Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-08-05

seQucnt lnIOrUdtiOH i1etlSiS ''""' 'e'''N' pa
ces within the sweep of the storm represent the
ouant;ty of rain which fell from last Saturday
noon. when the storm began. I'LL "Wednesday,
yyhen it ended, as uncxampled, and the Hoods
occasioned by it as more desolatIng than any
over known in that quarter. Tie country which
has been thus visited, as far as we have heard,
!, the upper part of Essex aud Clinton counties,
in tbis State. and Addison and Chittenden coun.
ties. in Vermont
The most particular account we have vet seen.
;s in letter to Mr. j. G.. Heartt, of the firm of
Heartt. Brothers s. Co. of this city. from the Su-
perintendent of the Russia Iron Works at Clin-
tonyille. on the Au Sable. The letter was writ.
FEN on the morning Of Tuesday last, the 27h,
and speaks Of the desolation along the Au Sable
A. defving description. The storm began on Sa-
turdav, the 24th about noon. and when the let
ter was written. appeared still as threatening as
ever. We make the following extract:
Little or 70 damage was experienced on the
Au Sable till last night. though it was higher on
Sunday at three o'clock. P. NJ. than it had been
since Feb uary. 1926. Ii is now several fee
higher than it was eycr before seen, end has
ried away the forge Of the Peru Iron Company.
containing ten fires, about one-third o. the dam.
the bridge. the remains of the furnace house and
machinery which were left by the fire of October
1923, small pocket furnace, coal house, and
very long building used for proving chain cables
Tie loss of the dam will arrest all operations tor
the present. throwing from three 10 tnur hundred
individuals. one way aud another connected with
these works, directly cut OF employ New Swe.
den, the village where are the iron and lumbei
works of Earl Price and J. e. & II. r. Mclean
two miles above this, were. at the last accounts,
comparatively safe--bridge. forge, Hume. and
saw-ogs gone, and buildings still standing. Ma
chinery recognized as belonging to the wok, a.
the village of Au Sable Forks, six miles above
this. Burt, Vanderwarken s. Co. have Just float
ed BY US. and from the low situation Of the vii.
LACE and works, we presume the los, there wi!
be very heavy. We wait with brcathiess anxi.
ETY. to hear from Keeseyile below, and JAY
Keene. and Wilmington, above W. Ru-hnga:
the sources of the Au Sable do, from the highest
mountains in the State, it may safely be calcu
lated that every thing above us, will, ere the de.
ISOLATION ceases, be swept by the board. The
weather appears quite as threatening at the pr.
sent moment, % A. NJ as at any time since tn:
storm commence.
SO o'clock, r. M-The water is beginnng,o
subside. News from Keesyiile informs US tina:
all the bridges at that place, including the new
river. are swept away, There is probably nOts
saw-log remaining on the Au Sable river"
A letter from the same gentleman, dated
Wednesday, July q, to Mr.. e. Johnson, Of
Troy, says:
81 have not leisure to go into detaD-let il
suffice that the damage this whole country has
sustained is beyond calculation. Not sngl.
forge that have heard from but is either demo-
lIshed or greatly injured; saw mills nearly all
gone; bridges on the .Au Sable, Little Au Sable,
Salmon. and Saranac, all gone, and with one Of
those in Plattsburg, report says two persons were
swept off.
{" In addition to the destruction experienced
by the Company's works in this place, as stated
in my letter to Mr.. II. the fine grist mill vas
materially injured, if not ruined. OF the forse'
heard from, the following are chiefly or entirely
demolished: Burt, Fanderwerker & Co.'S, at Au
Sable Forks; Peermont's. in Jay: Barker's. Pc
ru; Rcketson & Halock's. 90; Peru Iron Com
pany's. in this village; and Aiken, Hubert i
Prindle's, In Keensyie.
- The numerous iorges on the aboye-Damed
streams are doubtless destroyed, though rOi heard
from. All is CONSERVATION among u.s."
We have also seen letter from Peru. which
confirms the general result above given, bur adds =.
nothing to the details.
We have seen no letters from the Vermont
side Of the lake but we understand that oHsthg
Onion river in Chittenden county, the Lxnkf
have been swept of every species Of cree,
ton, and all the bridges carried away; and
there is a report that in New-Haven, through
which runs the Little Otter Creek, dwelling
house, with family comprising IL or Il persons
and every person drowned
The whole damage on both sides OF the aker
is difficult to estimate; but from the great num-
Der of iron-works. saw-mills, grist-niIls, &c. o.
the Onion river and Otter creek, in Vermont, md
the still greater number Of these establishments
of a still more extensive and costly description
On the Au Sable, and Saranac, in this STATE
the loss in this kind Of property, it is easy to zee
must be very heavy. TO this is to be added ''s
wasting of fields and crops. The country that
was just going into the grain harvest, and doubt
less the largest portion of their hay was yeiU,
be secured. A million of dollars probably "oIu
not repair the actual damage. and the depression
produced by it upon the farming and maniI1''
turing interests in the region visited By lh' d.
luye. will be felt for several wears In ~