. The railway library . Zanesville, Columbus, and Dayton arethe three principal cities in these valleys. Each one had the flood ofits existence. In Ohio alone there were destroyed 22,000 houses,while 35,000 were seriously damaged by water. A few miles aboveZanesville the Muskingum produced a raging lake 51 miles long; andthis over the main line of the Pennsylvania System between Pittsburgand Columbus. On the north was found another east-and-west lakeof a length of 30 miles — and this covered the main line of thePennsylvania between Pittsburg and Chicago. These lakes were anything but pacific c
. The railway library . Zanesville, Columbus, and Dayton arethe three principal cities in these valleys. Each one had the flood ofits existence. In Ohio alone there were destroyed 22,000 houses,while 35,000 were seriously damaged by water. A few miles aboveZanesville the Muskingum produced a raging lake 51 miles long; andthis over the main line of the Pennsylvania System between Pittsburgand Columbus. On the north was found another east-and-west lakeof a length of 30 miles — and this covered the main line of thePennsylvania between Pittsburg and Chicago. These lakes were anything but pacific creatures. They werefilled with rushing, boiling currents so powerful that, during thezenith of their existence, no ordinary boats could live in them. Theytore out embankments, carried steel-girder bridges long distances, anderoded away the soil of thousands of acres of fertile land, depositingin its place sand and gravel and stones. * Extracts from statement made for the Pennsylvania Company. 236 The Railway Library. The Ohio Floods of 1913 237
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