Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06

and the mail train from Pittsburg bound
| east were put on the back tracks
in the yard at Coemaugh when the
flooded condition of the main tracks
made it apparently unsafe to procee
further. When the continued rise of
water made danger apparent, the
frightened passengers fed from the two
trains to the hills near by. Many il their
wild excitement threw themselves into
the raging current and drowned. 1t is
supposed about fifteen persons lost their
lives.
THE LOSS AT HARRISBURG.
/ HARRISBURG, June 1.-The fearful rain
| storm has entailed great loss here. In
| the east and south ends of the city water
rose above the banks OF Paxton Creek
swept away bridges and reached the first
/ stories Of the houses. Last night hun
dreds Of families we're in distress and
forced to leave their homes. The mayor
conducted a relief expedition which
utilized all the BEATS TO be had, and while
the rain came down in torrents he and
mis- assistants did good work. While
thus engaged the mayor aud
one of the officers narrowly escaped
drowning. The Susquehanna river at
this point is eighteen feet above Low
water mark and rising every hour. In
dependence Island is completely covered.
The Pennsylvania tracks south OF here are
covered by two feet of water. Advices
| just received from points up the river say
the beautiful fish houses built by the Har-
| risbJrgers, about ten miles from here,
were washed away, as were sheds and out
houses of every kind. Great embark
ments hsre have caved in, culverSs and
sewers demolished, and great trees laid
prone.
RISING A FOOT PER HOUR.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The latest re-
ports from Harpers Ferry say the Poto
moe and the Shenandoah rivers are rising
one foot per hour. Cattle, boats and
other drift are running thick. The river
is very high here and still rising. The
water has reached street and has put
out the fire in the engine house at Wash
ingtOn monument and has stopped the
elevator. Cellars on the south side of
Pennsylvania avenue are flooded. Last
night, after fall of rain almost equiva-
|
at the end of the Chesapeake and Ohio
water and washed several canal boats into
Rock Greek where they were destroyed.
Since then the river has been rising
rapidly and the flood waters from Har-
pers Ferry and the upper tributaries are
swelling it every moment. Along B
street, north in the neighborhood of
Centre Market, country producers were
driven off early in the day and the street
! was turned into lake, with floating
chicken coops, market trucks and
) all sorts of odds and ends. Cellars were
flooded and much damage to property
resulted among the commission houses.
Up in Georgetown the scene along the
river front was exciting. The docks
were under water and lumber, coal, ce-
menr, provisions and all kinds of prop
, erty have been carried away. At Long
Bridge the water at sunset was almost
level with the bridge. Several barges
have already
STRUCK AND SUNK HERE.
and railroad men are making every effort
} TO prevent the accumulation of drift
ag ainst the bridge. The water is still
Keeping up, however. and the bridge is
in a preoarious condition. If it is car
ried away to night which is by no means
improbable the result will be
serious and'a long interruption to rail-
road traffic between the north
aud south. The Golfer dam at Long
Bridge has been greatly injured and
} much of the work which has been done
! upon the Potomac flats at billions
of dollars will be undone. It is not yet
,, possible to estimate the losses suffered
by the merchants and ware house
men, but one individual has lost $3O,0Ot
worth of GOAL on one dock.
BRIDGE wAsRED AWAY.
ELMIRA, N. Y, June 1.-The flood has
!, reached the highest mark ever known
here. The Chemung at O'Clock was
rising at the rate of an inch in five
minutes. The Northern Central railroad
bridge is washed out at Watkins. Miles
of fat land with growing crops are under
. water and immense damage is done
Houses and bridges are floating down the
stream.
ELLIOTT CRY, Nd, June l. Hundred
, of people line the banks of the Patapsil
today watching the rushing floods, which
have receded but few inches since last
night. Nothing since the food of 1857
equals this.
All communication further west by rail
is out off. Several buildings have been
swept down stream. The only death
; reported is that of William Hudson, a.
Orange Grove.
FREDERICK, Md, June Rain has
poured necessarily since Thursday night
The wheat crop in this county has peer
damaged to such an extent that cannot
now be estimated, and early fruit destroy
ed. The Potomac at the Point of Rocks
and vicinity is rapidly overreaching itG
banks, and the damage will be great
Advices from Westminster, Nd, say the
surrounding
LANDS ARE INUNDATED
and many of the workmen are unable to
get to their homes. Between New Wind
sor and Linwood and between Lipwood
and Union Bridge the Western Maryland
railroad is covered with water to the
depth of three feet. Two feet OF
water flows over the big bridge
at Harpers Ferry which is heavily loaded
with locomotives and cars. The tracks
on both sides of the river are submerged
as they are at Point of Rocks and St
Johns Run between Cum berland and
! Martinsburg. There are four small
bridges undermined between Glen Cove
and Hyndman. The Cambria branches
leading to YOUNGSTOWN and the Salisbury
/ branch are still blocked.
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On the birthday of Napoleon Charles
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