The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-09-01

CB The recent rains were heavier in the
upper part of this county than in this vicin-
ity. The streams have been raised very high
and considerable damage has been done to
property, fences having been washed away,
etc. The White House Cdsket says 80 The
water in the North Rockaway, on Wednesday
of week before last, was 12a inches higher
than it was tweItysive years ago, whess it
washed away the four-horse stage, and niNe
inches higher than eight years ago, when it
carried off so much hav, and kept George AL
paugh on White House Bridge till midnight"
A correspondent of the Clinton Democrat,
at Mountainville, gives the following account
of the freshet at that place and vicinity, on
Wednesday of week before last:
One of the most fearful and disastrous
frcshets ever known here swept through this
place this morning About O'clock the rain
began to fall, and in the space of one hour
T scarcely more) the stream running from
CUkesbhry came down with such violence as
to sweep everything before it. All the brdg-
es between Cokesbury and Mountainville ex-
cept one, are swept away. At the house of
Mr.. Thomas Al Hoffman, about midway be-
tween the two places, the water rose to the
bedding OH the first floor. The milk-house Of
Mr.. Isaac Alpaugh was Hooded, and every
thing there totally lost: But still more disas-
tfous were the effects in this. village. The
bridge here was first swept off, which struck
the barn of Mr.. Isaac II. Apgar, tearing it
from it's foundations and leaving it at the mer-
cy of the flood The shoe shop was also turn
ed around, bu struck against tree, which
proved an effectual barrier The foundation
of the house of Mr.. Isaac ii. Apgar was next
noticed giving away, and the screams of the
children, and Mrs. A.'s frantic grief, made
the moment still more appalling. Both Mr..
Apgars and Mr.. Alpaugh's hogs and pens
went off with the flood.
Mr.. Isaac Alpaugh tells me that this morn
ing, just before the rain began, he discovered
that his horses had escaped from their pas
ture. He started in search, going as far as
Mr.. d. p. Apgar's, when he became uneasy
about his family at home. He then turned
back but the stream which he had just cross
ed was so swollen that he dared not attempt
to get over He kept on along the stream,
however, until only the impossible flood inter
vened between him and his house and that of
his son, Charles B. Alpaugh, where there
were only his wife, her sister and his little
daughter, with the floods surrounding them
SO that none could approach. The frantic
grief and cries, of these were such, to use the
language of Mr.. AIpaugh, as would appal the
sternest and bring tears of sympathy from
the most selfish of hearts.
1t is impossible to give anything like an ac-
curate description of the flood in its different
phases. Suffice it to say that it it is the COM
mon expression of our oldest men that more
damage has resulted from this alone than
from all the other freshets that have happen
ed in their day. We have at this writing e
p. NJ. heard of the sweeping away of sixteen
bridges, which cost from 800 to $500, and
we presume that this is but 1.-THE of all the
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