The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-31

Railroad, east or west, since Thursday
evening, and none are expected until the
freshet subsidies. In the tunnel east of the
city there was five feet Of water yesterday
morning, and the day previous the loco
motives that ventured through it had their
fires extinguished. The only way the
trains could be taken through was by an
engine giving the cars an impetus at the
west end of the tunnel, when another was
In readiness to receive them and "hitch
mp" at the other end, 80 as to avoid the
putting out of their fires.
the track being under the water for great
distance along the Clyde River, and, cul-
vert at Phelps, on the Auburn road, was
carried away during Thursday night. The
railroad bridges at Wampsville and Chit
tenango, on the eastern division of the
Central, have been carried away, and we
have had no mail from the east since
Wednesday evening. .......
A slide has occurred on Binghampton
Railroad near Whitneys Point, demolish.
ing the track between Tully and Preble.
A culvert at Apulia, which has caved in,
tends to the complete disablement of this
road.
The Oneida and Seneca rivers, the
Skaneatelas outlet and Nine Mile Greek,
are higher than ever known before, and
much damage to property will follow.
The dam at the Touring mills of Messrs
Burdick & Co., at Amboy, was carried
away yesterday, and the owners lose
about $1,000. The Rowe distillery build
ings at Camillus were partly swept away,
together with one hundred barrels of high
wines, part of which was recovered. Lime
stone and Butternut creeks are greatly
swollen, and have overfowed their banks
a great distance.
The lower bank of the canal at several
points between this city and Ohittenango,
has been washed away by the flood, and
the canal officers here found it necessary
to fill the Long level with five feet of wa
ter, in order to preserve the culverts and
acqueducts.
From the Pittsburg Chronicle, Goth.
On Saturday forenoon the rivers began
to subside. Very slowly, inch by inch,
they fell, but steadily, until to-day they
are again within their banks, and the great
flood of 1856 may be spoken of as thing
of the past. The freshet on the Mononga-
hela amounted to but little, but the Alle-
ghany, swollen by many mountain streams
each transformed for the time from q
bsbbling brook to q roaring torrent
spread widely it's devastation, and swept
away many happy home and scene of
industry, leaving in their places wreck and
Huin. ..... ..,
Below the railroad bridge, on both sides
of the Allegheny, the damage done was
mainly by the wetting of property. Up
to Penn street on this side, and Lacock on
the other side, however, all the cellars
were flooded, and in the lower grounds
the first stories of the houses and the ma
chine shops, factories, saw-mills, nail fac
tories, glass-works, breweries, &C., were
by this cause subjected to immense losses.
In several foundries, large castings were
by the sudden chilling cracked and ruined
two guns in the Fort Pitt works are re-
ported lost from this cause-and some
furnaces and smoke stacks were also dam
aged to q considerable extent. Services
in the Second Presbyterian church, and
st. Andrews Episcopal church, were pre-
vented by the flood. g., e-a
In Allegheny, the canal, down to Fed.
eral street, was filed with the debris of the
torrent lumber, wagons, etc. Fences.
sheds, and out-buildings in exposed situa.
tions below Federal street, were washed
away. The ooal-yards were much dam
aged, particularly that of Mr.. Mcfarland,
near Anderson street, the office, scales,
ETC., of which were all carried away down
the canal. One of the abutments of the
Sandusy street bridge was seriously dam
aged by the washing away of the earth.
The sidewalk beside the Sandusky street
canal bridge was undermined. Mechanics
street bridge was so severely damaged that
it will probably have to be rebuilt. One
OF the most serious inconvenience to res.
idents of Allegheny was the cutting off of
the supplies of gas and water. Both gas
and water works were submerged to such
an extent as to prevent operations-Satur-
day and Sunday evenings were occasions
of both thirst and darkness. What water
could for awhile be obtained had villain
GUS taste and smell, owing, it was said, to
the infusions from lot OF tanners vats,
which were in the water pumped up into
the basin on Sunday. Above the Mechanic
street bridge great damage was inflicted.
and the loss of property in Duquesnebor-
ough must have been immense. Voeeht-
ley and Bairds oil refneries were COM
pletely wrecked, and much valuable prop-
erty, oil barrels, tanks, etc., was carried
away. The saw-mill at the mouth Of
Butchers Bun was 60 shattered that il will
have to be rebuilt. Williams saw-mill
was also injured, but not to such a serious
extent, and none of the lumber about it
was lost. Johnstons ica-house was de-
stroyed, together with large stock of ice
it contained.
Harvey, Warren & Co., lumber dealers,
lost BY the destruction Of their saw mill