The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-28
Trouble from Ice Accommodations in The
SchuyIkill, Delaware, Snsque-
hanna and Tennessee.
MANAYUNK FLOODED.
Fifteen Thousand Opera
tives Homeless.
Port Jervis and Harrisburg
Threatened.
THE FRESHET AT MANAYUNK.

CONTINUED RISE IN THE sCHCYLKuL-FHTEEN
THOUSAND PEOPLE HOMELESS
MAHAYUNK, PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 81 1875
The ireshet along the Schuylki River Is
still fulnnnR It's dreadful miss on. Rail-
way tracks are submerged, telegraph
poles have been uprooted, houses have been
set anoat and the citizens OF Manayunk all ap-
pear 70 be terror stricken and appalled,. The gas
works are entirely gu emerged and all the occu-
pants OF private houses IN the Twenty.arst ward
are compelled to resort tC candles and lamps
CALL ON THE MAYOR.
General Patterson, w. W. Harding, John Dick
son, Mr. Randolph. representing A. Campbell d
Co.; Mr.. Jessup, OF Jessup Il Moore; Sebastian
Rudolph and Mr.. Rosencrantz, a delegation OF the
mill owners al Manayunk, waited on Mayor Stoke
ley this morning IN reference 10 the situation.
General Patterson, as chairman. said that some
thing should be done at once or $4,000 people
would be left without roof to cover them. The
ice was stacked IN vast heaps from the connecting
railroad bridge to above the falls The water was
twenty feet above the level along the road at
Manayunk.
Mr.. Harding thought that number OF men
ought to be put at work at once. He was OF the
opinion that If a channel was opened In the GEN.
tire OF the river the ice would break away and
pass on.
Mr.. Randolph thought that the German plan OF
saving and cutting away the Ice each side
might be efrectual.
Mayor stokiey remarked that III, he was willing to
danger and damage likely to arise from the cause
which brought the committee to see him, but he
was pOwerless 10 act. There was no apprOprla.
ton under which he could DO anything.
Mr.. Dickson SAID that he had gone from the
to Manasunk to make observations. He
FOUND in many places that the Ice was
I reached the halOht
He considered the condtlon OF aflairs very peril
GUS and remarked that measures should be az
once taken to let the water of. or the damage to
the western portion OF the city would be meal
culable
imminent, and he believed that every
gentleman presentwOuld sign paper signifying
s ne to an c% no
act. However, he considered II the plain duty OF
the city 10 clear this important highway. He sug.
and the committee proceed at once to the ground
to view the situation. The suggestion OF Mr..
Harding was accepted.
MILLS SUSPENDED.
Every mill In ManayunK mas been compelled to
suspend Tsp operations STATED YESTERDAY that iuliy
out OF employment oy the mood. N.Y. statement
failed 70 comprehend the situation. visit to the
scene to day convinces me that the ireshet eXpeis
$4,000 persons from all work. The situation
Is terrible. The river is running twenty-four feet
thousands Of peope are moving out OF their
homes. This morning the channel In the Schuyl.
XIII was open GOWN as lar al SnaWnOnC StatlOD,
but there is still ice along the shores in some
places In immense amount. A iresnet now would
carry this Ice away and would cause great damage
to property from Manayunk down. From Fiat
Rock dam the river Is entirely clear down
to Manayunk, where the Ice jam commences,
and from there down TO Paramount the river Is
choked up with ice. Some ice was passing over
the dam TO-DAY ona an along me scnnyG great
do mucn damage to the wnaives
LIST OF MILLS STOPPED.
me following Is complete llst OF all the mills
a n m
compelled to nee:-
S. s. schoneld. employing 500 hands.
E. Campbell Co., employing 500 hands.
Harding's paper mill, employing so hands.
Pattersons mill, late RipKas, employing about
Preston 4 Ervein, employing several hundred.
Another mill belonging to L. Campbell & Co.,
employing about $50 hands.
James Winpenny's mill. employing from $50 to
300 people.
Lauw's mill, employing about $50 persons.
Hartranft grlst MILL employing 100.
Whttaker's old mill, employing 100 men.
Another mill run by Preston ErveIn, adjoin-
Ing Wnittaxer's mill :. employing ~Ia ing 800 hands
jessap & Moore's. pulp works, employing about
600.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND HOMELESS PEOPLE.
Words cannot describe the scene, nor can words
Ali the tenement houses in Manayunk are located
along the banks OF the Schuyikill There is not a
single tenement house whose occupants have not
been compelled to desert IL. Fifteen thou
sand men, women and children are homeless;
in word the entire town Is Hooded and the dis
trlct Is In terror and gloom, and there appears no
present hope that the dow OF water viii ever de-
crease.
IRON WORKS FLOODED.
The Penncoyd Iron Works, located opposite
Manayunk held out until this moment. ii was
supposed that no rise IN the Scnuylgill could pos
sibIy disturb the operations OF these mills. SUCH,
however, was not the case The rise In the water
bafiled all calculation, and at the time write the
Penncoyd Iron Works are literally anoak The
water dashed IN upon the works this morning
1t completely extInRushed their nres and played
sad havoc with their engines.
In the present confused condition OF AFFAIRS It Is
Impossible to estimate the amount OF Damage
done. The Schuyki has never before been so
hlgn as IL Is now, and the Liverpool OF America,
overwhelmed by food, Is now wrapped Ia dark
ness, gloom and despair.