Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-03-19
Railroad Track and Bridges Destroyed
Damage to Farms-Fences aud
Houses Swept Away.
Heavy Storms In East and Middle Tennes.
see-Wind, Hail and Rain
Bursting Of a Water
Spout.
Wilson, Bedford, Moore and Franklin
Counties Suffer SeVereIy-Im-
mense Loss Of Property
No Lives Lost.

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CONARRINGO, Md, March I8.-The
! river has risen ten feet in the last two
hours. The bridge here will doubtless go.
PORT DEPOSIT, Md, March 18-The
| river hes been rising rapidly all even
ing, and is fall o! floating ice, running
at the rate of twenty miles an hour.
! Should gorge form at Havre de Grace,
it will cause great destruction here.
SUNBURG, PA, March l8.-The ice
here broke last evening and went over
the dam safely. Before the great gorge,
between here and Danville came, which
started soon a.ter, bringing with it sew
eral bridges, and completely tearing
away the public bridge between here
and the island, and knocking one span
out OF the other bridge. The Northum-
berland railroad bridges are safe, having
been heavily loaded with cOal-cars.
SUNBURG, PA, March 1S.-The pres
| poets below WatertOwn, on the left
branch, are about the same this even
| ing. The town js in no danger, but the
! farmers below are inundated, and the
! river is running through the fields. The
| large gorge between here and SeIin's
Grove, below the dam, which contains
| part of the bridge which came down
with the north branch, and which will
likely carry off Selin's Grove bridge
when 1t moves.
PITTsBURG, PA, March 18.-The loss
by the flood will reach more than half a
million dollars. The ice is again gOrged
at Ransom, three miles above this place,
to the hight Of twenty feet, and extend
ing up the river for about five miles.
The Lehigh Valley railroad track is en-
tirely covered with ice six feet in hight
in the narrows, two miles north of here.
They have gang of workmen digging
through and Irying to clC9r the track.
1t is impC 5sible to say how soon they
can run through. No trains have been
able to reach yet, either way. A great
many mines in this locality have
stopped work on acnOUnt Of having no
route Lett by which ID ship their coal.
The greatest anxiety exists in regard to
the weather; should it become warm
enough to move the gorge it will cause
even more destruction than Tuesdays
flood.
COLUMBIA, Pa, March 19.-The ice
in the Susquehauna river at this point
commenced running this AFTERNOON, and
is still running past in one continuous
mass. At eight O'clC ck this evening it
carried away the winding bridge of the
TideTater canal company at Wrights-
vile, and novel one OF the piers of the
Columbia bridge, rendering the bridge
impS lsable for trains. The ice and water
have done considerable damage to the
Pennsylvania reilroad tracks west Of
here, pjling the ice up Oh the tracks, de-
laying trims. 1t s'so swept down a
great many telegraph I)les, cutting off
tele9raphic communication with points
t3twe IN Columbia aud Harrisburg.
Considerable damage has been done to
the Pennsylvania canal cOmpany's tow
ing-path, tearing it out, etc. The canal
boats were wSshed on the tracks of the
Pennsylvania railroad at Marietta, and
stay there.
WILKEsBARRE, PA, March 18.-The
river has been falling slowly this after
noon and is now nearly two feet lower
than on Wednesday morning. There is
no change in the ice in the main chan
mel, and it is generally believed that it
reaches to the t )tt )m of the river. For
: me distance above the island and gorge
below the city, and 1tom that point to
Plainville, a distance of five miles, the |
ice is jGmmed up n solid mess. At |
this place the depo5 OF the Lehigh VAL !
ley railrOS and about twenty dwelling |
houses were fioodl /. Jrst below here |
the Pitt, IN bridges gre jammed up in !
ice in the main channel for some dis |
tan"9. Above this ST Ition and nearly |
two miles below the track of the rail- |
road is covered with water and large |
cakes of il ,. Neerly ell the officials of |
Oh iu1
this city, and a for0a OF men have already |
Ee,n set to work in removing the ice. |
At Forty FOIS, little below and on |
the OpL 21ide eide from Plain ilIe, the ice |
is pileG up very high and turns the water |
out Of the channel. The water cut q |
way through the haautiful Forty-fourth |
cemetery and swept down and flooding |
the flats and rUshC through the main |
streets of Kingston. The citizens were |
badly frightened. Boats were rowed |
through some of the principal streets |
from Kingston to Wilkesbsrre; the dis |
tance is one mile, and the water spread |
across the fats between two places in |
an incredible short space of time. A |
barn was swept away which had stood |
the floods for years; new fences ard |
whatever was lett are destroyed. High |
b0uldeTs of ice were carried along with |
such force as to knock down and tear /
up great trees. All the telegraph poles |
on the flats are down, and telegraphic
communication can only be had by way |
of Scranton. Fears are expressed, |
by the rC 5idents of Kingston, on this |
side of the river, that another rise of |
water above would be stopped by the |
gorge and forced through the channel |
already formed through the cemetery,
and sweep down upon Kingston. This |
would save WilkesDarre further damage
by allowing the ice to melt away grad |
ually, but great damage would be done
to Kingston, and many farms would be
ruined. The weather has not mOder-
ated. A committee from the stOckhold-
ers OF the Wiikesbarre bridge drove to
PittstOn to-day, and asked permissOn of
the officers Of the bridge companies there !
to destroy the bridges which were swept !
away, and are now lodged above the
city, IN order to prevent their descent on
the one here. The officers gave their
consent, and preparations are now being
made to burn the bridges at an early hour
tomorrow morning. 1t Will take ten
days to clear the Lehigh Valley railroad
OF ice, should the water fall, and should
there be no other rise. There are no |
mills north from here.
WATER. sPOUTs AND wIED-sTORMs IN |
TENNESSEE.
Nashville Banner, I7th.l
We had deal Of experience with ter |
rife storms in this county Sunday, but |
it was almost as nothing compared to |
what occurred elsewhere. The clouds |
opened and deluged all the country |
around us. In places it almost rose to !
the magnitude OF a water-spOut. |
Streams were suddenly swollen and
spread out over the earth, swallowing up
bridges, small outhOuses, fences, and, in
fact, everything which happened to
come within their destructive reach. |
Bat Moore and Lincoln counties were
visited by not only heavy storms,
but wster-spouts, which proved |
very damaging. A heavy gale visited
Lynchburg, the county seat of Moore |
county. II brought with it a heavy /
black cloud, whose appearance was ex- |
tremely forebOding. 1t proved very dis
sstrOus. As the clouds came over the !