The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-12

Even those are not given as completely
supplementing those in the report. The
lumber losses in logs and manufactured
work are put down by good judges at
four million dollars. The boom keep
er at Williamsport is quoted as saying
that 300,000,000 feet of logs went over
the boom. If 80, careful judges say,
much of the timber must ha,e floated
down with the waters from up-ceuntry
creeks, as, in their judgment, there
could not have been 30 much timber in
the river.
What percentage of value will be
saved by the box sale of part of the
logs and the bringing back of another
part, all under the guidance of the
Lumbermans Exchange, at William
sport, is an uncertain matter. Mr..
Prior, of the Exchange, in reply to
the question as to whether he thought
25 per cent would be saved, replied
only, at is quite possible" The
gross loss Of only one Of the leading
lumbermen is said to be put down by
himself at S365,OO0. 1t is thought
that the loss TO farmers along the river
and creeks has been very much larger
than tho sworn figures in Mr.. Georges
report would indicate. There is no in
surance against loss by food carried in
this region.
IN NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Milton was the worst used ot
any of the places. Although it is
now booming with its accustomed go,
its people do not hesitate to say that
they feel the burden of their losses,
and expect to feel them more keenly
later. Ever since the foo 1 the town
has been endeavoring to foot up it,
losses, and although day after day new
losses appear that at first escaped at
tention, substantially the whole is now
known.
Estimates of careful business men
whom saw do not vary widely. One
of the most conservative and judged,
after wide and careful inquiry, one of
the best, is given by r. F. Wilson,
chairman of the Executive Relief
Committee. 1t is this: Merchandise
loss, $2500; furniture, musical instru
ments in private houses, etc, $4,000
repairs to buildings, dwellings, fences
ETC., $4,000; landed property in the
nature of lots below Market Street
swept away, $5O,OOO; driving bridge
across the river, $4,000; total, $1S5,
600.
The loss in lot value is a curious
outcome. The river bent in Just al
Market Street, and for a distance o.
Two blocks swept along in oblique di
rection, carrying away the back par
of lots upon which rows of house
stood. A bend little further in an,
the houses must have gone, too. To
day the houses stand almost on tn
edge of the newly created banl
What the future fate of these dwell
ings may be will depend on the mex
caprice of the Susquehanna. Th
buildings were mostly owned by tn
hard working and thrifty people VIII
occupied them. The stock of the TO
bridge referred to in this estimate ws
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Watsontown did not suffer mucl
The lower end of Lewisburg was unG
or water and the damage to househol
, goods was considerable but not sever,
At the pretty little village of Whit
Deer Mills the first floors of the tw
village stores were flooded to a di
tance of two feet above the counter
They lost about 500 each. Ov
at Allenwood, H. p. Allen, wi
: has farm near the bank as well as
!, store in the village, had his far
/ buildings damaged, and lost some a
ricultural implement, amounting alt
, gether TO about $500. The villal
stands back from the river and W
r practically uninjured. Montoursvill
9 a pretty village of 500 or 600 lying
r the mouth of the Loyal Sock Cree
: aud the West Branch, suffered
' household goods and buildings proba
{ ly TO the extent of $4,000 or $500
= Northumberland was not much d
E Inaged. At Sunbury, the losses q
r cording to Chief Burgess, Cadwalla
er did not aggregate much ov
|, $1,000.