Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-14

and intense excitement prevails among
the residents of the flats. 1t is esti.
mated that five hundred families are
without shelter Dispatches from vari-
Gus sections of Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sew and New York report severe rain
storms, in some instances accompanied
by thunder, the ice breaking up in rivers
and the water rapidly rising, causing
large destruction of property.
MAUoH CHUNK, Pa, Feb. l2.-The
continued rains have greatly swollen the
Lehigh river. Two trestles have been
swept from under the bridge at Pennha-
ven, and it is feared the fifty million feet OF
lumber in the boom at Whitehaven may
| be carried away, IN which case the
! Lehigh Valley and Lehigh coal and
navigation company's bridge at Penn
haven will be destroyed.
MILFORD, Pa, Feb. 12.-The rain
storm has stopped. The Delaware Is still
rising, and the flood is nearing Bushkill,
where the greatest danger is feared. The
gorge at Connesbaugh broke this fore
noon. The field of ice moving is fifteen
miles in length, and so solidly wedged it
supports logs and other heavy bodies.
Many valuable RATS, much loose lumber,
and considerable hay is destroyed
PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y. Feb. 12-Thou-
sands of tons of ice are packed inside the
railroad bridges at Livingstone and
Stockport, and men and wrecking trains
remain there all night. Cakes Of ice two
and three feet thick are piled ten
feet high for a quarter OF
a mile on the Stockport turnpike. At
Albany merchants have been all day
hosting goods to their upper floors, and
teams have ceased to cross the river on
the ice. Residents on the banks of the
Nangatuck and Hoasatonic are moving
to escape the expected water The ice
gorge caused rapid rise OF the rivers
between Whitehall and Kinkora, delay
ing the passage of trains. Ice is piled up
on the Pennsylvania railroad, and gang
of men are clearing the track so trains
can pass.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb l2.--Nearly all
the mills at Monayauk and numbers OF
dwellings are inundated. Loss of stock,
machinery, etc., 800,
ALLENTOWN, Pa, Feb. 12.-The water
in the Lehigh river raised ten feet at this
point last night. 1t was highest at 4
O'Clock this afternoon, when it swept
away half of wooden bridge, 100 feet
long, connecting Kings island with the
main shore and families are still on the
island with no means of escape. Shortly
afterwards the dam near Rockdale gave
way swelling the Lehigh river two feet.
Two canal boats came down the river and
were wrecked in their passage over the
dam. There is 100 feet of the Lehigh
Valley railroad track washed away above
Glendon.
TRENTON, N. j., Feb. 12.-The ice in
its course down the Delaware demolished
everything in its path. Large cakes of
ice fifteen or twenty inches thick are
piled up from the bed high above the
surface of the river in shapeless mass.
On the Pennsylvania shore the ice is
banked fifteen to twenty feet high, driven
in by the force of current. All stock has
been taken off the islands near Borden
town.
New YORK, Feb. 12.--The rain storm
was followed by a heavy fog, which
greatly interferred with ferry travel. The
boat Of the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany was in collision with the Hoboken
ferry boat. Not much damage was done,
but the passengers were badly frightened.
A little further continuance of the mild
weather prevailing the last few days is
likely to cause partial breaking up of
the ice field in the Hudson and the con
sequent drifting of great masses of ice
down to the mouth of the river, about
the harbor and East river. The memory
of all New Workers supplies them with
vivid pictures of the delay to all kinds of
navigation and especially to ferry travel,
which such conditions of the river oc-
casion. The money loss by
obstruction of business must involve
a large sum while the amount
of vexation thus caused is
incalculable. In this cOnnec-
ton it is suggested that as Gen. Abbott
and other officers of the United States
engineer at Willets Points are thorOug
ly trained in the use of explosives, and
welcome opportunities to make expert
ments and drill their men in the practice,
If the expense Of tug boat and Of
sufficient quantity of dynamite cartridges
was betrayed by the ferry companies and
bv merchants interested, it is believed
Gen. Abbott would detail sufficient
number of officers and men to
pillow up all the ice fields which
NOuIu udf iSueiOh' eoS oO"1
could run alongside of the massive sheets
of ice, and the men, disembarking, could
readily form figures of eight on the sur
face, with telegraph wire and small dyn;.
amite cartridges placed at a suitable dis
lance apart. Returning to the boat they
could explode the cartridges by electricity,
and in this way the ice block could be
rapidly disintegrated, The cost of the
undertaking would be small
Tind, Rain and Flood at Ner Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 11.---There is no
material change in the condition of the
water in the overlooked districts. Ten
thousand pere supplied with food yester-
day by the relief committee. A heavy
rain this morning, and strong wind pre-
walls.
Later-In the Third district and that
portion of the city lying below the old
basin an average fall of ten inches is re-
ported. Between the canals there is a
fall of. three inches, while in the upper
portion of the city south of the new canal
et;lI rreater fall Is renorted. Sluices