Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-14
RAvING RIVERS.
Damage by Floods at Various Points East
and South.
AT WASHINGTON.

AT WASHINGTON.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 13..--The food which
was rushing down the Potomac Saturday, and
submerged the lower portions of the city for
nearly twenty -four hours, has subsidized An
immense ice gorge, extending from above the
city to point several miles below, and reach
ing nearly to the Virginia shore, threatens
| destruction to the wharves and steamboats,
lying at them. When it begins to 60, the
damage to vessels, wharves and property,
along the river is estimated at between
$4,000 and 100000. Most of the wharf
owners expect greater danger when the
and merchandise in the Inundated portion Of
the city will probably reach 100000, and in
GEORGETOWN the wharves and storehouses,
$1,000. A section of the long bridge, about
200 feet, was swept away last night and car
ried about 100 yards down the river to the
flats, where It'll lies wrecked wedged
in with ice. Telegraph communication
with the south is badly interrupted as all the
cables at Longbridge have been carried away.
Tonight only two of over twenty wires are
working between Washington and Alexandria.
Railroad travel to the South on account of the
break in the bridge will be seriously impeded.
Arrangements will be made to transfer passen-
gers and mails for Richmond and the coast by
stages from Washington over the Georgetown
bridge.
AT MILFORD.
MILFORD, Pa, Feb. 13-The Delaware has
flooded the country about Buskill, doing great
damage to lumber, hay, fences and movable
property. Loss fully $4,000. The Buckley
family, still imprisoned on Connesbaugh
Island and without food, will be rescued TO-.
night.
At Scranton, Pa, a notorious character,
Billy Burke, shot and killed Patrick Payton
last night. Burke was captured by aid of the
telephone four miles from the city.
AT BoRDENTowN.
BoRDENTowN, N. j., Feb. 13.-Freshet
tremendous here. The railroad tracks he.
tween Trenton and Burlington are under water
with canal boats lying across the track on
on the Trenton road. All small buildings
near the Delaware are under water. The old
Camden and Amboy shops are inundated.
The fires of the steam barge MCPHERSON, Will
lard & Co., were put out by the flood. AS far
as the eye can reach the Pennsylvania shore is
covered with water. This exceeds the freshet
in water but not in ice of 1857 The railroad
bridge on the main line between Bordcntown
and New York is in perilous condition twen-
ty-seven loaded cars were placed on Ito hold
it in position. The wqter covers the aXles of
the wheels.
AT NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, Feb 13.--At meeting of
the New Orleans Auxiliary Sanitary associ-
alton tonight Gen. Russ Bussey, ex-Mayor
Patton, Theobold Forestall, superintendent of
the gas company, and Thomas Gender, engi-
neer of the association, referred to the great
danger to the city from an overflow in conse-
quence of the condition of the levees in front
of the city. Gen. Bussey advised 10000 or
$1,000 men to be put to work at once to
strengthen them. A mass meeting of prop
erty holders and business men is called for
Monday night in front of the city hall to de-
wise means to avert the threatened danger.
New ORLEANS, Feb. 13.-Water in the over
flowed district is steadily but slowly receding.
AT FREDERICKSBURG.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Feb. 13.-The Rap
pahannock has reached the height of fifteen
feet above low water mark. Some cribbng
and lumber belonging to the contractor for the
river improvement was carried away and the
steamboat warehouse is under water TO the
second story. No mails and no through trains
since Friday.
AT TOLEDO.
TOLEDO, Feb. 13.-There has been but little
change in the situation to-day. At 1 A. NJ
the water reached the highest point, seventeen
feet above the usual mark. At 9 P. N. it had
fallen six inches. Trains will run on sched-
ule time tomorrow, the eastbound trains
starting from East Toledo. The ice above the
city moved a mile this afternoon, but was
stopped by gorge. No movement of the ice
abreast of the city. Fourteen mail pouches
containing 1000 or 5000 letters, water soaked
at the Union depot, were aired and forwarded
to-day to their destination. Several large
gorges are reported up the river.
OTHER POINTS.
HUNTINGIoN, Pa, Feb. 13.-The floods the
past few days were the most disastrous that
ever visited the Juniata valley. The loss of
bridges to Huntington county is about $780,
900.
HARRISBURG, Feb. 13.-The Susquehanna
has been falling all day. Last night east and
south Harrisburg was positively flooded by
the overflow of Paxon creek. Many persons
were obliged to move out and to-day their
houses could only be reached by boats. Dan
ger apparently over.
DAVENPORT, Iowa, Feb. 13.-The general
blockade which has resulted from the terrible
snow storm of Friday night is largely removed
this evening. The drifts in some places have
been ten feet deep for miles and all cuts have
been filled.