The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-10-16
Tie Great Flood.
UNPREcEDENTED DAMAGE TO RAIL
ROADS AND ALL KINDS OF PROPERTY.


Sunday and Monday seems to have
extended over n large region of country.
and to have done vast, and in some
instances, irremediable damage to per-
sous and property. The dan,agcin this
city was not very great, aud the rain did
more good than harm. The city was
much in want Of water, and the Croton
dam is now overfowcd, so the reservoirs
will soon be full and the supply bounti-
full. But the storm did great damage
for many miles on both sides of the
Hudson River.
on THE HUDSON.
a large portion of the Hudson River
Railway at Castleton was carried away.
Many bridges on the Rensselaer, aud
Saratoga, the Rutland and Washington,
aud the Roundout and Oswego Rail
Roads were destroyed. There were n
number of breaks made in the Erie
Canal. Much damage was done to
streets, roads and bridges in and around
Saratoga.
At Albany, the loss to the city alone
by the bursting of sewers and damage to
public works is estimated at more than
$4,000. Schenectady, Poughkcepsic,
Roundout, Rhiuebeck, Catskill and other
towns on or near the river, all suffered
severe damage, and through travel was.
and is STILL suspended on the Hudson
River Rail Road. Numbers of piers
docks, mills, boats, and other properties
and roads bridges, houses, culverts, dams,
&c, were carried away or destroyed
throughout the region of flood.
PENNSYLVANIA.
The food was equally severe in
Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia many
streets were overfiowed, and large
amount Of public and private property
destroyed. The Schuylkill River rose
to such height as to stop the water
works ut Fuirmount, the water rushing
over the dam in flood sixteen feet deep.
The Delaware and Lehigh Rivers also
rose many feet, and numbers of mill works
bridges, &c, are swept away The dam
age in Manayunk was especially severe
the Norristown Railway was over-Aowed
and the Reading road also under water
in many places. The travel between this
city and Philadelphia was and is unnter-
rupted, but the track between the latter
city and Washington was submerged in
| several places, and the through trains
have been greatly delayed in consequence
Harrisburg escaped the treshet, but
south and north Of that city much dam
age was done to the Pennsylvania Cen
trail aud Philadelphia and Reading Rail
ways by the destruction Of bridges and
culverts, and the rising of the Sus-
quchanna River.
At Scranton and Mauch Chunk the
railway tracks were much broken up by
the washing away of embank ments, and
twenty boats were carried over the dam
at the latter place. The Lackawanna
Mills have been stopped by the overflow.
The Delaware division canal was badly
broken, and two aqueductss were carried
away.
Finally, three persons were drowned
at Norristown, but these are the only
lives reported lost SO far.
CONNECTICUT.
The storm was severe in several parts
of Connecticut. The dam at Harper's
paper mill was broken. and it is said
that great damage was done at Walling-
ford, and along the Naugatuck Valley,
but no details have been received, owing
to the interruption of telegraphic COM
munication.
\ break was maze in the Hartford
Providence and Fishkill, Railway, near
Manchester. Several large mills were
swept away, together with the new dam
at Prattsville, aud the damage was severe
in Merden, Windsor, Locks, Talesville,
South Manchester, and other towns in
that region. In Meriden alone the loss
is estimated at $4,000
ELSEWHERE.
The District of Columbia had its share
of the flood, aud Washington aud George
town both suffered considerably. Bridges