The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-18
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PORT JERyIs.
The Ice GOfge-The Crisis at Hand.

PoRT JRRvIs, March II, 8:30 a. NJ.
The Ice has swept through every barrier
above here, and is coming rapidly with ten
feet OF water to this place. 1t left Pond
eddy at 5.l5 q. M, twelve miles west. AT
Q o'clock the large shop whistle summoned
the people to look out for the flood. An
other dispatch just received says the water
is rising with fearful rapidity along the
river.
HALF AN HOUR LATER.
"a. n.-The water is rising here very
rapidly, and King street is now inundated
A large charge of nitro glycerine, just ex-
ploded, is doing great execution. The ice
is damming up at the head of the gorge,
but the gorge at this place shows no signs
Of weakening. The Delaware railroad
bridge, three miles west of here, has been
swept away. The flood is coming with III
conceivable force, and the Inhabitants are
fleeing in confusion from the flats.
ANOTHER HALE HOUR
1880 a. m.-The upper end of the gorge
has crowded down on Barrett bridge, at
this place, badly damaging it, 1t will prob
ably be totally destroyed. The gorge as a
whole remains solid yet.
THE STREETS DELUGED.
ga. mixing street is river, the food
sweeping all before it. The water is now
sweeping slowly but surely over the entire
lower portion of the village, and is within
one hundred yards of the telegraph office.
Unless the gorge breaks, and that very
soon, the devastation will be frightful
THE GORGE BREAKS.
S;45 a. m.-The gorge broke at $40 /;
the ice is now floating down stream, and
the water in the village is lowering. Prob
ably thirty blocks were inundated and some
houses carried Oft. AS far as heard from,
no lives are lost. The general impression
seems to be that the weakening Of the gorge
by blasting has saved the entire lower part
of the village from destruction.
ANOTHER BRIDGE GONE.
a. m.-The Barrett bridge has Just been
swept away. The railroad bridge from
above came floating down with irresistible
force and swept It away as if it had been q
reed. A suspension bridge eight miles be-
low is now doomed.
THE DAMAGE AT FORT JBRvIs.
9:45 a. m.-About three hundred houses
in Port Jervis proper, between the railway
and the river, were more or less damaged
by water. Many of them were filled to
the second story. Owing to the ample
warning, 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. Chief Engineer Chanute
of the Erie railway has started for the L.
cation OF the Delaware bridge to arrange
for some temporary structure for crossing
the river. No travel can go west of this
place on the Erie railroad for probably two
weeks. Germantown, the western part OF
this village suffered most.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENES.
1890 p. m.-The scene at Germantown
on the river bank, bcggars description.
The ice is piled on shore in many places
thirty. feet high, and in pieces weighing thir-
ty tons. About twenty small houses and
some shanties have been torn to pieces and
about two hundred houses filled with water
to the second story. 1t is reported thai
one man was Killed. His name has not YET
al ,y H. g.
in all six hundred and twenty-five feet, OF
the Delaware railroad bridge are gone
leaving one span on the New York side
The piers are all unframed. The bridge
cost 100000
| LATER.
Two spans of the iron bridge have lodg
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