Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1857-02-28

Our Eastern Exchanges came to US Saturday,
crowded with vivid accounts Of the great fresh.
cts throughout the States, followed by loss Of
life and terrible destruction of property. At
Albany, the Hudson had risen fearfully upon the
breaking mp of the ice in thsriver, inundating all
the lower part of the city. While everything was
submerged, several large warehouses caught fire
from Stacking lime, and, cut of from all aid of
the fremen, they burned with their valuable store
Of goods. to the waters edge. The large and
magnificent steamer, Western World, caught
from the flames and was scuttled and sunk
Lumber, goods and several large buildings were
hoated ofbodily, and 245 head of cattle were
drowned at East Albany. .sl5Ial .atas,
The. Columbia street bridge was taken off upon
the first movement of the ice, and upon the pier
there were stranded eight canal boats. The steam
tug H.SN Dowd was sunk in the Basin, and the
s. Grant lay with her keel up, and lumber
office upon it. The damage to the shipping was
manly done in the upper Basin, when the heavy
ice crossed the pier into the basin, cutting them
from their moorings and sinking the greater part
OF the feet wintering there. The largest brick
warehouses and factories were reduced to shape
less mass of ruins and several of the capitalists
are bankrupt. Three men were -overtaken by the
water on the Troy road, and driven to take refuge
in tree, to which they clung with the water up
to their arms all night. It xas thought that some
must have psrished, but our latest advices are
not positive on that point. Bridges were swept
away, and the Saratoga Railroad Depot was des-
troyed by FIRE. s'..
The guests in all the hotels in and below
Broadway were badly of. The kitchens of the
Mansion, Stanwix and Delavan were inundated !;
while the Commercial dining room as we'll as
kitchen were inaccessible. !, The result was that
the guests Of each were breakfastless, while those
at the Stanwix and Commercial could only get
on to the s'Terra 6rma'' by means of RATS and
boats. ..sa
In Beaver street the water came four doors
above Broadway. In Lydius above the corner of
Green. In Westerlo, nearly up to Franklin ST.,
and in Ferry street within few doors of South
Pearl: South of Ferry street, all the streets of
the town below Pearl were under water. This
morning AL of those parts of the streets from
which the water had receded was covered with q
coating of broken ice left by it. The same was
the case with North Broadway, from the Mansion
House to the Deavan, and all the streets between
North Broadway and the river. This was the high
est and most destructive freshet that has ever
visited Albany. tha ae aai.aaz3 s4sa 81,
On the other hand we heard of the terrible eff
fects of the same deluge throughout Ohio, Indi-
ana and Enthusiastically in the latter State
Four large bridges across the Rock River were
swept away on the 9th, together with the new
Railroad bridge atComo. Many houses on the
flats near Dixon were flooded and forsaken. All
the bridges across Kent's Greek were carried
away by the food, one of them floating down the
stream with wo-horse sleigh containing man,
his wife, and a little boy. They were afterwards
rescued. The bridge at New Milford had joined
the others, and the dam and Mill were, slowly
yielding to the torrent. The bridge at Cherry
Valley was swept away, and also FIVE Railroad
bridges on the Peoria and Oquaka Railroad, cost.
ing $5O,OOO. LOO feet of embankmcnt were
also destroyed.
The Steamer Emma Harrison, and seven canal
boats had sunk in the Illinois river. The bridge
across the Fox river at Milford was washed away
and four bridges on the kalamazoo river Mich }
together with several dams. The water everv-i. .re
rushed with terrific rapidity;; canal boats saw.
Mills Touring mills, 's..eds, barns, dwelling hou
ses, stores End factories were dashed from their
l0unoanons sn and ID scattered plece-meal over the
pralrles IN all the miscellaneous confusion of the
NOaObiar flood Mono, h.e.. ~. ~,
ry OF the "oldest inhabitants,' was the water SO
nigh, and the destruction of property so univer-
sal and enormous.