The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-06
THE FRESHElS.
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Additional Particulars Of Disasters by
the Great Stern.
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IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.
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Eight Lives Lost in the Vicinity
Of Troy, N. Y.
TIRE TREsMEY IN NEW YlRg.
Along the Hudscn River.


Along the Hudson River.
PouGuKEEPsiE Oct. 8, 1869.
Information relative to the f.eshet along the Elud-
son is being received hourly and the entire loss
must be immense. II is estimated that the loss
in four counties on the Hudson cannot be less
than So COO 900. Ulster county has suffered severely.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal liz greatly dam
aged elnbankments being torn away, the canal
water minging with the water in the creeks. Early
this morning the body OF a man was found floating
az the mouth OF Rondout creek, and during last
night and the early part OF to-day thou
sands OF slaves have noated down the creek
into the Hudson from the Rosendale Cement
Company's Works. Mingling with them were thou
sands OF pumpkins and apples, sticks Of timber, &c.
The country in the interior of Ulster county along
the line OF the creeks Is terribly devastated. Ia some
parts whole fields are deuged barns are swept
away and roads destroyed At New salem the VII
layers go from house to house in boats
The Rondout and 0swego Railroad IS very seri-
onsly injured, more SO than was at FIRST supposed.
Reliable say it Will take months to place il back
IN the same condition II was on Saturday last. None
OF the vessels in Rondout creek were damaged TO
any serious extent though many collisions
occurred.
Further up the river at saugertes, the damage
near the river has not been great, but Saugerties
creek Is greatly swollen ana bar has been formed
In IL which VIII for awhile prevent the passage OF
steamers over It. Here, too, apples pumpkins and
cabbages come whrllng down the creek and float
away into the Hudson Still further up and at Cats
Kill creek moro pumpkins and cabbages,
cucumbers ana apples from the interior. Sloop
men and men In small boats, Gagmen and canal
boa'men securing the river in all SORTS OF craft
picking them up and heaps OF pumpkins can be
seen In spots on shore for distance of thirty miles
p,nr piur hn.x Garm antn nd
only six miles apart. ten dead horses were found.
The greatest anxiety is felt in relation to the effects
OF the storm in the interior OF Ulster and Greene
counties All the bridges along the streams in both
counties are certainly destroyed, and hundreds OF
farms have without doubt suffered severely Already
COOL calculating men estimate the loss along the
Hudson at 81 100000.
From the upper end OF Duchess county more
reports are received OF bridges gone. The town Of
nvoli, like Rhinebeck, is almost isolated and the
Inhabitants ore compelled to walk through dense
woods to reach the railway station
Affairs on the Hudson River Railroad between
New York and Hudson are looking better. The last
obstruction to travel between those two places
has been removed by the repairing OF the bridge at
IlvlngstOn's station and the express train which
left New York this morning at eight O'Clock, reached
Tivoli on time. There the passengers, baggage and
mails were transferred to the steamer Chauncey
yibbard, and the train moved on alowly reaching
Hudson In safety at minutes TO two O'Clock r. NJ.
Travel on the Newburg and New York short cut
railroad is suspended. The road is badly washed,
but gangs OF men are ct work repairing 1t.
The disasters in Columbia county were more
extended and serious in the vicinity of Hudson
than were at first supposed. Tho total loss OF pro-
perty in the county is roughly estimated at 100000,
which is probably less than the real figures will
chow. The town Of Claverack suffers the most.
Among the heaviest losers are Jacob O. Esselstyn,
woolen mill; Henry J. Rowe grist mill; George W.
Philip, hosiery mill; N. p. Aiken, knitting mill Har-
per w. Rogers, paper mill; D. NJ. Titz and w. A.
Harder, cotton mills. The loss in the town will
exceed $4,000. jeremiah Carpenters cotton mill, In
Valate, was damaged to the amount OF
$4,000. Alexander Abbott & Co.'s paper mill,
In the same place, suffered to the extent
or $4,000. In stockport Fl. s. Van Delon
loses s. 600, the Messrs Stalls $4,000 and others
less amounts. A large number OF cattle and horses
were swept away and drowned. II. J. Brownell, OF
Clayerack, lost nine head OF valuable cattle; j.
Cooper. q valuable horse and others more or less
stock. william II. Fleming lost 1000 bushels OF
potatoes, which were washed from the ground. Two
men, named Frank Wadsworth and James head,
were drowned In Claverack creek. The devastation
OF fruit trees extensive and beyond computation
At Columbiavile, in the town OF Stockport, James
Hood and Francis Wadsworh were carried over the
dam at Wild's mill and drowned, yesterday after
noon, while endeavoring to save property. Com.
muncation by the regular turnpkes is completely
cnt on. In some places ravnes twenty feet wide
and ten feet deep have been cut by the rushing
hood.