The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-01
FROM THE ICE GORGES.

| and gcrged one mile above here at l H. NJ
started again at $50 T. ~ and moved abou
thirty minutes, gorged between here ant
Northumberland the water backing up ut tht
rate Of five feet per hour. The people arr
moving out Of thier houses damage q.
yet.
WILLlAMspoET, Pa, March 3l.-One mile
Of ice on dam at this place moved OFT nicely
at 80 this evening. The remaining ice,
five or six miles, will in all probability 60 Of
tonight, or tomorrow at the far,hest. The
Glen Union gorge is sticking on the piers Of
the Fa,raIdsvilie bridge, five miles above
Lockhaven. No danger IS apprehended.
The water has risen a foot and o half here
in little over an Lour, and is now twenty
one feet above low water mark, but the gorge
shows no signs of giving away, and may hold
out through the night. The water is backing
up at West Pittston, and is just beginning to
food that place. The Lehigh Valley Rail
road il flooded between here and Pittston,
and all trains have been abandoned between
the two places, and there are no mails from
the North.
The last train down reached here at seven
o'clock this evening, two hours behind time.
Lckawanna and Bloomsbury trail was
lust ahead OF it and both were filled with
passengers. The track was covered with
water IOE IL UlSLtuCC Vi u Lltlo sLutl u Auu, anu
in some places it was SO deep as to cover the
second steps of the cars and come within a
few inches of running into the fire-box Of the
engine.
The current across the track was rapid and
carried with it great cakes of ice, rails, fences
and logs. The trains moved slowly and had
to stop every few feet to remove distractions.
Train number four, north, was meet on the
inundated track with its baggage car off the
rails. The hind truck had been caught by
an ice boulder.
The baggage was removed, the car cut loose
and left in the food. Men rode on the front
of the engines on the down trains, and the
steps Of the cars were occupied by con-
ductors, brakemen and passengers, who were
all kept busy in pushing and kicking away
logs and ice bOulders from the track.
At the swinging bridge there was a great
mass of floating ice and drift .wood on the
track, and while passage was being opened
through it about an acre of ice, which had
been lodged on the right Of the track, began
to move, and headed across the track in front
Of the train.
1t looked dangerous and the men became
frightened, and the ladies began to cry.
Some trees and bushes, however, arrested its
progress. and the trains made their way
through before it stared again.
IORT JARVIS, n. u, March jl.-Ine mild
weather is beginning to affect the smaller
rivers in this section. The ice IN the L.acAa-
waxen has started, and several gorges have
formed, enc of which, ut the mouth of the
river, has damned back the water for three
quarters Of a mile, from ten TO twenty feet
high, and fears are entertained for the safety
of the wire suspension acqueduct of the
Delaware and Hudson canal.
The ice is within few feet Of it. Another
gorge was formed below RowlAnd's, short
distance up the river, and it is thought the
wagon bridge at that place will be carried
away, and other da mage may be looked for.
The ice in the Neversink wen: out this after
noon. An immense dam has formed at its
mouth during the recent food, and it was
that Carpenters point would be
flooded, but the ice passed out without doing
harm.
WILKEsrAHRE, Pa, March 3l.-The foot Of
the Rensom gorge has lodged against the foot
Of the gorge here without starting it.
The Delaware i, st,ll rising, Indications Of
a heavy storm prevail, and the great gorge
that commences at ! ingman's, sixteen miles
b Glow here, must soon move.