Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-03-24
The Great Flood.

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week all over the country has never
been known before. Nearly every rail
road i'm the country has been interfefed
with, and many telegraph lines render
ed imperative. Communication with
the East has been entirely cut off, and
in New York and Pennsylvania the de-
struction of property has been very
great. Bridges, mills, dams, stores and
dwelling houses have been carried away
and quite number of lives lost. The
destruction of property in the Pennsyl-
vania oil region is estimated among the
millions. From Cairo and below, we
have news of Devastating foods, but
have few particulars. Rochester, n.
Y, has suffered more than any other
place, and at one time over half the city
was reported under water. A dispatch
from Rochester, dated Sunday, 10th
inst, says: ..
"On Friday night at 8 o'clock the
water in The river, which had been ris-
ing very rapidly for the past. two days,
commenced pouring over the western
end of Main street bridge, anu rushing
down Front and Buffalo streets, and
filling all the cellars, and stopping all
passage from State street across the
Main street bridge. The water contin-
ued rising rapidly all night, and at day
break on Saturday morning had risen
to such a height as to pour over the low
er half Of Main street bridge. 1t rushed
across Front Street perfect torrent,
tearing up everything in its course
The water in front of Reynolds Ar
cade, and on Buffalo street, was from
five to seven feet deep. The whole
length of State street and Lake avenue
was covered t, the depth of from four
to five feet. Front street was perfect
river, as that was the main channel OF
the water that came over the bridge.
Business in the whole city was en-
| tirely suspended. At about 1890 o.
clock the eastern corner of DIR. Bar
tons building gave way and fell into
the river at l:30 z. NJ, the store of e.
M. Hartwell, on Main street bridge,
went down and was soon followed by
others, leaving nothing but the front
walls standing. The New York and
Central railroad bridge was carried off
about 10 O'clock Friday night; the re-
port that three men were taken with it
has been contradicted. At o'clock,
Saturday afternoon, the long bridge on
the Genesee Valley road was swept of
and part of it lodged against the aqne-
duct. The water ibis morning has fall
en- six OF seven feet. The destructioli
on Front street is very great. The wa
ter quilted out channel six or seven
feet deep it's entire length. The fami
| lies residing on this street and others in
the vicinity We're compelled to remain
in their houses from Friday night unit
this morning. The back part of Owl
ats mill, on Water street, was washet
away the damage to the mill is said K
be $1,000" ..... Its,
A dispatch of the 10th from'Syracuse
says:
st he water in Onondaga and othel
creeks has been higher than ever be
fore known. In the south and east por
tons of the city several streets were
flooded so as to be passabic only FOL
boats, and over three hundred dwellings
We're flooded more or less. The sal
works on the Reservation suffered Sc
yerely. The loss i'm the city and county
caused 10y the flood will not be less than
half million"
A dispatch of the 18th, from Utica
n. Y, says:
an the New York Central Railroad
depot at Utica yesterday morning there
was three feet of water, owing to thu
Mohawk river having Oyeri,owed it
banks, and the flats were one vast shee
of water for miles. The iron bridg'
over the Mohawk, of the Black Rive
Railroad Company, had been swep
away; also the wooden bridge OF tn
same road, this side" 4
AT last accounts the food was subsid
ing and it was thought the damages t
| telegraph: lines would be repaired am
the railroads il: operation again in fey
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