Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-02-15
Great Damage by FlOOdp.

About 2 o'clock Sunday morning
word reached Pittsburg that all the
gorges in the various creeks at the
headwaters of the Allegheny had
broken. Taere was general rushing
to aud fro among the coal dealers aud
lumbermen making necessary arrange.
ments for proper reception of the un.
strained waters Four lives were lost
aud the total damage to property there
and along the river will reach $780,
600 at least. At IL o'clock the remains
ofthe gorges reached that city aud
both the banks of the river were liter.
ally crowed with swaying mas of half
frozen humanity to witness the grand
entrance. 1t brought wi h it tho re-
mains of bridges, barges, lighthouses
aud RATS, and while ice was pretty
thoroughly broken up before reaching
there, the flood did material damage,
the extent of which cannot be accu.
rately estimated at present.
Bradford was visited Saturday night
by a disastrous flood which inundated
about 500 houses. The lower part of
the city was submerged, in some cases
to the depth of ten feet. The food was
caused by the rains of Friday aud
saturday and the melting of the snow
in the mountains. Five bridges were
swept away and several houses along
the banks of the creek were badly
damaged or totally destroyed. Eighty.
five families on the flats between there
and Tarport, living in one.story houses,
bad to flee for their lives, when the ice
gorge broke, leaving all their effects,
and many of the houses were swept
away. 1t is impossible to estimate the
loss at this time. The waters are now
subsiding aud all fears OF further dam.
age are over.
The damage by the floods in Akron
Ohio, aggregates $4,000. All the
families in the Cuyahoga Valley aud
the northern part OF the city fled from
their houses Saturday night. The rain
fell in torrents. The Valley railroad
bed WIS washed in many places from
Canton to Cleveland and all Ill rain.
were abandoned.
Several streets in the northeastern
portion OF Indianapolis were flooded,
and considerable damage was done to
manufacturing establishments aud
dwellings.
The great food reached its highest
point at Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday noon
when the river was ten feet higher
than at the ordinary stage in places,
and the Undiscovered with lumber
yards, elevators, iron.works, machine
shops, hnur-mills, packin. house,, fac.
tories of various sorts aud railroad
ireight-houses were more or less sub
merged. The water is receding but
the extent of damages cunnot be asccr-
tained for several days. 1t Is cstimat-
ed that % 000,00 feet Of lumber aud
from l0,00O,0 900 to 100000 shin.
giles have been washed from the lum
Der yards
The audience in the New Castle Pa.
Opera House had t. be taken from the
door in carriages, the water being Two
or three feet deet around the door.
Trains on all the railroads were su-
pended, the water putting out the fires
in the locomotives
Half OF Oil City was inunatcd, the
people being rescued from their houses
in boats and on RATS. The clty's water
supply was cut off, the f,cs in pump.
ing house. of the water works being
put out. The bridge at TitusvIe Was
swept away with three boys upon it,
two of Shom were drowned. All cuun.
ty bridges are gone and cattle by the
hundreds have been swept away.
Timber aud RATS valued at $4,000
were lost in the Clarion river. The
large bridge over the Al cgh, ny 1t
Emelton was carried away with man
named Ross on the top of it but he
was rescued at Parker city by ropes