Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-06-22

Tar Lara FLoop.--fhc sudden
rise in the streams IN Centre, Clinton
and Lyccming counties, two weeks
ago, resulted IN much local damage,
besides heavy loss TO n number Of
our Lumbermen, who had timber In
the river at and below Lock Haven.
The Clinton Democrat Of last week
says;
"The food in the Susquehanna
reached It's height of eight feet on last
Saturday morning. There was n
large number of RATS tied up at Lock-
port, about seventy-fve or eighty Of
which are believed to have been car
ried down. The boom held securely,
and no logs were lost ont Of it. 1t
became very much packed, and suf-
fered very great strain, There
were no casualties on the river A
man and his RAFT came over Queens
Run dam, which gave rise to the re-
port of two men being drowned there,
The man was washed off his raft, but
succeeded in getting on again by
swimming. II was carried down and
ran into the boom here, breaking TO
pieces, and running under the logs.
The man seemed unconcernod about
the matter and manifested moro re
gret over the loss of his old hat than
anything else.
A large number of logs had been
RATED out, most of which were carried
away The following are some of the
parties whose logs went down Best,
Dickinson & Hopkins, about 5000
logs W. A. Simpson, 6 to 1000; Sat.
erlee, about $500 Shaw, Blanchard
& Co., between and 5000; S. NJ.
Bickford, about 300 besides smaller
losses by men who had caught drifl
logs and RATED them along shore.
The only heavy loser about here by
the RATS breaking loose, 50 far as we
could learn, is Mr.. j. Scott, who had
seven carried down.
Chathams Run was very high, we
are informed, and turbulent. The
mill of Napp 4 Townsend was very
much injured, and a large number of
their logs were carried off.
THE BALD EAGLE
was up higher than it has been for
many years-highcr than in 1865, the
citizens at Pennington says: The
water was not so high at this place,
because the river was not so high as
in 1865, which backed up the water
then to a greater extent but the
stream above was higher. The boom
held safely. No injury was done save
to the crops on the bottom land from
Pennington, which was completely un-
der water, extending from the noun
tain in to Hawkins brickyard at that
point The only casualty there was
the drowning Of young Walizer in at
tempting to cross from the bridge
over to dry land on the Mill Hall side.
IS wILLIAMspoRT,
on Saturday morning, the water was
10 feet 8 inches above low water mark.
The loss of logs there is given by the
Vest Branch Bulletin as follows:
"Dodg & Co., one million feet logs /;
II. James q Co, one million: j. V.
Brown d Co., one million; j. A. Otto
& Son, 250O00 feet; John Dubois,
25O,00C feet; q. Tinsman, 250,000 !;
Cook, Slonaker & Co., 100000 feet
Truiinger, Croft q Co, 100000 feet
Mahlon Fisher, 250,OOO feet; White,
Lentz & White, 10000 feet; Grouse,
Herdic & Co., 10000 feet. There
were others who lost more or less,
but we have not been able to ascer.
tain the particulars. In addition 10
the above, about 100000 feet cs-
capped from the boom. Probably the
loss to the lumbermcn of this city
will reach nearly 100000, not count
ing the drawback for what they may
recover below. The Loyalsock boom
has not, we understand, caught many,
and it is estimated that 5000, 600 feet
passed below that point"
The man employed in Williamsport
TO catch Lock Haven logs thinks that
about 5000, 900 feet passed out that
boom, and about 100000 feet that
had been RATED out were carried
down stream.
The Bellefonte Wdtchman says
Throughout the whole county the
food has done great damage. All the
streams were very high, and fields,
meadows and gardens have been
washed almost into ruins The heavy
rains have prostrated the grain and
potatoes, and much difficulty will be
experienced at harvest time in cut.
ting the crop. SO much damage has
not been done by any storm for Il
long time.
The damage to property in this i'm.
mediate neighborhood has been i'm.
menso, and will amount to not less
than $4,000, as follows: