The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-28
THE DELAWARE vA.LEy.
The River Not Cleared Between Port Jcryi.
nnh the Gap Censide rabie Alarm ut and
Below S:locma Observation-Disclosures OF the
Last FioOd-A Thrilling Narrative Of an
Escaue,

Escape.
po,r f,r,,,s ,1oro, ., ,c-z -ro,oo,
80 . -. - ,iaioH - SO; ltieSraph com
ana .;Ird a. 80; w 'nls piact
river to-day. TIE new. rnrn,yed to.day frn,,,
below i to the effect that til, reported clearing
correct rc '''"'1n i'e10 @'-' INC zap IS hot
All the ice that passed PORT Jeryis and all tbo :
went ont below for thirty miles is iammed ia
Shoemaker's Eddy, siA miles this side Of tho Wa
| ter Gap, and extends back eighteen miles, filling
the river from bank to bank. When it formed a
serious inunda,ion occurred on both sides Of the
| river for miles. Farms, sorle of the richest in
the valley, have been 50 badly damaged BY the
p'oughing ice that hundreds Of acres will be en-
tireiy ruineds Orchards. vineyards. etc., have
been destroyed; acres OF trees and vines being
torn out by the roots or broken down. Fences,
outbuildings. lumber and all movable property
have suffered the same fate as those in the vcin-
lty OF this place and up the river.
BELOW sHoEMakER's.
Below Shoemakers the ice is broken up as far
rs Broadhead Hotel, this side of the Gap. and is
lodged there Between the hotel and the Gap
the ice is as sold in the river as it has been at
any time this winter, and Is crossed by people
living there The fury OF the flood seems to have
been spent by the time it reached Shoemakers
that it was unable TO force the mass of ice and
drift further, and when a passage was made
through the eighteen miles Of packed ice for the
water to escape from above which it did much
the same az when the gorge formed here
uiou6n Cut lnttfsliccs OF tiie lce-tne river I'll
rapid. uhtll there Is now but an ordinary flow OF
water.
ALARM AT SHOEMAKER
This great gorge at Shoemaker's il causinp
great alarm as far up as Dingman's. Pa. and ali
exposed property is being made as secure as Dos
siblc.
THE LAST FLOOD.
There never Was l,,o,,o a., ;,o o,,- ::
locality Int onca hafora ",i 81 500 ~ alll
one hundred vears aro y 80 IN M "as e 20
q GORGE at tha Water Gan ~ a. no 80 ~ hieu
fore II broke the Who'll ronn,rr, yu"i' "i ~ oe
and Port Jervis, forty miles, was flooded. Many
lives were lost. man named Dewitt lived |
about four miles below here on the Pennsylyania
side of the river, near the bank Besides himself |
and his family he had six slaves The water |
his hoCse and barns before any |
conld escape
Mrs. De Witt climbed upon huge cake of ice
that was floating slowly by the door. and it being
caught in eddyns water was carried to land and |
she escaped hir. De Witt swan to an apple tree
and climbed to its top. A son swan among the
floating ice cakes to the Pennsylvania boundary
Of the flood, and escaped with his life, but was
badly jtmmed. The SIX slaves and several head
Of cattle sheep and hogs were drowned The
slaves tried to escape to the barn. and were swept
away by the flood, lthey being unable to swim
The boy who swami ashore was the late Lodawock
De Witt, Of Westfall township, Pike county. Pa
one hundred years
FEARS AT THE GAP