Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-15
RIVERS ON A RAMPAGE.

Immense Ice Gorges In the susqushanus
Doing Considerable Damage-Fears that
the Levees ON the Wabash viii Give
way-CIty OF Grand Haven, Michigan.
Flooded. IL
PoRT DEPOSIT, Nd, January 6.-An Inn
mense ice gorge formed In the Susquehanna
River Sunday night ut Star Rock, Pa, at
tanning a height of fifteen to twenty feet.
The Ice piled upon the track OF the Column
bia & Port Deposit RAILROAD eight to ten
feet high for a distance OF one hundred feet
and twenty to thirty feet high for thirty
yards, entirely blockading the track.
An extra train going south early In the
morning came In contact with the barrier OF
Ice. The train returned 10 Columbus and
procured assistance. In a few hours pas
sage was cut through the ice. About noon
trains were sent through. Gorges are
formed at McCall's Ferry and ut several
points north, attaining ten to fifteen feet In
height. Reports from up the river indi-
cate that the water is gradually falling, but
there remains vast amount OF ice TO come
down.
In the river at Port Deposit small chan
mel remains open in the gorge on the west
side through which the Ice is slowly pass
ing as IL comes down. Little danger Is now
apprehended il the gorges at Star Rock and
McCall's should hold and allow the Ice TO
feed down gradually. A mild rain Is now
falling, a continuation of which will prob
ably swell the river and float the Ice down
In bulk causing untold destruction.
ViNCENNEs, Ind, January 6.-The Wa
bash River is still rising. The levees be-
a IA. In Inhia oh
breaking, and the people are moving 10
higher ground. The new levee on the Illi-
nOis side. extending from Russellvllle to the
mouth OF fine Embrom, eighteen miles, Is a
menace to Vincennes, as it confines the
overflow which formally spread over the
whole of Allison prairie, within its limits,
and forces the overflow to the Indiana
| side thus threatening to flood the whole
city, which has hitherto been absolutely
safe. The people are alarmed and are
making strenuous efforts TO sustain the
levees. 1t has been rising since one
o'clock Sunday mOEning
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, January Con
Friday night last an ice jam began at Big
Boom, eight miles above Grand Haven, and
about midnight Saturday night there was q
solid gorge of ice varying from four ia
| fifteen feet i'm thickness to this city. The
water began settling back and the rapids
and dam are now one solid mass OF ice and
nearly level from the Lake Shore Railroad
bridge below the city to Big Bend, fvt
miles north of the city, and the water Is
rising at the rate of foot an hour.
Sunday afternoon the Ice moved OIL the
rapids and piled up fifteen feet high below
the city. The water has risen very rapidly
and now floods all the sewers and Easements
the entire length Of the Street are flied with
goods. The Touring mills are flooded and
their contents have been removed. The
| jail basement is flooded and the prisoner:
were compelled to go TO bed to keep warm
because the furnace can not be run. Tit
city was in total darkness last night.
The water Is now as high as at the tim(
of the great log jam in July, 1888, and an
other foot rise will flood the whole north
end of the city on the West Side. People
are rapidly moving out of their houses In
that locality. The police force has beer
doubled to secure safety to property anC
| life.
LATER.-It is believed now that al
danger to the bridges from ice in Grand
| RIVER is past. The gorge still extends from
Grand Haven, thirty-five miles below this
city, to n point three or four miles above
but the warm weather and action Of tn,
water is wearing the ice away rapidly.