Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-21
The Late Freshet.

PITTsBURGH, March 2O.-Telegraphic
communication with Oil City has not vet
been restored. We can give but meagre
details of losses by the late food. The
total loss is immense, being moderately
estimated at over So, 900 600. Oil City
was completely flooded. The lands above
Oil City were submerged, and the McClin-
took and Oil City bridge over Oil creek
aud Franklin brige over French creek were
carried away. Derricks and tanks con-
tsiniug large quantities of oil came down,
and the river was black with floating bar
rels, most of them filed with oil. Macy
Pittsburgh frms suffered heavily, Along
the banks were sad evidences of wreck.
Whole families were seen camping along
the banks of the Allegheny. A consider
able quantity of oil Ia barrels will be re-
covered, having hoated into eddying water
at the mouth Of the Sewickly. f,1st e.-
PHILADELPHIA, March 2O.-The Pitts.
burgh Chronicle of Saturday says: .,ft
The Allegheny riverduring Friday after
noon rose fourteen feet, and one part of
this city was completely under water. The
river washed the steps of the Scott house,
at the foot of Irwin street. The lower part
of Pennsylvania street was rendered i'm
passable by the food. The lst ward of the
city was flooded, and communication with
all the bridges cut off. except for vehicles.
Cellars as far up as Laycock street were
filled with water, and the FIRST floors of
buildings were invaded by it. Mechanics
street bridge was closed to travel, in COZ
sequence ofthe fear that it would be swept
away, the water having risen TO its braces.
AT 10 o'clock it was reported that the
water YVES steadily falling. By this eve.
ming it will doubtless be within it's accus.
toned banks aud the danger past.
By dispatches from other cities we learn
that the aqueduct at Freeport. and the
bridges at Kittauiug and Oil City were
carried away. and that Oil City was quite
inundated. Franklin was also f 1oded.
The damage to the rnilroads will no doubt
be immense. Every stream and tributary
to the Allegheny and MouoUgahela was
swollen. fesrfnlly. On the Pennsylvania
road two bridges are reported to have been
swept sway. The Fort Wayne road is IN
der water in several places The Allegheny
Valley road has been immensely damaged,
both by the loss of bridges and the de-
struction of track, and the ConnellsViIle
road, although not yet much injured, will
no doubt be.
The Biugbamton, aud South and West
Pittsburgh Mills have bad TO suspend .op
erations, and the residents Of houses near
the river have been driven up into the
second and even the third stories. &
HARRISBURG, March 2Oth.-The extraOr.
binary freshet in the Susquehanna and Jt j
uiata rivers has subsidized, aud the water
is falling rapidly. The damage TO the
Central railroad is slight aud the road is
now in working condition hetween HARRIS.
burg and Pittsburgh, Eastward trains
csmethrOugh on time to-day from Pitts =.
burg to Harrisburg, The damage to the
track that was overflowed, six miles east Of
this place will be repaired tomorrow even,
ing; in the meantime the business Of the
road to and from Philadelphia and N ew
York is passing over the Philadelphia and
Reading road. The Cumber and Valley
bridge has been repaired, aud the trains Ut
the Northern Central railroad from Harris.
burg are passing as usual