Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-02-11
Great Freshet at 900
Damage

We learn by the Cleveland papers
that on Friday the water in the Cuya
hoga rose TO an unprecedented beighth.
The Herald of Saturday says:
Yesterday at noon the water common
Pced rising here. and TO day we have a
food unequalled in the history of the
city. The ice gave way soon after noon,
below the Mahoning bridge, and dam
med against the old trustle work bridge
of the C. G. e. G. R. Rs. Branch, al
Carlisle. Chaplin. d. Co.'S. Packing
House. the new bridge alongside and
above i, being high enough 4or it 10 pass
under. The old bridge was not able to
stand the pressure, and gave way be
tween four and five o'clock. The ice
next damned above the Division Street
Bridge, but moved at half past Eve
o'clock.
The Leader says: On East River
street, most of the ware houses, stores,
&C.. we're overlowed, and large yuan
titles of grain. salt. -four. nails, DC,
damaged. B. Burton. on the west side
of The river, had about three thousand
bushels of oals, and about one hundred
and forty bags of salt, in the lower story
OF his warehouse. The salt was, mosl
of it, dissolved, and about hall the oats
wei. The heaviest losers of -four that
we have heard of, are Hickox d Co.
and Winslow. We did not learn the
amount, but it is. probably. several
thousands Of dollars. Brownell & Co.
had about twelve hundred barrels OF
-four on the first floor, which they sue
ceeded in ~elevating TO the mex story, by
working all night. w. F. Carey is one
of Ike heaviest losers. He had several
thousand kegs of nails, stored on both
sides of tie river, which got wet. lie
estimates his loss at between FIVE and
six thousand collars. On the west side
Of the river, the food forced It's way
through the old canal. carrying every
thing before it.
AT nine O'clock. the ice piled in hide
GUS masses, in a thousand shapes, and
wedged in with dIift-wood, trees and
lumber, and extended in solid pack from
the bottom Of the river to three or four
feet above the wharves, and from Supe
rior street to a short distance beyond
the piers in the lake. The feshet wa:
continually urging this immense Geld
towards the lake. But here a solid bull
wark Of ice extending for miles into the
lake. and evidently anchored fast. pre-
-o.faI fha arrarc IF tha mass EEarr
half hour the ice yielded TO the terrific
pressure behind it-crashing. grinding
and crunching up the big cakes The
big trees and the drift wood moved slow
ly down, and piled itself up at the mouth
of the harbor. The water found exit by
the river. but made its way out into the
lake west of the pier. Occasionally,
the water which was, at noon, about
four feet above the level of the lake
would leap over the barrier, tear a hole
into the dam, and dive under the lake
ice, carrying into the vortex vast guam
titles OF ice, and threatening to thrust
aside all obstacles to its free and tri
umphant passage. The water common
ced subsiding about ten O'Clock, A, NJ,
and Saturday evening bad fallen SIX or
eight feet. 1t is said that The flood has
cleared out the channel of the river al
its mouth, to the depth of several feet,
which will improve il very much.
Posr M1srREss.-Miss CoRNEL1A KEEL
so. is Post Mistress at Brimfeld, in this
county, Doct BAssETT, the late Posi-