Superintendent Pitcairn of the Western division of the Pennsylvania Railroad was on his way to South Fork and was notified of impending trouble. At Caketown, a village of several hundred inhabitants, the houses are almost entirely covered, and a great many dwellings at Blairville are submerged. Scarcely a dwelling in the vicinity of Sang Hollow can be seen. The bridges of Bolivar and Nineva, it is reported have given away, and that at Saltsburg, it is feared, will be carried away. People here who have friends in the flooded district are eagerly waiting for news at the telegraph office.
Great enthusiasm prevails.
The river at Livermore is rising and great destruction will follow. Later dispatches indicate that the tempest is of far wider range than was at first indicated. It raged with terrible violence throughout Indiana, Cambria, Westmoreland, Blair, Huntingdon, Mittlin, Juniata, and Perry Counties, carrying away the telegraph wires, flooding and washing out railroads, converting the beautiful mountain streams into raging and resistless torrents that carried death and devastation all along their paths. The Little Juniata, Frankstown Branch, and Juniata Rivers, that for the great part of the year are mere brooks, are over thirty feet deep with water. All the railroad and wagon bridges, so far as heard from, have been swept down in the watery avalanche and countless houses that were never dreamed to be in danger from flood have been swept away.