The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-12
FEARFUL FRESHET.
Rivers Overrunning Their Banks
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BosToN, Dec. 12.-Reports from Maine
and New Hampshire indicate that the rains
of Tuesday have produced the most de-
structive freshets that have occurred for
many years. The rise of the mountain
streams, which are tributaries to the
Connecticut, Merrimac, Pistaqua, Saco,
Androscoggin and Kennebec, has fire.
quently resulted in great loss of property,
and reports indicate that there has been
nothing like the present fall of water since
1862
SYRACUSE, N Y, Dec. 12-The storm in
this section was severe and the damage by
the flood is great, causing serious detention
on the railroads, no trains being started
from this city on several railroads until late
yesterday afternoon.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
have three hundred poles down on the Os-
wego route, their entire line of six wires
being Frustrated for distance of ten miles.
New York, Dec. 12-The total amount
of rain which fell during the storm was
two and three one hundredths inches. The
damage to property at Coney Island and
Long Branch is very considerable. The
mails from the North and West on the
Hudson River Road due here yesterday,
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was caused by washouts between Peekskill
and Poughkeepsie. The storm was severe
on the Sound, the wind blowing a gale.
The Stonington boat due here at o'clock
a. m. hugged the Connecticut shore to avoid
the storm and did not reach port till 8
o'clock. No boats on the Providence Line
had arrived up to noon. The Fall River
Line are running two boats and both have
been delayed so much that one will lose a
whole trip and the other half trip between
Newport and Fall River. Four ocean steam
ships arrived yesterday morning, and their
officers report that it was the severest storm
they had encountered during the season.
WILLIAMsPoRT, Pa, Dec. 12.-The fine
Pennsylvania Railroad bridge across the
Susquehanna at Lockhaven, is reported
gone.
At Williamsport the water in the west
branch of the Susquehanna is higher
than it has been since the great food
in 1865. The lower part of the city is
completely submerged, and fences, out
houses &C., are floating around promiscu-
ously. A number of large saw-mills are
cation is made by boats. The highest point
reached was twenty-three feet above low
water mark. Some Of the buildings are
submerged to the second story in the lower
part of the city.
TRENTON, n j., Dec. 12-The Delaware
River has not been so high since 1861. Fair
street is flooded, and the people are moving
out of their houses. Factories and mills
along the river are submerged. The Yard
leyville bridge is in great danger.
WHITEHALL, N. Y, Dec. 12.-There is a
heavy freshet in this vicinity. At Tcon-
daropa the laroe hardware store of VIM
Hooper G. Co. was flooded, damaging most
of the stock. Twenty-Five bridges
that cross Millbrook between Mineville
and Port Henry were swept away. The iron
bridge and sixty feet of embankment just
north of port Henry, on the New York &
Canada Railroad, are washed away. At
Elizabethtown families were obliged to
leave their homes, and many cattle were
drowned.