The news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1882-1891, 1882-09-28

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did not arrive.
The track of the Philadelphia,
Marlton and Medford railroad was
injured at several places and no trains
were run between Haddopfeld and
Msdford. At
MANY OTHER PLACES
the damage was fully as great. Along
the line of the Pennsylvania, Reading
and Bound Brook railroads serious
damage is reported, from washouts
and bridges washed away, and trains
we're running irregular for several
hours. In Philadelphia, at some of
the lowest points along the rivers
many families were compelled to vacate
their homes and several thousand dol
lars damage is reported in Paramount
Park. Many business firms also suf
fered heavy loss, at Newtown, Pa, sew
eral buildings were washed away.
Jersey City and Hoboken were flooded
and several sewers bursted causing the
pipes to break and tearing up the
streets. At Plainfeld bridge crow
ded with people was washed away and
several persons drowned. A steamer
loaded with pig iron and drugs went
ashore on Townsend inlet bar about
20 miles above Cape May. She is
valued at $3.50, 900 and her cargo was
valued at $4,000. At Raleigh, N.
c., the rainfall was the heaviest since
| 1912 and serious damage reported.
TRENTON.
A violent and Obstructive freshet
has been caused by the recent rain
storm in this city and vicinity, caus-
ing damage to the extent, it is rough-
ly estimated, in both city and county,
of 100000. The Assanpenk Creek,
which skirts the city on one side and
runs through its centre, was over
flowed, creating large lake about a
mile in length and 900 yards wide.
From this a violent torrent rushed to
the Delaware river causing havoc on
its way. Rubber-mills, potteries, glue
factories, slaughter-houses, ice-houses,
dwellings, barns, stables, out-houses
and sheds were submerged and some
were sent adrift. Railroad tracks,
depots and bridges on the Pennsyl-
vania line were washed away, and the
travel was entirely interrupted; small
boats could be sailed around the main
depot, and trains of cars were sub
merged to the windows. The follow
ing are the principle sufferers in this
city: Pennsylvania Railroad Con-
pany, $4,000; John Taylor, slaugh-
ter-house, $1,000; Star Rubber Com
pany, $4,000; Whitehead Rubber
Company, $4,000; Wilson's Woollen
Mills, $4,000; John Winter, liquor
shop, $4,000; John Eitzenberger,
glue manufacturer, $4,000; Inter-
national Pottery, $4,000; miscellane-
GUS, about $4,000. William Christ
opher, age seventeen, who went out 10
row boat, was drowned. At 1890
o'clock on Sunday night there was
some 5 feet of water over the track of
the Pennsylvania Railroad at the
Clinton street station, and no trains
on that road left or arrived from Sat-
urday night until Monday morning.
In Ocean county, alone the damage
by the storm will exceed 100000
and later reports from out-of-the-way
places will probably tell of greater
losses. The greatest damage is to mill
property, because of the freshet and
overflow. Black River, usually
diminutive stream, rose on Saturday
at the rate of foot an hour and then
broke over the lowlands. At Sea-
view was "Cousins," famous resort
for sportmen. For twenty-five years
the searcher Of game and fish that
visited Southern New Jersey sought
"Cousins." All that is left of it now
is the foundations. At Bellows Falls
Mills the dam broke, but squad of
men by fortifying the approaches to
the mill property with ssndbags saved
it. Above, at Fordi Corners, the
dam gave way on Saturday. At Bay
view the arch OF the stone bridge
was undermined and the costly struc-
ture gave way. The turnpikes
throughout the county are impossible.
Live stock was drowned, haystacks
were destroyed and thousands of acres
Of corn are almost total loss. The
same story comes from Monmouth
and Middlesex counties. South Am
boy Jared the worst, lying as it does
at the mouth of Raritan River and
fronting Staten Island Sound and
Raritan Bay. The damage at the
the head of the river must be