Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-03-24


bridge is goue, being four OF the five
spans. TIE remaining span is on the
New York side; the piers are un-
harmed. The bridge cost slO0,00o.-
Damage to other bridges at the village
ts x35, 600. The food is subsiding now
aud the danger is over.
WILKEsBARRE, March 1.-THE river
10 twenty-six feet above low water
| mark, and within three feet of the bot.
tom Of the bridge which is in imine1t
danger and will probably DO swept
away.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, March 1.-THE
floods have done much damage here
already, and the ise is piled IN to an
alarming extent. The Lsckawanna
& Bloomburg bridge was swept away
last night at Pittson. Cost $l2O, 900,
Two wooden bridges are also lost,
worth 5000 each.
SUNBURY, Pa, March 1S.-The town
is In no danger from the flood, but the
farms below are inundated, and the
river is running through the fields.
The gorge has not moved. There is
another gorge below the dam.
COLUMBIA, Pa, March l8.-The ice
in the SusQuehanna River here COM
menced running this afternoon. 1t has
carried away the winding bridge of
the Tide Water Canal at Wrightsville,
and moved one pier of the Columbia
bridge. making II impossible for teams.
The Ice is piling up on the track west
Of here.
WrLKEsBARRE, Pa, March 1s.-Ths
river 10 slowly falling at this place.
The depot Of the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road and about twenty dwellings were
flooded. The ice still remains in the
river, and IL is believed reaches to the
bottom or the camel. For some dis
lance above this city, and nearly two
miles below, the track of the railroad
10 covered with water and large cakes
OF Ice. Men are removing the ice.
The gorge in the river at Forty Fort
has turned the water into the beautiful
Forty Fort Cemetery and ON the flats
between Wilkesbarre and Kingston, a
distance Of two miles, no fences what
ever are left. Great trees have been
torn mp by huge boulders of ice. Tel
egraphic communications is nearly
severed. Fears of another gorge,
which would do great damage in
ktngston, are entertained. The wealth
er has not moderated.
Pom Deposit, n. j., March lS.-The
river has been rising rapidly all even.
ing, and is full Of floating ice running
twenty miles an hour.
PITTsT0E, Pa, March lS.-The loss
by the flood will reach more than half
million dollars. The ice is again
gorged at Ransom, three miles above
here, to the height Of twenty feet. The
Lehigh Valley Railroad is covered six
feet deep with ice, two miles north of
here. Workmen are trying to dig
through and clear the track. No trains
have been able to reach here yet either
way. Many Of the miners here have
stopped work, because there is no
route left to shipcoal by. Should it
become warm enough to move the
gorge 1t will cause even moro destruc.
ton than Tuesdays food.
PoET DEPOSIT, N. j., March I9-The
flood here is fearful. The water is from
fivs to fifteen feet deep in tie streets. Moth
ing like II was ever seen before. Nearly
the whole town is flooded and there is great
destruction Of property. No lives have
been lost 30 far. The railroad depot is full
OF water as we'll as the Telegraph Office
which was abandoned last night The ice
has gorged about five miles below town,
the wharves are flooded ard whole piles of
lumber have been swept from them. Large
numbers of men are engaged in saving it,
The street next to the river above Bridge,
is completely blocked with ice, wood, and
lumber. The water is about ten inches deep
IN the streets, butts falling slowly. The
canal tow path at the upper end of town is
covered with ice.
HARRISBURG, Pa, March I9.-The
FLOOD in the Susquehanna has done
considerable damage between Middle
town and Columbia. At Bainbridge
several houses were destroyed. Along
the railroad line the track is covered
. to ~ feet with ice, for distances of
mile or more. The Telegraph lines
are destroyed eight to ten miles. Fam
iiies living on the leland were forced
to the roof of their houses. The whole
OF Front street, at Marietta, a mile and
. quarter long, is reported filled with
ice to the height of thirty to thirty.five
feet.