The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-02-18


day, 9th, we get the details of the terri
BILE freshet upon the Hudson at that
city. We make such extracts as space
allows.
H FIR t RISE OF THE
On Saturday night the Mohawk river
broke up, and upon the ice entering the
Hudson, it damned up at Troy, food
ing that city to a fearful extent.
The ice in the Hudson river opposite
to this city being very thick, it was
thought that it was beyond the power
of water to remov it. But yesterday
afternoon the water rose rapidly upon
the Dock and Pier and in a short time
both were completely Submerged
From that period up to l04 o'clock at
night, it continued to rise rapidly, and
at that hour the ice moved off with a ter
rible noise. Cakes of ice, nearly a foot
thick and from forty to fifty feet square,
would break from the great body, sink,
then suddenly rise perpendicularly, aud
hen fail back upon the main body with
a fearful crash. This lasted but a short
time, when the ice ceased moving, and
the water rose with a fearful rapidity,
rushing up the streets leading to the
river, filing the CELLARS aud some of the
stores on Broadway.
In the midst of this scene, three fires
broke out, owing to the Stacking of lime,
and the fremen went to the fires in
boats.
THE HIGHEST RISE OF WATER.
At daybreak Monday morning, the
water had reached the first step of the
stoop of William Thorburn, corner OF
Broadway and Maiden Lane. Such a
flood was never before experienced in
our city, and ever up to that time it was
on the rise. The heaviest freshet We
can learn of, was on the 18th of Febru-
airy, 1889, when there was two inches
of water on the second floor of the old
yellow brick warehouse, corner of Quay
street and Maiden Lane. When the in.
mates left it during the night, there
was then eighteen inches of water upor
this floor, and the river since that timt
has risen not less than eight inches, thu,
increasing the present food two fee
higher than it was in 1889.
The river continued to rise until
o'clock, when Broadway, from Orang,
to Columbia streets, from Stanwix Hal
to the Merchants Hotel, and from Bea
yer street to the extreme south bound
of the city, was navigable for boat
drawing variously from four inches tt
two feet of water.
A VIEW FROM THE
Frightful and awe inspiring was tn
, sight from the Exchange roof. So ia
as the eye could reach, nothing but des
truction met the view. Huge piles O
lumber, numerous offices, and propert,
!, of every description was seen passin!
down with frightful im~petuosity. O.
one pile of lumber a man was observes
standing erect, and beyond all hopes O
, human aid.
A hay-stack passed down the rive
on which were two men. One jumped
off on the ice and escaped. The othe
was carried past the city.
From telescope observation it is hop
ed the water has not reached the frs
floor of the immense -four depot of tn
Western Railroad, where many thous
and barrels are stored.
Both the Western and the HudsoI
T River railroad tracks are submerged
and a very great destruction of proper
ty must have resulted from the inunda
tion of a vast amount of merchandise
From the point of look out on the Elk
change it was preceivable that the wa
ter had gained the roadway leading
from East Albany to Greenbush. As
matter of consequence the different resi-
dences and manufacturing establish
, ments between the two villages were I'm
: der water.