Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-02-21
FREsHET ON THE HUDsoN---AL-
BANY INUNDATED--GREAT EXCITEMENT
AND LOSS OF PROPERTY.
ALBANY, Feb. 9.

BANY INUNDATED--GREAT EXCITEMENT
AND LOSS OF PROPERTY.
ALBANY, Feb. 9.
As was anticipated yesterday, the ire
mendous flood of last night occasioned
damage to an amount impossible at pres
ent to conjecture, but which cannot fail
to reach 100000. All last night the
city was the scene of the utmost confu
sion and excitement. The citizens were
engaged on the docks and in the lower
part of the city in removing goods and
storing them away in the second stories
of stores and buildings where it was
thought the flood would not reach them,
but these calculations proved erroneous
About half-past ten the ice commenced
moving in the river with tremendous
force, threatening tie bridge on State
street for some time. The water rose so
rapidly that all those working on the
docks and piers were compelled TO make
a rapid retreat.
The water in the river continued rising
until FIVE o'clock this morning, when it
reached point three feet higher than
ever known before The entire lower
part of the city is flooded as high as
Greene street. The lower part Of Herki-
mer, Hudson, Lydia, Hamilton and Par
allel streets are submerged to the first
stories Of tie buildings on them. The
water flowed through Broadway, from
the Exchange to the Dolavan House,
flooding the stores and filing the cellars.
The streets between Broadway and the
river are nayigable by boats When the
great food commenced, it was about
O'Clock in the morning, and the water
rose six inches in five minutes. Persons
who had retired to bed thinking them
selves safe, were aroused by horsemen,
Hho rode through tn walar kn po sense sense
of their danger.
The widest confusion prevailed. The
people in the lower part Of the city had
barely time TO escape with their lives. A
large number of cattle were drowned.
The alarm bells were sounded for fire,
flames were discovered bursting forth
from houses in different parts of the city.
Warne IL Sons lime kilns and buildings
ON South street, Broadway, Gibson d.
Dalton's planning and plaslering mills, at
the foot of South street, and w. r. Bar
rett's fine brick store on the pier, were
in flames, having ignited through the
Stacking of lime.
The propeller Western World, lying
in front of Barrett's store, caught fire,
and was scutlled aud sunk, to save her
cargo of 1000 bushels of corn.
The damage is still impossible to be
conjectured.
The ice on the pier is piled up twenty
feet. The extensive agricultural machine
shop of r. H. Pease, on the bank of the
river at Bath, is split in twain and entirely
demolished with all its valuable ma
chinery, tools and stock.
The Central Railroad freight houses
are entirely surrounded by water, and are
filed with large amount of flour and
provisions, the greater part of which,
fortunately, is out of the reach of the
water.
The canal line of the warehouses on
the pier, are cut open by the ice and rid
died; all OF their contents appear to be
carried awa;.
The Hudson river has opened thus
early but twice-in 1898 and i842.
The gas is cut OFF in all the lower part
the city, for fear Of damage.
There are no means at present to ascer-
tain the condition of the Hudson River
Railroad between here and Hudson.
On the Troy and Greenbush Railroad,
the ice is piled up fifteen feet high nearly
the entire distance.
FKEsHET ON OTHER RIVERS.