The Portland daily press., 1883-02-05
FLOODS.
Disastrous Ice Gorges III Western
Rivers.
RAILWAYS SUBMERGED AND HOUSES
AND FACTORIES SWEPT AWAY.
Immense Destruction of Property Ale
ready Caused.

CLEVELAND, o., Feb. ST has been rain
ing here continuously for more than twenty
hours. Cuyahoga river and its tributaries have
overhowed their banks and are still rising
Houses, barns and factories in the valley are
inundated, and the damage ip the aggregate
will be large. No loss of life has yet been re-
ported.
AKRON, o., Feb. 3.--Tt has rained steadily
here since last night, and this entire region ID
flooded. The Little Cuyahoga river rose three
ieet In short time in the sixth ward, or Mid
dlebury, making five times its usual volumes.
Almost all the factories in that section of the
city are submerged. The Akron HYDRAULIC
Company's new dam has been washed away.
Al the old forge the banks of the ord mill race
have burst, flooding the tracks of the New
York, Pennsylvania & Ohio, and the Valley
railroads, and disabling the latter badly. The
bridge OF the Pittsbnrg, Cleveland & Toledo
railroad is threatened. The water swept away
John Kennedy s house, and Mrs. Kennedy and
her three children and Mary Strapp were
drowned The house of Harrison w Greer
was flooded, and he and his children were res
cued with difficulty. Great damage has been
done to property Trains have been suspend
ed on the Valley road. The Cleveland, Akron
& Columbus railroad has not been affected
The waters this evening are still high. The
rain continues and threatens further destruc-
tion.
NASHVILLE, Feb. Am ice and water
gorge near Whitmore, Robinson & Co.'S works
broke suddenly and three families were with
difficulty rescued. The stream struck two
mills Of the Akron Sewer Pipe Company, in
luring both considerably. All the families in
Cuyahoga valley and the northern part OF he
city fled from their houses last night. Rain
fell in torrents. The Valley Railroad bed was
washed in many places and all trains aban-
doned: A bridge on the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne
and Chicago Railroad, between Alliance and
Canton, was washed away.
DELAWARE, O., Feb 4.-The freshet Is the
worst ever known. The suspension bridge has
been swept away and two other bridges are ex-
pected to ngo. Families living near the river
have been rescued on boats. Acres of meadow
land are Inundated, and houses and thousands
OF trees are afioat. The chair factory is partly
submerged.
MOUNT VERNON, O.. Feb. 4-The Kekomo
river is booming. One house is surrounded by
weter and the family in the up-
per story are cut off from help. A bridge on
the Baltimore and Ohio road was carried away
while freight train was crossing, and a
brakeman was drowned.
MADISON, o., Feb. Am ice gorge was
formed in Grand river which swept away
part of the saw mill, its dam and a crib con-
tanning 1000 bushes of corn. The Clyde
bridge was carried two miles and a bridge at
Rogers Corness is gone.
FRANKLIN. Pa, Feb. 1.-The New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad is ten feet
under water and ice. Twen,y-fye families
have been driven from their homes
SHELBYyILLE. Ind, Feb. 4-The greatest
flood known prevails here. Farms were flood
ed, fences, outhousls and lumber washed
away.
PrTTsBURG, Feb 4.-The lower portions of
Allegheny City and the south side are threat
ened with inundation, and residents are NOV
ing to safer quarters. At points above the
damage is estimated a. $250,o00.
BRADFORD, Feb. 4-This place was visited
Saturday night by disastrous flood which
inundated several streets. The lower part of
the city was submerged in some cases to a
debth of ten feet. The flood was caused by
the rains OF Friday and Saturday aud melting
bridges were swept away and several houses
along the banks of the creek are badly dam
aged, or totally destroyed. Eighty-five fami-
lies on the flats between here and Tar Pat, liv-
ing in one story houses had to flee for their
lives when the ice gorge broke, leaving alls
swept away. The waters are now subsiding
and all fears of further damage are over.
STRARBuRGH, o., Feb. 1.-Two bridges on
the Cleveland, Tuscarawas Valley & Wheel
ing railway are gone.
CARRY, Pa, Feb. The business part of
the city i'll the southern district is flooded and
extensive has been done.
I
or and heavy rains during the past week have
caused the Allegheny river and its tributaries
to overflow their banks, washing away bridges,
houses, barns and doing damage to property
between Pittsburg and Oil City to tho extent
of several hundred thousand dollars, The rise
came SO suddenly that the people living along
the river barely escaped with their lives. The
river commenced ris n here this morning, and
this afternoon all the retail coal dealt rs Darges
and about twenty RATS OF lumber were swept
away IN few minutes, entailing a loss Of
about 100000. The river is twenty feet deep
at ii o'clock tn-night, aud is still rising at the
rate of five inches per hour.
AKRON. O., Feb. 4.-The damage by the
flood III this city aggregates $50 co., of which
the Ohio Canal Company loses $4,000. The
fact. ries along the canal all suffered. Water
entered the burning kilu at Alexander's fire.
brick works, generating cam that exploded it,
causing considerable less. Locks 10 and 20 of
the Ohio canal were washed away entirely
Others were badly injured.
CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 4.-The great food
reached lis tight this noon and is now reced-
ing. Lumber yards, elevators, iron works, ma
chine shops, -four mills, packing houses, facto-
ries OF various sorts, and railway freight
houses were more or less submerged 1t is es-
timated that 23,000,000 feet of lumber and
from ten to fifteen million shingles have been
washed away from the lumber yards. The
Valley railway is under water for miles, and
its bridge near Weighlock has been swept
away. The New York, Pennsy lvania & Ohio
old freight house is four feet under water The
company refuses freight for the present. Two
mills of Cleveland paper company are in the
water nearly to the top of the first story. Less
damage has been done to shipping than was
feared. Tug Florence broke loose, capsizsd
and sank. The freshet is the most destructive
ever known, and the water is higher than since
the great flood of 1859. The damage can
scarcely be less than million dollars.
MaADvILLE, Pa. Feb. 4.-The water Is two
feet higher han during the big flood OF 1875.
Last night the ice gorge in the mill run broke,
and the whole central part of the town was
flooded. This freshet subsidized, and then one
third OF the city was submerged in consequence
OF an ice gorge in French creek, extending
three miles. Over 800 families were rescued
In hQats. The gas Worls are nnder xatex and