The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-06
THE GREAT STORM.
DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY,
Loss of Life, sc.

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the food. The Norristown and READING
railroads are badly under water. The
Baltimore road between here and Will.
mingson is four feet under water. Pas.
sengers 60 by boat to Wilmington.
PHILADELPHIA, October 4.-The water
in the Schuylkill river is receding. The
railway trains between here and Ralti-
more will be running by nightfall.
TROY, October 4.-The freshet has
caused great damage. Three lives nave
been lost. ;,
HARTFORD. October 4.-Hubbards
cotton mills at Higganum, MiddleseH
county, were swept away, also seVeral
dwellings in Glastonbury ana Dam a'
Prattsyiile. The property in Merlden
was damaged to the amount OF s5o'oou.
Railroads damaged, but repaired. a
Ire reservoir broke away at South
Manchester, carrying off Rogers paper
mill The dams of the Globe mill com
many. Cheney Brothers, l.. Bruner d
Sons. Edward Bruce's and the silk fac
tory of Cheney Bros, were all Hooded.
The paper mill.of l.. Bruner & Sons Is
DESTROYED, and the machine shops of s..
LOOMS was swept away; the mills OF
Hillard G. Spencer were seriously lnJur-
ed.
NEW HOPE, Pa, October 4.-The Del
aware Division Canal is badly damaged
and will take several weeks to repair
damages. ~
PHILADELPHIA, October 5.-The water
at the Paramount dam has receded
nearly six feet since yesterday. The
streets which were flooded are now
nearly dry, but are covered with mud
and the debris left by the water. Hun
dreds of cellars are filed, and at the
large establishments steam fire engines
are engaged in pumping out the water.
The turbine wheels at Paramount Will
probably resume work this evening.
BETHLEHEM, Pa, October ga por.
ton of Bethlehem between the Lehigh
river and Monocacy creek is under
water; an immense amount OF valua'
BILE lumber is swept away; Weirsport is
completely inundated; the iron bridge
opposite the Mansion House at Mauch
Chunk was swept awayj thirty-seven
coal barges went over the dam at that
point and were completely wrecked;
Broadway is entirely under water, and
several houses are washed In the
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all broken, and great RATS OF timber
are floating down. The loss to lumber
men at White Haven is very heavy.
The Lehigh Valley railroad at Catasque
is washed away, and the sLehlgh and
Susquehanna railroad will sustain heavy
damage, it being washed at many points
between White Haven and Bethlehem.
The canal is washed east of town.
ALBANY, October 5.-The water in
this city is still over the docks and Is
parallel with the river. South Broad
way is navigated by small boats. Near
| ly all the Easements aud cellers east OF
Green street are flooded.
TROY, October 5.-The flood is un-
precedented. The water in the Hudson
| is lS feet above high water mark.
Great destruction of property has been
done along the Poestenkill, in this
city the mills being greatly damaged.
Up north the country is flooded. Three
houses were carried away at Mechanics
vile and a woman named Humphrey
drowned. A Frenchman at Fort Ann
was drowned while trying to save his
horse. Three men were drowned in the
Hudson at this city last night; their
names were Jas. DOnnelly, Michael
Riley and Jas. Flynn. There were two
accidents Oh the Troy and Boston rail
road, last night. The first was col
lision between fret sht and passenger
train. There were three employees in
| iured. Later the same passenger train
was thrown into Hoesic river at Hooslck
Falls by wash on the railroad track
and three lives lost. Those killed are
DIR. Fowler aud wife of HoOsic Falls
and Chas. Aiken of Sand Lake. The
conductor, II. J. Clark, was seriously
Injured. The loss to the West Troy
lumbermen by the freshet will reach
$4,000
| SARATOGA, October 5.-Accounts from
the surrounding country say that the
storm of Sunday ulgn aud Monday
morning did more damage than any be
fore known. Scarcely u bridge on the
country roads about here has been left
in good condition. Great damage has
been done in Ballston Spa, and one boy
was drowned.
New HAVEN, CT, October 5.-The
most lamentable consequences of the
flood in this vicinity is the giving way
of the great dam over the Housatonlc
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would have completed the structure.
Three hundred feet has been DESTROYED
and more than half the labor OF two
years swept away. One man was
drowned.
HARTFORD, October 5.-Reports Of
the damage done by the storm continue
to come in. The damage in all parts OF
the State is very great. The town OF
Manchester has suffered more than any
other place in this vicinity. Not a
bridge is left in town and not water
wheel is running there to-day. The
loss TO mill dams and property is esti
mated at $50, O60; the loss % roads and
bridges is $4,000. Cheney n Bros
loss is 500, 900, in which is included loo
pieces of silks worth $4,000 to $50, 900.
At Broad Brock the old factory build
ing, occupied as tin shop below and a
tenement house was swept away and n
young man, woman and five children
were drowned. A man was also drowned
in Higginum. The Hartford, Provi
dence Il Fishkill railroad is open o-day
to Waterbury, but the breaks between
here and Willimantic have not been
repaired. The New London Northern
TOau Is OpCu HUH NCN I~OLNOh w w IA
limatic, above the latter place it is i'm
possible to run trains regularly.
Boston, October 5.-Reports from
Maine and New Hampshire represent
the storm as unparalleled in severity. In
Concord every street was badly washed
and quilted, hundreds of cellars filled
and sidewalks caved in. AT West Con
cord one house WIS carried away. Long
Pond rose two feet. At Farnum's Cross
ing the highway was quilted to the
width of twenty feet and the depth OF
fifteen feet. Nearly one hundred feet
of the bed of the Clermout railroad was
washed out, the rails in some instances
sinking ten feet. The Montreal road is
also reported in bad condition. Very
little damage was done in Boston and
vicinity. \ small portion of the roof OF
the Coliseum was blown Oft.