Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-05
GREAT FLOODS.
MANY DISAsT ROUS INUNDATIONS.


Western Pennsylvania FIoodsd-Great Loss
OF Properry-Bnsiness Much In
terfered With-Otner
Late Events.
The ice went out of the Neshannock
river, Lawrence county, on Saturday
night, accompanied by very high water.
The audience in the New Castle opera
house had to be taken from the door in
carriages, the water being two or three
feet deep around the building. Travel
on the Oil City & Chicago, Pittsburgh s.
Lake Erie, Pittsburgh s. Western and the
Erie roads are entirely suspended: the
water putting ont the fires in the locomo-
tives. Two county bridges and the New
Half of Oil City was inundated, the people
being rescued from their houses in boats
and on RATS. The DERRICK Office is at the
mercy of the waters and its publication
until the storm subsidies will be impossible.
The fires in the pumping house of the
water works were put out aud Oil City's
water supply cut off. The bridge at
Titusville was taken away with number
of boys who were standing on it, two of
whom were drowned. No trains can reach
Titusville.
At Meadville the city was flooded, and
over two hundred families were rescued
| by boats. AL country bridges are down.
Live stock by the hundreds have been
| swept away. The large French creek
| bridge was destroyed. Timber and RATS
valued at $50, 900 were lost in the Clarion
| river. The large bridge over the ALE
| gheny at Emlenton was carried away,
| with a man named Ross on the top of it.
| He foated to Parker City, where he was
| rescued by ropes let down from the bridge.
The destruction of life is small, but the
| destruction of property along the Alle-
gheny river will reach $500, 900. At Pitts,
burgh about forty coal boats and barges,
and two steamers-the Modoc and the
Cora-were torn loose by the ice and
either broken to pieces or carried away,
entailing a loss of 500, 900.
At akron, Ohio.
| The damage by the flood aggregates
$50, 600, of which the Ohio canal company
probably loses $20,0G0; tho Valley rail
road company, $4,000; the Akron sewer
pipe company, $1,000, and private house
$4,000. Saturday night in the southern
portion of the city it was feared the upper
basin would give way, emptying Summit
lake into the lower basin and flooding the
entire valley through the business
centre of the city. Hard work all
night averted this finally, but the
factories along the canal all suffered, the
danger especially threatening Thomas
Phillips & Co.'S paper mill and King 4
Armstrong; varnish works. The
water entered the burning kiln at Alex,
andria's fire bricks works, generating
steam that exploded it, causing consider.
able loss. Locks 10 and 20 Of the Ohio
canal We're washed away entirely and
others were badly injured. In the Sixth
ward, at 5 o'clock, Sunday morning, the
ice and water gorge ucac Whitmore, Rob
inson & Co.'s works broke suddenly, and
three families were with difficulty rescued.
Tho stream struck the tao mills of the
Akron Sewer pipe company, injuring both
considerably. All the families in the
Cuyanoga Valley and the northern part
OF the city fled from their homes Saturday
night The rain fell in torrents. The
Valley railroad bed was washed in many
places from Canton to Cleveland, and al
the trains were abandoned.
1t the Standard Oh Works, Cleveland.
The fire at the Standard oil works i.
nearly exhausted. The scene of the con
tlagration resembles chaos, and a gentle
. man well informed iE such matters says i
will take two years to restore the works t(
their condition of two days ago. ColOne
Payne treasurer of the company, thinks
that no more than $4,000 barrels of oi
: were burned, and says the loss cannot bi
, stated until the flood sub sides and a care
, full examination is made. The fire is still
burning in spots, and last night Illuminated
, the wrecks of ten receiving tanks, twenty
to thirty stills and other smaller works
mostly enumerated last night. Three
, hundred Thousand dollars is probably {
F moderate estimate of the company's loss
The great flood reached its highcs
point at noon, when the river was ten fee
higher than at tho ordinary stage, and the
/ flats, covered with lumber yards, eleva
tors, iron works, machine shops, houl
mills, packing houses, factories of variou:
more or less submerged. The water il
receding but the cannot be ascertained. Il
, is estimated that 23 600, 900 feet of lumbe
and from II 900, 600 to $4,000, 600 shingles
y have been washed away. The Valley rail
i road is under water for miles, and it
c bridge, near Weighlock, has been washed
away. The New York, Pennsylvania {
Ohio old freight house is four feet under
y water, which reaches within few inchc
of the floor of the ne W freight house. Th,
L cars arc under water to the floors. Th
company refuses freight for the present.
T. Two mills Of the Cleveland paper com
q pany, containing about forty tons of man
ufactured paper, are in water nearly t,
the top of the first floor. Schooners ant
, steamboats, were rudely tossed about, bu
most Of them rode through with littl
injury. The lower central way bridge i
| broken, the approaches are gone and th
| draw is turned. The district all abou
$ presents the appearance Of 4 lake dottet
with chimneys, roofs and lumber pi lie!
, securely anchored. The Iniirmary farm
on the rivers edge, is submerged. Th'
. freshet is the most destructive eve
known there The damage can scarcel
= be less than $1,000 O00 and may bt
greater The rain ceased at 8 o'clocl
/ yesterday morning, and the weathe
turned rapidly cold.
Ruin Wrought by tIoo: at Bsaaford, Pa
Five hundred houses along Pearl, G lobe
7 Roylston, Florence, Pine, Main and othe
5 streets were inundated by the flood O
! Saturday night. The lower part of th
city was submerged in some cases to tn
depth of ten feet. Five bridges wer
swept away, and several houses along tn
: banks Of the creek We're badly damage O
, totally destroyed. Eighty five families o.
, the flats between Bradford and Tarport
living in one story Eouses, had to flee fo
their lives, leaving all their effects, an,
MANY ofths houses were swept away. l
is impossible TO estimate the loss at thi
time. Tic waters are now subsiding, an,
no further damage is feared.