New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-06
TIE RECENT RAINS.

DAMAGE TO THE MIDLAND RAILROAD AND DELA-
WARE AND HUDSON CANAL-GREAT DESTRCC-
TON OF PROPERTY.
The damage done by the violent rain storms
OF last week In Ulster County very great according
TO reports that coming in. In the vicinity or
Elenyile there several small streams which we're
higher than they had been before for thirty years The
village was only saved from being entirely flooded by an
immense dixie that was erected In 1862 after damaging
freshet. tannery dam carried away involv-
ing loss of $4,000 Many valuable cattle and hogs were
drowned, and swept of. Several bridges over these
streams destroyed
The Midland Railroad badly damaged about Ellen
yrle The Mountain Brook overlooked, and swept along
the new entertainments Of the railroad, washing them
entirely away several places, and leaving the Ties ana
rails suspended in the air, At other points the track
was buried considerable distances under nearly FOOT
Of sand. Sixty feet Of the embanklnent was washed
away at Harps The locomotive Elenville was entirely
shut IN by sand drifts the cuts at sandburgh The
large and expensive reservoir Of the new Elenvie
water-works, Just completed filed with large stones
and sand that had been swept down the shawangunk
Mountain. The loss to the Company Is great and the
work will be delayed many weeks.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal was damaged more
seriously than at first reported Its small feeders
from the mountains In that vicinity were swelled to
rents. filing levels, and overfowng the towpath Tor
miles, The stream that flows down the hills west OF
Phipsport was swollen terribly, and brought down
road carts were oatsd from above the village into an
opening under the canal stopping the passage OF water
and causing II along the "berm side OF
the canal entering the short level above lock No AZ,
where after OVERLOOKING and washing the towpath very
badly il broke out close the lock- carrying away 100
feet OF the towpah and tearing out the bottom OF the
canal from four to ten feet deep boat loaded with
coal was carried through and badly wrecked The tor
rent thus freed rushed through the adjoining meadows
covering them completely with stones and dirt past lock
No 49, washing the tow-path to lock No As. where an
other OPP hing OF feet swept through and leo feet
additional OF the lock embankment carried away Az
Colweps AGueduct rs feet were washed out, beside
about i've feet OF the bottom. Above Bolton Basin
slide of nd and filed the canal for 100 feet
and from 10 TO IS feet above the canal level Over 200
men have been actively engaged IN ing these da
the latter part OF this week
At Phipsport the house OF Archibald Crossman was
surrounded by the torrent new channel being cut az
the rear OF the house. The water came above the door
sis. Mr.. Crossman carried out two OF his children to
place OF safety but while taking out third, he was
thrown down the current and narrowly escaped be-
Ing carried away with HIS child he succeeded IN getting
danger until the storm subsidized. Nathan Baker and
Cyrenus Bloom whose houses in the course Of the
food, abandoned them with their families ,-. 4, .
O'Clock Wednesday morning the alarm was given for the
residents Of the village to seek safety as the creek along
mountains in the drenching rain few only staying
pigs and poultry were swept away and destroyed The
Oyerhowed the towpath and rose to the second
thing in the building. MIs. Lynch, an aged woman,
living alone sick abed In the basement OF her mousse
alarm to men passing With light and they rescued her
With great difficulty Whole fields OF buck wheat and corn
were DESTROYED and the entire valley was scene OF de
yastaOn The Sandburgh road was blocked for several
rods with an immense slide OF sand from the mountain
In Sullivan County bridges, roads cattle crops and
buildings have been destroyed or damaged by the effect
OF the same Storm