FLOODS IN AMERICA.
THOUSANDS THROWN IDLE.
RAILWAY TRACKS UNDER WATER.
By Telfpraph.—rres9 Association.—Copyright. New York, January 21. Tire Alleghany Rivet has risen 28ft, and is gaining in volume hourly. It has destroyed several bridges and flooded tho buildings along the river frontages at Pittsburg, where 25,000 men have been thrown idle owing to the plants of tho steel mills being under water.
Tho railway tracks m Pennsylvania are flooded, and tho passengers have been rescued in skiffs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12480, 26 January 1904, Page 5
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