The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-03-24
THE LATEST
THE GREAT FRESHET.
nossef Inundated. Great Number
"a nr1dges Swept Away..All the
Railroads Damared.

~As~AAS0Oo sbIV0B NU"W0I
.. Bridges Swept Away..Au the
Railroads Damaged.
KoSHEsTER, March 1s-On Eridav nieht At
oc.3ck the water in the river. which hsd
mena siSsing rapidly for the past two days, com.
street hl 9;SSas'ng over the western end of Main
buffalo streets, filing all the Cellars and sto1t
ping all passage from State street across =
Main street bridge. '~00' "ei"'7 "
Inc water continued rising rspidlv Al, r;sh.
AT dayoreak on Saturday morning Il had risen
" s M; nelgnt as 70 pour over the lower hsF
street in perfect torrent, tearing mn e Ha"1'
thing In its course. The water in ffonf IF Rey.
nolds arcade and on Buffalo street w.s f ~,
five to seven feet deep. ""' Ai'l1
The whole length of State street and 1aha
avenue was covered to the depth Of from fonr
70 nve ieet. Front street was perfect river.
came over the bridge.
pended. 'u0-
At about 1890 the eastern corner of DR.. R.r.
tons brick building gave way, and fen into the
At 1:ao P. NJ the store of c. N. Hartwer, on
followed by others, leaving nothing but the
front walls standing.
The N. 7. Cent. Railroad bridge was carried
of about o'clock Friday night.
At 8 O'Clock Saturday afternoon the Lonp
bridge on the Genesee Valley Road was swept
of and part of it lodged against the aqueduct.
Inc water this morning has fallen six or
seven feet. The destruction on Front street Is
very great. The water quilted out channel
SIX or seven feet deep its entire length.
The families residing ON this street and
others In the vicinity were compelled to remain
IN their houses from Friday night until this
tn. The back part Of oviett,s mill, on Water
mill Is said to be $4,000.
A tobacco firm lost some 500 bales of to-
bacco, which was washed out of their cellar.
great many merchants who were in their
stores on Friday night packing their goods
were unable to get out on account of the sud-
den rise. and were compelled to remain over
night and were taken out in boats.
On Saturday evening at ten o'clock it was
reported the water was slowly falling. By this
evening 1t will doubtless be within its accus-
toned banks and danger past.
BY dispatches from other cities we learn that
the aqueduct at Freeport and bridges at Kit
tanning and Oil City were carried away, and
that Ol City was quite inundated.
franklin was flooded damage to the rail.
road will no doubt be immense.
Every stream and tributary to the Allegheny
or Monangahela is swollen fearfully,
On the pennsylvania road two bridges are
reported to have been swept away.
The Fort Wayne road is under water in sew.
era places.
The Allegheny Valley road has been i'm
mensely damaged, both by loss of bridges and
the destruction of track, and the Connellsyille
road, although not yet much injured, will no
The Binghampton, Southwest Hillsburgh
mills have had to suspend operat ions, and res
idents OF the houses near the river have been
driventup into the second and even third
STORIES
Report says that over half mile of trestle
work on the Canandagua road across the Gen.
esee River was swept away. The dam at
Mount Morris is also gone.
Scottsville is submerged and the large ware
house there swept away.