The daily gazette., 1882-09-25

Jhe CITY known as tne week, WIFI SUSTAIN
considerable loss by the ihundation of their
farms and the damage TO the crops. Along
Stonehouse land, from Second street TO the
Greenlane itself Is covered by water to an
average with piers. All the farms are sub
merged to the depth of three feet. The
farmers were yesterday going about their
truck patches on improvised rats. Most of
them had removed their families to places
OF safety the previous day.
oTHKR PLACES.
In New York the storm was also very
severe and all the lower portions Of the
city were well flooded. Shortly before mid
night Saturday five new four-story brick
buildings, situated on the Southern Boule-
ward near Alexander avenue, were under
mined by the heavy rain and fell with a
crash.
In Upper Harlem Mil creek ran so high
that many people living in the vicinity were
| rescued from their houses on RATS by police
men. trsH
Water flooded the region of Central Park
about the arsenal last evening, and it was
| necessary to remove the animals that
were Gagged out of doors. The water
| rose SO high that the cages were
submerged. Superintendent Conkling
and his assistants took the animals
away, and while doing so Night
| Watchman Tom Donohue was bitten by the
wolf The brute caught him by the forearm
and severely lacerated it. Part of the
foundation of the frame building on the
northeast corner Of Fourth avenue and One
| Hundred and Pwenty-second street was
washed away, and the building being unsafe
| the people were ordered to move out by the
police. The rain acting on the lime in the
| Vineyard of j. II. Lyons, at One Hundred
and Thirty-eighth street and Mott Haven,
caused fire which resulted In $1,000 worth
| of damage.
The freshet at Trenton, N. j., is declared
| to be the mt st destructive that ever vieited
that city, and the damage to property will
amount to over 100000, principally to
mills, potteries, etc.
| New BRUNSWICK, N. j., Sept. A.-The
| freshet was the heaviest ever seen in the
Raritan river. The lower part of the city il
l'deluged and property submerged. The loss
is estimated at several thousand dollars.
The rainfall for So hours was over 13 inches
on the mean level. All the stores and ware
houses in lower Burnet street are damaged
The water is up TO the counters and the
goods are floating about. People are riding
through the lower streets in boats.
BRIDGEToN, N. j., Sept. 4.-The storm
was the heaviest known here for several
years. A wash-out on the New jersey
I
traffic, and trains will not run before Mon
day on Irving avenue. There was great
havoc. The street was torn up for a long
distance, cellars were flooded and tree
blown down in South Bridgeton. Severa
houses were undermined by the floods.
WEST CHESTER, Pa, Sept. 24.-Th,
storm of Friday and Saturday was sever,
in this vicinity. The rain was almost con
tinuous, and according to DR.. Jesse G
Green, who keeps an accurate weathe
record, $50 inches of rain fell. He hai
kept weather record for so years, hut onl.
during the last ~ an accurate register of al
the rain falls. He says that two inches /
considered an extraordinary fall.
PLAINFIELD, N. j., Sept. A.-The las
dam but one remaining In Green Brook, 1
this city, gave way at 10 o'clock last night
The flood caused by this carried away tn
supports Of two frame buildings over Gree
Brook, at Somerset street, and the building
were wrecked, much of their contents bein,
lost. large hole was washed In tn
side of four-story brick building use
as a carriage factory by L. M. French
} The remaining arches of the. GrOV
street bridge were carried away, a
well as most of the other bridges betweei
this city and Green Brook. The storL
ceased at midnight. The water has ialle
! several feet, and all danger of further dam
! age is over. The Grove street bridge eos
81, 900 The loss to the owner of the dam
about $4,000. The three stone bridges o
: Cedar brook were carried out, and two wer
oVernowed last night, cutting olf all con
munication with large part OF the city.
lad named Fred Moore has been missin
since Saturday morning, and il is suppose
that he went down with the Grove stres
bridge and was lost. All the other persons n
ported missing have been accounted for.