The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-05
LATEST By TnLHaRAPH.
THE OCTOBER DELUGE.
Disastrous Effects of the Flood in the
Lehigh Valley-The Scene at
Bethlehem-Railroad Traffic
Stopped The Losses
Incurred by Over
flows.
FROM THE STATE.


Special Despatch to The Eueni'lg Telegraph.
BETHLEHEM, Pa, Oct. 5.-The following are
among the losses by the freshet:-
Knauz 81 Booshek, merchants, $500; Borhek
Nauz tS Miksch, lumber and coal dealers, $780,;
II. M. Fetters hotel, $780, Pennsylvania House,
$780, John Groman, sand dealer, $500; Levi
Ott lumber and coal dealer, loss about $300O;
Lehigh Zinc Company's Works, $150O-about
400 tons Of coal washed away Henry Myers
saloon, loss 5000; G. T. Horney, stable swept
away loss $1,000 residence damaged, $780, c..
f. Beckles foundry and machine shop, loss esti-
mated at $3000-oflice carried quarter of q mile
The New street bridge had one span swept
away; loss, $7O0. Doster & Sons factory a loss
of about $4,000. Taylor's saw mill, loss about
$4,000. Bethlehem Rolling Mill, loss cannot be
estimated, not less than $4,000.
No trains are running on the Lehigh Valley
or Lehgh and Susquehanua Railroads.
The storm at Bethlehem-Its Violence in the
Lehigh Vnlley-The River Twenty Feet Above
Low Water mnrk-Dumnge to Property
Buildings Submerged-DestructiOn to Rail-
roads.
Despatch to the Associated Press.
BETHLEHEM, Oct. 5.-The rain storm which
commenced here on Saturday afternoon seems
to have extended in all directions and was par
ticularly heavy and violent in the Lehigh Valley.
AT 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, it had attained
its highest, being twenty feet above low water
mark and within fifteen inches of the high
water mark of 1862.
That portion of Bethlehem between the
Lehigh river and Monocacy creek is under
water. The Pennsylvania House and Fetter's
Hotel are very much damaged. The bridges at
this point have sustained but little damage
An immense amount of valuable lumber was
swept away from here. The water is into the
Bethlehem Iron Works. 1t ran into the furnaces
at Allentown at noon. The Crane Iron Works
at Catasauqua accumulated, and the loss is very
great. Weissport is completely inundated. The
beautiful iron bridge opposite the Mansion
House, at Mauch Chunk, was swept down the
stream.
At 8 A. M. thirty-seven coal barges went over
the dam at that point, and all are complete
wreck. Broadway there is entirely under water,
and several houses were washed into the stream.
The booms at White Haven are all broken, and
great RATS of timber are floating down. The
loss to lumbermen at White Haven is very heavy.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad at Catasauqua is
washed.
The Lehfgh and susquehanna Railroad sus-
tains the heaviest damages, being washed away
at many points between White Haven and Beth
ehem. The canal is washed east of the town,
and the loss is great. Telegraphic communica-
tions are all destroyed north of Catasauqua.
Robbery ut Reading.
READING, Oct 5.-The jewelry store of G.. d.
Buck was entered during last night, and robbed
of over $500 worth of goods. The burglary is
supposed to have been induced by the absence
of gas-light in consequence of the damage to
the city gas works by the freshet.
The following despatch, which has just been
received, will give some further information
of the flood and its subsidence:-
CATAsAUQUA, Oct. 5, 1S69.-E. W. Clark,
President Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany:-On our way to Catasauqua with con-
struction train. viii reach there about II
o'clock. Damage to canal not so great as ex-
pected.s SO far as l have seen and heard, it can
be repaired in from fifteen to twenty days The
railroad can be opened in a few days The river
! has fallen six to seven feet, and all danger OF
further damage is past. j. LEIsENRING.