Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-20
DISASTER.
Effects and Results OF the Floods In
New Jersey and Pennsylvania
Fears still Entertained.
Fire at Parker's Landing-A NeWspa.
per Office, Three Hotels, an
Opera House ana Thirty
Residences De
streyee,
Fire at TOledO-Fires, aud Accidents,
and Grimes Of Yesterday Re-
ported by Telegraph,

: received tonight report the freshet a:
e follows; At FrenchtOwn, New Jersey
= the river is about twelve feet high, full
, Office, and rising. AZ Mauch Chunk.
Pennsylvania, considerable uneasines,
: Il felt ahcut the dam. About all the
houses are inundated. Ii is feared tha;
, the dam will give way. At half-pasi
three O'Clock this evening the ice had
stopped running, but about a mile above
II Is piled up two stories high. Several
bridges are in great danger if the ice
gives way. It will sweep everything be.
fore it. The ice is sixteen inches thick.
At Trenton, Assampink Creek falls
several feet. Delaware river is four
feet lower than Yesterday morn
ing. The river is clear of ice AT
Scranton. Roaring brook and Iacka-
wana river have risen about two feet
but no damage has resulted. At Eas-
ton the Delaware river is rising rapidly.
and ice running thick at Harrisburg.
The lower part of LOckhaven and the
jersey shore is inundated with three
| feet Of water, and the ice has broke and
! is going of. At Wilkesbarre the Sus-
quehanna river is seventeen feet high,
! ana the ice is running, and was over
| Kingston road last night. The river
| has fallen foot since one o'clock this
! afternoon, but it is feared that
there will be a rise, in which
case there will be a great destruction Of
property at NanticOock. At Middleton
there was considerable damage above
the town. At WilliamspOrt the river at
five o'clock in the afternoon was ten
feet above low-water mark. Railroad
communication with LOckhaven is still
interrupted. At LOckhaven the Sus-
quehanna is full of broken ice, jammed
up by the Linden bridge. Near Will
Transport the ice is level with the city.
The backwater from Bald Eagle creek |
has flooded the fiat between the
creek and LOckhaven. Many houses |
in the lower part of the city are flooded, |
and people are moving out. A break i'm 1
the canal is imminent, in which case
much more Of the city will be inun- /
dated. Considerable lumber from Clear
field creek has been carried down.
Lockhaven bridge is safe, yet much
anxiety it felt as to what the night may
develop; however, it is thought that no
further damage will occur
TTTUSvILLE, Pa, Jan. IA de-
structive fire broke out in Parker's
Landing to-day, originating in defect
i've fue in the Opera House. 1t de-
stroyed fifty buildings and a large
amount OF goods. Loss, seventv-fiVe
thousand dollars. Chalfoat & CRAFTS
hardware store, with all Of the stock
was entirely destroyed. There was lit
tie insurance.
PITTsBURG, January IA special
dispatch states that a destructive con-
fiagratiOn occurred at Parker's Landing
tais evening. The fire originated at four
O'Clock in the Operahouse Saloon. The
flames spread with such rapidity that all
efforts to subdue them were for awhile
The Daily transcript build
ing, the Wallace House, Oil Exchange
Hotel, the Greeley House, Spencer's
together with a number of
business houses and thirty private resi-
dences, were destroyed. The loss is es-
timated at from fifteen to one hundred
thousand dollars. At dark the fire
was under control. No further danger {
Is 8pprehended.
GLOvERsvILLE, \. Y, January l9.-
An incendiary fire this morning burned
he shoe factory of Arnold, Joy d Co., ,
with contents The factory of HOtch-
kiss, iron boiler, was saved in a dam
aged condition. Loss, fifty thousand !
iollars; insurance, forty thousand dol
ars.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. l9.-The saw and {
planning mills of the Mitchell & Row !
and Lumber Co., were destroyed by
lire this evening. A quantity of lumber
both rough and dressed were also con- |
,umed. The loss, which amounted to \
wenty or thirty thousand dollars, is J
covered by insurance, about equally di-
7ided between Cincinnati and Eastern 7
10 hs. 4,
WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE :
CHEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHING i
ron, d. C., January 19.-For North
generally clear and cold {
weather, and westerly winds, later :
hitting to southerly. Probably during :
he afternoon and night rising tempera- =
ure and increasing GOODNESS. For the
Middle States, barometer rising tenn
cloudy weather, and fresh,
risk south and west winds, with very Il
probably snow over the northern por- q
ion. For the South Atlantic States, U
ising temperature, generally clear and
Ight to fresh west TO sOutherly winds. q
cor the Gulf States and Eastern Miss :,
ssippi, southeast TO southwesterly winds "
nd rising temperature, with probably p
coldness. From Tennessee
0 Lake Erie and Michigan, rising tenn i,
'erature, fresh to brisk, possibly high, II
outh winds, veering to west and north b
-est, and cloudy weather, with prob a
bly, light rain, for Ohio, and 1ndi-
ma, and Illinois to Tennessee, but snow :
Orth Of this region. From Illinois to 4
Wisconsin, fresh, brisk northerly to y
'est winds, falling temperature, and oc- - -
asional areas Of light snow. y
SAN FRANCISCO, January 19.-Satur-
ay night John Mccormick, a street g
was attacked on a car by n
ack COughlan, who drew a pistol and 81
led to shoot Mccormick. The latter sc
red upon him twice, each shot taking
ifect in Coughlan's head, from which a
g died. Mccormick is in custody. Il
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