The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-10-09
TcIegraphic Summary.
THE LATE STORM.

since yesterday. The streets are nearly
dry, but covered with mud and debris
left by the water Hundreds of cellars
are filed. At the large establishments
steam fire engines are engaged in pump
ing out the water.
BETHLEHEM. Pa, Oct. 5.-That por-
ton of Bethlehem between the Lehigh
and Monocacy creek is under water. An
immepse quantity Of valuable lumber
was swept away. Weinsport is COM
pletely inundated. The iron bridge op-
posite the Mansion House, at Mauch
Chunk, is swept away. Ihirty-sevcn
coal barges went over the dam at that
point, and were completely wrecked.
Broadway is entirely under water, and
several houses have been washed into
the stream. The booms at White
Haven have all been broken, and
great RATS of timber are floating down
The loss to the lumbermen is quite
heavy. The Lchigh Valley Railroad at
Catasqua is washed away. The Lehigh'
& Susquehanna Railroad sustains heavy
) damages.
ALBANY, Oct. 5.-The water in this
city is still over the docks. Broadway
is navigated in small boats. Nearly all
} the easements and cellars east of Green
street are flooded.
Troy, Oct. .5.-The food was unprece
IT
eighteen feet above low water mark.
, Great destruction of property occurred
in this city, the mills being greatly dam
aged Up north the country is flooded.
Three houses were carried away at
Mechanicsville, and a woman named
umphreys was drowned. A French
man at Fort Ann was drowned, and three
} men were drowned in the Hudson at this
: city last night.
Two accidents occurred on the Troy &
Boston Railroad last night. The first
l was collision between a freight and
passenger train. Three employees were
injured. The latter, the same passen-
at Uoosac Fall, by wash in the railroad
e track Three lives were lost, and the
conductor was seriously injured.
e The loss to the West Troy lumbermcn
r by the freshet will reach one hundred
e thousand dollars.
st SARATOGA, Oct 5-Accounts from
/ the surrounding country say that the
storm ON Sunday night and Monday
ii morning did more damage than ever
IS before known Scarcely a bridge on the
country roads has been left in good con
IS dition. Great damage was done al
r Aston, Pa. and one boy was drowned
NEW HAVEN, Oct. 5.-The most
re commertable consequences of the flood
I'd in this vicinity is the giving way of the
N great dam over the Housatonic river, a
lg birmingham Two weeks more work
would have completed the structure
IN Three hundred feet have been destroyed
IL More than half the labor of two years i
ID swept away. One man was drowned.
HARTFORD, Oct. 5.-Reports of thu
ed damage by the storm continue to com'
a, in The damage in all parts of the Stat'
ly is very great The town of Mancheste
suffered more severely than any othe
re place Not bridge is left in the town
ad and not water wheel is running ther
III to-day. The loss to mill dams and prop
ne erty is estimated at $4,000; the loss il
roads and bridges, the same amount
IN Chester & Bros loss is 100000, il
&C which is included one hundred pieces G
IS, silk, worth SIS 900 or 20, 900. At Broa,
to Brook an old factory building, occupie,
rk as tinshop below and a tenamant hous
above, was swept away. A young MAJ
Ie- and five children were drowned. A mai
to was also drowned at Hisganama.
el- AUGUSTA, Me-, Oct. 5.--The storr
has not yet abated The river is yer
.ts high and rising rapidly. Every boor
- between here and Watervillc is broker
The rise in the Androscoggin river
unprecedented, and several millions G
logs have gone over the falls. j. N
'u Thompson, proprietor of the Glen
"a House, White Mountains, was browne
'is in the mill and carried away by the foot
"a PoUGuKEEpsIE, N. Y, Oct. Gre
NJ ports of damage by flood increase. 1
n' four counties on the Hudson the damas
la' cannot fall short of s5,000,000. Their
an are several serious breaks in the Del'
.n' ware and Hudson canal, including one {
Ia one hundred and another of one hundre
''n and ten feet. In the county bridges an
u barns are swept away, and whole fields
nc grain are destroyed. Nearly every bride
'ut in Green county is gone. Reports fro
Duchess county are also bad. The trac
OF of the Hudson River railroad north
;sh - . a,