, 1875-03-25

N"Sn soAS As.SN'AT6 NE'80t cooR
whistle warned people that the flood
was rising with fearful rapidity.s The
telegraph had previously, announced
that the ice had swept through every
barrier above and was coming down
upon the city, riding on the crest OIL
waves ten feet high. - is4
J. Z, A. M.-rIhe water is rising rapidly
and Kings street is inundated. A large
charge Of nitro-glycerine was exploded,
which did great execution to the ice
damming up the head of the gorge
The Delaware railroad bridge, three
miles west, has been swept away. The
flood is coming with inconceivable force
and the inhabitants are fleeing in con-
fusion from the flats.
8. M--The gorge remains firm. but
the volume of water has made ariver OF
King Street. carrying all before it,. and
submergius great part of tue lower
portion Of town. The flood il now With
in 100 yards of the telegraph Office.
845, A. MA great shout of thank
fulness has just gone up. The gorge
has broken and the ice is floating down
stream, while the water in the village is
lowering. The Bartlett bridge is stand
ing. though badly damaged. Probably
80 blocks were inundated and 600 hous-
es carried off. As far as heard from no
lives are lost. TIE wrecks of the two
bridges are being carried great way
down stream. The suspension bridge,
miles below, is felt to be doomed.
About 800 houses in Port Jervis pros
per, between the railway and the river,
were more or less damaged water,
many of them filed to the second story.
l, P. M.-March 1.-THE scene at
Germantown. in the lower part Of the
city, beggars description. Ice is piled
on shore in many places 80 feet high
and some pieces weighing 80 tons. 200
houses are filed with water to the se-
cond story. 40 1895
It is reported that one man was killed.
Four of the five spans, in all &C feet, of
the Delaware railway bridge are gone.
All the large shops of the Erie railroad
had more or less water in them but no
damage done. |
The debris of the railroad and Bartlett
bridges caught fast on Van Nays Is
lend, .hree miles below. thus saving
the tower of the suspension bridge.
Damage to the Bartlett bridge, about
5000, and other losses in the village,
about $4,000. The river is now going
down and danger is over 80
New YORK, Ma1ch II. A dispatch
from Pittston, Pa, states that ali but
the east span of the magniic. mt new
bridge across the Susquehannah there
WAS swept away this morning. and the
old bridge. quarter of mile above,
followed soon after. The Lackawanna
bridge had previously gone down. The
loss in the bridge alone is not less than
half a million dollars. The food is
making terrible inroads on the valubie
property in West Pittston, having al
ready covered the lower portion of the
place, and the loss is consi ierable.
NLw York, March l7.-John B. Dick
inson. the banker who died suddenly
yesterday at Chicago, was on his way to
San Francisco to visit his daughter,
Mrs. Sherwood.
ATLANTA, March II. A fire this
morning burned number of stores.
Loss, $l30, 900; insurance. about S4S.-
900.
HARI1sBURG, Pa, March II The To-
cal option repeal Bill. with the license
law attached, after being amended by
the conference committee, passed both
houses to day.
Boston, March 1a.-The Traveller re-
ports that Beck Bros, stock brokers.
have suspended. An examination of
their books is in progress. James Beck,
senior partner, died at his residence on
Monday from an overdose of chloroform
taken to relieve pain.
MADRID, March 17.--Ad.ices from
the north state that nine battalions Of
Carlists made night attack OH the
town of Sendugary, but were repulsed
with great loss after two hours fighting.
LONDON, March 17.-Sinrdett & Co.,
general merchants, 50 Mark Lane, have
Liabilities, $4,000, 900.
Their suspension was caused by the
failure OF John c. Inthurn d Co. Other
are p rted imminent
The Lincolnshire handicap was won
to-day by Gunner; Kaiser second. and
Maid Wildfre third
Rio JANE1Ro, March 17.-An extraor-
binary session of Brazilian legislative
Assembly, called for the purpose of
the budget and disorder IN
the country, convened to-day. The
speech from the throne was delivered
by the Emperor in person.
BosToN, March 18.-S. W. Bennett,
book-keeper and small partner in the
wholesale millinery house OF Prescott.
Wood & Co., it is discovered, has been
embezzling funds for several years. He
and thinks his peculations
amount to between thirty five and forty
thousand dollars. Since his detection
he has twice tried suicide.
CAIRO, Illinois. March 18.--A fire
here last night burned livery stable
and % horses.
SuNBuRY, Pa, March 1S.-The ice
here broke last evening, bat went over
the dam, but before the great gorge be-
tween here and Danville came. which