New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-19
STORM AND FLOOD.

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STORM AND FLOOD.
Snow Storm at Omaha.
OMAHA, March l8.-The worst storm ot
this winter set in during last night. The
snow fell to the depth of seven or eight
inches, and was drifted badly by the high
winds.
HARRISBURG, Pa, March lS.-The ice il
passing quietly. No damage apprehended
in this county. :
How the Bridges Wore saved at Sunbury.
SUNBURY, Pa, March l8.-The railroad
bridges were saved by loading them with
filled coal cars.
Disaster.
PORT JERvrs, March lS-The food is the
most disastrous ever known here. LOSSES
Erie bridge, $75, 900; Burrett bridge, 81, 600;
$14, 900; lumber lost, $4,000; loss above.
$4,000; this does not include the probable
loss below.
Ice in the Susquehannah.
COLUMBIA, Pa, March 1S.-The ice in the
Susquehannah river at this point com.
menced running at $50 p. NJ, and is still
running past in one continuous mass. At
this hour, P. M it has carried away the
winding bridge of the Tidewater Canal
Company, at Wrightsville, and moved one
of the piers of the Columbia bridge twenty
eight inches out of its place, rendering the
bridge impossible for the passage Of trains
over it.
The ice and water has done considerable
damage to the Pennsylvania railroad tracks
west Of here, piling the ice up on the tracks
and rendering the passage Of trains imp0s-
sible. 1t also swept down q great many
telegraph poles, cutting of telegraphic
communication with points between Colum-
bia and Harrisburg.
Damage by the Ice.
P1rTsToN. Pa, March 1S.--The loss of
four bridges and the damage to property
by the ice flood reaches more than $500, 900.
The ice js again gorged at Ransom, three
miles above this place, to the height of
twenty feet, and extending up the river for
about five miles. The Lehigh Valley rail-
road track is entirely covered with Ice six
feet in heighth IN the Narrows, two miles
north of here. They have gang Of work.
men digging through and trying to clear
the track.
1t is impossible to say how soon they can
run through. No trains have been able to
reoch here either way. A great many mines
in this locality have stopped work on &C.
count of having no route left by which to
ship their coal.
The greatest anxiety exists here in regard
to the weather. Should it become warm
enough to move the gorge it will cause even
more destruction than Tuesdays flood.
At Pert Deposit.
PORT DEPOSIT, Nd, March ls, 9:2O p. M.
The river is rising. Immense quantities
of ice and some timber are passing down.
The railroad Is covered in some places.
Overlooked.
WrLKEsBARRE, Pa, March lS.-The river
has been falling slowly this afternoon. 1t
is now nearly two feet lower than on
Wednesday morning.
There is no change in the ice in the main
channel, and it is generally believed that it
reaches the bottom of the river. For some
distance above the island gorge below the
city, and from that point to Plsinville,
distance of five miles, the ice is jammed up
in solid mass. Several persons walked
across the stream on it at tkis place. The
depot of the Lehigh Valley railroad and
about twenty dwellinghouses were flooded.
just below here the Pittston bridges are
jammed up in the ice.
In the main channel, for some distance
above the station, and nearly two miles be-
low, the track of the railroad is covered
with water and large cakes OF ice. A force
of men have already been set to work re-
moving. At Forty Fort, little below and
on the opposite side from Plsinville, the ice
is piled up very high, and turns the water
out of the channel. The water cut away
through the beautiful Forty Fort Cemetery
and swept down, flooding the flats. and
rushed through the main streets of Ki1G.
ston, filling cellars and doing other damag6.
Boats were rowed through some of the
principal streets; from Kingston to Wilkes
barre, the distance is one mile, and the
water spread across the flats between the
two places in an incredible short space of
time. A boom was swept away which had
stood tho floods of many years, and no
fences whatever are left. Huge boulders
of ice were carried along with such force as
to knock down and tear up great trees.
ALI the telegraph poles on the fats arc
down, and telegraphic communication can
only be had by way Of Scranton. From the
opposite end of the bridge at this place
only q vast sea of ice can be seen until the
eye reaches Kingston. The bridge which
has stood the floods Of ty-eight years is
in dangerous condition. A thaw will set
the ice in motion, aud if it does not carry
off the structure the Pittston bridge will
swpoD down and 6oafrnv