The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-03-25
MisfeAarreuus.
!. "'',. Ia Race With the Flood.
AN EXCITING RIDE FROM ROSES TAVERN
VA a, no PORF VISA i0UCH
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PoRr JERyIs, N. Y, March lS.-Ther
frst approach at this place of the icei
food which was SO destrtotive through.
80 cut the Delaware Valley yesterday and
SI the day before, was discovered by SUI
2s ss pervisor Nearpau, L. o, Rose and James
1E Buchanan about seven o'clock yesterday
morning. They went up along the Spar
. rowbush road to the camp ground, and
~ thence to Roses Tavern, about two miles
Gt from here. The road runs close to the
d edge of the river bank, which, between
3 3 Roses and the camp ground is eight feet
above the river a quarter of mile Ut
"a then rises to fifteen feet high, Between
y seven and eight o'clock they noticed that
" the river was rising very fast. Looking
up stream theysaw, half a mile above,
=. p, wall of ice as high as the banks moving
down toward them. The ice in the river
q where they were began heaving upward,
and was soon almost up to the read The
advancing flood from above was throwing
~ cakes of ice as high in the air and hurting
them over the banks on either side. 1t
was plain to the three spectators that un-
less they could put the quarter Of a mile
of low ground between them and the
flood of ice, they would be cut off from
communication with Port Jeryis.
THE RACE.
They instantly jumped in their Sleigh
Buchanan put his horses on a dead run
The ice had now raised above the bank,
and great cakes began to fall in the road
behind the sleigh. The ice moved with
such velocity that the running horses
could not increase the distance between
it and the sleigh. Before half the dis
- tance was accomplished the ice received
new impetus from the waves from above,
which had overtaken the smaller flood.
Buchanan saw the ice gaining on him.
He piled the whip at every jump, and
af his horses almost flew. When they. had
q. reached the foot of the hill, which ear-'
N ries the road to higher ground there was
less than a yards space between the
sleigh and the ice Theo Occupants of the
4 re rear seat Jumped forward, expecting that
q. before they were up the Hill the sleigh
III would be crushed beneath the pursuing
{ ice. The higher bank was reached in
4 safety, however. For halfan1ile the flood
kept abreast of them. Now and then a
cake of ice would be thrown over the
& g top of the bank, falling gsometimes within
a foot of the sleigh. When they came to
the hill beyond Buckley's, on the out
ga skirts of Germantown, the river for some
distance leaving ,he road, they felt that
~ they had escaped the food. What was
their dismay, ON looking off to the right,
to see that the ice had been stopped in
the chalnel of the river, and was making
anew one through gully across Buck
ley's fiat and was rapidly approaching
the road at a point hundred yards
ahead of the sleigh. The distance to be
made by both sleigh and ice to pass that
point was about equal Buchanan knew
that he must make last effort to out
strip the food Putting the whip to mis-
horses the race was renewed The sleigh
passed the disputed point not more than
a yard ahead of the ice, which a second
afterward rushed across the road and car
ried destruction into Germantown.
SAVING HER CRIPPLED HUSBAND.
Patrick Creighton lived with his wife
and nine children in little house on
the Germantown flats. He lately had
one of his legs cut off on the railroad, on
which he was employed. The food came
so suddenly that the ice was knocking
holes in Creighton's house before he
knew it, and the water was pouring in.
Being unable to escape in this crippled
condition, his wife started her nine chill
dren out of the house, and then took her
helpless husband in her arms and hur-
ried away to a safer place. This poor
family lost everything they possessed.
Mrs. Mary Maloney, an aged widow
lived alone in a small house on the flats
In the morning Policeman Esten went
to her house and told hershe must move
She refused to 60 "Your house will be
knocked all to HI" said the officer
"Thin I'll 60 wild it, sure" she replied
and did not leave her house. 1t was sur
rounded by large cakes of ice, and carried
twenty-five feet away. She stuck to it
and still refuses to quit it, although The
ice and water are foot deep in it, and i
is propped up on every side by hug
cakes.
INCIDENTS OF THE FLOOD.
On the Pennsylvania side of the rive
the ice was thrown up the bank fift.
feet. Jacob Westfall's house was sur
rounded with huge cakes in an instant
and a passage had to be cut through
them to rescue his family. Mr.. Westfal
lost nine COWS and team of horses.
There was four feet of water in tn
gas house in this place, putting out al
the furnace fires and destroying the lowe
tier of retorts. The damage is 81 900.
The engine house Of the Germantown
Fire Department was carried quarter Q
amile, with engine, hose carriage, and al
the furniture. They were all ground
pieces in the ice
A hog and nine chickens passed thi
place on large cake of ice. They wen
on down the river, and were rescued a
Milford.
j%4 Jocob HOrnbeck, wealthy farmer liz
ing below here, counted forty skunk
swimming between his house and thi
place. They were driven from the
holes in the numerous islands in th
river.
81 Superintendent B. Thomas, Enginee
Billy Morris and Van Wormer, and Coz
ductor Cow were crossing the railroa
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