The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-02-07
Destruction of the Rail
road Bridge.
AND THE MACHINE SHOPS
The Queen City in Darknessl

The heavy rains, commencing
on Sunday night and continuing
with slight intervals until We'd
neoday noon, as we write, and
how much longer We cannot say,
is causing the most disasterous
flood ever known in the Hooking
Valley. The alternating SHOWS,
rains and freezes of January
were in solid masses of ice way
ing in de- tn from one inch to
three feet in the valley. This,
with the warm and heavy rains,
all went into the river, which
rapidly covered the low lands,
flooding the Gas Werks and ten
ement houses, and causing the
inmates to seek other quarters.
Our citizens, on Wednesday
morning, seeing the danger, ad-
vised the families in the neigh
bo:hood Of the Gas Works, to va
cate their premises, and aided in
removing their household goods.
They were not hasty in their ad-
vice, for within an hour, the wa
ter was running through the
front doors and rapidly reaching
the sills of the lower windows -
This was also the case of the fam
lilies residing along the canal in
Furnacetown and Bragtown. We
can not at this writing particu-
larize, or give an approximate Of
the immense damage row going
OH in our locality, o casioned by
the flood.
From dispatches, we learn that
all the towns and villages along
the line of the Hooking Val
ley Road are b ing crowded
within the limits of safety, and
the waters still rising. At this
writing, wv ednesday noon,) the
skies are still daIkened and q
smart rain falling.
The track on the Hooking
Valley Railroad, at this place, is
covered with three feet of water,
and all railroad business is at a
stand still. We are without news
from any point, and it may be
days before we are placed in
communication with the outer
world.
The Gas Company worked no
bly, all morning, with a large
force of hands, to prevent the
works from being deluged; but
the rain descended and the flood
increased until the buildings
were surrounded. when it became
necessary for the management
to open the pipes, permit the
gas to escape, and shut down the
works until the flood su bsided.-
Hence our town, like many 9TH
ers, is in darkness.
The great flood of 1873, done
immense damage; but it is scarce
~ circumstance to the flood of
today. Our Railroad and Canal
is wrecked; stock drowned,
bridges, roads, houses, ferces,
and farm products swept away
Our calamity is great, and the
end is not yet.
THURSDAY MORNING.
The rain continued falling all
afternoon of yesterday and du-
ring the night. The river took
another rise in the afternoons and
at about 6 o'clock the splendid
and costly bridge of the Hooking
Valley Railroad, which spans the
river at this place, toppled over !;
also the south walls of the rail-
road machine shops.
The destruction to the railroad
at this point is very great, and it
will be weeks before the damage
can be repaired. 1t is rumored
that many of the railroad and
county bridges between Logan
and Sugar Grove have been
swept away, but this will not be
definitely known until telegraph
communication is again estab-
lished between these points.
The winds have changed to
the westward, and the weather
this morning is somewhat cooler,
and there is 4 prospect that the
rain has ceased.
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