontinued once remaining stock runs out. Sheets of forty cards will be offered to reduce costs, with clear spaces for postmark and address and a United States coat of arms on the left. The card measures 3 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches and uses black ink, matching the Jefferson card’s size.
Porto Rico officials report the sixtieth and final day of the first Porto Rican session closing at 5:17 a.m. after midnight adjournment. About seventy measures were passed becoming laws, including the penal code reforms, while 140 bills were introduced. Governor signed and sealed the measures after midnight.
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