The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-02-15
.TELEGRAPHIC
THE STORM.
Snow and FIOOd-TraIns De.
layed-WashOuGs and Over
flows.
Generally Wet and Disagree
able,


Generally Wet and Disagree
able.
Slater, No., 12-The westbound Alto
train is snowed up here, ana will no
reach Kansas City in two days.
Rock Island, l2.-No trains or mai
| for twenty four hours. The snow i
heavy and drilled in some places foul
! feet. Pedestrianism is very difficult
Milford, Pa, 13.-The Delaware ba,
flooded the country about Bush Kill
Great damage to lum Der, hay, fences anC
m DvAble property. Loss, fully $780,.
OU0.
The Buckley family still imprisoned
on Connesbaugh Island, and without
food, will be rescued tot ight
Bordertown, M, l3.-The heshet i.
tremendous here. Railroad tracks be-
tween Tronton and Burlington are under
wster. a canal boat is lying scross the
trsck at Trenton road. All small build
ings near the Delaware snd Raritan
LOCKS are partly under water. The old
Camden and Amboy shops are mum
dated. The fires of the steam force OF
MCPHERSON, willard & Co., we're put out
By the food. As far as theeye can reach
the Sylvanis shore is covered with water.
THIS exceeds the freshet IN water, but not
in ice, of 1857.
PhusdelphiA, Il Nearly all mills at
Mauch Chunk and a number Of dwell
lings are inundated and flooded. Loss
on stock, machinery, etc., 800, goo.
Allentown, Pa. I2.-Water in the Le-
high River rose ten feet at this point
since last nigl t, and swept away half
wooden bridge 100 feet long, connecting
klein's Island with the main shore.
Atcbison, 12.-Twenty-four hours of
heavy snow, the severest for five years,
a1d trains are showed up.
Omaha, l2.-The snow blockade has
shut all roads in the stste except the
Union Pacific, which sent an overland
Tain this noon, but its incoming train
was stalled twenty-eight miles west of
Omaha. The Burlington and Missouri
Dad has five trains stuck in the snow,
eeding and blankeliDg the passengers.
Toledo, 12.-The water is rising from
me to two inches per hour. 1t is now
i've feet over water street, higher than
turing the food of '6S. summit street
nerc hants, fearing further rise are re-
moving their goods to second stories. The
lumber district is under water and half |
# the $4,000, 600 feet will be rehandled. |
fifteen Wabash freight cars with lum Der
re submerged. The loss on lumber is |
t least S35, 600, which may be more than |
oubled. The steamer ESmeTaIdG, and |
be schooner De7SOn are undol btedly a |
otsl loss, being ismmed in the Ice.
Water covers the first floor of the Union |
epot. from seven 10 nine feet. Guests |
ave been removed from the Island |
House and at pm. water run into the |
Burnett House office, and it was vacated |
or the second floor. The Canada Southern |
Oss is heavy by submerged rack, and |
reight houses. 1t now seems likely to |
reeZe up which would cause endless loss.
Business men estimate the loss at $500
90, or more.
Toledo, o., 14.-The outlook this
morning is morning is more favorable.
me water has lowered thirty inches from
he highest point, and is still receeding
lowly. The gorge abresst Of this city ia
till firm, the water passing out from IN
erneath. Above the city the river is re-
iorted clear. 1t is expected that Lake |
'hore trains will cross to-day. The loss
n the lum Der district will probably not
e over So, 600.
New Orleans, 12.-Tangipako River,
Overlooked its banks, washing |
ut the jackson Railroad. The New |
orleans and Mobile Railroad from Lees |
tstion 10 Lookout is still in g bad con-
ition, though large force is at work re-
airing. Passengers by this route come |
y steamer from Peal River to West |
Ind, thence by rail to the city.
New Haven, l2.-In addition to the |
nail and psssen yer train blocked at
seymour. the downward passenger train
stopped at Waterbury, while the south
ound wreckiDg train is imprisoned by |
bridge gone a. Union City, and break
Seymour. No prospects Of any trains
nrough tonight.
Harrisonburg, Va, 1.-THE Shenan-
oah Valley is threatened with serious
GODS. Streams are unusually swollen,
the mails.
Fredericksburg II The Rapshan-
ock is rising at the rate Of six inches an
our. The wharves are already over
owed. Serious disaster is apprehende5.
Richmond, 12-The James River here
about ten feet above high water mark.
It Columbia, ffty-seven miles above
Don and is still rising. At Lynchburg
le rise is twelve feet. = The wharves at
.ichmond are submerged and water ia
ill rising.
st. Paul, IA new blizzard made
le snow blockade worse.
Council Bluffs, IA terrible snow
.orm has completely isolated the city.
10 trains arrived or departed since last
light.
Washington, 13. - The flood which
anne rushing down the Potomac, on
Aturday, submerged the lower portion
the city for nearly twenty-four hours,
ut hiss subsidized. An immense ice gorge,
from above the city to point
,Yeral miles below, and reaching nearly
, the Virginia shore, threatens destruc-
on to the whsrves and steamboats, on
lem when it begins to give way. The
amsge to vessels, wbarves and property
long the river is estimated st between
so, 900 and 500, 900. Most Of the wharf
Wners expect greater danger when the
lsssed ice moves. The damage TO prop
rty and merchandise in the inundated
ortion of the city will probably reach
100, 900, and in Georgetown to wharves
Nd store houses, $4,000. A section of
ne long bridge, about 300 feet, swept
way last night, was carried about 100
ards down the river to the fats, where
lies badly wrecked, wedged in with
roken ice. Telegraphic communica-
ion with the south is badly interrupted,
nd sill the cables at Long Bridge have
cen carried away. Tonight only two
f the twenty wires are working between
" Washington and Alexandria. Railroad
ravel to the south, on account of the |
resk IN the bridge, will be seriously i'm
eded. Arrangements will be made to |
ransfer passengers and mails for Rich
lond and the coast by stages from Wash |
ngton, over Georgetown bridge. to the |
fredericksburg and Rich |
nond road at Fl. Runyon.