Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-03-17
TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR.
BIG ICE FLOOD
BURSTED WATER SPOUTS.
PORT JERVIS UNDER WATER
BRIDGES AND HOUSES SWEPT AWAY.
THE BEECHER NESS
TESTIMONY TODAY.
ANOTHER SPANISH MASSACRE.
A CUBAN HOSPITAL CAPTURED.
Eighty Wounded Soldiers Shot.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY ELSEWHERE.
BRIDGES AND HOUSES SWEPT AWAY
THE BEEOHER Business
TESTIMONY TO-DAY.
ANOTHER SPANISH MASSACRE.
A CUBAN HOSPITAL CAPTURED
Eighty Wounded Soldiers Sho
ST. PATRICK'S DAY ELSEWHERE.
DAMAGING ICE FRESHETS.
Port Jervis Under Water-The Della
ware Flood.


this mo rning large shop whistle summoned
the peopl to look ont for the food, informa-
ton having been received that the ice had
swept through every barrier above here and
was coming rapidly with ten feet of water TO
this place. The ice left Pond Eddy, twelve
miles west, at SIS a. M, and was expected
here at seven. A seven the water was rising
here very rapidly, and King street was in
undated. a large charge of nitro glycerine
was then exploded, and did great execution.
The Delaware Railroad bridge, three miles
west of here, was swept away. The flood
was coming with inconceivable force, and
the Inhabitants fed in confusion from the
flats. AT eight a. m. King street was flooded
and the gravest danger 10 the entire village
was apprehended, but at $40 the gorge broke
and the Ice commenced floating down the
river, and the water, which had inundated
the lower portion of the place, began TO fan:
probably thirty blocks were inundated and
some houses were carried of. AS far as heard
from no lives were lost. The Barrett bridge
was swept away. The railroad bridge from
above came floating down with irresistible
force and swept the bridge away as if il had
been a reed. The suspension bridge, eight
miles below, is now doomed.
Three Hundred Houses Damaged
PORT JERvIs, n. Y, March H.-About
three hundred houses i'm Port Jervis proper
between the railroad and river, were more or
TO the second story. Owing to the ample
warning given by the authorities no lives
were lost. All the large shops of the Erie
Railway Company had more or less water in
them, but no great damage was done.
TRAVEL INTERRUPTED.
The chief engineer Of the Erie railway has
started for the location Of the Delaware
bridge, TO arrange some temporary structure
for crossing the river. No travel can go west
of this place on the Erie railway for probably
two weeks.
The Flow I'm the Susque hanna.
WILKEsBARRE. March 1.-THE ice in the
Susquehanna river here broke up slightly
at eight O'Clock last night, then remained
stationary until 1:3o this morning, when it
nm wi q IA md al
down rapidly until 2:30 O'Clock, when il
gorged several hundred feet below the bridge
and still remains in that condition. The
river is twenty-six feet above low water
mark, and within three feet of the bottom
of the bridge, which was in imminent danger
ard WILL i'm all probability. be swept away.
of the river has ceased, as the bridge is
deemed insecure. One railroad and two foot
bridg at Pittston were swept away last
night.
NEW YORK, March IA Nashville dis
patch says water spout which fell at Fay
etteville on Sunday evening caused an inn
sWept aWaY pais logs Furniture hogs cai
| tie and sheep, horses, &c. A small village
was suddenly and completely inundated.
The damage is estimated at 500 900 The
hour. As the hail fell il CONCEALED into
Jumps as large as nail Kegs, and in this way
foafed down stream. Another water spout
tilleries with an immense amount of rails
and many outhouses. The fall of hail stones
killed the poultry; the hail fell so thickly
that the surface of the stream looked like a
mass of ice. Hundreds of cattle were
drowned. The Tennessee river at Johnson
vile is higher than il was in 1861. The
stream is sweeping over the iron bridge at
| Nashville, on the northwestern railroad.
| Johnsonville is completely inundated. The
heavy storms of Sunday night did immense
Floods i'm New York.
NEW YORK. March 1.-THE waters oil
Wappinger's, Fishkill, Fallkin and other
| creeks in DutcheSs county are rising rapidly,
| and the ice foes are commencing to move
| The large trestle- bridge of the Duchess and
| Columbia railroad at Glenham is endan-
| gered.
A Scene " hfch s.Beggars Description.' =
PORT JERvIs, March IL, 1890 p. m.-The
scene at Germantown on the river bank beg
| CARS description. The ice is piled on shore in
| many places thirty feet high, and in pieces
| weighing thirty tons. About twenty small
| houses and some shanties have been torn To
! pieces, and about two hundred there are filled
! with water TO the second story. II is reported
that one man was killed. His name has not
| yet been ascertained. Four of the five spans.
| in all CD feet, of the Delaware railroad
are gone, leaving one span on the New
York side. The piers are all unframed.
| The bridge cost 100000, and was finished In
! the spring of 1872. Chief Engineer Chanute
hopes to pass trains over on a temporary
structure in week or ten days. A ferry will
be established tomorrow for transferring
passengers. The debris OF two bridges
caught fast on Van Noy's island, 3 miles be-
low, thus saving the tower OF the suspension
bridge. The damage to the Barrett Rri.se
company is about SIS 900, and other losses
in the village are about 10000 more. The
river is now going down, and the danger is
over. About twenty-five small frame build
ings nearest the river in Port Jervis are to-
tally wrecked.
The Erie Railway.
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE general pas
seDger agent of the Erie railway makes the
following statement with regard TO the con-
dition of the road at Port Jervis There will
be no interruption 10 through travel on the
made through the continuance of the break
at Port Jervis TO use the broad gauge line of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad between Binghamton and the west
end of the Erie tunlel at Jersey City, thus
enabling the Erie railroad company TO run
its through passenger trains without change
of cars from its own depot in Jersey City
through to Buffalo, Chicago and Cincinnati
at the regular advertised hours. Orders have
been given to all ticket officers In the east
and west TO continue the sale Of through tick
cts. Local trains will be run as usual be-
tween New York and Port Jervis.
Lehlgh River $3.50.
MAUCH CHUNK, PA, March r.-No dam
ger is unprecedented in Lehigh river. Warm
weather Of the past few days has removed
an immense quantity OF Ice, ana the channel
Is now clear.
seuth Carolina-The Cardosa Inves-
NEW YORK, March IA Herald dispatch